 
### Effective Herbal Products for Common Diseases

### TCM Health-care Regulation Program

### Dr. WeiLian.Wang

王伟联 主编

唐振邦 翻译

www.sldint.com

### HK SANLIDA Int'l Healthcare Products Co.,Limited

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### Contents

### *Foreword

### *Origin of TCM

### *Interpretation of Terms of TCM

Yin and Yang Description of symptoms Nomenclature qi Five Elements

Five internal organs(Zang) and six hollow organs(Fu)

Meridians and collaterals Causes of Illness

Wind Cold Damp Dry Hot Endogenous Evils

### *Doctor Wang's Answers

To Questions about TCM and Regulation

### *TCM Health-care Regulation Program  
I Preservation of Health

1.Preservation of health in spring and summer

2. Preservation of health in autumn and winter

3.For Children 4.For men 5.For women 6. Reduction of weight

7. Relief from eyestrain 8. Withdrawal from alcoholism

### II Treatment and Regulation

1. Diseases of the respiratory system 2. Diseases of the Digestive System

3. Diseases of the nervous system 4. Eye, nose and throat diseases

5. Diseases of the blood-circulation system

6. Endocrine, metabolic and urological diseases

7. Diseases of the immunosystem 8. Andropathy 9. Gynecologic diseases

10. Diseases of skin and skeleton 11. Cancer

### *Table of Regulated Prescriptions

### *About SANLIDA

Invitation of Applications

### *Momentous Development in TCM

System of Disease-entity Identification

TCM Intelligent Diagnostic-therapeutic Software

TCM Telemedicine

### * List of herbal Products

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### Foreword

Many people are now looking for help from traditional Chinese medicine. They are, for example, patients of chronic diseases which have been diagnosed as to be without any radical cure; patients whose diseases have been diagnosed to be extremely serious and who hope to find another way out in traditional Chinese medicine; patients who do not want to undergo surgical operations and wish to be subjected to some "conservative treatment"; and patients who are convalescing in hospital after surgical operation or after being hospitalized and who choose traditional Chinese medicine as auxiliary treatment or for health-care purposes. There are other people, who are of the opinion that traditional Chinese medicines can be used for"regulation" of their bodies and they hope to take herbal drugs for routine health care so as to improve their individual constitutions.

This book is designed not only to make you get in the easiest way possible a concise and systematic knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine but also to recommend to you ready-made traditional Chinese medicines which are easily available. On the basis of these ready-made Chinese medicines a number of health-care programs have been devised for your benefit. In these programs diseases are classified according to the nomenclature used in Western medicine so as to make the programs easier to consult for those people who are not acquainted with traditional Chinese medicine.

This book is not only suitable for collection by common readers, but also worthy of reading by people of the medical profession.

If you visit www.sldint.com to download this ebook in PDF format in the User Center after register, this book is not only practical but also vivid in color, rich and magnificent in both pictures and language. In the book there are quite a number of classical pictures of immense academic value pertaining to the realm of traditional Chinese medicine, including a set of fourteen exquisite pictorial illustrations of channels and collaterals of the human meridian system.

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### Origin of TCM

In the course of development of human civilization there have appeared four traditional medical systems. Apart from the traditional Chinese medicine, there were Egyptian, Roman, and Indian medical systems. However, the latter three traditional medical systems gradually declined until they became extinct, with only individual prescriptions having survived by being scattered and preserved among the populations.

The method of thinking is of paramount importance as the basis and norm of behaviour in the development of every field of natural science. So, TCM has a close relationship with Chinese classical philosophy.

The underlying fundamental ideological thesis of Chinese classical philosophy is a system of philosophical theoretical thinking having a scheme of four dimensions, which are "the way of heaven", "the way of earth", "the human way" and "the change of seasons". In other words, Chinese classical philosophy considers the principles governing the changes in the universe and the heavenly bodies, the rules that underlie geophysics and the evolution of creatures: animals and plants, and the laws governing the changes in human societies to be one organic totality with its components mutually influencing and constraining each other, with revelations of changes in matters and things that go on with the passage of time as the basis for investigations.

Therefore, Chinese classical philosophy is a mode of thinking by "synthetic analysis". In classical Chinese philosophy, the scientific proposition of "interactions between man and nature" was put forward on the foundation of this basic ideology.

Traditional Chinese medical practitioners hold the view that the human body is an organic whole, that a local change which is a disorder can affect the entire body while a pathological change in the whole body can be reflected as a local phenomenon, and that, therefore, although the pathological essence of the change that is involved in the disease is hidden inside there must be a certain symptom or more than one symptom reflected outside.

In her medical practice of several thousand years, China has summed up her clinical experience, formed a complete theoretical system of medicine and,by virtue of its safety and efficacy, has made important contributions to the procreation and thriving of the Chinese people and has shown its tremendous vitality at the same time.

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### Interpretation of Terms of TCM

### *Yin and Yang

  1. The theory of Yin and Yang in traditional Chinese medicine is the product of combination of the ancient Chinese dialectical method of thinking and the rich experience gained in traditional medical work. Yin and Yang constitute not only an important component part of the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine but also an instrument for summing up its clinical experience. This means that the view on unity of opposites as shown in the relation between Yin and Yang and also about decline and growth and about mutual transformation between the opposites Yin and Yang was used to explicate the relation between man and nature and to generalize a series of questions in the field of medicine.

