中医药英语课件

1、Chinese Medical HerbsThe origin of the Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Development of the Science of TCMDating back to the ancient China, our ancestor written the “Fifty-two disease party(五十二病方）”, which recording more than 300 prescriptions and 200 kinds of drugs. Besides, in the book “Rites of

2、 Zhou(周礼）”,there are some contents about “the five flavors , the five cereals (rice ,two kinds of millet, wheat and beans.)”Collect and process of TCM（中药的采制）Production Place and Acquisition(采集）Processing（炮制）preparation （制剂）The Performance of the TCM(中药的性能）It can also called drug properties(药性）, and

3、it mainly conclude “four natures of drugs（四气）”，“the five flavors(五味）”，“channel tropism trupizm （归经）”，“ascending and descending, floating and sinking （升降浮沉）”，“toxicity（毒性）”，and etc.Four Natures of Drugs（四气） It refers to the four properties of drugs, that is, cold, hot ,warm and cool. It reflects the

4、bodys effect of inclination(作用倾向）of the ups and downs of Yin and Yang （阴阳盛衰）and the Semi-interior phase change(寒热变化）after the drugs acting on the body. The Five Flavors（五味）It contains five basic herbal medicines in a prescription（药味）pungent，sweet, sour, bitter, and salty .It can divided into two par

5、tsYin : pungent， sweetYang： sour, bitter, and salty The efficacities（功效） of five flavors Pungent：functions of volatilization（发散），promoting the circulation of Qi（行气），invigorating the circulation of blood（活血），and etc. Its always used to treat Exterior Syndrome(表证），such as herba ephedra（麻黄）.Sweet: func

6、tions of tonifying（补益），harmonizing the middle warmer（和中），regulating herbal property （调和药性）and alleviating pain(缓急止痛）.Ascending and Descending, Floating and Sinking （升降浮沉）It refers to the drugs four different function trend （up ,down, inside and ouside)to the body.Channel Tropism trupizm (归经)It refer

7、s to the drugs selective function to some part of the body. That is to say ,one kind of drug has a main or special treating function for the pathological changes（病变）of some organs and meridians （脏腑器官).Toxicity（毒性）It has two meaning in history. : the bias ( 偏性）that the drug has when used in treating

8、diseases.:the adverse effect（不良影响）and the damage that the drug do to the body.The Compatibility of Herbs( seven emotions)Single application （单行）Synergism （相须）Mutual assistance（相使）Mutual inhibition（相畏）Mutual detoxification（相杀）Mutual antagonism（相恶）Incompatibility（相反）Contraindication in Using Herbs(用药禁

9、忌） Incompatibility ： - eighteen incompatible medicaments（十八反） -nineteen counteraction（十九畏）Contraindication during pregnancy（妊娠用药禁忌）Dietary Taboos during taking the medicine （服药时的饮食禁忌）:Exterior-releasing medicine(解表药)It refers a category of medicines that have the effect of dispelling external pathog

10、en from the exterior aspect of the body, usually from sweating .Wind-cold dispersing medicine (发散风寒药）Wind-heat dispersing medicine（发散风热药）Wind-cold-dispersing medicineExample Ginger（生姜）Drug Properties:Pungent, warm.In the liver, stomach, spleen.Efficacy：warming middle energizer arrest vomiting(温中止呕），

11、 Exterior-releasing ,and dissipating cold (解表散寒）Application:） vomiting due to coldness in stomach （胃寒呕吐）cold cough（风寒咳嗽）common cold due to wind-cold（风寒感冒） Wind-heat dispersing medicineExample: Folium MoriDrug Properties: sweet,bitter,cold. In liver, lung.Efficacy： dispelling wind and heat from the b

12、ody （疏散风热），clearing the lung and moistening dryness（清肺润燥），Liver Eyesight（清肝明目，restrain the liver Yang （平抑肝阳）Application: Wind-heat exterior syndrome （风热表证）cough with lung heat （肺热咳嗽），cough caused by dryness-heat（燥热咳嗽）and so on.Heat-clearing medicinal material（清热药）Definition ：a category of medicine t

13、hat have the effect of clearing up internal heat in cases of externally contracted febrile diseases or fever due to yin deficiency. Heat-clearing and fire-clearing drug（清热泻火）Heat-clearing and damp-drying drug （清热燥湿）Clearing away heat and toxic material（清热解毒）Removing pathogenic heat from blood drug（清热凉血）