Significance and application of analogizing Chinese medicines with natural phenomenon
- VernacularTitle:药类法象的意义与应用
- Author:
Chuanxiang ZHU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Analogizing Chinese medicines with natural phenomenon;
Chinese medicine theory;
Imaging pharmacology;
Imaging medication
- From:
China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy
2005;0(04):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The analogizing Chinese medicines with natural phenomenon are theoretical way to investigate the actions and mechanism of Chinese medicine. The characteristics are combining the basic function, application of medicines with the smell thickness, quality, colors, collection period, medicinal parts of medicines and raw or prepared material to produce the principles of different things relating its kind, liking attracts like and isomorph following each other, which are often used to clinical medication. This theory enriched the Chinese medicine Pharmacology, discovered a rule of clinical medication, which promoted the clinical pharmacology from the experience to the theory and developed traditional Chinese pharmacology. But the thought methods are limited inevitably because they are obvious intuitive and uncertain in concept, therefore the theory should be advanced with "discarding the dross and selecting the essential".