2. The implications of Yin and Yang:Yang(Masculine)---pushing into motion, playing the leading role, and being immovable in determination. In traditional Chinese medicine, Yangrepresents the functional activities of organs, the external defense, and the firm internal protection of Yin essence.Yin(Feminine) ---keeping to the faith, tending to agree and accept, and being flexible and compliant. In traditional Chinese medicine, Yin represents the conservation and storage of material substances, the source of the vital energy of Yang.For example, in the distinction between the two sexes, the male is Yang and the female is Yin.

### *Description of symptoms

  1. Yang deficiency:This term refers to inadequacy of vital energy. Clinical manifestations are: hands and feet lacking warmth , body prone to sweat on all occasions, stool being very wet and shapeless, urine being colorless, lips being light in color, and mouth feeling flat and insipid.

  2. Yin deficiency: This term refers to inadequacy of body fluids. Clinical manifestations are: Feeling the two palms and two soles hot in the centers, having subjective consciousness of some annoying heat in the bosom, suffering a hectic fever in the early afternoon, going about constantly with reddened lips and feeling the mouth dry, and haunted by the excretion of dry and hardened stool.

### *Nomenclature

  1. Pulmonary Yin--- fluid of the lungs, produced by chemical combination of the essence of water and grain with renal fluid.This pulmonary Yin is complementary to what is called the pulmonary qi, which is its opposite and might well be called pulmonary Yang as it represents "vital energy".

2.Kidney Yin-also called renal fluid or genuine fluid, is no other than the fluid of the renal organ (including the essence of life, which the renal organ contains). It is called kidney Yin as it is counterposed to kidney Yang, the vital energy, and serves as the material basis on which kidney Yang performs its functional activities. Kidney Yin hasthe effect of nourishing and moistening various viscera and hollow organs of the human body.

### *The term qi

  1. Denotes minute particles of material, rich in nutrition and circulating around the body, e.g. the qi of water and grain.

  2. Denotes the active power of viscera, e.g. the qi of the five internal organs.

In clinical work, when the term qi is used, it most probably denotes a symptom or symptoms of some disorder of the viscera, e.g. The qi of the liver offends the stomach.

### *Five internal organs(Zang) and six hollow organs(Fu)

Traditional Chinese medicine holds the view that in the human body there are five substantial Zang organs (Zang is dark in color), each of which corresponds to a Fu organ, which is an internally hollow organ (Fu is light in color) and is connected with other Fu organs through channels and collaterals, thus forming two distinct zang and Fu systems, differing widely from the theory of Western anatomy so far as functions are concerned.

  1. The term five internal organs usually denotes heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys

Heart (心\--火): heart storing spirit and governing blood and vessels;

Lung(肺\--金): lung governing qi,storing inferior spirit; lung connecting all vessels;

Liver(肝-木): liver controlling conveyance and dispersion;

liver governing ascending and dredging;  
Spleen(脾-土):spleen governing movement and transformation;

spleen being acquired foundation;

spleen governing ascending clear;

spleen controlling blood;

spleen governing limbs;

spleen governing muscles;

Kidney(肾\--水): kidney governing storage;

kidney governing reproduction;

kidney governing water metabolism;

kidney governing bones;

  2. The term hollow organ generally denotes an organ in the abdomen which is hollow inside and has a cavity, performing the function of receiving, storing, transporting and transforming water and grain.

The six hollow organs comprise: gallbladder, stomach, bowels, intestines, (urinary) bladder and the three visceral cavities (which house the internal organs). The three visceral cavities are passages for the circulation of water and grain and vital energy.

Note: The terms spleen (i.e. the explanation of the term) and three visceral cavities are unique and specific to traditional Chinese medicine in its theory of the five internal organs and the six internal hollow organs.

### *Meridians and collaterals:

The main passages of the network are the principal channels, which connect different parts of the body and through which vital energy circulates, regulating bodily functions. The branches that diverge from the principal channels and link them with each other, forming a network throughout the body, are called collateral channels.

This network constitutes the entire system of passages for circulating vital energy throughout the body, connecting the visceral organs and the limbs and joints of the body, providing communication all over the body, and regulating all bodily functions.

*Theory of the Five Elements

The theory of the five elements is one of the basic theories inherited by traditional Chinese medicine from ancient natural philosophy. It concerns the composition and evolution of the universe.

The five elements are: wood (木), fire(火), earth(土), metal(金) and water(水). They are used in traditional Chinese medicine to expound the correspondence between man and the universe, and to delineate in particular the physiological and pathological relationships between the various internal organs of the human body.

For the latter purpose, traditional Chinese medicine classifies the internal organs according to the properties of the five elements either by analogy or by deduction. To be specific, the five organs i.e. Liver(肝), heart(心), spleen(脾), lung(肺) and kidney(肾) are considered to be equivalent to wood, fire, earth, metal and water respectively. However, this linkage of the internal organs to the five elements is not a matter of simple analogy. It has profound implications.

*Whatever pertains to wood has the property of being able to grow, become plentiful and extend with ease in different directions;

*Whatever pertains to fire has the property of warming, heating and leaping up; *Whatever pertains to earth has the property of implementing conveyance, receipt and acceptance, and production and changes of things;

*Whatever pertains to metal has the property of cleaning, cutting down and contracting;

*Whatever pertains to water has the property of cooling, moistening and moving downward. Moreover, the five elements are related to each other in an intricate manner, as is shown below.

