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The four classics of traditional Chinese medicine refer to four classics which occupy an important position in the development history of traditional Chinese medicine and have great guiding role and research value for ancient and even modern Chinese medicine. The specific composition of the four classics is controversial.
The academic circles generally regard Huangdi Neijing, Difficult Classic, Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Shennong Herbal Classic as the four classics of Chinese medicine. There are also some Chinese medicine textbooks that regard Huangdi Neijing, Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Synopsis of the Golden Chamber and Treatise on Febrile Diseases as four classics. The former is used more.
Huangdi Neijing
Huangdi Neijing is one of the four classic works of Chinese traditional medicine (Huangdi Neijing, Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Shennong Herbal Classic and Difficult Classic), and it is also the first masterpiece handed down in the name of Huangdi, the ancestor of the Chinese nation, and the earliest medical classic in China's medical treasure house.
It is a medical masterpiece that studies human physiology, pathology, diagnostics, therapeutic principles and pharmacology. Theoretically, the theories of yin and yang, five elements, pulse condition, Tibetan image, meridians, etiology and pathogenesis, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, health preservation and luck are established. His medical theory is based on China's ancient Taoist theory, which embodies China's ancient thought of harmony between man and nature.
Treatise on febrile diseases
Exogenous masterpiece
Treatise on Febrile Diseases is a treatise on exogenous diseases and their miscellaneous diseases. Zhang Zhongjing, a native of Nanyang at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was written in 200-205 AD. Zhang Zhongjing's original Treatise on Febrile Diseases was edited by later generations as Treatise on Febrile Diseases, and the other part mainly discussed miscellaneous diseases in internal medicine.
Treatise on Febrile Diseases 12, 22 articles, 397 methods. In addition to repetition, there is a prescription for 1 12. The whole book focuses on a series of pathological changes caused by cold pathogens and how to treat them dialectically. He divided the symptoms into six types: sun, Yangming, shaoyang, Taiyin, Jueyin and Shaoyin, which were called "Six Classics".
According to the strength of human body's disease resistance, the severity of illness and other factors, various symptoms in the evolution of exogenous diseases, such as symptom characteristics, lesion site, visceral injury, cold and heat tendency, and the rise and fall of pathogenic factors, are summarized as the basis for diagnosis and treatment.