OBJECTIVE: To systematically understand natural philosophical medical mode that is the important component part of theoretical medicine studies, to further explain its theoretical values and application significance, so as to promote the constant improvement of medical mode.DATA SOURCES: Based on Social Medicine---Evolution of Medical Mode---Empirical Medical Mode, synthesized the features of TCM, Chinese thought history, Chinese cultural history and the research method features, puts forward to the systematic understanding of natural philosophical medical mode.STUDY SELECTION: Data was selected from social medical data, TCM data, Chinese cultural data and thought history data. The selected data can embody outlook of nature, abstract thinking features and mode features.The data was analyzed and grouped to reveal the application of the thoughts and methods of natural philosophy in the understanding of health and diseases.DATA EXTRACTION: Among 23 papers, the data was mainly selected from 6 papers including Shanggu Tianzhen Lun, Shengqi Tongtian Lun and Zangqi Fa Shi Lun. The thoughts, theory and understanding from these materials are used to expound the natural and social phenomena of the human body, and get the conclusion that the qualitative analysis is sufficient,while the quantitative concepts are scanty; subjective experiences and clinical disproof theory are plentiful while concrete proof analysis and morphological injury principles are scarce.DATA SYNTHESIS: Based on the influences of holism and methodology of natural philosophy, the natural philosophical medical mode can only grasp the life phenomena organically. It attaches importance to the generalization of the relationships and phenomena above the level of the human body, but pays less attention to the concrete structure analysis below the level of human body. Therefore it emphasizes the interactive roles of the four-dimension structure of the heaven, earth, people and ethics in human health and diseases, invented many difficult material concepts to specify the physiological and pathological concepts. The life principles are invariable, the content of qi mechanism remains constant. All diseases can be understood, syndrome-differentiated and presc ribed. However the medical concepts are mostly cited from ancient philosophical concepts and the general level of medical theory remains in this level of thoughts.CONCLUSION: Natural philosophical medical mode centers upon social science, social phenomena and social psychology as its main tool. It attaches more importance to the essential attribute of man, namely the social attribute. By contrast the biological medical mode attaches importance to the natural attribute of man. namely the biological attribute. The two factors constitute the two sides of one thing. Compared with the present medical mode of biology---psychology---society, the natural philosophical medical mode not only has its systematic nature and holism, but also clinical therapeutic theory and more operational nature. It may enlighten people's wisdom and is an art of understanding health and diseases. Thus it possesses very important research significance and clinical application values.

The feature of TCM is embodied in its unique thought style. Standing at TCM self thought rule, it discusses the future development of TCM, pointing out that TCM development must preserve traditional thought feature, thereby reform present TCM thought method and set up modern TCM thought system.

This paper presents the principles and the specific circuits of a multifunction generator of ECG signal.It discusses the choice of oarameter of all the circuits included in the small instrument.This instrurrent has been made into prototype and came-into use.

Objective: To study the expression of hepatocyte growth factor(HGF) in acute pulmonary embolism, and the diagnostic value of HGF thereof. Methods: The acute autoblood pulmonary thromboembolism was used to establish rat pulmonary embolism model. There were blood plasma HGF detection group,organization HGF mRNA detection group and control group respectively. The expressions of plasma HGF and organization HGF were observed during the different periods of acute pulmonary embolism. Results:The expression of HGF was much higher in blood plasma HGF detection group than that of control group at different time points(P ＜ 0.01). The expression of HGF mRNA increased in organization HGF detection group compared with that of control group at 12 h after pulmonary embolism(P ＜ 0.01). Conclusion: The expression of HGF increased in acute pulmonary embolism, which can be used as a diagnosis indicator in acute pulmonary embolism.

The effects of melittin on the activities of Na+-K+-ATPase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) which are on the membrane of red blood cell (RBC) are chosen as the index of this study. The possible target sites of these effects through enzyme activity determination by spectrophotometry are investigated, and the hemolytic process and the activity change of these two types of enzymes on the RBC membrane are discussed. The results show that the main mode of melittin inhibition to the activity of enzymes on the RBC membrane is the coexistence of adhesion/insertion form and free-state form, and the effect of the former is more stronger than the latter. The K+ binding site of Na+-K+-ATPase is one of the target sites of melittin. The membrane-insertion process of melittin synchronizes with the action of melittin on this enzyme. Melittin slowly inhibits the catalysis of G-6-PD through the action on G-6-P and NADP, and the extent in which melittin forms tetramers isclosely related to the enzyme activity. EDTA inhibits the aggregation of melittin, and interferes with its action on G-6-P. The biochemical mechanisms of melittin effects on the substrate G-6-P and the coenzyme NADP are similar, and the inhibition of melittin is not related to the structure of G-6-PD.

The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standard was developed by National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) for medical image archiving and communication. The Standard is widely used in medicine now. But it does not define image semantic content sufficiently, so there is a difficulty in the implementation based on semantic content. In this article are discussed the semantic hierarchy structure in medical image and the method to describe the image content used in the DICOM Standard. We point out the limitations of DICOM in image semantic content description, and then set forth a way to extend the semantic content description by using DICOM private attributes.
Computer Communication Networks ; standards ; Humans ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; standards ; Programming Languages ; Radiology Information Systems ; standards ; Semantics