### *Relationships between the five elements:

1. by generation or promotion(生, 相生):

The five elements generate (i.e. produce) or promote one another in the order of wood, fire, earth, metal, water, and wood again.

2. by restriction or subjugation(克,相克):

The five elements restrict or subjugate one another in the order of water, fire, metal, wood, earth, and water again.

The theory of the five elements can be used in traditional Chinese medicine not only for theoretical reasoning and explication but also for practical guidance in clinical work.

### *Illustrations of diagnoses made by using the theory of the five elements:

Wood fire torturing metal: This expresses a pathological change which consists in that excessive liver fire consumes lung fluid, causing dry cough and chest pain or even hemoptysis accompanied by irritability, bitterness in the mouth, and blood-shot eyes.

Earth failing to control water: This expresses a pathological change which consists in that a weak spleen, being unable to control the water flow, may lead to edema or retained fluid.

Exuberant wood subjugating earth: This expresses a pathological change involving disharmony between the liver and the spleen and stomach, in which hyperactivity of the former (liver) is primary, while insufficiency of the latter (spleen and stomach) is secondary.

Fire failing to generate earth: This expresses a pathological change in which fire of the life gate (i.e. kidney yang) is insufficient to warm the spleen and stomach, bringing on such symptoms as diarrhea, indigestion, intolerance of cold, and edema.

Thus it can be seen that application of the theory of the five elements in traditional Chinese medicine is chiefly for analysis of and research in the mutual relationships of the viscera, the channels and collaterals of the human meridian system, for study of the various physiological functions of the human body, and for clarification of their effects and influences on each other in pathological conditions.

### *Salivary fluids :

This is the combination name of saliva and body fluids. It means the fluid in the human body, which is produced by chemical transformation from the minute particles of dietary water and grain.

*Causes of illness:

In ancient times the causes of illness were divided into three classes, namely "endogenous", "exogenous" and "non-endo-non-exogenous" factors.

  1. Endogenous factors:

This denotes certain pathogenic factors which arise inside the human body and cause illness, chiefly the condition of rise and fall of a person's healthiness,as is implied in the common saying that "If healthiness exists inside, evils cannot offend."(Whatever is harmful to the human body is called in traditional Chinese medicine by the generalizing term evil,that is pathogen) The term healthiness comprises in its meaning both the physical constitution, the mental state and resistance to illness.

  2. Exogenous factors:

This denotes the fact of being affected by certain pathogenic factors in the external world (i.e. nature). Traditional Chinese medical scholars call these pathogenic factors by the term external evils as well. Traditional Chinese medicine borrowed the names of natural phenomena, such as wind, cold, summer, damp, dry, hot (fire)and their characteristics to generalize the causes of all diseases resulting from interference in the human body by external factors and also for use in the description of causes and symptoms of various diseases, as shown below:

Wind: for showing that the symptom of a disease is migratory in its place of occurrence and changeable in form, like wind.

Cold: for describing symptoms of deterioration of a function, e.g. running a fever, having a painful joint, or having abdominal pain or diarrhea.

Fire(s): for describing symptoms which are manifestations of hyperfunctioning of some organ(s) in the process of pathological variations and may be further divided into two categories, i.e. substantial fires and deficiency fires.

Substantial fires are due mostly to rampancy of disease evils and in the majority of cases are manifested as high fevers, heavy sweating, and propensity to fly into a temper.

Deficiency fires are due mostly to deficits in body fluids and are found principally in chronic wasting diseases, manifesting themselves in the majority of cases as feeling worried unnecessarily and lying in bed sleepless, or having seminal emissions at night, often with dreams.

Damp: for describing obstacles to the performance of the function of transport and transformation of food in the body, often seen as joint pain, muscular pain, poor appetite or a sensation of suppression in the chest.

Dry: for indicating a person being affected by dryness and suffering loss of salivary fluids in such a way that this loss is transformed into heat and fire. The symptoms are seen in the majority of cases as red eyes, swollen gums, sore throat or dry coughs.

  3. Non-endo-non-exogenous factors:

This term denotes a category of illness the causes of which are obvious by themselves consisting chiefly in hunger or surfeit, the person's house or room being not sanitary, an injury or wound resulting from a fall or from a beating, or having been bitten by an insect or an animal.

*Endogenous evils( pathogen):

This term denotes pathogenic factors, such as phlegm stasis and blood stasis in the body, posterior or secondary to some disease.

1.Phlegm:This term denotes the pathological product secreted by the respiratory tract and includes in its scope the mucous substances accumulated in the tissues of certain organs which have undergone pathological changes. Such mucous substances, which are transformed from salivary fluids, impede the normal process of air formation in and passage through the viscera and hollow organs.

2.Blood stasis: This term denotes the symptom of blood becoming stagnant in flow and staying at a certain place in the body, which will lead to some substantial injury done to a part of the network of passages or to the function performance of certain viscera. It may combine with other evils (e.g. cold and phlegm) to give more obstinate pathological manifestations.

3. Toxicity: According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, toxicity falls into a number of types, which are, for example:

a. Internal toxicity: This term denotes noxious heat which seeps from inside.

b. Noxious dampness: This term refers to the fact that dampness may turn into toxicity after being pent up in the body for a long time.

c.Damp heat: This term is used to mean that owing to the fact that the spleen of the human body may not be healthy enough to transport well, dampness arises inside or, as a result of the body staying at a damp place for too long, external evils invade into it and, having been pent up and lying dormant in it for quite a time, produce heat.

The treatment should center on reducing fever and facilitating increase of moisture. The concrete therapeutic method to be adopted varies with the place of the body where the affliction occurs.

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### Doctor Wang's Answers

(To Questions about Traditional Chinese Medicine)

  1. ### Why is "yin vs. yang" so important in traditional Chinese medicine?

Answer: To people who are familiar with Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is quite abstract. Look at this picture. Isn't the Galaxy like a gigantic revolving wheel? Aren't all the planets revolving around the Sun and turning simultaneously each on its own axis?

Again, let's take a look at our Earth. It's very hot on earth in summer. But, if you fetch a bucket of water from a well, you'll find that the water of the well is quite cool. In winter it is very cold on earth. The water in the well may have frozen, but miners working in a coal mine feel very hot. In spring, plants grow and blossom, but in autumn, trees generally shed leaves. Don't such phenomena of Nature seem to show as if there were two kinds of energy on earth which are circulating and transforming into each other?

I invited you to observe the universe and the earth not for the purpose of inducing you to learn astronomy, but in order to show you that since the circulatory motions within the human body are invisible to the naked human eye traditional Chinese medicine can only resort to analogy with the universe to enable you to conceive and comprehend the internal workings of the human body.

By observation of the great Nature, ancient Chinese came to realize that man, being a part of Nature, must obey the laws of Nature, and so they put forward the view of "correspondence between human beings and the natural environment", of which the simplest example is that a person generally enjoys good health if he/she gets up to work when the sun rises and stops working to rest when the sun sets.

By making such observations, ancient Chinese people came to understand that man is a product of Nature and there are circulatory motions within the human body akin to those of the heavenly bodies in the universe; that such motions require energy, which is of two types: yin and yang according to the direction of flow of the energy and that the human body tends to be in good health if the two types of energy which transform into each other in circulatory motions are equivalent and that the human body will suffer from various diseases if such equivalence is lacking.

2. What after all is "qi" of traditional Chinese medicine?

Let's again make observations of the universe. Air is invisible, but don't you feel its power whenever there is a typhoon raging? From observations, ancient Chinese realized that in air there must be matter which carries energy. They came to the conclusion that since man depends on food, water and inhaled air for the energy required by the human body the energy is produced by all the three of them. This energy is what traditional Chinese medicine calls "qi and blood". The circulatory motions within the human body for the maintenance of equivalence between yin and yang need to depend not only on the energy of the tangible blood for propulsion but also on the invisible energy qi, which may also be represented as the functional activities of viscera such as the kidneys, expressed traditionally as the "kidney qi". The term qi denotes additionally man's vital energy, which is the life-power.

### 3. Does the human meridian system, which consists of channels and collaterals, really exist?

Answer: Don't astronomers tell you that all the planets in the sky have their respective orbits of motion? However, if you confine your range of observation to a small space and limit your objects of observation to only one planet for a short length of time, can you see its orbit?

In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, a human being is a small universe. The existence of the human meridian system with its channels and collaterals was discovered by incessant observations of an entire human being and by summing up the results of such observations. The meridian system in the human body is no other than an intangible system of definite and interconnected passages through which qi is transmitted. It certainly cannot be seen by means of dissecting a cadaver, because in that way anatomy would take as its object of study only a lifeless body of flesh. The theory of the human meridian system has been demonstrated to be correct in the course of medical practice of thousands of years. The system of deep-breathing exercises, acupuncture and moxibustion, and the traditional Chinese medical massage were all developed in accordance with the theory of the human meridian system.

### 4. Why do you suggest that we take Inwarmer in the forenoon and Toniyin in the evening?

Traditional Chinese medical scholars discovered thousands of years ago that there exist close relationships between man and time and between man and the seasons

Early in the morning, when the sun rises, the body is ready to perform functional activities. As Inwarmer has the effect of making warmth take ascendancy in the body, it can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, encouraging more strenuous performance of functional activities if it is taken in the forenoon, whereas in the evening, when the sun sets, the power to perform functional activities within the human body subsides, it will be better for a person to take Toniyin because Toniyin has the principal effect of replenishing body fluids and so will moisten the throat, clear the body of dryness and heat, conducing to a good rest.

Do you know why so many healthy people hurry to the lavatory early in the morning to make stool? Traditional Chinese medicine discovered that there are l2 channels in this meridian system and that each of these channels, i.e. meridians, has its primary time of the day for passage. As 5-7 o'clock in the morning is the time at which the flow of vital energy of the body enters the big-intestine meridian, a great number of people feel the urge to defecate. Incidentally, why do some people speak of the need to "adjust the time difference"? That's because passage of energy through each channel is connected with the time of the day. When a person arrives at a new place, he/she instinctively feels a need to make some adjustment of his/her daily habits in order to adapt to the change in the body of the primary time for passage through each of the channels, or meridians.

### 5. How is it that practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine can assess a patient's internal health condition by inferring from his/her external characteristics?

Answer: Let's take as an example the simple case of assessing the internal condition of a watermelon when you want to buy one from among a great multitude of watermelons at a stall in the market. In China a stallholder usually offers customers his gratuitous service and so you will have a good choice made for you. A person who has engaged in planting or selling watermelons all his life knows how to make the best choice simply by relying on his experience. Similarly, a medical practitioner can assess a patient's internal condition visually by relying on his/her personal experience, in addition to using his/her knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, which is indispensable even in this case for no other reason than that traditional Chinese medicine is a natural science with a long history of development through incessant observation and practice.

