Explanation: Caihu
/Bupleurum root, as a principle herb, has the effects of
dispelling pathogenic factor located in the half exterior of
Shaoyang meridian by
driving it out; it can also relieve the depressed liver-qi.
Huangqin /
Scutellaria root clears out stagnated heat located in the half
interior by clearing away it thoroughly as an assistant herb.
The combination of 2 herbs, one for dispelling pathogen out; and
the other for clearing away stagnated heat from the interior,
together can remove pathogenic factors from
Shaoyang.
Banxia/Pinellia
tuber and Shengjiang
/ Fresh ginger can regulate the function of the stomach and
lower the adverse flow of
qi. Renshen
/Ginseng and Da Zao
/Chinese dates invigorate qi
and strengthen the middle-jiao.
Zhigancao/Prepared
licorice root can coordinate the actions of various herbs in the
recipe. All the above can act as adjuvant and guiding herbs.
Indications in
the original texts of
Shanghan Lun
Clause 96:
After 5-6 days during febrile disease, the patient has alternating attacks of chills
and fever, feels a distension and a sensation of oppression in
the chest and costal region, reluctant to speak and eat,
restlessness and no nauseous, or thirsty, or
abdominal pain, or with mass below the costal margin, or with
palpitation and dysuria, or no thirsty but with a slight fever,
or with coughing. Xiao Caihu
Tang /Minor Bupleurum Decoction can serve as a remedy
in this case.
Note: Key
indications of Xiao Caihu
Tang/ Minor Bupleurum Decoction:
1)
Alternate chills and fever;
2)
Feeling a
distension and a feeling of oppression in the chest and costal
region;
3)
Reluctant to
eat and speak;
4)
Restlessness and nausea.
There are other clauses on
Xiao Caihu Tang /Minor Bupleurum Decoction, such as
37, 97, 98, 99,100, 101,103, 104, 144, 148,149, 266, 229, 230,
231, 379, 394 in Shanghan
Lun.
Modern clinical
application
1)
Clinically,
we often use Xiao Caihu Tang
/ Minor Bupleurum Decoction for the treatments of common cold, malaria, infection
of Biliary tract, hepatitis,
pleurisy, chronic gastritis, indigestion, mastosis, inter costal
neuralgia, neurosis and AIDS marked by the symptoms
of Shaoyang
disease. Of course, we often modify the recipe according to each
special different condition
2)
Prof. Liu Duzhou introduced that the recipe is effective for
impotence caused by stagnation of
the liver-qi. See
the book, ¡°Research in Classical Prescriptions of TCM¡±.
3)
Dr Li
Xinghua reported this recipe can be used for acute pancreatitis.
Notes: All the above 3 are selected from the same sources
-¡°Research in Classical Prescriptions of TCM¡± and ¡°New Research
in Classical Prescriptions of TCM¡±.
Modern research
1)
Modern
researches have proved that the recipe has some effects of
inhibiting bacteria, viruses and leptospira, relieving the
reaction of the human body to the invaded pathogen, and
remarkably allaying fever and resisting inflammation. See the
books, ¡°A Practical English-Chinese Library of TCM¡±.
2)
The recipe
also has the effects of promoting digestion, preventing
vomiting, expelling phlegm, relieve cough, protecting the liver,
normalizing the function of gallbladder and tranquilizing the
mind. See the same source. From the same source.
(3)
Taiyin
(Great yin)
Disease: It is an advanced stage
and condition that can be caused by mistreatment of 3
yang meridians
diseases, especially the
Yangming Disease evolves
Taiyin Disease,
marked by deficiency of the spleen-yang
due to invasion by pathogenic cold-dampness, manifested as abdominal distension, poor
appetite, nausea or vomiting, diarrhoea with loose stools, and
occasional abdominal pain, its therapeutic principle:
Warming the spleen-yang;
Recipe: Sini Tang
/ Decoction for Resuscitation or its like ( Lizhong Wan /Pill for Regulating Middle-jiao
can be adopted. Note: a purgative is prohibited to this case.
