title: [The tendency of applying medicines for the treatment of consumptive thirst in the period of Jin and Yuan dynasties].
abstract: In the period of Jin and Yuan dynasties, the system of syndrome differentiation and treatment in traditional Chinese medicine on consumptive thirst became more and more mature and the medication became gradually precise. By statistically analyzing the prescriptions and herbs for the treatment of consumptive thirst in 22 medical works of the Jin and Yuan dynasties, it is concluded that there are 7 categories with 20 kinds of major herbs applied. This kind of tendency of applying the medicines in consumptive thirst embodied the recognition that the syndrome classification and therapeutic methods by doctors of the Jin and Yuan dynasties, and reflected the cognition on the pathogenesis, site of lesions of consumptive thirst.
authors.affiliation: Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fujian College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, 350108, China.
authors.forename: Tong
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000266:history* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000266:history*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013894:Thirst / Q000145:classification*
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal