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The treating principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the rule of treating diseases, and the theory of treating principles of traditional Chinese medicine is a theoretical summary of the principles, methods and clinical application of diseases. Traditional Chinese Medicine can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. The broad treating principle is formulated under the guidance of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, which has universal guiding significance for maintaining and restoring health and eliminating diseases, and is also the criterion that prevention, health preservation and treatment must follow. In a narrow sense, the treating principle mainly refers to the principle of treatment, that is, the law that has a guiding role in treating diseases, determining methods, selecting prescriptions and using herbs in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment originated from Huangdi's Internal Classic, Classic of Difficult Issues and Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases. Plain Conversation Yi Jing Bian Qi Lun called the treatment rule "the great rule of treatment", and Huangdi's Internal Classic also compared the treating principle to the trisquare, dividers, rope and ink of craftsmen. The theoretical innovation of the four masters in Jin and Yuan Dynasties enriches and perfects the theory of treating principles.
Liu Wansu brought into play the "cold and cooling method" under the guidance of the theory of "fire being the main pathogenic factor", and Li Gao put forward the treating principle of "sweetening and warming to eliminate great heat" under the guidance of the theory of "internal injury to spleen and stomach". In Ming and Qing Dynasties, warm diseases doctors such as Wu Youxing, Ye Tianshi and Wu Jutong established syndrome differentiation of weifen, qifen, yingfen and xuefen, and syndrome differentiation of sanjiao theory, and founded the treatment of febrile diseases. Another example is Tang Rongchuan and Wang Qingren's development of blood stasis theory in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which promotes the theory and treatment of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and becomes an important treatment for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. I think the innovation and breakthrough of TCM theory is the change in the concept of treatment, that is, the change of treating principle, which fully shows that treating principle is the key to treating diseases, and doctors must study hard and master it skillfully.
When compiling this book, the researchers in our office consulted more than 3,000 kinds of Chinese medicine books, repeatedly compared, pondered and scrutinized the relevant Chinese medicine works, and selected more than 300 kinds of medical books on the basis of careful selection and refinement in similar works. They broadly record and widely discuss the pearls and jade of TCM treating principles, and collect the essence of TCM treating principles. For treatment methods, those that have important guiding significance in clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine should also be selected appropriately. For some medical books that discuss the treating principles in a large space, they extract the best paragraphs and important sentences to save as much space as possible. In order to facilitate readers' reading, some difficult words are briefly annotated. In order to make the book clear and easy to read, the TCM treating principles are classified, such as general treating principles, syndrome differentiation and disease differentiation. In the arrangement order, for the same kind of treating principles, they are arranged chronologically, so that readers can have a better general picture of the development of a certain kind of treating principles after reading them.
The theory of treating principles of TCM is extensive and profound. In order to meet the requirements of general readers, we have made corresponding improvements in the compilation. Due to the limited level, I sincerely hope that readers can correct the inadequacies so that they can be improved when reprinting. I would like to thank the editors of China Press of Traditional Chinese Medicine for their active cooperation so that the book can be printed smoothly.