YE Tianshi,a famous warm disease scientist in the Qing dynasty,had many attainments in the treatment of epidemic diseases.He put forward the theory of epidemic disease caused by dampness and obscenity,taking the four stages of development of Wei qi Ying and blood,and dampness blocking yang-depression as the core pathological mechanism,which triggered the change of pathological state from depression to stasis as the disease progressed.And YE Tianshi's idea of epidemic treatment has obvious characteristics of the use of drugs in stages.The evil in the Wei division,medicine to clear and penetrate the heat;the evil depresses the qi division,medicine to Fang penetrate the light under the subdivided elimination;the evil spreads to the Ying division,medicine to clear and penetrate;the evil into the blood division,medicine to disperse stasis through the yin.The analysis of YE Tianshi's dynamic view of disease mechanism can provide a more accurate basis for the identification and selection of medicine for contemporary epidemics,so as to improve clinical efficacy.
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