About hernia, Chinese medicine has a clear understanding since ancient times. Written in the Warring States Period, Huangdi Neijing, a classic of traditional Chinese medicine since Qin and Han Dynasties, recorded a lot about hernia. For example, there are records of hernia such as blunt hernia, fox hernia, decadent hernia, hernia, expensive hernia, hernia, and it is pointed out that Du meridian is a disease. Later, there was a description of hernia in the book "Treatment of Syndrome" in the Qing Dynasty: "Hernia patients, abdominal pain, controlled testicles, are seen by the liver, but start from Ren meridian. Therefore, the meridian says: Ren meridian is a disease, male suffers from seven hernias, and female suffers from subduction. It is said that there are seven hernias: rush, fox, epilepsy, syncope, shock and spasm. " Refers to abdominal pain in patients with hernia, including testicular pain. It is considered that the incidence of hernia is related to liver disease and originated from abnormal pulse. Ren meridian belongs to the eight strange meridians of traditional Chinese medicine. It is a meridian that starts from the lower abdomen, leaves the perineum, enters the pubic hair forward, runs along the midline of the abdomen, chest and neck, and branches in the center of the lower lip, surrounding the oral lip and passing through the face to the orbit. There are seven types of male hernia due to any pulse: blunt hernia, fox hernia, syncope hernia, epilepsy hernia, hernia, expensive hernia and hernia; Female hernia is called subdural hernia. The understanding of hernia in Zheng Lei Zhi Zai is similar to that in Huangdi Neijing. The only difference is that Huangdi Neijing blames hernia on Du Meridian and classifies it as epilepsy.
Although it is difficult for Chinese medicine to fully correspond to western medicine in its understanding of hernia, Chinese medicine has a relatively complete theoretical system, which is thousands of years earlier than western medicine. In addition, the understanding of hernia by traditional Chinese medicine has also played a role, and there are some treatment schemes and preventive measures.
There are seven kinds of hernias mentioned in Chinese medicine, some of which are equivalent to those in western medicine. Some of them need further study and discussion. Clinically, some people classified as hernia by Chinese medicine do not belong to the category of hernia in western medicine. This book briefly introduces four kinds of hernia from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine: fox hernia, water hernia, blood hernia and epilepsy hernia.