Golden Chamber Zhifei Thought

Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber, composed by Zhang Zhongjing, on eminent medical scientist in the late Donghan Dynasty, is a section of Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Disease, a section focused on discussing diagnosis of miscellaneous diseases due to internal injury. Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber, as the first clinical medicine classic in China, it attaches much importance to diagnosing miscellaneous disease due to internal injury, and initiated the TCM theoretical system of differentiating diseases according to pathological changes of Zang and Fu and their interrelation. Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber considers much importance to the lung disease, for the thought about the lung disease is extremely rich in it, and it is rigorous to applying a series of principles about diagnosis, treatment, prescription and Chinese drug. This thesis traces back to Huangdi's Canon of Medicine and Canon on Medical Problems about correlation theory of the lung disease, and systematically analyses and induces the thought of the lung disease of Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber, about the theory, syndrome, treatment, prescription, Chinese drug and modern case histories.The first part mainly discusses the theory origin. The article has traced back to theories of Huangdi's Canon of Medicine and Canon on Medical Problems, which includes physiological functions of the lung, etiology, pathogenesis and symptoms of the lung diseases, and the principles of the lung disease. Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber inherits and develops the lung disease theories of Huangdi's Canon of Medicine and Canon on Medical Problems, then applies them to definite diseases. For instance, the classic accords to the principle of Huangdi's Canon of Medicine that diseases in the surface of skin could be cured by sweating, and puts forward that diseases in the surface of skin, such as moisture disease, skin-water disease and so on, can all be cured by inducing perspiration as by drugs. The classic also suggests that warm drugs mediate water stagnancy diseases.The second part mainly discusses the diseases of Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber, witch are treated from the lung. This Classic involves 16 chapters and over 20 types of diseases, not only includes the lung diseases such as Asthenia, Pulmonary Abscess, Cough with Qi Adversity, Sputum Stagnancy, Thoracic Paralysis, Bai he and Polydipsia, and diseases in the surface of skin such as Convulsion, Moisture Disease, Overflowing Stagnancy, Blood Paralysis and Edema, but also includes other organ diseases such as heart disease, liver complaint, spleen disease, the kidney disease, large intestine and bladder disease.The third part discusses the methods of treating the lung diseases of Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber in detail, which include directly curing methods and indirectly curing methods. Directly curing methods contain 8 kinds of common methods about dispersing outward the lung-Qi, descending the lung-Qi, reducing lung-fire, warming lung-Qi, strengthening the lung, purifying the lung, constricting lung-Qi and moistening the...