title: [Exertion of dredging and guiding technique in Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun ( General Treatise on Causes and Manifestations of All Diseases)].
abstract: Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun (General Treatise on Causes and Manifstations of All Diseases) is an immortal monograph of clinical pathology and science of clinical manifestations. It always encloses health preserving method and dredging and guiding technique for preventing and treating disease following the description of the various syndromes of a disease. Many contents about dredging and guiding technique recorded in the book were lost already, and the contents fully exert the technique. For instance, it explains the concrete method of interpreting the skill of doing the technique, elucidates the theories, explains the basic terms straightaway, and encloses the doctor's advises after doing the technique. The book emphasizes swallowing saliva when regulating qi, and preserving thoughts are combined when doing the technique, as well as diet indications and contraindications. The "six- word pithy knack" is determined firstly in the book and paired with different Zang-fu organs, as well as emphasizing the performance of the technique based on syndrome differentiation.
authors.affiliation: School of Preclinical Medicine, Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 310053 Zhejiang, China.
authors.forename: Xin-wei
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D001877:Books; D002681:China; D006801:Humans; D005082:Physical Exertion; D013577:Syndrome