Zhongjing External Literature And Theoretical Research

External therapy of TCM is a non-oral drug method by stimulating the meridians, acupuncture points, skin, mucous membranes muscles, bones, etc, in order to achieve the purpose of preventing and curing diseases as traditional medicinal practices. External therapy of TCM has a long history in China, which is a unique summarized treatment by Chinese people and the ancient medical doctor in a long-term fighting against the disease. Up to now, External therapy had already a tremendous development and become an important treatment of clinical medicine." Treatises on febrile and miscellaneous diseases" Written by Zhang Zhong-jing is the first comprehensive medical book in the history with " principle, regulation, prescription, medicine," including discussion of the external treatment, not only the principle and regulation but also the flexible treatment methods are in higher level. From a historical perspective and development point of view, the external therapy founded by Zhang Zhong Jing gave the impact on future generations, which contains the principles and practical experience, have still an important guiding significance and practical value.The paper focus on the relating external therapy expression, differentiating zheng methods, therapy theories in" Treatises on febrile and miscellaneous diseases", systemic put in order and summarize the realted external therapy content of " Treatises on febrile and miscellaneous diseases". the paper content contains:Part I discussed External Therapy theoretical origin of Zhongjing in refer the representative writings relevant External content in the past dynasties, and briefly Introduct External therapy chronological development after Zhongjing.The second part adressed the External therapy content of Zhongjing in details, including common formulation, methods of external therapy and acupuncture and moxibustion features.Part III summarized the thoughts and academic achievements of external therapy of Zhongjing. There are four main characteristics in the thought of external therapy of Zhongjing:â‘ Zhongjing used the overall concept to guide the External Application Practice;â‘¡Zhongjing emphasized the combination between patients and the syndrome in External applications;â‘¢Zhongjing always used external treatment, when he treat diseases with internal therapy, to enhance the internal medicine efficacy or reduce in medication side effects;â‘£Application of External therapy.The academic achievements of External therapy of Zhongjing are mainly five aspects, as follows:â‘ Zhongjing inherited and summarized the classical Chinese medicine theory and knowledge of Han and earlier dynasty. He organized and saved many ancient medical literature and theory of external treatment;â‘¡collected, organized and promoted a large number of prescriptions of External therapy;â‘¢inherited and created a variety of dosage forms;â‘£Enriched the External treatment modalities, laid the principles of External Differential Treatment, and it is also laid solid theoretical foundation of the clinical application of external treatment for the future generations.The fourth part is the supplementary part of the paper, described Li Shi Zhen and Wu Shiji, who made outstanding contribution in the Traditional Chinese Medicinal field, in detail. The two physicians inherited the External syndrome differentiation of Zhongjing, developed and improved the External theory of Chinese Medicine. In this part we are going to talk about the main thinking of the External therapy Differential Treatment of the two physicians.Part V is on the base of collecting modern literature which has been published systematically, and introduced the modern research development of dosage forms and drug delivery of Traditional Chinese Medicine. And we also summarized and analysised the adaptation disease of external treatment. This part belongs to the literature review section of modern research development of the external treatment in Traditional Chinese Medicine.Part VI introduces modern clinical application and research development of the External therapy of Zhongjing, focusing on the summarized and analysis about current clinical Zhongjing external therapy, such as Zhudanzhi enema side, honey fried guide side, wolf tooth Washing side, Cnidium Powder clinical application, rug delivery and efficacy of the system, etc. We also evaluated literature quality by using Jadad assessment scale.