Yang Lishan’s Understanding of Latent Evils
10.16466/j.issn1005-5509.2015.07.010
- VernacularTitle:浅析杨栗山对温疫伏邪的认识
- Author:
Dapeng ZHANG
;
Lei FU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Yang Lishan;
latent evils;
miscellaneous Qi;
latent cold evil turn into pathogenic warm;
pestilence;
Treatise on Differontiation and treatment of Epidemic Febrile Diseases;
Wu Youke
- From:
Journal of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University
2015;(7):534-536
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
[Objectives]To extract Yang Lishan’s description of latent evils ,summarize his arguments, and provide reference for exploring his academic ideology further. [Methods] Use the literature methodology, take“latent evils”and“pestilential pathogen”as keywords, retrieve the related description in Yang Lishan’s book, summarize his main opinions on latent evils. [Results] Yang Lishan wholly refused the theory of latent cold evil turning into pathogenic warm, and he believed that the cause of latent evils is pestilential pathogen, thereby distinguishes warm disease from exogenous febrile disease on etiology level. He described the disease’s quality, afferent pathway, hiding spot, the way out, therapeutic method, prescription and recuperation in details, which are mature enough to form a complete theoretical system. The prescription Sheng Jiang Powder represents experiment with the thought of treating pestilential pathogen with drugs and special medicine for special disease, which makes the etiology of pestilential pathogen to have real directive value. [Conclusion] Yang Lishan’s theory of latent evils has implications in treatment and prevention of epidemic diseases.
