The Academic Ideology Of Protecting Body Fluid In Treatise On Febrile Disease

Research objective:Protecting body fluid is one of the main academic ideas in Treatise on Febrile Disease. In Treatise on Febrile Disease, the development of all meridians diseases has been involved in abnormal body fluid, which indicates that the protection or loss of body fluid is vital to the occurrence, development and treatment of six-meridians diseases. The thesis investigates the significance and clinical value of protecting body fluid from the perspectives of the occurrence, development and treatment of six-meridians diseases. It tries to provide reference for clinical research and guidance for clinical medication. Research methods:With the method of literature study, this thesis clears up the application of “protecting body fluid”, a important academic idea of Zhang Zhongjing, in the pharmacology, therapeutic methods, prescriptions and medicines, together with decoction application, of treating the six-meridians diseases. And it also collect the relevant clinical cases in order to verify the significance and clinical value of “protect body fluid”. Research results:1. Taiyang diseases. Syndromes in taiyang meridians, should be given the treatment of dispelling exogenous evils and protecting body fluid, as well as relieving the skin and producing body fluid; syndromes in taiyang viscera, should be given the treatment of transforming qi and running body fluid, and clearing heat and removing blood stasis and protecting body fluid; changed syndromes in taiyang, should be given the treatment of “observing the pulse, knowing inversion, and treating according to symptoms”. And they all contain the treatment of “protecting body fluid”.2. Yangming diseases. Syndromes in yangming meridians, which are heat syndromes, should be treated with clearing heat and cultivating body fluid; syndromes in yangming viscera, excess syndromes, should be treated with purging and protecting body fluid; syndromes of yangming yellowing, should be treated with eliminating muggy evil and cultivating body fluid.3. Shaoyang diseases. The pathogenic characteristics mainly are “stagnation of qi and fire”, so the treatment are to cautiously harmonize the pivot of shaoyang, purge heat and to protect body fluid.4. Sanyin diseases. Deficiency-cold syndromes, should be given the treatment of warming yang and protecting body fluid; heat transformation syndromes, should be given the treatment of clearing heat and nourishing yin, tonifying qi and protecting body fluid; syndromes of intermingled heat and cold, should be given the treatment of considering cold and heat at the same time, and the treatment should not burn the body fluid nor effect the transformation and distribution of qi.5. For diseases of six meridians, it should be cautious to use diaphoresis, emetic therapy, purgative method, fire method, diuresis method in case of leaving the evil and harming the body fluid. If these methods are used right, they should be stopped as soon as the diseased are healed, because the over-use of the methods result in damaging body fluid. Research conclusions:The idea and method of “protecting body fluid” are embodied in all aspects of syndrome differentiation and treatment of the six meridians diseases in Treatise on Febrile Disease: 1. Protect body fluid in syndrome differentiation and treatment. 2. Use properly the Eight Methods and eliminate timely the factors that consume body fluid. 3. Pay attention to protecting body fluid in prescription and drug compatibility. 4. Adjust and nurse body fluid in decoction application.