Discussion on ZHANG Zhongjing's Method of Differentiation and Treatment of Jaundice by Using Image Thinking
After sorting out and discussing the treatment and thinking mode of jaundice syndrome in Treatise on Febrile Diseases and synopsis of the Golden Chamber written by ZHANG Zhongjing,it is believed that Zhongjing's use of image thinking to treat jaundice is one of his academic charac-teristics,and his use of image thinking mainly includes intuitive method,analogy method,exhaustive method,miniature method and image method.The categories of image construction include meta im-age,physical image,comparison image,Taoist image,image,etc.they respectively use physical image to classify jaundice diseases,distinguish etiology and pathogenesis from Taoist image,compare im-ages to determine the position of viscera and viscera,measure and treat symptoms by meta image,and select treatment methods and drugs by image.With the help of modern scholars'research,this paper discusses the mutual relationship and internal relationship between ZHANG Zhongjing's use of image thinking to transfer the position and pathogenesis of jaundice from the primary liver and gallbladder of Jueyin Shaoyang to the spleen and stomach of Yangming Taiyin.