Chief Recipe
in Taiyin
Disease:
Lizhong Wan/
Pill for Regulating Middle-jiao
Ingredients:
Renshen/
Ginseng/ Radix Ginseng, 3
Liang/9g
Ganjiang/Dried
ginger/ Rhizoma Zingiberis, 3
Liang/ 9g
Zhigancao/Prepared
licorice root/ Radix Glycyrrhizae Praeparatae 3
Liang/9g
Baizhu/White
atractylodes rhizome / Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae 3
Liang 9g
Administration:
According to the original texts of
Shanghan Lun and our
experience, we should first grind the above herbs into the fine
powder, and then mix them with honey to make them into pills.
Take the pills with warm boiled water, 9g each time, 3-4 times
on a day, 2 times a night if necessary; or decoct the herbs in
water in the pot for 25-30 minutes, and then get the decoction
which will be taken orally in 3 separate times in a day.
Actions: Warming
the middle-jiao
and eliminating pathogenic cold-dampness from
Taiyin.
Explanation:
Ganjiang/Dried
ginger, acts as a principle herb, acrid in taste and hot in
nature, has the effects of warming the middle-jiao;
Renshen/Ginseng
acts an assistant herb, slightly bitter in flavour and slightly
warm in nature, and is good in strengthening the spleen-qi;
Baizhu / White
atractylodes rhizome, serves as an adjuvant herb, with its sweet
and bitter flavour and warm nature, and is used to dry dampness
and strengthen the spleen;
Zhigancao/Prepared licorice root, sweet and mild in
property, harmonizes the spleen and stomach and tempers the
effects of other herbs in the recipe, playing a guiding herb.
Indications in
the original texts of
Shanghan Lun
Clause 277:
Diarrhoea without a thirsty
for water is the symptom of
Taiyin disease. It is caused by coldness in the
viscus. Sini Tang/
Decoction for Resuscitation or its like can be
adopted to warm the coldness.
Notes:
1)
As the above
case is in a deficient and cold syndrome , so the patient feels
no thirsty;
2)
The viscus
here means the spleen in this clause.
3)
¡°Sini
Tang or its like¡± means the
Lizhong Tang/ or
Lizhong Wan.
There are other clauses such as 386, 396 in
Shanghan Lun; also
seen in Jin Kui Yao Lue
in Chapter 9.
Modern clinical
application
1) We often use
Lizhong Tang/
Decoction for Regulating Middle-jiao
for the treatments of acute or chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer,
gastro-intestinal neurosis, chronic diarrhoea, chronic enteritis
or non-specific colitis, and AIDS, etc. It will be seen in ¡°New
Research in Classical Prescriptions of TCM¡±.
2)
Therapy on
the umbilicus: Dr Li Zhongjie introduced to make an ointment of
Lizhong Wan /
Bolus for Regulating Middle-jiao
and then apply it on the umbilicus; cover it with
compress and keep it for 3-7 days which can be used to treat
chronic diarrhoea, edema, cough, and uterus bleeding. For more
details, please see the book ¡®Research in Classical Formulae of
TCM¡¯.
Modern research
1)
The
Pharmaceutical Dept and Microbiology Dept of Shanghai TCM
University made a simulated syndrome of spleen-deficiency in a
mouse by feeding Dahuang/
Rhubarb /Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, as a result the mouse shown
symptoms of spleen-deficiency marked by diarrhoea as well as
lower function of immune system and less ability against
coldness; then they treated the mouse with
Lizhong Tang/Decoction
for Regulating Middle-jiao.
After that the mouse¡¯s symptoms were relieved. See the book,
¡°Research in Classical Prescriptions of TCM¡±.
2)
Many new
studies have also ascertained that this recipe has the effects
in adjusting the functions of the stomach and intestine,
promoting blood circulation, strengthening metabolism, relieve
spasm, alleviating pain, arresting vomiting and diarrhoea, and
inducing diuresis. See the books, ¡°A Practical English-Chinese
Library of TCM¡±.
