Posts Tagged "etiology"

Diabetes In Chinese Medicine

Diabetes is a disease with the symptoms of drinking much, eatting much, pee much and weigh less.

In Chinese medicine, it is connected with drinking and eatting too much fat and meat, which makes middle-jiao too hot. That means our body is in bad condition. Another reason is that if people are too angry or too depressed, it can make body in disorder, too. Still, too many sexy activities are bad to our health. That can lead to the deficiency of kidney essence, tough it looks all right, our body is already weaker and weaker.

Yin deficiency and dry and hot is associated with each other. If body fluid lose much, it will definitely turn  to Yin deficiency and as time went by, Yang deficiency will occur sooner or later.

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Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor

Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor includes two parts, one is called Ling Shu(灵枢), and the other is called Su Wen(素问). Each of them has 9 volumes, and each volumes has 9 articles. That means both Ling Shu and Su Wen has 81 articles respectively.

Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor finished during Chunqiu period. It includes the relationship between human and nature, physiology, pathology, diagnose, treatment and prevention.

Su Wen tells us something about viscera and bowels, meridian, etiology and mechanism,symptom,diagnose,treatment and acupuncture.

Ling Shu contains not only almost the same as Su Wen, but it still contains shu point, acpuncture tool, how to acupuncture, and principle of treatment.

Both of the books present the theory of yin-yang and five elments(mental, wood, water, fire and soil).This theory emphasizes the importance of a right time, a proper condition and a good relationship. It shows that our human beings can not live alone without environment.