How is Chinese medicine treated?

Positive treatment and negative treatment are both therapeutic methods to grasp the essence of disease.

1. Corrective therapy refers to the commonly used therapy under normal circumstances, that is, the method of using drugs contrary to the essential nature of the disease. For example, the principle of "cold is hot, heat is cold, deficiency is tonic, and excess is diarrhea" is also called "reverse treatment".

"Cold is hot", that is, cold syndrome is treated with hot medicine. Those who show cold, pungent and warm to relieve the exterior; Internal cold syndrome is treated by warming and tonifying; Yin gangrene is a warm yang injection.

"Heat is cold", that is, heat syndrome is treated with cold medicine. For example, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis and epidemic encephalitis B isothermal fever are treated with heat-clearing and detoxification methods; Blood-heat bleeding, clearing heat and cooling blood, internal heat syndrome, clearing heat and purging fire, etc.

2. Anti-treatment refers to abnormal and rarely used treatment methods, that is, the method of using drugs with the same performance and symptoms. For example, the principle of "cold is used for cold, heat is used for heat, plug is used for use, and the general principle is universal". This is because the clinical manifestations of some complex and severe diseases are inconsistent with the nature of the lesions, and there is the illusion of true winter fever, true heat and false cold, and the deficiency syndrome is true. Therefore, in the process of syndrome differentiation and treatment, it is necessary to treat its essence through phenomena and adopt treatment methods that conform to symptoms, so it is called "anti-treatment" or "treatment from point to point".

"Using cold because of cold" means treating cold with cold, that is, treating some diseases with cold symptoms with cold medicine. This method is suitable for true heat syndrome and deficiency cold syndrome (internal heat means cold, internal heat means cold). For example, patients with pneumonia have high fever and cold limbs, which is called heat syndrome in Chinese medicine. This is because the pathogenic heat is abundant in the interior, the internal heat is excessive, the yang is restrained in the interior, and the yin is abundant in the exterior, so Yang Can can't reach the limbs smoothly. This pathological change is called "excess of yang over yin", and cold medicine should be used to relieve excess heat.

"Heat due to heat" means treating heat with heat, that is, treating some diseases with heat symptoms with hot drugs. This method is suitable for winter vacation heat syndrome (internal cold indicates heat, internal cold indicates heat). For example, in patients with yang collapse, the essence is that the yang declines with cold inside, the yin pathogen is excessive, and the yang is outside, which leads to the phenomenon of "deficiency heat" such as redness, upset and fever, which is called Dai Yang syndrome in Chinese medicine. Warm ginseng and aconite should be used to save adverse reactions.

The anti-treatment mentioned above is mainly aimed at the phenomenon reflected by the disease. It seems that although the specific measures are different from those of active therapy, they are basically the same as those of active therapy, and it is a treatment rule designed for the nature of the disease.