Shaoyin
(Lesser yin)
Disease:
This is a more severe stage and condition during febrile
diseases. In TCM theory,
Shaoyin includes the kidney meridian of foot
Shaoyin and the
heart meridian of hand
Shaoyin. The causes of
Shaoyin Disease
include many factors: exterior pathogens intrude interior; or
Taiyin disease
develop to Shaoyin
disease; pathogenic cold invades
Shaoyin meridian
directly; or both Taiyang
and Shaoyin are
affected by pathogenic factors.
Shaoyin
disease is divided into 2 main syndromes:
First,
Cold syndrome,
manifested as Clause 281 ¡®the essential symptoms and signs of
Shaoyin Disease are
a feeble and thready pulse,
a tendency for the patient to
continue fall asleep¡¯ , its therapeutic principle is
described in Clause 323 ¡®therapeutic method of warming,
Sini Tang/Decoction
for Resuscitation should be given urgently to
Shaoyin disease with
a deep pulse;
Second,
Heat syndrome, marked
by yin deficiency
with yang
hyperactivity, manifested as in Clause 303 ¡® more than 2 or 3
days of Shaoyin
disease , the patient feels
restless and suffers
insomnia,
Huanglian Ejiao Tang/Coptis
and Donkey-hide Gelatin Decoction will act as a curative in the
case.
Chief Recipes in
Shaoyin Disease
Sini Tang/
Decoction for Resuscitation
Ingredients:
Fuzi/Aconite
root/ Radix Aconiti Praeparatae 1 pcs/ 9g
Ganjiang/Dried
ginger/ Rhizoma Zingiberis 1.5
Liang/9g
Zhigancao/
Prepared licorice root / Radix Glycyrrhizae Praeparatae 2
Liang/ 6 g
Administration:
According to our experience, Fuzi
/Aconite root should be decocted one hour prior to other two;
and then add other 2 ingredients and boil 3 ingredients again
for 45minutes or more. Get the decoction for oral use when it is
warm. Drink half in the morning and the other half in the
evening.
Actions: Warming
the heart, spleen and kidney, recuperating depleted
yang to rescue the
patient from collapse.
Explanation:
Fuzi /Aconite root
in the recipe, pungent and hot in the extreme, acts on the
meridians of the heart, kidney and spleen, helping to warm the
yang-qi and
recuperate the depleted yang
to rescue the patient from collapse, it is preferred as a
principle herb. However, in the UK, we may use
Renshen/Ginseng 9g
plus Huangqi/
Astragalus root 30g instead of
Fuzi/Aconite root
because its use is prohibited in the UK.
Ganjiang /Dried
ginger, an assistant herb in the recipe, functions in warming
yang of the middle-jiao
and eliminating interior coldness. The combination of
Fuzi/Aconite root
and Ganjiang
/Dried ginger can develop drastic flavour to strengthen
forcefully the effects of warming
yang.
Zhigancao/Prepared
licorice, with the effects of strengthening the spleen and
replenishing qi,
as an adjuvant and guiding herb, is used in assisting
Fuzi /Aconite root
to recuperate depleted yang
and promote blood circulation, and also in assisting
Ganjiang /Dried
ginger in warming and restoring
yang of the middle-jiao
to reduce toxin of Fuzi
/Aconite root and relieving the extremely pungent property of
other 2 herbs so as to make it possible to warm
yang and remove cold
without injuring yin.
Remarks: As
Shengfuzi/crude
Aconite contains Wutoujian
(aconine) which is highly toxic and should be boiled
for more than one ¨Ctwo hours until no numbness of the mouth and
tongue is felt. Today
Zhifuzi/Prepared Aconite is still used in TCM
practice in the world except the UK, but it should be boiled for
a longer time(1-2 hours), because the long time boiling can
change its Wutoujian/aconine
into Wutoucijia (sub-aconine)
which has just 1-2 % of
Wutoujian¡¯ toxin with the same efficacy.
Additionally, when we meet patients with aconite poisoning, we
should give patient Atropine injection and other supporting
therapies on time to save our patients.
Indications in
the original texts of
Shanghan Lun
Clause 323:
Therapeutic method of warming,
Sini Tang/Decoction
for Resuscitation should be given urgently to
Shaoyin disease with
deep pulse.