  6. ### Why should herbal medicines be classified as having the hot, cool, etc. property respectively?

Answer: Traditional Chinese medicine evaluates a certain plant or mineral on the basis of its effect on the human body. Traditional Chinese medicine describes these drugs, including our daily foods, in the following respects;

  1. Drug property: There are hot, warm, even, cool, and cold drugs. For example, the ginger we eat is hot, while mutton is warm. As a further example, if a person has got herpes simplex, which usually occurs as a concomitant of fever, it is said that he/she is afflicted by a heat toxin and that a cool drug is needed to clear the body of the heat toxin. If that person should eat some roasted dish, he/she might find on the next day that his/her illness became more serious. Therefore, the cooking method can change the property of a food. Many people like to eat fruits or even cooked dishes taken direct from the refrigerator. This habit might increase the pathogenic cold in the stomach, and we have the right to say that refrigeration changes the property of a cooked dish.

  2. Drug tastes: They include the bitter, sweet, sour, salty, pungent and bland tastes.

  3. Meridian tropism: This means classification of drugs according to the meridian(s) on which their therapeutic action is manifested, e.g. Radix Platycodi and Radix Asteris are grouped under the lung meridian because of their antitussive effect in cases of lung diseases. Let's take as another example a woman who does not secrete enough milk to feed her newborn baby. In order to solve the problem, she need only take the herbal medicine "seed of cowherb" (Vaccaria segetalis), which acts on the meridians of liver and stomach, which are closely connected with the breasts. This herbal medicine is used as a galactagogue. The woman will have her lactation increased by adding an appropriate amount of it to her meat or fish soup.

  4. Directions, or rather trends, of drug actions: There are four directions, or trends, of drug actions. They are: ascending, descending, floating and sinking. The ascending and floating drugs have an upward and outward effect, and they are used for activating vitality, inducing sweating and dispelling cold, while the descending and sinking drugs, which have a downward and inward effect, are used for achieving tranquilization, causing contraction, relieving cough, arresting emesis, and promoting diuresis or purgation. For example, a man has become impotent. According to traditional Chinese medicine, if he wants to improve his potency he should take an ascending drug. This is why most of the ingredients of Sanlida are from warm to hot, which evidently is intended to accomplish the purpose of "ascending". However, longtime administration of Sanlida might lead to excess heat in the body. As the human body needs harmony between ascending and descending, Inwarmer should be taken at the same time as Sanlida, because it is a herbal medicine for treating spleen and stomach diseases in a harmonious manner. Since Inwarmer combines warmth with descending, its combined use with Sanlida will make it possible for Sanlida to be used continually for a long period of time.

### 7. What is the dialectical method of diagnosis and treatment used in traditional Chinese medicine?

When a patient comes, the traditional Chinese medical practitioner, basing his/her work on the data collected, makes analysis and synthesis to discern the cause and nature of the disease, which is generally at a certain place of the body or, instead, may be a systemic disease, elucidates the relationship between the pathogenic evil and the patient's healthiness, and through generalization comes to the diagnosis.

In the case of postpartum abdominal pain, for example, the practitioner may advise the patient that Chinese angelica, mutton and ginger be boiled together to make a soup for her to eat, and it will happen most probably that her illness will be cured. Why? Because the woman has lost too much blood. She needs to have the vital energy of her liver replenished. In the circulatory motions within the human body the meridian of the liver conduces upward. When the vital energy in the liver meridian does not flow upward but tends downward, the symptom shown is abdominal pain. Chinese angelica can warm and tonify liver blood, mutton can warm and tonify vital energy in the liver, and ginger can dispel pathogenic cold in the body. When the blood of the liver has been nourished and tonified together with the vital energy, the hepatic vital energy will become so strong as to ascend with considerable force, thereby causing the disease to disappear.

In traditional Chinese medicine, the motion of vital energy in the spleen and stomach--- internal organs which are in the middle part of the human body--- is considered to be circular in form and taken to be the "shaft". For a similar reason, the circular motion of vital energy in outer parts of the body which comprise lungs, liver, heart and kidneys are likened to the "wheel". The woman patient mentioned above who takes dishes of mutton soup to have her lactation increased is, by analogy, making the "wheel" revolve with the help of an external force.

Thus, the way by which traditional Chinese medicine treats diseases is quite simple. It may be generalized as to be of three types:

  1. Driving the shaft so as to bring into rotation the wheel

  2. Turning the wheel so as to bring into rotation the shaft

  3. Turning the shaft and the wheel simultaneously.

### 8. Why do traditional Chinese medical practitioners speak so often of "regulating"?

In traditional Chinese medicine, treatment consists of "three-tenths in therapeutic attention and seven-tenths in resting and nourishment". Resting and nourishment is no less than "regulating". The essence of the method of treatment is to alleviate the symptoms at the onset of the illness and to tackle and eradicate the root cause of it when the patient's condition becomes stabilized, which means that the regulating method is used at a later time for the purpose of restoring proper functioning to the internal organs.

