TCM Internal Medicine Rhymes

Author: Liang Mingda
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Publishing Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Zhongyi Neike Xueke (Glossary of Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine) is one of the supplementary books for the National Planning Textbooks of the 11th Five-Year Plan for General Higher Education. Zhongyi Neike Xueke was compiled based on the National Planning Textbook for General Higher Education "Fifteen" as a blueprint. The book is divided into two parts: General Theory and Specific Topics. The General Theory consists of two chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the origin and development of the academic theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Internal Medicine, the classification, naming, and characteristics of internal medicine diseases; Chapter 2 introduces the general principles of diagnosis and treatment for external pathogenic six evils diseases, endogenous five qi diseases, zang-fu organ diseases, and qi-blood-body fluid diseases in Traditional Chinese Medicine Internal Medicine. The Specific Topics are divided into seven chapters, systematically introducing the names, definitions, historical evolution, etiology, pathogenesis, and differentiation and treatment of 63 diseases of the lung system, heart system, spleen and stomach system, liver and gallbladder, kidney system, qi-blood-body fluid, and limb meridians. The writing style of this book employs the artistic form of "poem first, notes later." The poems concisely summarize the essence of the blueprint, while the notes fully cover the content of the textbook. It fully reflects the book's approach of using poems to organize theories and theories to explain poems, with theory, method, prescription, and medicine all integrated, as well as its characteristics of being concise, easy to remember and recite, and capable of generalizing from one example to another and applying knowledge to multiple situations. Therefore, Zhongyi Neike Xueke can be considered an excellent supplementary reading material for studying and reading the National Planning Textbook for General Higher Education—Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine.