JingFang is as old as the hills

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JingFang is as old as the hills

Author 寂&明

    Traditional Chinese medical system includes a lot of content, JingFang medicine is one of them, and has a peculiar style. Now, let me talk about it.

    The first, JingFang medicine appeared in ancient times. Why do I say like this? This system has a prescription（处方、药方）named ShaoKunSan（烧裈散）。Men burned the underwear to ashes, then take it wiht water. The ashes is not drug. So, this treatment is before drug era. It is considered that ShaoKunSan was witchcraft traces.

    ‘DUI（敦）’ is a sort of container like box, that it has been used in the era of Zhanguo. It has been replaced by ‘He（合）’ in the Qin dynasty. ‘Dui’ tells us that JingFang came out before Qin period.By them, we can get to know that JingFang medicine is very old.

    The second, JingFang medicine follows the rule that diagnosis and treatment are integration. The diagnosis is nemed “Zheng”（证），and the treatment is using prescription. The prescription is made of some drugs. It was called “Tang”（汤）、San（散）、Wan（丸），such as “MaHuang Tang”、”WuLingSan”、”LiZhongWan”. Accordingly, the diagnosis was called  “MaHuangTang Zheng”. The both just  like two sides of one coin.Why did the ancients use this thinking model? We don’t known. Maybe, the choice under no choice becomes the best choice.

    The third, there are little theory in the system. The author took a lot of description for experiences. Observing and recording were the main work. By contrast, imagining and discussing were less. So, Shanghanlun left great studying space for the followers. It was named the great book. To traditional medicine, JingFang is a wonderful technology, and best treatment, no one of.

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