### 9. Why does traditional Chinese medicine emphasize regulating spleen and stomach?

The clump of nerves of every organ leads to the stomach, which means that a person depends on food and its digestion and absorption for the nourishment of the entire body. Traditional Chinese medicine says that spleen and stomach can produce vitality, which is fundamentally the same as saying that they give rise to the person's life power. Since the stomach is in the middle of the human body, traditional Chinese medicine speaks figuratively of the vitality produced by it as "vitality in the form of a shaft" and indicates explicitly that if that shaft revolves with great force it can bring into rotation the "wheel", by which is meant figuratively the whole body of the human being. Therefore, life power will abound when there is sufficient vitality. No doubt, if the medicine and the supplemented nourishment cannot be absorbed by the body via the stomach, life will come to an end.

Therefore, the fundamental principle of traditional Chinese medicine is striving for the preservation of vitality. When faced with a doubtful, , tough clinical problem, the first therapeutic method that comes to the practitioner's mind is naturally based on regulating spleen and stomach so that the feeble patient might have more vitality produced, which means to have more life power restored to him/her.

### 10. Why does TCM emphasize replenishing the body fluids and nourishing the kidneys?

The meaning of the word kidney in traditional Chinese medicine transcends by far in scope that of the kidney as a visceral structure in modern medicine. In traditional Chinese medicine the kidney is given the title of "prenatal root source of the human body". The so-called root source denotes the foundation of life.

The kidneys are responsible for storing the essence of life and transforming corpuscular material. The five internal organs (heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and also the kidneys) all depend on the kidneys for congenial warmth. Adequacy of the essence of life in the kidneys and the glow of vitality of the kidneys are the basic guarantee of a person's long life, perennial youthful looks and unfading appearance.

If the warming power of the kidneys is not adequate for providing congenial warmth to the whole figure, then the body feels chilly, the limbs feel cold and the complexion is pallid. If there is not enough essence of life in the kidneys to nourish the whole body, then hair, both fine and gross, falls off, teeth shake, and the complexion withers early. If there is a deficiency of essential body fluids in the kidneys, an internal heat induced by that deficiency flares up inside the body and the cheeks are seen to become abnormally red because of the hectic fever. If the deficiency-induced heat dies down, then a water-induced cold becomes rampant inside and the complexion is seen to be darkish. An ample supply of the essence of life in the kidneys is the cause of hair being lustrous, while a deficiency of vital energy in the kidneys entails albescence of hair, both fine and gross, and its shedding.

### 11. What should a person pay attention to when taking the herbal medicines of the SANLIDA Company?

  1. In the Table of Regulated Prescriptions, the products of the Company are arranged according to their drug properties from the left side to the right, with those having the hot property placed on the left side, those having the intermediate property in the middle, and those having the cool property on the right side, the background color being used to serve as a hint. Red color represents the medicine being warm or hot; absence of color represents the medicine being intermediate in regard to drug property; and blue color represents the medicine being "cool" in drug property. If a product having a very hot or very cold property is taken alone, all by itself, for a very long time, the body's yin and yang equilibrium will be subjected to a bad influence. For this reason, in taking traditional Chinese medicines you need to observe the instructions of the said pamphlet so as to keep a proper balance between yin and yang during a long period of administration. As for drugs which are intermediate or nearly intermediate between hot and cool they can be taken all by themselves.

  2. When you are taking any of these Chinese herbal medicines, you must control your alcohol drinking. Otherwise, the therapeutic effect will be adversely affected.

  3. Those who are weak in constitution must refrain from indulgence in sex, so that their diseases might not be aggravated.

### 12. What is the main effect of each of the products supplied by the SANLIDA Company?

I think you have already learned something of traditional Chinese medicine. So, I'll explain to you the effects of these products from a professional angle.

Sanlida: It can activate blood and unblock collaterals in the human meridian system. It is warm. It has an ascending trend in the human body.

Aegiseme: It performs the function of promoting movement of vital energy. It is warm and ascending, but has also ingredients that are cool and descending. It activates blood and unblocks collaterals. It eliminates stagnant blood and expels superfluous water out of the body, and so can relieve swelling.

Inwarmer: It can warm and tonify vital energy. It can reinforce the functional activities of spleen and stomach. It has more ingredients that are ascending than descending. Vital energy, which it warms, is what is considered by traditional Chinese medicine as the motive force of all human activities.

Gui Pills: It tonifies the blood of heart and liver; it replenishes the vital energy of spleen and stomach. It favors both yin and yang, it has ingredients that have the ascending trend and also those that have the descending trend.

Toniyin: It fosters the body fluids and replenishes the vital energy of spleen and stomach. It combines the ascending and the descending trends. (Note: There are in it more ingredients that have the descending trend than those that have an ascending one.)..

Holisticare: It makes a wholesale improvement of vitality.

Kilimend: It increases the body fluids in a big way and also promotes the functional activities.

Salubry: It promotes the functions of digestion, absorption and chemical transformation by spleen and stomach.

Safbrain: It serves as the scavenger of blood vessels.

Ilextensor: It lowers the blood pressure, increases the body fluids and has the cooling and descending effects.

Gastility: It promotes excretion and evacuation, expelling toxicants from the body.

Spearl: It helps a person to expel all that is toxic in the body through sweating, urination and bowel movement it can provide the human body with more energy and improve nourishment.

Among these products the following can elevate the immunity of the human body: Sanlida, Inwarmer, Gui Pills, Toniyin, Holisticare, Kilimend and Salubry.

