"taiwan Miyao," Traditional Chinese Medicine And Literature

This research makes a systematic study of the external treatment of Medical Secretes of an Official (Wai Tai Mi Yao), aiming to have a thorough and complete understanding of external treatment methods before Tang dynasty, so that it can serve as reference to modern clinics and researches.This dissertation composes the following two parts: Review of literature of TCM external treatment and study on external treatment of Medical Secretes of an Official. The first part looks back to the researches in the past twenty years on external treatment of ancient TCM literature, summarizes the methods commonly used for research. Besides, it accounts the progress of mechanism of TCM external treatment both in TCM theory and modern TTS (transdermal therapeutic system) technique.As the main content of this thesis, the study on external treatment of Medical Secretes of an Official is made by collecting an analyzing all the external treatment entries in the book except moxibustion, magic and physical exercise in forms. It explicates the method, medicine pattern, medication position and characteristics according to different kinds of diseases. By referring to herbs classics of that time xin xiu ben cao, analyzing the mechanism and laws of external treatment. As results goes: 30.2% of the total quantity (2151 items) are qualified entries, of which 17.7% (380 items ) are for internal diseases. Altogether, the book covers a large variety of disease, almost every chapter accounts external treatment at different length, and the majority of external diseases use external treatment. In all, it shows that external treatment plays an important role in TCM clinic therapy and that it is mostly used locally for external diseases.To sum up, external treatment in Medical Secretes of an Official applies the principle of Internal classics. The concrete ways are determined by the analysis of pathogeny and location guided by theory of expelling evil from where it attacks. Warm the cold and cool the heat.Regulation of Qi and Blood is attached great attention, thus warm therapy and warm-hot, fragrant and open-orifice herbs is frequently used. External treatment is vital for emergent and serious diseases, to expel evil. Some of its formula are complicated, while some are simple, one formula could be multiple-used, or specific diseases occupy special formulas. Sometimes, more than two kinds of treatment are used to cure one kind of sichness, i.e. it chooses concrete methods according to different needs of various diseases, and shows little bias to any kind. All the above can be of some value as reference.