YE Tianshi's Experience in Using Unblocking Method to Treat Kidney Diseases
10.16466/j.issn1005-5509.2024.08.015
- VernacularTitle:叶天士运用通法治疗肾系疾病经验撷英
- Author:
Zhengxin LIU
1
;
Peiqi ZHU
;
Weiming HE
Author Information
1. 南京中医药大学第一临床医学院 南京 210029
- Keywords:
YE Tianshi;
kidney diseases;
unblocking method;
experience;
treatment;
extra meridian
- From:
Journal of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University
2024;48(8):991-995
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
[Objective]To summarize the experience of YE Tianshi in the treatment of kidney diseases by unblocking method,so as to provide ideas for clinical differentiation and treatment of kidney diseases.[Methods]Taking Clinical Practice with Medical Records as the research object,combining with the discussion of ancient books such as Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor and Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases,the experience of YE Tianshi's treatment of kidney diseases with unblocking method was summarized.[Results]Unblocking method has a rich connotation.All methods that help the flow of Qi and blood and restoring the normal physiological state of the organism can be considered as unblocking method.YE Tianshi put forward the academic proposition of"all diseases should be treated with unblocking method",and established many methods such as dredging collaterals,promoting free flow of Qi,removing blood stasis and promoting diuresis,activating Yang,which inspired the clinical application of unblocking method.In the identification and treatment of kidney diseases,YE Tianshi attached great importance to the pathogenesis of obstruction of kidney Qi,and considered that the disharmony of Yin and Yang,the pathogen of phlegm,dampness and blood stasis were accumulated,eight extraordinary meridians were blocked,deficiency interweaved with excess was the key to cause kidney diseases,treatment should pay attention to moving kidney Qi.In the treatment of edema,stranguria with turbid discharge disease,spermatorrhea and other kidney diseases,formed the treatment principles of"regulating Yin and Yang,functioning normally when unobstructed""removing blood stasis and dredging collaterals,opening the orifices and invigorating the kidney""dredging the eight extra meridians,tonifying the liver and kidney",selected prescription and dispatching drugs,and achieved remarkable effects.[Conclusion]YE Tianshi's application of unblocking method in the treatment of kidney diseases has its own characteristics,which is accurate in syndrome differentiation,clear in theory and simple in medication,and provides a way of thinking for the application of unblocking method in the treatment of kidney diseases.
