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§2 Disease treating from the root versus the regional regulation
1) Disease treatment from the root by Anyu’s excellent medicine series |
| Primordial Qi takes vital gate as its base, triple energizer as its passageway, get interiorly into viscera, exteriorly to interstitial space and skin, and thus can access everywhere. Stimulated by primordial Qi, various viscera and tissues are then capable of bringing their distinct functions into full play. Primordial Qi is the prime power of human life activity. If not supported by primordial Qi, the Yin-Qi of five zang-organs can not get nourished, and Yang-Qi of the five zang-organs can not get dispatched. Once primordial Qi is sufficient, the five kinds of Qi and the five kinds of liquid will become abundant, and consequently promote the exuberance of visceral functions. |
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Illness has its base, just as grass has its root. Cutting off leaves without removing the root, grass is still there. Illness treatment is comparable with grass elimination. Without removing the root, the base of illness still exists. Following the guiding ideology, i.e. focusing on the principal base for disease treatment, Anyu always concentrates its therapeutic measures on the regulation of “root”, and on the maintenance of primordial Qi as well as five zang-orgsns and six fu-organs. First of all, Anyu’s strategy of disease treatment is to maintain primordial Qi, just as what said by Zhang Jingyue: “Although there are various diseases, the basic cause is the same. Ascertaining the occurrence of disease and origination of dysfunction, then attack it directly; this is the doctrine of acquiring the quintessence.”
Focusing on seeking the basic cause for disease treatment, Anyu’s purpose of medication is to promote the resistance of the body itself and nourish primordial Qi, thus to strengthen healthy Qi and eliminate pathogenic factors. Once healthy Qi becomes abundant, pathogenic factors will certainly be eliminated, and nourishing healthy Qi will certainly dispel abdominal mass. It is impossible that pathogenic factors would not retreat when primordial Qi has recovered, and that life would not collapse when primordial Qi has exhausted. |
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2) Regional regulation of modern medicine
The fundamental theory of modern medicine, which does not include the healthy Qi theory, considers that the occurrence of disease is the specific change caused by specific factors; therefore, the treatment should be concentrated on regional regulation. Thus, different ideology finally results in different curative efficacy.
In addition to follow the principle of seeking the basic cause for disease treatment, Anyu, according to the syndrome differentiation, also takes fully account of the nature, taste and other properties of drugs in deciding the prescription of its medicines. |
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