CHEN Yongcan's experience in treating geriatric diseases with the concept of'light can remove full'
This article introduced CHEN Yongcan's experience in treating geriatric diseases with the concept of'light can remove full',with two cases attached.CHEN Yongcan believed that the physiological conditions of the elderly were the gradual declining in viscera,balance between yin and yang,qi and blood.The pathological characteristics of the elderly were identified as heavy symptoms over weak body-turbidity and stagnation.Turbidity referred to water and liquid metabolic disorders such as spittoon,dyspigesis,water retention and wet stasis.Stagnation referred to difficulties in transfer of qi,blood,food,cold,and fire inside the body.CHEN Yongcan owed the primary pathogenic factors of geriactric diseases to physical decline,turbidity and stagnation inside the body.Geriatric diseases in nature featured with complicity,and recurrence.CHEN Yongcan adopted'light can remove full'prescription,which shall bring no harm to the qi and blood.He picked flowers,leaves,branches and skins of plants with mild property and soothing effect to regulate and smooth qi and blood circulation in efforts to achieve the strengthening effect in a slow and gradual curing process.
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