Current Opinions On
Shanghan Lun
Martin Wang, MD. Ph D.
Chinese herbal therapy is one of the most effective
therapies in whole Chinese medicine system. The book
Shang Han Lun is the earliest book that systematically summarized
the principle in the diagnosis and treatment with herbal
therapy. The meaning of the original text is however
difficult to understand because the book did not tell why to
separate various disease as six major categories and why we
should use such and such herbal formulas for the treatment.
The book reads pretty much as a clinic handbook for use,
instead of a thorough teaching. The experience of many
famous Chinese medicine doctors in history indicated that
the book is however very important to learn, though the
understanding of the meaning of the original text is
different among the doctors.
This book here dedicates to collect the ideas and opinions
about the meaning of the book
Shang Han Lun,
from doctors in modern times. Because these doctors are also
famous in China, we call this collection as a “summit”
meeting. From the book here, readers can find that how each
doctor understand the book and how do they make diagnosis
for disease. Nowadays there are many similar lectures on the
book Shang Han Lun
by individual doctor, but there is, as we know, no any book
as this one here, to collect the different opinions in the
same book.
This book focuses on the diagnosis of each disease and
briefly mentions the name of the herbal formula that is
needed for the treatment of that specific disease condition.
In our another book, Chinese Herbal therapy: Summit for Jing formula application, will
discuss more in detail about the structure of each herbal
formula and the function of each ingredient in the formula.
The author of this book is not at all an expert in Chinese
medicine but he hopes that this book would be helpful for
those of doctors who want to learn and practice Chinese
herbal therapy in their clinic, so as to increase their
clinic success rate.
Contents
Dedicated
to those:
3
Preface.
7
Note to Readers.
10
Declaration.
11
Basic concept.
12
1.
Taiyang stage:
18
2.
Yangming stage:
20
3.
Shaoyang stage:
21
4.
Taiyin stage:
22
5.
Shaoyin stage:
22
6.
Jueyin stage:
22
Six Jing diagnosis and treatment
24
1.
Taiyang stage.
24
1.1 Taiyang body surface conditions.
24
1.2 Taiyang inner condition.
30
1.3 Special types of
the Taiyang stage.
36
1.4 Precaution with common cold or flu.
40
1.5 Turnover of Taiyang stage.
41
1.6 Usefulness of Sweating therapy.
44
1.7 Precaution in the use of Sweating therapy.
44
1.8 Conditions in which the Sweating therapy should not be
used.
45
1.9 Modification of Guizhi Tang.
46
1.10 Disease condition change with even normal level of
sweat via Sweating therapy.
48
1.11 Over-sweat due to the Sweating therapy.
52
1.13 Distinguishing the Taiyang stage from other conditions.
75
2.
Yangming stage.
77
2.1 Yangming Wind-attack stage.
77
2.2 Yangming Cold-attack stage
87
2.3 Atypical Yangming body surface condition.
89
2.4 Special types of Yangming stage.
90
2.5 Conditions in which Bowel-cleansing therapy should not
be used.
92
2.6 Changes after Bowel-cleansing therapy.
93
2.7 Wrong treatment of the Yangming stage.
94
2.8 Distinguishing the Yangming stage.
95
2.9 Turnover of the Yangming stage.
97
3.
Shaoyang stage.
97
3.1 Shaoyang body surface stage.
98
3.2 Shaoyang inner stage.
100
3.3 Special types of Shaoyang syndromes.
104
3.4 Wrong treatment of the Shaoyang stage.
105
3.5 Wrong treatment of Shaoyang stage.
107
3.6 Turnover of the Shaoyang stage.
108
3.7 Distinguishing of the Shaoyang stage.
108
4.
Taiyin stage.
109
4.1 Taiyin body surface condition.
110
4.2 Taiyin inner condition.
110
4.3 Distinguishing diagnosis.
112
4.4 Special types of Taiyin stage diseases.
112
5.
Shaoyin stage.
113
5.1 Shaoyin body surface condition.
114
5.2 Shaoyin body inner condition.
116
5.3 Distinguishing the Shaoyin stage.
122
5.4 Notice of the Shaoyin stage.
124
5.5 Wrong treatment in the Shaoyin stage.
125
5.6 Turnover of the Shaoyin stage.
126
6.
Jueyin stage.
128
6.1 Four major characteristics for the Jueyin stage.
129
6.2 Treatment of Shifting Hot-cold condition.
132
6.3 Various Jue conditions that need to be distinguished
with the Jueyin stage.
134
6.4 Turnover of Jueyin stage.
136
6.5 Wrong treatment in the Jueyin stage.
138
7.
Six Jing
diagnosis–co-existing stages.
139
8.
Diagnosis and
treatment of Cholera.
147
9.
New conditions after
recovery from Shanghan disease.
149
10.
The time in which a patient
recovers.
151
Supplementary readings.
153
Background for Shanghan Lun and its spread.
153
Relationship between Six Jing in the Six Jing diagnosis
system and the Six Jing in the book
Huangdi Nei Jing:
156
Relationship between the Six Jing diagnosis and meridians.
161
Relationship between Six Jing diagnosis and other diagnosis
systems.
164
Difference between Classical formulas and Traditional
formulas.
166
If
the Classical formula system is good, why is it the minority
in TCM?.
174
College TCM and folk TCM...
177
Relationship between the TCM classic books and TCM textbooks.
178
More
about Shaoyang diseases.
183
Commonly used Classical herbal formulas.
185
Chinese and English names of herbs.
221
Our other publications.
221
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