Chinese Medicine Efficacy Of Terminology Standardization Preliminary Study

The work for standardization Terms, which express the effects of traditional Chinese material medica, is one of the important contents of this special profession's development, also is the first task. In ancient time, doctors choose the Terms as they liked, in contemporary age, the people who work in this field and organizations also didn't pay much attention to standardization of Term. As a result, the situation shows the Terms confusion of misuse, For instance, the same word has many meanings, and for the same meaning we chose different words. According to our investigation, few people and organizations work on this subject.The Terms of material medica's effect, has the Terms of prescriptions and those of TCM treatment, not only has close relations, but also have essential distinctions. To Standardize the Term should obey six requires: the system, the administration, the specification, the briefness, the historisity and the absorption. Therefore to research on Terms standardization, we cannot simply put the Term words in order for selecting but needs to inquire how the words came from, to know the original meaning of the concept, how they were previously used, what their present existing state and whether they were accepted by their usage or not. Only after this studies, then we can have the courage to suggest standard Terms.According to the broad and freqence usage of the Terms, we choose some most commonly used and easily confusing words tostandardize as examples, Such as: "effect " "eliminate the exterior syndrome", "expel wind", "expel wind-dampness", "dispel pathogenic factors from the superficial muscles", "detoxicate", "expel summer-heat" ,"moisten lung", "resolve phlegm", "remove obstruction in meridians and collaterals", "replenish Yin", "tranquilization", etc Besides, investigations of the Terms' usage in currence material medica text book of TCM universities has been made as well as the latest edition of the pharmacopoeia of R P China. Then we made concisely analyse some move easily misunderstanding Terms, and suggested standard Terms.This thesis can be regard as a initial research on standardization of the Terms of material medica effect, Since this task is so huge that it requires all people in this field to make great efforts to complete it. So I hope it could be used as "a special stone which be present to call for the appearance of the jadestone.