Research Of Xin'an Doctors's Academic Thoughts On Medical Epidemics And Their Clinical Experience

A lot of skilled doctors emerged in Xin'an area in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The Xin'an doctors who collated and summarized many diseases achieved a lot of innovations on the basis of inheritance. The innovations enriched the theory of traditional Chinese Medicine and expand the therapy of clinical application during the times.The research results show something as follows:There are 40 Xin'an doctors and their existing originals including 44 books and 2 monograph which involve 14 volumes, 550 medical records, more than 1200 prescriptions among which 94 prescriptions are created on their own.Xin'an doctors?academic thoughts are based on theories of different doctors and clinical experience themselves. They enriched the etiology and pathogenesis such as the conceptions of Fetal malaria and the opinions of Yin Jaundice.They also enlarge the application of the therapeutic principles such as one should Warm bladder when he treats choleraic myospasm rather than Nourish qi and blood. They creat Yinchenzhufu Decoction and pay more attention to Yang qi of Spleen and kidney and Warm Yang and invigorating the spleen when they treat Yin Jaundice.Some other therapeutic principles such as warming spleen and dieresis to treat diarrhea rather than some tonic herbs like E Jiao and Shu Di. Xin'an doctors are skilled in using herbs like Ginseng,Huangqi,Baizhu to warm middle invigorating spleen and some academic thoughts of benefiting qi and nourishig blood to dredge qi of Shaoyang.They enriched the etiology and pathogenesis and the therapeutic principles and skilled in combaining the theories with clinical practice and formed their own characteristics on support vital energy. They create some effective prescriptions on Syndrome differentiation.In short, Xin'an doctors had some innovations on the basis of predecessors?experience and enriched various epidemics. They also provided many thoughts and therapies on researching the epidemics.