Chinese Bagua Herbal

Author: Liu Jie
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The book follows the conventions of Chinese Bagua Medicine. It begins with the evolution of Bagua Herbal Medicine, tracing it from ancient times to the Qing Dynasty, to clarify the origins and development of Chinese traditional medicine and the works of. Next, it discusses the Bagua Herbal Medicine theory, rooted in the concept of Taiji and extending to genetics, to elucidate the principles of treating diseases with Chinese medicine, correcting the fundamentals, and presenting the laws clearly. Then, it explores the classification of Bagua Herbal Medicine, detailing the origins, properties, and applications of herbs, the principles of using Bagua in medicine, the significance of drug interactions, the therapeutic effects of formulas, and the dosing and processing methods. The book interweaves discussions to clarify the methods of using medicine. The classification of herbs in this book corrects the fundamentals and simplifies complexity, organizing them based on the properties of medicine (temperature, Yin-Yang, and Bagua). It first divides herbs into four categories: warm, cool, cold, and hot. Then, it further divides them into eight subcategories: very warm, very cool, very cold, and very hot. Finally, it categorizes them into 40 subgroups, such as acrid-warm, sweet-warm, bitter-warm, sour-warm, salty-warm, very acrid-warm, very bitter-warm, very sour-warm, very salty-warm, acrid-cool, sweet-cool, bitter-cool, sour-cool, salty-cool, very sweet-cool, very bitter-cool, etc. The reason for this classification is that the use of Chinese medicine in traditional Chinese medicine is fundamentally based on this approach. It reflects the essential scientific connotation of Chinese medicine and is the necessary path for Chinese medicine to modernize, moving toward a unified internal structure.