Notes:
1)
This clause
is very simple .Only a pulse , and other symptoms and signs are
omitted;
2)
The pulse is
deep, feeble and thready;
3)
According to
other clauses on Sini Tang/
Decoction for Resuscitation, there are other symptoms and signs
such as cold limbs, a feeling
of chill, huddling up with cold, water diarrhoea with undigested
food in the stool, mental fatigue and sleepiness, and deep,
feeble and thready pulse.
4)
Other
clauses on Sini Tang
/Decoction for Resuscitation are clause 29, 91, 92, 225, 277,
323, 324, 353, 354, 372, 377, 388,389 in
Shanghan Lun.
Modern clinical application
1)
We often
used Sini Tang
/Decoction for Resuscitation for the treatments of distinct
declination of bodily strength caused by chronic disorders or
hypopituitarism, hypothyroidism and hypoadreenocorticism marked
by symptoms of yang-deficiency.
See ¡°Research in Classical Prescriptions of TCM¡±.
2)
We also
tried to use Sini Tang
/Decoction for Resuscitation for
yang depletion
syndrome such as shock, heart failure, cardiac infarction, etc.
We also made a Sini Tang
Injection many years ago, it was effective. It will be seen in
¡°New Research in Classical Prescriptions of TCM¡±.
Modern research
1)
Recent
studies have confirmed that this recipe has the functions in
exciting central nervous system, promoting metabolism, improving
weak conditions, preventing shock. See ¡°A Practical
English-Chinese Library of TCM¡±.
2)
Dr Han
Xinmin made a simulated hypotension in a rabbit by injecting
anesthetic to the rabbit for studying the functions of each
single herb in the Sini Tang
/Decoction for Resuscitation as well as the compound decoction
of Sini Tang.
They found a single Fuzi/
Aconite root has a cordial function, but it is weaker than
compound decoction of Sini
Tang; a single
Zhigancao /Prepared licorice root can increase blood
pressure but can not strengthen heart¡¯s contraction at all; a
single Ganjiang/Dried
ginger has nothing on blood pressure and heart¡¯s functions as
well. When giving compound decoction of the
Sini Tang to the
rabbit, it shown strong cordial function, also can slowdown
sinus rhythm as well as preventing arrhythmia caused by single
Fuzi /Aconite
root. This test has proved the synthesis of compound
prescriptions in TCM .See ¡°Research in Classical Formulae of
TCM¡±.
Jueyin
(Absolute
yin) Disease:
It is a most complicated stage and condition during febrile
disease. In TCM theory,
Jueyin meridians include the Liver Meridian of Foot-jueyin,
and Pericardium Meridian of Hand-jueyin.
But in the Chapter Jueyin
Disease, it mainly discuss about the disorder of Liver Meridian
of Foot-Jueyin.
There are 4 main syndromes in
Jueyin Disease,
namely: the upper-heat and lower-cold syndrome; Cold
syndrome; Heat syndrome; and Preponderance between cold and
heat.
1)
Upper-heat and lower-cold syndrome:
It includes Wumei Wan
/Black Plum Pill syndrome;
Ganjiang Huangqin Huanglian Renshen Tang/ Decoction
of Dried Ginger Scutellaria Coptis and Ginseng syndrome,
Mahuang Shengma Tang
/Decoction of Ephedra and Cimicifuge syndrome, etc.
2)
Cold syndrome includes
Sini Tang syndrome
(Clause 353,354), Danggui
Sini Tang syndrome (Clause 351);
Danggui Sini Jia Wuzhuyu
Shengjiang Tang Syndrome (Clause 352), etc.
3)
Heat syndrome of
Jueyin disease
includes Baitouweng Tang
syndrome (Clause 373), Xiao
Chengqi Tang syndrome (374), etc.
4)
The
preponderance between cold and
heat: such as Clause 331 ¡°When fever occurs after a
prevalence of coldness on the extremities, diarrhoea will come to a stop¡±.
