Clinic logic and Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang: tonify the middle and augment the Chi decoction
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Title
Clinic logic and Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang: tonify the middle and augment the Chi decoction
Description
Lantern (2016), Jin Zhao.
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Abstract
The clinical use of Chinese medicine is based on our medical theory; the theory is logical and we should use this logic to guide our diagnostic skills. In diagnosis, there are objective criteria—golden criteria—that we know we must use. These come to us from the classical texts which describe what pulse, what tongue presentation, and what other signs are required to use a certain therapy, but they may be imperfectly employed because of the practitioner’s diagnosis can be right but its application wrong, because objective criteria is being misinterpreted. So, the most difficult aspect of practicing Chinese medicine is to apply or select criteria correctly. For example, if a doctor almost always diagnoses his patients with damp-heat or with yang deficiency or with Liver qi stagnation, is this because almost all of his patients have damp-heat or yang deficiency or Liver qi stagnation? Actually, we can consider it a result of his own subjectivity: he diagnoses what he looks to find.
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Language
English
Date
volume
13
issue
1
page start
16
page end
21
Alternative Title
Lantern
Date Created
2/6/2016
Type
Journal Article
issn
1449-2717