Summary of"Six Meridian Diseases"in Treatise on Cold Pathogenic Diseases from the Perspective of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
The"Six Meridian Diseases"constitutes the main content of Treatise on Cold Pathogenic Diseases.Based on the clinical experience of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine in the treatment of severe infectious diseases and emerging infectious diseases in ICU,the author believes that the"Six Meridian Diseases"is the integration of the diagnosis and treatment experience of various infectious diseases.The chapter on"Taiyang disease"discusses different types of diaphoresis and contraindications in the initial stage of various external diseas-es,as well as the response to the aggravation of underlying diseases after.diaphoresis;the chapter on"Yangming disease"discusses the diseases with main symptoms of"fever,sweating,and malignant heat",and elaborates in de-tail the timing,strength,and contraindications of the application,as well as the cold disease and dietary jaundice in Yangming disease;the significance of the chapter on"Shaoyang disease"lies in the play and promotion of later generations of doctors;the chapter on"Taiyin disease"mainly describes the self-limiting acute gastroenteritis;and the chapter on"Shaoyin disease"mainly discusses severe infections with the manifestations of"direct attack of cold pathogen"and"warm disease of latent pathogenic qi"in traditional Chinese medicine,as well as some parts of"diarrhea syndrome";the chapter on"Jueyin syndrome disease"discusses septic shock that manifests itself as"fever and syncope",and also involves"diarrhea syndrome"of critical illness.
"Six Meridian Diseases"Severe infectionIntegrated traditional Chinese and western medicineCold Pathogenic Diseases