Textual research on the rule of main diseases and syndromes of Wendan Decoction based on historical documents
LIN Yuanyuan1 MENG Qinghong2 WANG Jinbang2 FU Xiaotong3 HE Binyan2 SONG Yuehan2 WANG Di4
1.The First School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100007, China;
2.School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 102401, China;
3.School of Acupuncture, Moxibustion, and Tuina, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 102401, China;
4.Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Ward, Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100088, China
Abstract:Wendan Decoction is a famous classic prescription, which has always been valued by doctors. This paper combs the drug composition, dosage form, formula meaning, and medical records of the prescription in the historical documents, and discusses the evolution law of its main diseases and syndromes. The results show that Wendan Decoction originated in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. At the beginning, it was used to treat insomnia caused by gallbladder coldness and phlegm-fluid retention. In the Song Dynasty, Chen Wuze added Poria and Jujubae Fructus in the original prescription, and proposed that its chief indications was “phlegm-qi stagnation and binding” and “heart-gallbladder qi deficiency”. Based on this, doctors in Jin Yuan verified this idea with practice. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was considered that Wendan Decoction was composed of Erchen Decoction plus Aurantii Fructus Immaturus and Bambusae Caulis In Taenias, which could also be used to treat “phlegm-heat”. with the increase and decrease of specific decocting pieces, it was applied to mental diseases and digestive diseases. Experts on warm disease put forward the idea of “elimination of pathogens through purgation and diuresis”, which is widely used in damp-heat syndrome. In the process of the evolution of Wendan Decoction, the change of its drug composition, increase, decrease are the key to the change of its main diseases and syndromes.
林元媛1 孟庆鸿2 王晋邦2 付筱童3 贺缤嫣2 宋月晗2 王娣4. 基于历史文献考证温胆汤的主治病证规律[J]. 中国医药导报, 2022, 19(28): 111-114.
LIN Yuanyuan1 MENG Qinghong2 WANG Jinbang2 FU Xiaotong3 HE Binyan2 SONG Yuehan2 WANG Di4. Textual research on the rule of main diseases and syndromes of Wendan Decoction based on historical documents. 中国医药导报, 2022, 19(28): 111-114.