| Ye Gui, a doctor in the Qing dynasty, is the master of great leaning and integrity of the school of Epidemic Febrile Disease, he developed the thoughts of Spleen-Stomach as well. He emphasized that spleen and stomach should be distinguished respectively. Also he created the methods to cure the stomach diseases by nourishing stomach-yin, thus conceiving his Thought of Stomach-yin. By analyzing Ye' s representative work Case Report for Clinical Practice, the article summed up the academic sources and the characteristics of his thought guided by the theories of Huang Di Nei Jing. He modeled himself after Zhang Zhongjing and praised highly the ideology of Li Dongyuan. In view of the Spleen and Stomach Theory of Li Dongyuan was not perfect enough, he combined his own clinical practices in long-term and mixed together with his own ideas, thus forming the characteristic Thought of Stomach-yin.Based on the overall understanding of the stomach physiology, Ye Gui realized that "stomach functions to receive and digest food, and spleen governs transformation and transportation of nutrients; spleen Qi ascends while stomach Qi descends. " It summarized highly the stomach physiology and the physiology relations between stomach and spleen. It is just to say as follows: He attached much importance to the common functions of stomach-yin and stomach-yang, while at the same time he especially expounded the physiology functions of stomach-yin in order to make up for the defects of Li' s theories. He generalized the physiology of stomach-yin into two aspects. First, stomach and spleen belongs to yang and yin respectively. Spleen-qi ascends and stomach-qi descends in physiology, and they are both opposite and complementary to each other. On the other hand, as far as stomach itself, stomach-qi descending depends mainly on the falling function of stomach-yin, and stomach-yin is relative to stomach-yang.As it restricts the dryness of stomach, it has the function of moistening todigest food. Since stomach-qi descends in physiology and it likes moisture though it is dry in nature, the falling and moistening function of stomach-yin appears particularly important. Combining with his own practices, Ye put forward such the famous academic points as followings: "stomach belongs to yang-earth and it likes coolness and dampness" ; "stomach can be cured with herbs which are moisture in nature when stomach-yin is injured" and etc.The treatment of Nourishing stomach-yin is one of the important contents of Ye' s Stomach-yin theory. Since sweet flavor is benefit to spleen and stomach, he chose herbs with sweet taste and cool nature to nourish stomach-yin. While the syndrome of stomach-yin deficiency was caused by so many causes, it was always accompanied by many other syndromes. He used the Treatment of Nourishing Stomach-yin very flexibly and perfectly. Thus the principles of his Treatment of Nourishing Stomach-yin showed the follows: The key is to contend and save the loss of body fluid; Nourishing Stomach-yin depends mainly on the actions of herbs with damp and mild nature; Grasp the proper syndrome of disease; Pay attention to the accompanied syndromes; Grasp the common disease and also could adjust oneself to the change of it.It is a completely set of theory system which is about the physiology of stomach and the pathophysiology, also the treatment with the methods of choosing herbs for the syndrome of deficiency in the stomach-yin. Ye' s Stomach-yin thought had great influences on TCM in the field of healing the Epidemic Febrile Diseases and internal diseases. His Thought also has many values for both the research of stomach and the therapy of stomach diseases today.
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