Golden Mirror of Ancient and Modern Famous Physicians on Clinical Practice · Volume of Blood Disorders

Author: Shan Shujian
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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: Insightful wisdom, strikingly profound, a flower is a world. Gathering essence, pointing the way without leaving any trace, breathtaking. Ingenious ideas, opening minds, a thousand leaves, a thousand Buddhas. See how ancient and modern are melted together, clinical practice is lively with a spiritual pearl—how can one not read it.
1. "Golden Mirror of Famous Physicians in Ancient and Modern Times," the intention is to select experiences from ancient and modern clinicians in traditional Chinese medicine that are beneficial to clinical practice for reference. Following this standard, the selection of ancient literature is mainly based on Ming and Qing dynasties.
2. Organization Structure: Each volume first lists ancient literature, followed by modern theoretical works (those still living in 1949 are included as modern physicians). Below, diseases are listed, and then the experiences of various schools are elaborated. Ancient physicians are generally arranged by birth and death dates. Under each disease, systematic discussions come first, followed by medical conversations and case studies. Occasionally, some theoretical discussions are placed at the beginning if their content order is not suitable to be placed later. Under each disease, the experiences of various schools are mostly a single article. In some cases, several schools are not combined into one article due to inconvenience.
3. The physicians included in each volume are all renowned masters, so the introductions are concise. Occasionally, some have unknown birth and death dates, and we can only regretfully omit them.
4. Sources of literature and compilers are listed at the end of the text. Those not listed as compilers are mostly self-authored by the elderly, or the materials sent did not list them, or they were omitted during transcription. We sincerely ask for your understanding in this regard.
5. Ancient literature follows the principle of preserving the original form of the classics. Occasionally, when the format is unclear, it is slightly organized. A few documents are excerpts from the original works, all focusing on practicality, aiming to avoid repetition and grasp the key points.
6. In ancient literature, all units of measurement strictly follow the old system. In modern physicians' literature, legal units of measurement are used. Using two systems in one book has its reasons.
7. The prescriptions of physicians have their own characteristics. The names of medicinal herbs are, but to maintain the original style, they are mostly kept as they are, without standardization.
8. Some elderly gentlemen were invited to revise or reorganize the articles to highlight the key points, making the main ideas clear and fresh; or to untangle confusion and restructure it, so that the leaves are cut, the flowers are bright, and the clouds are clear, the moon appears.