Chinese Medicine Master WU Bingcai's Experience Analysis in Xiaochaihu Decoction
Xiaochaihu Decoction was first recorded in ZHANG Zhongjing's The Treatise on Febrile Diseases.WU Bingcai,a master of traditional Chinese medicine,was good at combining the six dialectic ideas of mouth bitterness differentiation,meridian differentiation,cold and heat differentiation,diet and mood differentiation,pulse differentiation,and the theory of"meridian-noon flow".The combination of these six dialectical ideas serves as the basis for the use of Xiaochaihu Decoction in syndrome differentiation.In this paper,WU Bingcai's clinical experience of Xiaochaihu Decoction will be expound.