A comparative study on the theory of medicine flavor of Tibetan medicine and traditional Chinese medicine
By consulting the relevant literature of Tibetan medicine and traditional Chinese medicine,this paper compares the medicine flavor theory of Tibetan medicine and traditional Chinese medicine from the four perspectives of the meaning,source,type and efficacy of medicine taste,and it is found that there are some similarities and significant differences between the theory of medicine taste in Tibetan medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.Both of the two believe that the'taste of medicine'is the taste that the tongue feels when it encounters the medicine.In Tibetan medicine,there are six tastes:sweet,sour,salty,bitter,pungency and astringency,all of which are derived from four sources.In traditional Chinese medicine,astringency is classified as sour taste,and there are five tastes in total,including salty,bitter,sour,pungency and sweet,all of which are produced by the five elements,and can be classified as four sources according to the astronomical calculation.Therefore,the two have similarities in the meaning,source and type of medicinal taste.In terms of the efficacy of six flavors,Tibetan medicine believes that sweet flavor has the effects of prolonging life,nourishing the body,alleviating poisoning,treating Long disease(隆病)and Chiba disease(赤巴病),inducing Peigen disease(培根病),etc..According to traditional Chinese medicine,sweet taste has the effects of tonifying,harmonizing and relieving.Tibetan medicine believes that the effects of sour taste are appetizing,soothing Qi(气),restraining Peigen disease,and inducing blood disease and Chiba disease.Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sour taste has the effects of absorption and astringency.Tibetan medicine believes that salty taste has the effects of eliminating accumulation,dredging pores,generating heat and appetizing,restraining Long disease and Peigen disease,and inducing Chiba disease and blood disease.Traditional Chinese medicine believes that salty taste has the effects of softening and lowering.Tibetan medicine believes that the main effects of bitter taste are appetizing,quenching thirst,detoxifying,antiemetic,treating lepriasis and Chiba disease,and inducing Peigen disease and Long disease.Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bitter taste has the effects of dispersing and drying.Tibetan medicine believes that pungent taste has the effects of appetizing,dredging the pores,removing putrefaction and promoting muscle growth,eliminating edema,restraining Peigen disease and Long disease,and inducing Chiba disease.Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pungent taste has the effects of dispersing and activating.Tibetan medicine believes that astringent taste has the effects of brightening skin color,removing oil,restraining Chiba disease and blood disease,and inducing Peigen disease and Long disease.But there is no astringency in traditional Chinese medicine.Therefore,traditional Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine have both similarities and differences in the efficacy of six flavors.
Tibetan medicineTraditional Chinese medicineMedicine flavorComparative study
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