Chief Recipe in Jueyin
Disease
Wumei Wan/Black
Plum Pill
Ingredients:
Wumei/
Black plum /Fructus Mume, 300 pcs/15g
Xixin/
Asarum herb, 6 Liang/3
g
Ganjiang/Dried
ginger, 10 Liang/
6g
Huanglian/Coptis
root, 16 Liang/9g
Zhifuzi
/Prepared aconite root, 6
Liang/6g
Danggui/
Chinese angelica root, 4
Liang/9g
Huajiao
/Prickly ¨Cash peel, 4 Liang/10g
Guizhi/Cinnamon
twig/Ramulus Cinnamomi, 6
Liang/9g
Renshen/
Ginseng/Radix Ginseng, 6
Liang/6g
Huangbai/Phellodendron
bark/Cortex Phellodendri, 6
Liang/9g
Administration:
According to the original texts of
Shanghan Lun and our
own experience, we should soak
Wumei /Black plum
with vinegar one night; grind the above herbs into powder to
make pills, 8 pills each time, 3 time a day, then you may
gradually increase its dosage according to the condition; or use
common dosage of the above herbs to make a decoction for oral
use, take half in the morning and another half in the evening.
Actions: Warm
the interior-coldness, clearing away stomach-heat, and calming
and removing the ascaris.
Explanation: The
chief herb in the recipe is
Wumei /Black plum that is soaked with vinegar again
during processing, becomes a very sour substance which is quite
effective in eliminating roundworms. The deputies are divided
into 2 groups: The first group consists of
Huajiao/prickly-ash
peel, Xixin
/Asarum herb, warm in nature, can expel parasites and warm the
internal organs; the second group consists of
Huanglian/Coptis
root and Huangbai
/Phellodendron bark, cold in nature, can clear away
stomach-heat.
Among the
assistant herbs, there are
Ganjiang / Dried ginger,
Fuzi/ Aconite root,
and Guizhi
/Cinnamon twig. They can warm interior and are very useful in
dispersing internal cold. Additionally
Guizhi/Cinnamon twig
and Xixin/ Asarum
herb facilitate the flow of
yang-qi and thereby
help Renshen
/Ginseng and Danggui
/Chinese angelica root tonify the
qi and nourish
blood. The vinegar used in soaking
Wumei/Black plum
during herbal processing is for increasing more acid to
reinforce the ascaris to return to duodenum.
Dr Ke Qin in the
17th century described the effect of this formula on
round-worms, said that ¡°When roundworms encounter sourness, they
are calmed (De suan ze
jing); When they encounter acridity, they are
spent; When encounter bitterness, they are purged¡±. So this has
become the standard formula for treating Biliary ascariasis.
However, from
Wumei Wan/Black Plum
Pill, we have developed new recipe for treating Biliary
ascariasis, for example,
Dandao Qu Hui Tang/ Decoction for Removing Ascarides
from Biliary Tract that is more effective than traditional Wumei
Wan/ Black Plum Pill. It consists of
Yinchen/Oriental
wormwood/Herba Artemisiae Capillaris 30g,
Shijunzi /
Quisqualis Fruit /Fructus Quisqualis 15g,
Kulianpi /Chinaberry
bark/ Cortex Meliae 15g,
Binglang/ Areca Seed / Semen Arecae 15g,
Chuanjiao/
Pricklyash peel/Pericarpium Zanthoxyli 15g,
Zhishi /Immature
bitter orange/Fructus aurantii immaturus 9g,
Muxiang / Aucklandia
root /Radix Aucklandiae 9g,
Caihu/Bupleurum root/Radix Bupleuri 15g,
Huangqin/
Scutellaria root/Radix Scutellariae 9g. Decoct the above herbs
for 25-30 minutes, and get the decoction for oral use, 1-2
doses a day, generally only take 5-6 bags enough for the
patient with Biliary ascariasis. It is really effective,
please try. See ¡°New Research in Classical Prescriptions of
TCM¡±.
