| Pulmonary asthenia refers to the insufficiency of pulmonary qi, it is one of consumptive diseases characterized by cough and expel thick and frothy sputum and dyspnea. Pulmonary asthenia is a name of disease which appears firstly in the classic of synopsis of prescription of the golden chamber, and the etiology, the symptoms , the treatment, the prescriptions and the drugs of pulmonary asthenia is introduced systematically in special chapters of the classic.From han dynasty to now, those are elaborated by many medical experts. With the passage of time, we found that the later generations' understanding about pulmonary asthenia is not consistent. Based on sorting out the ancient and contemporary documents systematically, this lesson is going to analyse and research into pulmonary asthenia in respects such as the name and category, etiology and pathology, diagnosis and treatment, prescriptions and herbs and so on, moreover it counts and analyses herbs in 172 formulae that relate to pulmonary asthenia , and study its laws of making prescriptions and applying of herbs .This lesson aims at supplementing and substantiating the contents of pulmonary asthenia of synopsis of prescription of the golden chamber, and comprehending thoroughly and integrating the cognition of pulmonary asthenia. |