| Having studied the TCM works on gynecology & obstetrics written by the famous doctors in South China from the Jin Dynasty (about 1700 years ago) to the initial stage of P.R.China, this article sums up their experience in diagnosis and therapy of women diseases, and describes the origin and development of gynecology & obstetrics in South China during that period. The article has systematized the TCM works of three doctors in South China before the Qing Dynasty (357 years ago), who are Zh~facun, Gehong and Luofushangren and researched into the parts of gynecology & obstetrics of their books, then realizes that the doctors have summarized some efficacious prescriptions and remedies to cure women diseases at that time. During the Qing Dynasty (357 yeav ago) there were three famous doctors who made a great contribution to gynecology & obstetrics. They were Hemengvao, Liuyuan and Heshouyu. Hemengyao wrote the book æˆffective prescriptions of gynecology & obstetrics? He was good at the differential diagnosis by analyzing women's menses, pulses and the characters of abdominal pain and considered that the state of mind was in great relation to women's health and his opinions on gynecology & obstetrics had a local colour. Liuyuan wrote the book ardinal principles of medicine? of which the volum 4 was about gynecology & obstetrics. He was expert in using the method of warming & recuperating and thought that regulating the functions of the spleen, the stomach, the liver and the lung could cure women diseases caused by unnatural emotions and he highly praised the treatments in the book rinciples of gestation, parturition and puerperiurn? Heshouyu wrote the book he gold method of conception? He considered that regulating menstruation, reducing the frequency of coitus and choosing the right time for sexual intercourse were important methods of conception and being careful in movement, taking light food were good hygienic methods during pregnancy. He also thought that exertion should be at the right moment at childbirth and the lying-in woman should not lie down, take rich food or do sexual intercourse right after parturition. Luchubai, Luanqing, Xiezelin and Guome~feng were famous TCM doctors in South China during the Minguo period (90 years ago). The preceding three doctors were experts in gynecology & obstetrics and Guome~feng also had some experience in treating women diseases. Luchubai wrote the textbook ardinal Principles of gynecology & obstetrics of TCM? and he thought that the most important thing to treat women diseases was to regulate menstruation by adjusting Qi. He diagnosed gestation by feeling the Guan Pulse and was good at using flowers to teat women diseases. Luanqing considered the common cause of amenorrhea was deficiency of blood so it was not properly always treating the disease by elimination. He also thought that periodic pain prior to menstrual flow should be treated by regulating Qi & clearing away stagnant heat, periodic pain post menstrual flow should be treated by expelling coldness and nourishing the blood, periodic pain affecting the lumbosaceral region should be teated by regulating & nourishing the liver and the kidney. He pointed out that Angelica sinensis and Ligusticum wallichii should not be used to treat a female patient whose main symptom was bleeding. Xizelin wrote the ynecology & Obstetrics of 1CM? which was the first TCM gynecology & Obsitetrics textbook used by Guangdong 1CM college. He paid great atte... |