Indications in
the original texts of
Shanghan Lun
Clause 338:
The illness with coldness on limbs and a feeble pulse, on the 7th
or 8th day, the patient suffers continuous
restlessness and irritation, and coldness on the skin. It is a
case of ¡®Visceral Jue¡¯,
it is not ascariasis;
If coldness on
the extremities is caused by ascarides (Ascariasis
Jue), the patient
might vomit ascarides. The patient is quiet and feels restless
occasionally. Because of deficiency cold of the spleen and
intestine, ascarides come above the diaphragm, and restlessness
is caused and then stops after a time. The patient will vomit
and restless as soon as he eats, as ascarides sense the smell of
food and crawl upward. The patient usually vomits ascarides.
Wumei Wan/Black Plum
Pill will be a curative for the case as well as for chronic
diarrhoea.
In Chapter 19 of
Jin Kui Yao Lue,
it said ¡®For the patient with
Hui-jue/Biliary
ascariasis, Wumei Wan /Black
Plum Pill could be used¡¯.
Notes:
1)
Differentiation between Visceral
Jue and Ascariasis
Jue (Biliary
ascariasis);
2)
Symptom of
Ascariasis Jue
and its treatment
Modern clinical application
1)
We usually
used Wumei Wan/
Black Plum Pill for the treatment of Biliary ascariasis, chronic
dysentery, colitis, etc.
2)
Dr Liu Xue
Tang reported that Wumei Wan
/Black Plum is effective for
diarrhoea due to bacterial imbalance after using long term
antibiotics.
Notes: The sources of the above can be seen in ¡°Research in
Classical Prescriptions of TCM¡± .
Modern research
1)
Get 21 of
active round-worms by operation, and then divided into 3
groups: put 7 into the normal saline at 37 degree centigrade ,
after 2 minutes, they are still active ; However , put 7 into 5%
of Wumei Wan/Black
Plum Decoction; and also put 7 into 30% of
Wumei Wan/Black Plum
Decoction, As a results, the round-worms in the 30%
Wumei Wan/Decoction
were narcose or dead; while the activities of those in the 5
% of Wumei Wan/Black
Plum became less.
2)
Give
Wumei Wan /Black
Plum Decoction to the patients and animals with amphibolic
fistula, they found that after drinking
Wumei Wan /Black
Plum Decoction , the bile excretion was increased; pH of bile
is down and became more acid; Boden¡¯s sphincter was relaxed.
3)
From the
above tests, I think that
Wumei Wan /Black Plum Pill treated Biliary ascariasis
by following 3 ways: First
Wumei Wan/ Black Plum can calm and paralyse
ascarides and make their adhesive force to Biliary tract to
become less or lost; Second, the increased bile excretion can
lash ascarides downward and enforce ascarides to return back to
the duodenum ; Third, relaxed Boden¡¯s sphincter make ascarides
to return back to duodenum easily; Fourth, as ascarides have
characteristics of being fed up acid and like alkali, after
taking Wumei Wan
/Black Plum, the living condition in the Biliary tract is not
convenient for ascarides any more, for example, pH is down ;and
the pressure from increased bile excretion is too strong, so
they have to return back to the duodenum and intestines .
4.
How to study
Shanghan Lun
1)
Master the
original texts of Shanghan
Lun
Shanghan Lun
is a very old classic which was written in old Chinese language
in the Han Dynasty (about 200-219), so we should first study
some archaic and ancient Chinese and then start to learn the
original text of Shanghan
Lun; We should understand the meaning of the texts
exactly; and which clauses are most important for today¡¯s
practice; what syndromes in Six Meridian
Diseases are still common today; and which herbal
prescriptions are really effective; and how to develop the
prescriptions , etc.
2)
Paying more
attention to the formulae
The formulae in Shanghan Lun
and Jin Kui Yao Lue
are most valuable parts of the books. We should try our best to
do more research on the recipes, including their ingredients,
dosage, preparation, actions, indications, modern clinical
applications as well as reading recent pharmaceutical studies.
Since 1982 I have started to do some researches in the formulae
in both Shanghan Lun
and Jin Kui Yao Lue,
and also wrote a book ¡°Research in Classical Formulae of TCM¡±,
published by Yellow River Press in July, 1989.I plan to revise
it again and give it a new name, ¡°New Research in Classical
Prescriptions of TCM¡± to introduce some new research and
developments in classical prescriptions in the world since 1999
until today, dear students, you are warm welcome to join the
work.
