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1. 1 How are the initiation of TCM? 1.2 Have you ever read the anecdote of Bian Que who was a legendary ancient Chiaese doctor? Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is unique in its approaches of diagnosing and treating discases. By the early years of Spring & Autumn Period (770-476BC) and Warring States Period (476-221BC), TCM therapies had already ascended to a high level, Bian Que, who is referred to as the TCM founder by the later generations. was the most predominant doctor living a the turning point from Spring & Autumn Period to Warring States Period. ??? Once upon a time, Bian Que wenr to the Kingdom of Cue as a traveling physcian. As walking by the Palace gateway, he overheard that the king¡¯s son had just departed his life. Bian Que went up to ask what disease had the prince passed away from. He was told, ¡°The Prince could not breathe smoothly so that Qi and bkxxi were obstructed and innards were harmed. Before long, he expired of a sudden.¡± Bian Que asked in detail at what time the prince passed away and whether he had been colffined. Having made out the pariculars, he announcccl solemnly,¡±Please tell your king, I am able to hring the princes life back. Pleased with the message, the king came up to greet Bian Que in his own person. Bian Que was shown the way into the palace to examine the prince. After he entered the palace, Bian Que felt the prince¡¯ s pulse, palpated parts of the boby, and then said to the king, ¡°the prince is diagnosed as ¡®body collapsed¡¯ (quite similar to shock) , resulted from disorder of Yin and Yang (the two opposing principles in nature, the former feminine and negative and the latter masculine and positive). He was not substantially dead, it is a tharnitosis. Don¡¯t worry. I can cure the illness,¡± Subsequently, he took out a single acupuncture needle, and acupunctured in acupoints. The prince regained consciousness soon. They then boiled some herbal medicine and used it for compresses applyed to the prince¡¯s armipits, after which he was able to slowly sit up. The prince was then prescribed boiled herbal compounds to be taken for less than twenty days, and fully recovered his health. This news was spread, everyone was saying that Bian Que could bring the dead back to life. He dcserves the fame ¡°a highly-skilled doctor of his times¡± This story of Nan Que¡¯s illustrates that the contemporary doctots like Bian Que could be able to point out causes of illnesses accurately and use acupuncture needles to treat patients. 1.3 Now tell you one of the tales of Hua Tun, a celebrated ancient Chinese doctor. The rapid progress in TCM in the late Eastern Han Dvnastybrought up a passel of renowned doctors. Hua Tue is one of them. He invented an anesthetic called Mafei San (boiled anesthetic), and became the first who used narcotic drug in the world and his skill in this field was about 1600-1700 years ahead of that of the west. Hua Tue often practiced medicine as a traveling doctor in the presemly -desigriated provinces of jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui. He miraculously cured diverse illnesses and brought the dying back to life time and again. His prescriptions was astonishingly effective. just the once Hua Tuo had two patients, both of who had a headache with the same symptoms. After feeling their pulses, Hua Tuo prescribed purgative to the patient whose name is Ni Xun, and sudatory to the other patient Li Yan. Both of them took their medicine respectively and their were both eliminated, When he was asked why he had piescribed different medicines to treat the same illness, Hua Tuo put it this way:¡±Ni Kun¡¯s cause of illness roots internally,so the purgative works. However,LiYan¡¯s is external, so sudotary is the right remedy.¡±This case demonstrates Hua Hua Tuo was in good command of the tenet of TCM dialectic remedies. ? 1.4 Do yo know Zhang Zhongjing, the Chinese medical sage? Zhang Zhoiagjing is another outstanding physician of Hua Tuo¡¯s contemporaries, who lived in the Eastern Han Dynasty (300AD). He specialized in the study of typhoid fever. From 196 to 219 AD, warlords dogflghted in chaos and plagues spread widely. Numerous people died of contagions. In Zhang Zhongjing¡¯s kindred, there were over two hundred kinship members.Two thirds of them had died result from disease within ten years, seventy percent of which died was risen from the contagious wphoid.The so-called typhoid at that time includes cholera dysentery, pneumonia, flu and some other acute contagious diseases. In the late period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, most doctors felt helpless to these diseases, for there was no remedy right kill them. As a result, thousands of people lost their lives. For that reason, Zhang Zhongjing labored over the diseases for years which resulted in a cornpicte system of theories on pathology, diagnosis, therapy and prescriptions for typhoid fevers. He maintained that the typhoid developed gradually from the initial attack till the crucial dying state. Treatments should be varied according to different individuals at the different stages of the disease development. Zhang Zhonjing kept on surnming up his clinic experience while he was practicing medicine, notng down those effective prescriptions. Based on his years practicing expedence, he worked out a monograph, Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Dieases. . This is a classic work on traditional Chinese medicine, which is a must for doctors of all generations. Now all the TCM universities assign it as a compulsory course. As a result, Zhang Zhongjing was admired as a medical sage in honor of his significant contribution to TCM. | ||