### 13. How is it that several herbal drugs mixed with each other can achieve the purpose of health care and disease treatment?

Don't you see that in every city there are several people and organizations responsible for running the city? They are the mayor, the grain and food bureau, the communication bureau, etc. And there may also be an environmental sanitation bureau.

The human body also requires several departments to keep it running. If things go wrong with any one or some of them, the person will fall ill or descend into a subhealthy condition. For example, if someone has got hypertension, then his/her blood vessels may be obstructed somewhere. That is to say his/her blood vessels may not be good for blood passage, or communication. In such a case, the scavenger Safbrain is needed to remove the obstacles (serving as the communication bureau or the environmental sanitation bureau). If the person's arteries or veins are not good enough for microcirculation---a case which may be compared to a city with many lanes blocked for passage of vehicles---then Sanlida is needed to break them through (as if it were the communication bureau). If the patient of hypertension has a very high level of cholesterol, a small amount of Gastility might best be used (in the capacity of the environmental sanitation bureau) to expel as soon as possible from the body all the rubbish that Safbrain has cleared out. Since the accumulation of cholesterol and fat in the body is connected with the performance of the digestive function, it is necessary to upgrade the overall transportation power of the digestive system (the mayor's duty in our allegory).

Administration of Ilextensor is for the purpose of reducing the blood pressure. The taking of Toniyin in addition during a later stage is aimed at replenishment of energy in the body and also for regulating spleen and stomach (performing the function of the grain and food bureau).

What has been said above is no less than the method of treatment and regulation used by traditional Chinese medicine, which has as its ultimate aim the restoration of proper functioning to internal organs of the human body.

### 14. Why do a few individuals feel dizzy in the head and sore in the waist and legs after taking the product?

Chinese traditional medical practitioners say, "If the channels are free for passage, there will be no pain; if there is pain, the body channels are blocked." The SANLIDA product has the effect of making the main and collateral channels of the body free for passage and facilitating blood circulation. If pain appears in certain parts of the body after SANLIDA is taken, that means the channels are not free and blood is silting up, thereby testifying to the fact that the ingredients of the medicine have been absorbed and are producing effect. It is necessary only to reduce the dosage by taking the medicine every other day. The symptoms of discomfort will disappear in a week.

From the point of view of biochemistry, SANLIDA, having been taken, will produce an enzyme in certain parts of the body, such as joints, the waist, and legs. The organisms of most people can absorb this enzyme. So, there is no feeling of soreness and pain. On the contrary, if the enzyme is not absorbed, soreness in the waist and legs may be felt. This reaction, however, is entirely harmless.

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### TCM Health-care Regulation Program

### ***I Preservation of Health***

In accordance with the principle of correspondence between human beings and the natural environment, traditional Chinese medicine holds the view that people, living in an environment constituted by Nature, must accord well with the seasonal changes in it, accommodating themselves in good time to such changes so as to keep the yin and yang of their bodies in equilibrium and to ensure at the same time the harmonious coexistence of their individual organisms with the external world so as to reach the aim of preserving themselves in good health, lengthening their lifespans and attaining longevity.

Disease arises from excessive employment. This is a maxim in the Classic of Internal Medicine. It expresses an important view in the etiology of traditional Chinese medicine and also a fundamental principle in the science of health preservation. It tells us that in order to be healthy and long-lived people must pay attention to the need of doing work and taking rest both in moderate amounts, because the incidence of a number of diseases is due to engaging in labor, indulging in drinking and eating or doing physical or mental exercises in amounts in excess of normal limits.

* Preservation of health in spring and summer

In summer, because of the sweltering hot weather, which is often so oppressive as to lead to excessive escape of the body's internal energy reserved for evolvement and performance of functional activities or, owing to accumulation of pathogenic cold in the body caused by overindulgence in cold drinks and cold foods for the sake of lowering the body temperature in order to prevent heat strokes, the energy inside the body to be used for functional activities will wane and become deficient. Therefore, one of the principles for preservation of health in traditional Chinese medicine formulated to suit the needs of different times of the year is "conserving energy for functional activities in spring and summer". For this reason, those people who live or work in an air-conditioned environment for long hours a day or engage excessively in outdoor sports will have the need to take Gui Pills and Inwarmer for the sake of their health.

*Preservation of health in autumn and winter

"Preserve nutrients in the body during autumn and winter." This dictum means that as activities of all living things in the world subside during autumn and winter, people who want to preserve their health should proceed according to the needs of the time. They must protect the nutrients in the body by storing them up for the purpose of nourishing the viscera with their conglomerated essence. Therefore, in autumn and winter, it would be best to take Gui Pills and Toniyin.

### **Male and Female Sexual Health Preservation**

According to traditional Chinese medical practitioners' understanding of the human body, a girl reaches puberty at the age of 14 while a boy does so at 16. Then they arrive at the summit of sexual maturity respectively at the age of 28 (for the female) and 32 (for the male). After that, their physical strength descends with the increase in age. The so-called exercise for people of the right age is no other than physical exercise within measure for a certain age group in terms of strenuosity and amount. It should be kept in mind that the aim of taking physical exercises for aging people is, in the eyes of traditional Chinese medical practitioners, not to train their bodies, but to preserve their health. This is also the case with the restraint of the sexual affair. When a woman has reached 42 in age and when a man has become 48 years old, their physiological functions will begin to decline; therefore, they should rein in their sexual desire or they should take some diet supplement, so as to avoid too heavy a drain on their strength.

