title: [Deciphering the argots of the names of materia medica and its dosage in the Yi lin kou pu liu zhi mi shu (A Secret Medical Book of Six Therapies in Rhymes of Medical Professionals)].
abstract: Yi lin kou pu liu zhi mi shu (A Secret Medical Book of Six Therapies in Rhymes of Medical Professionals) was additionally compiled, supplemented and annotated by Zhou Sheng, a famous doctor of the Qing Dynasty, based on Yi lin kou pu (Rhymes of Medical Professionals) which was composed by Lu Qi. The book contains four volumes in total, dealing mainly with the miscellaneous diseases of internal medicine, as well as external medicine, gynecology, and pediatrics etc. The syndrome differentiation and treatment, prescriptions and medications in this book has its own characteristic with rather high academic value and practical significance. There were 20 drug names were deciphered by the argots, for instance, "you che" was the argot of golden thread, and "wu yue (May)" was the argot of medicinal evodia fruit, etc. In addition, the argots were often used to decipher numerals and quantifiers, for example, "su, qi, zi, qi, man" referring to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 respectively, and "huo, pu, xiang, feng, lai" referring to 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 respectively, and "qing",""zhong","xi" referring to qian, liang and fen respectively. Hence, deciphering of these argots could help to understand and apply these prescriptions correctly.
authors.affiliation: Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
authors.forename: Shiyi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
authors.forename: Shijue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D001877:Books / Q000266:history*; D049670:History, 17th Century; D008419:Materia Medica / Q000266:history*; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D008419:Materia Medica