Academic thoughts and clinical experience of LIN Guobin in treating pediatric diseases
LIN Guobin has been treating pediatric diseases for many years.He believes in rooting in the clas-sics,taking Huangdi Neijing as the ideological foundation and The Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases as the methodological guideline,as well as adopting the advantages of all for his own use,advocating the use of sutra pre-scriptions,making good use of poultices,and excelling at taking the rhinitis-stopping decoction to treat rhinitis,etc.He has been meticulous in diagnosis and treatment and is careful in the use of medicines,with fine differentiation of efficacy,calmness of the nature of the medicines and small amount.For asthma and fever,he is also flexible in ap-plying both internal and external therapies,with the internal treatment being the main treatment,supplemented by external treatment,acupoints and external cleansing,etc.,with good results.He made good use of the theory of yun-qi,combined with the children's physique and the current meteorological and physical characteristics,and cleverly used the"three causes of the heavenly formula"such as Beihua Tang to treat children's diseases.He attached im-portance to the tongue and pulse.The four diagnostic references were often used together by him to accurately identi-fy the type of disease.This article summarizes and analyses his academic thinking and clinical experience for refer-ence.