Before Qin and Han dynasties
As a documentary record, sweating therapy can be traced back to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. "Historical Records Biography of Bian Que and Cang Gong" records that "the disease is in reason, and the soup is also within reach". Describing Bian Que, a famous doctor, treating Qi Huan Hou's disease has the meaning of sweating and relieving exterior symptoms. Later, it was recorded in Fifty-two Diseases Prescription of the Warring States that when treating "bone-breaking", "boiling salt and ironing" was used to make it "cold sweat". It can be inferred that the sweating method has been formed. As a representative work of this period, Huangdi Neijing has discussed the sweating method in detail.
Qin and Han dynasties
Shennong Ben Cao Jing laid the foundation of antiperspirant, although the theory of sweating method has been generally discussed in Neijing. The Qin and Han Dynasties' Shennong Herbal Classic summarizes the drug knowledge accumulated before the Han Dynasty. The book contains 365 kinds of drugs, including antiperspirant drugs, such as Ephedra, Ramulus Cinnamomi, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Asarum, Ligusticum, Flos Magnoliae, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Schizonepeta, Mulberry Leaves, Chrysanthemum, Cimicifuga, Bupleurum, Radix Puerariae, Bulbus Allii Cepae, Vitex negundo, and duckweed. It is clearly pointed out that there are more than ten kinds of drugs for treating typhoid fever and stroke, and there are birds' mouths, ephedra and scallion that can perspire and relieve exterior symptoms. These drugs are still commonly used in clinical Chinese medicine to relieve exterior symptoms and induce sweating, and their records laid the foundation for the specific application and development of sweating method.
Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to Sui and Tang Dynasties?
During the hundreds of years from Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was no major breakthrough in sweating theory, sweating reform was enriched and developed, and the number of prescriptions and medicines increased significantly. Ge Hong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty wrote "Elbow Backup Emergency Prescription" and founded the soup of green onion and black bean. Lightly publicize the prescription of sweating and expand the lineup of sweating methods. There are more than 70 antiperspirant prescriptions in the Secret of Outer Taiwan alone, which provides practical basis for the later theoretical improvement. In the prescription, Zhongjing's rule that pungent and warm are the main ingredients was broken, and cold and warm and dry were accepted in pungent and warm hair powder, which laid the foundation for treating fever with cold and clear turbidity and treating dampness with pungent, bitter and dry in Song Dynasty.
Song dynasty
Zhongjing theory summarized and developed typhoid fever before Song Dynasty, and febrile disease was born after Yuan Dynasty. It is also recognized that all exogenous febrile diseases cannot be treated by warming the heart, which plays an important role in the development history of exogenous febrile diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. In Song Dynasty, Qian Zhongyang accepted Yiqi medicine in Xinwen Sanyi and founded Baidu Powder, which embodied the method of invigorating qi and relieving exterior syndrome. Xiangsu Powder recorded in Taiping Huimin Hejiju Prescription embodies pungent-warm transformation methods such as regulating qi and relieving exterior syndrome, eliminating dampness and relieving exterior syndrome. Another important feature of the development of sweat method in Song Dynasty is the addition of cold light propaganda agent. From Han's Treatise on Febrile Diseases? The role of the second volume in parsing external tables can be divided into two categories: publishing and parsing external tables. The so-called publishing is equivalent to warming the mind and analyzing the off-balance-sheet. The so-called "relieving exterior syndrome" is equivalent to relieving exterior syndrome by pungent and cool, with weak sweating effect and cold and cool nature. In fact, the function of the first method of table solution has been classified.
Jin and Yuan Dynasties?
1. Zhang Chuangli Jiuwei Notopterygium Decoction.
? Zhang Chuang established Jiuwei Qianghuo Decoction, which embodied the principle of "dividing meridians" and created the hair juice of "Fang Qiang Ji".
2. Liu pioneered the Xin Liang Dafa.
? Liu expounded the theory of fever in Neijing, holding that typhoid fever is a fever, and that "the six meridians are all heat syndromes from the exterior to the interior" and "only heat can be treated, but not cold medicine". Liu Ye was revered by later generations as the pioneer of poverty, with far-reaching influence. Liu believes that exterior syndrome should be solved by sweating, but most exogenous diseases begin with "aversion to heat and stagnation". Although spicy and hot products can cause sweating, the cause is heat. If you use hot medicine to relieve exterior syndrome, it will aggravate the fever. He put forward the method of relieving exterior syndrome by pungent and cool or the method of relieving exterior syndrome by sweet and cold, and applied them respectively according to specific conditions.
early April
Zhang Jingyue discussed the medical taboo of sweating, and Zhang Jingyue in Ming Dynasty wrote The Complete Book of Pure Moon? In Volume 50, there is an incisive exposition on the method of divergence (sweating method): "Divergence can also disperse exterior syndrome ... but it is necessary to use the method of divergence as a priority of intelligence and a warm smell ... If used properly, there is nothing wrong with the classics." Such as ephedra and cassia twig powder; Oil powder of Schizonepeta tenuifolia, Saposhnikovia divaricata and perilla frutescens are also used; Asari, Angelica dahurica and ginger are also warm; Radix Bupleuri, Radix Puerariae and Herba Menthae Liangsan; Notopterygium root and Atractylodes macrocephala are also powders for eliminating dampness through menstruation; Cimicifuga rhizome and Chuanxiong rhizome can be lifted and dispersed ... Bupleurum root is suitable for people with cold and heat, but it is forbidden for people with diarrhea. Cold pathogen should be Cimicifuga rhizome and Chuanxiong rhizome, and internal heat and inflammation should be avoided, so this kind of use should be avoided. "
Modern applied research
Great progress has been made in the research and application of modern sweating method. To explore the therapeutic mechanism of sweating method through pharmacological study of exterior-relieving drugs. It has been proved that sweating method has many functions, such as resisting pathogenic microorganisms, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, regulating immunity, anticonvulsant, sedation, analgesia, improving cardiovascular physiological function, relieving vasospasm, eliminating phlegm, relieving asthma, relieving cough, diuresis, improving myocardial nutrition, improving body reaction state and improving digestive function. The therapeutic range of sweating method has also been greatly expanded, and it is widely used to treat infectious diseases such as influenza, measles, whooping cough, acute bronchitis, scarlet fever, meningitis, pneumonia, acute nephritis, enterotyphoid fever, acute endometritis, and allergic diseases such as acute rheumatic fever, acute allergic rhinitis, urticaria and allergic dermatitis.