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ISSN:1745-6843Volume15Issue2㄀15ो㄀2ᳳTheJournalofTheAssociationofTraditionalChineseMedicine㣅೑Ёए㥃ᄺӮӮߞ20thSeptember2008ISSN:1745-6843Volume15Issue2㄀15ो㄀2ᳳTheJournalofTheAssociationofTraditionalChineseMedicine㣅೑Ёए㥃ᄺӮӮߞ20thSeptember2008ATCM&RCHMAPPROVEDSUPPLIERGMPCERTIFIEDⳂᔩContentsHarmonizingMethodinShangHanLunEnginCAN,MingZhaoCheng1⧚䆎Ϣ᭛⤂Theory&LiteratureAcupunctureNeedleRotationandOtherTechniquesforReinforcingandReducingManipulationsMarianneLangley,HuijunShen3MyClinicalExperienceinTreatingInfertilitywithTCMLiqinZhao8⓿䇜⑓⮍ঞⲂ♢㉏⮒⮙৥䰇,䯢ᆊᑚ13⬋ᗻϡ㚆⮛Ёए䕼䆕ݙ⊏ܿ⊩ぺऴ∳15EightTCMTreatmentMethodsforMaleInfertilityCausedbySpermDisordersZhanjiangDou17Ј䆞㒣偠ClinicalExperienceЁए䕼⮙⊏⭫䰇⯓ぺऴ∳21TheDevelopmentofWindAetiologyinChineseMedicinePartTwo-ClinicalApplicationAttilioD'Alberto23EffectiveUseofMildActingHerbsIII.JujubeSubhutiDharmananda30BodyandWisdomLonnyJarrett33៥ᇍЁएথሩⱘᗱ㗗ਈᬺᑣ34ϧ乬䅼䆎TopicalDiscussionOnlineInterviewwithTheTimesJournalistonTCMHuijunShen35TraditionalChineseMedicineinToday’sChina38FromTCMWeekInternationalExchangeandCooperationbetweenChinaandForeignCountriesonTCM39Ёएक໻㒣݌ҟ㒡(1)40㔥㒰䆎യᇣ䌘᭭ᅟҷᅬ㥃ሔЁ೑᳔ᮽᓔࡲⱘ೑ᆊ㥃ᑫ43Winner’sAnswerstoCaseStudyCompetition(2)YingziZhang44CaseStudyCompetition(3)45ProposedChinese-EnglishTCMNomenclature˄PartIII˅WorldFederationofChineseMedicineSocieties46ᕕ〓ਃџCallforPapersEditorialCommittee22ֵᙃϢᑓਞInfo&Adֱ䰽ϧϮҎ຿䇜䆞᠔ֱ䰽Ё೑ֱ䰽˄㣅೑˅᳝䰤݀ৌϮࡵ䚼53FamousChineseMedicineDoctorsinHistory54HerbGarden55JournaloftheAssociationofTraditionalChineseMedicine(UK)VolumeNo15IssueNo2September2008HarmonizingMethodinShanghanLunEnginCAN,EVERWELLChineseMedicalCentre(UK)MingZhaoCheng,MiddlesexUniversityThereareeightmajortherapeuticmethodsintraditionalChinesemedicine(TCM),andthefirstmantosystematicallyapplytheprinciple“TreatmentAccordingtoSyndromeDifferentiation”wasZhangZhongjing.TheharmonizingmethodisoneofmostimportanttherapeuticmethodshecreatedinhisbookShanghanLun“TreatiseonFebrileDiseasesCausedbyCold”intheEasternHanDynasty(3rdcenturyAD,about200-219AD).Thismethodwasappliedtotreatanumberof“disharmonies”.Here,wewilldescribethemindetails.1.HarmonizingtheShaoyangTheharmonizingmethodinShanghanLunismainlyusedtotreatShaoyangDiseasethatisduetopathogenicheatsituatinginthehumanbody’shalfexteriorandhalfinterior,manifestedasalternatechillsandfever,fullnessinthechest,bittertasteinthemouth,drythroat,dizziness,andtautpulse.ThetherapeuticprincipleistoharmonizetheShaoyangandchiefprescriptionfortreatingShaoyangDiseaseisXiaoChaihuTang(MinorDecoctionofBupleurum).TheessentialofShaoyangDiseaseanditstreatmentcanbeseeninClause96ofShanghanLun,sayingthat“5-6daysafterstartingfebriledisease,thepatienthasalternatingattacksofchillsandfever,feelsadistensionandasensationofoppressioninthechestandcostalregion,reluctanttospeakandeat,andnauseous.Additionally,thepatientmightberestless,butnotnauseous,orthirst,orabdominalpain,orwithmassbelowthecostalmargin,orwithpalpitationanddysuria;ornothirst,butwithaslightfever,orwithcoughing.XiaoChaihuTang(MinorDecoctionofBupleurum)shouldbeused.”XiaoChaihuTangconsistsof7herbalingredientsincludingChaiHu(RadixBupleuri),HuangQin(RadixScutellariae),RenShen(RadixGinseng),BanXia(RhizomaPinelliaePraeparata),ZhiGanCao(RadixGlycyrrhizaePraeparata),ShengJiang(RhizomaZingiberisRecens),DaZao(FructusZiziphiJujubae).Amongthem,ChaiHuhasthefunctionsofdispellingpathogenicheatfromShaoyangmeridian,relievingthedepressedliver,andregulatingthecirculationofqi;HuangQinisusedtoclearawaypathogenicheatfrominterior;BanXiaandShengJiangareusedtoharmonizethestomach;RenShen,ZhiGanCaoandDaZaoaregoodattonifyingthespleenandregulatingthestomach.AlltheingredientsworktogetherandplayaruleinharmonizingtheShaoyang.TodaywestilluseXiaoChaihuTangtotreatmanydiseasessuchascommoncold,influenza,malaria,hepatitisA-B-C,cholecystitis(gallbladderinfection),pleurisy,chronicgastritis,indigestion,mastopathy(fibrocysticdiseaseofthebreast),intercostalsneuralgia,neurosis,urinaryinfection,menoxenia(abnormalityofmenstruation),pelvicinflammationandotherconditionswhicharemanifestedassymptomsofShaoyangDisease.Accordingtoourownexperiences,themainindicationsofXiaoChaihuTangshouldbe:alternatingattacksofchillsandfever;adistensionandoppressioninthechestandcostalregion;reluctanttospeakandeat;restlessnessandnausea.Clinically,wedon’tneedwaitingforalltheabovesymptomsappearing,if1-2oftheabovesymptomsappear,thatisenoughforusingXiaoChaihuTang.ModernresearcheshaveprovedthatXiaoChaihuTanghassomeeffectsofinhibitingbacteria,virusesandleptospira,relievingthereactionofthehumanbodytotheinvadedpathogens,remarkablyallayingfeverandresistinginflammation.2.HarmonizingtheYing-WeiTheharmonizingmethodinShanghanLunisalsousedtotreatZhongfengSyndromeofTaiyangDiseasewhichiscausedbythedisharmonybetweenYingandWeiduetoinvasionofpathogenicwind-cold,manifestedasfever,aversiontowind,headache,perspiration,stuffnose,nausea,floating–moderatepulse,thin-whitefuroftongue.ThetherapeuticprincipleistoharmonizeYingandWei,andchiefprescriptionisGuizhiTang(CinnamonTwigDecoction).ThedescriptionaboutthatcanbeseeninClause12inShanghanLun,itsaysthat