HUANG Yuyan. The Shift Law of Epidemic Diseases in Chinese Medicine[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2014, 55(2): 157-160.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2014.02.018.
The epidemic diseases have many unique shift laws and can be summarized as six-channel shift
exte- rior-interior shift
Sanjiao shift
twelve-channel shift and Weifen-Qifen-Yingfen-Xuefen( defense
qi
construction and blood) shift. The six-channel shift of epidemic diseases includes along-channel shift day by day and six-channel exterior-interior shift. The exterior-interior shift includes passing from the exterior to interior
passing to stomach day by day and exterior-interior shift respectively. The Sanjiao shift includes going straight to the middle-jiao( 中焦) and flowing to Sanjiao and from upper-jiao( 上焦) to lower-jiao( 下焦). The twelve-channel shift is commonly stomach- centered and passing to twelve channels. The Wei-Qi-Ying-Xue shift of epidemic diseases is abnormally passing from Ying-Xue. The location
nature and shift trend of epidemic diseases were introduced in this articles. We should grasp the nature and shift law of epidemic diseases in clinic.