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Chapter three

Chapter three. Chinese medicinal herbs Traditional Chinese medical prescriptions. The basic therapeutic methods. Eight basic therapeutic methods Han (diaphoresis) Tu (emesis) Xia (purgation) He (mediation) Wen (warming) Qing (heat-clearing) Xiao (resolution)

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Chapter three

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  1. Chapter three Chinese medicinal herbs Traditional Chinese medical prescriptions

  2. The basic therapeutic methods • Eight basic therapeutic methods • Han (diaphoresis) • Tu (emesis) • Xia (purgation) • He (mediation) • Wen (warming) • Qing (heat-clearing) • Xiao (resolution) • Bu (invigorating, tonifying or reinforcing)

  3. Chinese medicinal herbs • Chinese materia medica • Plants, animal parts, and minerals • Flowers, herbs, trees, insects, fish, birds, iron and stone

  4. Four properties • Cold Heat Warm Cool • Five tastes • Sour Bitter Sweet Acrid (pungent-spicy) Salty • The properties is not obvious

  5. Ascending descending floating sinking • Meridian that a herb enters • Toxic nontoxic strongly toxic slightly toxic • The combination of herbs • Dosage

  6. Traditional Chinese medical prescriptions • Recipes or formulas • The prescriptions in TCM are not merely collections of medicinal substances in which the actions of one herb are simply added to those of another in a cumulative fashion.

  7. An effective prescription is one in which the substances are carefully balanced to accentuate the strengths and reduce the side effects. • The combination of substances in a prescription creates a new therapeutic agent that can treat conditions more effectively and completely than a single substance.

  8. Jun monarch-ingredient • usually translated into monarch, king, principal or chief • Chen minister-ingredient • usually translated into assistant or adjutant • Zuo assistant-ingredient • usually translated into minister, adjutant, associate or deputy • Shi guide-ingredient • usually translated into guide, messenger, conductant or envoy

  9. Decoction 汤 剂 • Powder 散 剂 • Bolus，pellet，pill 丸 剂 • Honeyed bolus；Water pellet；Condensed pellet • Paste，ointment ，salve 膏 剂 • Tablet 片 剂 • Syrup 糖浆剂 • Injection 注射剂 • Capsule 胶 囊

  10. Diaphoresis 汗法 • Known as exterior-relieving method used to open the muscular interstices and relieve exterior syndrome with herbs which can relieve the exterior and induce sweating. • To treated exogenous disease at the early stage with the symptoms of chills and fever, headache, whitish tongue coating and floating pulse, etc.

  11. Also used to treat edema above the waist, early stage of carbuncle痈and ulcer as well as inhibited eruption of measles麻疹with the same manifestations mentioned above.

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