Clinical Guide to Medical Cases

Author: Ye Tianshi
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This case is collected over the years, recorded as seen, with mixed symptoms. If one wants to examine a single symptom, it is difficult to review them comprehensively. Without being afraid of my limited knowledge, I have slightly categorized them, but there are many overlapping symptoms. For example, conditions like consumptive diseases, cough, and hemoptysis are fundamentally the same, yet they are now categorized separately—this is different yet the same. Take coughing, for instance, there are distinctions based on (: deficiency/excess; : primary/secondary; : six climatic factors). Now they are grouped under one category—this is the same yet different. For instance, cases of summerheat dampness combined with malaria and dysentery, or spleen and stomach diseases combined with vomiting and edema, are numerous. It is not easy to analyze them accurately. I am not a practicing physician, and I am already in my advanced years. I initially declined to take on the task of editing and revising, leaving it to the more capable. When categorizing these cases, I have already excluded about one-tenth to one-third of them. Even within a single category, there are many cases with minor differences yet fundamentally similar. It would have been appropriate to further refine them, but upon careful review, I found that these minor differences often hold profound significance, so I dare not make arbitrary selections. Moreover, for prescriptions like Jianzhong Decoction, Maiworm Decoction, and Fupian Decoction, slight modifications can treat a wide range of conditions. If they were further pruned, it would not fully reflect the master's brilliance in effortlessly selecting prescriptions, his meticulous approach in every aspect, and the infinite versatility of his formula applications.