3) Combination
between TCM and Western medicine for Studying
Shanghan Lun and
Jin Kui Yao Lue
Shanghan Lun
is a historical TCM book, if we can use both Chinese and Western
knowledge and techniques to research it, it will be more
scientific and practical. We can not just repeatedly read all
old texts again and again without any new development and
discovery. I heard that some of our post-graduates have strong
Western medicine background. I believe that it is your advance,
not weakness. We should work together, step by step, to develop
and modernize our TCM for the future.
Appendix:
Converting
the Dosage in the Eastern Han Dynasty
into
Today¡¯s Dosage
|
The Eastern
Han Dynasty
(25-220 AD) |
The Present
Day: |
|
1
Zhu |
0.58g |
|
1
Liang
(=24 Zhu) |
13.29g |
|
1
Jin (=16 Liang) |
222.72g |
|
1
Fangcunbi |
3.125g for herbs, 6.2g for minerals |
|
1
Qianbi (a
heaped coin¡¯s worth) |
2.0g for herbs, 4.0g for minerals |
|
1
Ge (Ten spoons¡¯ worth) |
19.81ml |
|
1
Sheng (=10 Ge) |
198.1ml |
|
1
Dou (=10 Sheng) |
1981ml |
|
1 Chi |
23.04cm |
Notes:
1. The above converting table is elected from
the book ¡°Research in Classical Prescriptions of TCM¡± by Prof
Engin CAN/Enqin Zhang, published by Yellow River Press in 1989).
2. In the East Han Dynasty, the weights and
measures for herbal medicine in the terms of ¡°zhu¡±,
¡°liang¡±
and ¡°jin¡±
are accounted as half of the official measurements at
the time.
3.
Commonly used and Simplified Convertion:
1 Liang
in the Han Dynasty=1 Qian/
3g Today
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A Practical
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5.
Chinese¨CEnglish Textbook-Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden
Chamber, By Prof. Ruan Jiyuan& Zhang Guangji¨Cchief editors of
the book, published by Shanghai Science & Technology Press in
Sept. 2003.
Notes:
1. All the right
reserved, no part of this publication may be reproduced without
prior written permission from the author.
2.About
author-Prof. Enqin Zhang (Engin CAN): Dr. Enqin Zhang (Engin
CAN) graduated from Shandong University of Traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM) in 1982 with post-graduate dip., Master of
Medicine and later also got his MD and Professorship from 4
international and Chinese universities and institutes. He was
the chief editor& author of Book ¡°Research in Classical
Prescriptions of TCM¡±, published by Yellow River Press in July,
1989 as well as TCM series ¡®A Practical English-Chinese Library
of TCM¡¯, composed of 14 books, the first English-Chinese TCM
textbooks in the world, published by Shanghai TCM University
Press in 1990, has been distributed to more than 66 countries.
Now he is lecturing and practicing at the Asante Academy of
Chinese Medicine for Middlesex University, London, UK; He also
acts an academic advisor to Huaihua Red Cross Hospital as well
as the professor (specially invited) of Huaihua Medical College,
Laiyang TCM College and other international alternative medicine
universities. He is very good at treating headache/migraine,
obesity, insomnia, stress, poor memory, neck or back
pains/cervical spondylopathy, lumbar spondylopathy,
osteoarthritis, cough/bronchitis, asthma, stomach
problems/gastritis, ulcer, irregular menstruation, menoxenia,
dysmenorrhea, leukorrhagia, hypogalactia, urinary infection,
enuresis, hair loss, quit smoking, and cancer patient¡¯s support
as well as many difficult conditions. His today¡¯s working
address: The Asante Academy of Chinese Medicine, Clerkenwell
Building, The Middlesex University Archway Campus, 2-10 Highgate
Hill, London, N19 5LW.E-amil:prof.engincan@yahoo.com.tr
For information, please
check Google-the key word: Dr Enqin Zhang (Engin CAN) ;Or ring
on 078 0470 9475(Available only on Saturday at any time)¡¡
