ZHANG Mingrui,LI Hongtao.ZHU Zongyuan's Eight Methods of Reinforcing Yang and the Clinical Applications[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2022,63(06):521-524.
ZHANG Mingrui,LI Hongtao.ZHU Zongyuan's Eight Methods of Reinforcing Yang and the Clinical Applications[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2022,63(06):521-524.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2022.06.005.
This paper summarized ZHU Zongyuan's clinical experience in using
yang
-reinforcing method. In clinical practice, he advocates the uniting of classical formulas and experienced herbal combinations, and emphasizes the importance of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) principles and methods in guiding prescriptions. He puts eight methods of reinforcing
yang
forward, which are warming and dispersing, warming and unblocking, warming and activating, warming and strengthening, warming and removing, warming and raising, warming and moving, as well as warming and dredging. Based on syndrome differentiation, adjuvant or auxiliary methods, either supplementary to each other or opposite but complementary to each other, should be used to regulate
qi
and blood, and to adjust
qi
transformation including ascending, descending, exiting and entering.