*For men

Sanlida can strengthen the male psychic force and male reproductive system; conserve the cerebrum, repair and regenerate the brain cells, naturally improve memory; and radically enhance immunity so as to really attain the goal of nurturing the kidney and achieving male enhancement, invigorating the brain, enhancing male sexuality, retarding the aging process, prolonging life and boosting longevity.

People suited for SANLIDA:

1.All male adults who want to keep or improve their male sexuality.

2.Those who are prone to catch cold, to feel tired, to be sleepless, to be lethargic, or to feel anxiety, which are caused by weakness and health impairment due to lowering of immunity.

3.Those who suffer from male impotency, premature male ejaculation, degeneration of sexual function, weakening of sexual desire, dissatisfaction with sexual life, or lack of male orgastic pleasure.

4. Those who suffer from frequent or painful micturition caused by prostatic hypertrophy and those who have sore and feeble back and knees and sweating hands and feet.

5. Those who have hypertension, cerebral embolism or who have suffered apoplexy.

*For women

It is the dream of every female of the world to have a young and beautiful appearance and a pair of full and round breasts.

Femegain is the ideal tonic of females. Speaking theoretically from the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, the development of breasts and the question whether or not they are full and round are connected with the level of sufficiency or inadequacy of the body's blood and vital energy. The chief merit of Femegain consists in its ability to make all the channels and collaterals in the chest free for passage, to replenish the human body with blood and vital energy, and to convey blood, vital energy and nourishment to the breasts by means of targeting technology. Thus it can not only promote the development of the common feminine bosom but also restore substance and firmness to breasts that have fallen flat or even caved in.

Moreover, Femegain can help to regulate and nourish the body, postpone arrival of the climacteric, resist the aging process and beautify the skin. Femegain also can prevent catching cold.If a woman takes this product shortly after childbirth, she will have plentiful freely-flowing milk.

*For Children's Health

From the angle of traditional Chinese medicine, the reason is that the internal organs of a child is not strong enough, and insubordination of the lung meridian will entail cough (Note: The term meridian means here the meridian syndrome, which is a morbid condition), whereas fever is caused by hyperactivity of the ministerial fire and insubordination of the gallbladder meridian (Note: The term fire is often used to mean pathological manifestation of intense heat such as flushed face, bloodshot eyes or acute local inflammation, resulting from excessive functional activities or immoderate emotional influences, but here it means physiological energy of life; and the term ministerial fire means the fire which originates in the kidney and is attached to the liver and gallbladder, in contrast to the monarch fire, which comes from the heart).

Melloey can subdue the lung meridian and foster the generation of vital energy, and Feales can subdue the ministerial fire and the gallbladder meridian, replenishing at the same time the hepatic vital enregy on a large scale. Therefore, a child can have cough and fever prevented and health improved by holding in mouth every day a few pieces of the palatable Melloey and Feales.You must not belittle such a nibbling food. It is, as a matter of fact, based on a classic prescription, and it has succeeded in curing many people of their diseases.

Those people who have children in their homes should give them these products to nibble between meals. In that case, swallowing bitter drugs and taking intravenous injections can be dispensed with or rendered much less frequent.

*Reduction of weight

Obesity may be due to some causes connected with metabolism, endocrine disorders and even habitual constipation. Anyhow, Salubry is the best choice for such subhealthy people, who yearn for agility and general improvement of health. Gastility can be taken for a certain period of time with Salubry for better effect.

*Relief from eyestrain

Eyestrain is caused most probably by intent contemplation of the TV screen for long hours at a sitting each day, a habit which often dominates our life, with the result that the frequency of blinking of our eyes is reduced and the secretion of tears is correspondingly decreased in volume. These two generally unnoticed harmful phenomena are worsened by strong flickering light darting from the TV screen. As the eyeballs are connected with the liver, and the eyelids with the stomach and spleen, traditional Chinese medicine resorts to nourishment of liver blood and the stomach and spleen for relieving eyestrain. After taking Gui Pills and Toniyin for a certain period of time the person who has constant eye fatigue will feel that he/she has been perceptibly relieved of this annoying sensation.

*Withdrawal from alcoholism

Habitual excessive alcoholic consumption is extremely harmful. If an alcohol addict wants to regain his health, he should first stop smoking and withdraw from alcoholism. If he cannot pin his hope on his own willpower to attain this aim, he may take Antialcoholic Wonder, Livermend and use Quick-quit Smoking Liquid and rest assured that they can help him cut out drinking and smoking painlessly.Please visit www.sldint.com for more details.

### ***II Treatment and Regulation***

The divergence between traditional Chinese medical scholars and doctors of Western medicine in their views of the organs of the human body arises from the difference in their research methods.

Traditional Chinese medicine considers the human body as an integral entity with all the organs in it interconnected, and scholars of this science hold the belief that the body cannot be studied by taking the flesh of each organ alone as the basis of research. The Regulation Program, which follows, is compiled by classifying the diseases discussed in it according to the method of disease classification used in Western medicine, thus making the Program easier to consult for people who are not well acquainted with traditional Chinese medicine. (Note: You may also consult Table of Regulated Prescriptions.)

### *Diseases of the respiratory system*

*Cough

According to traditional Chinese medicine, cough and sore throat are often connected with lung dryness and the exhaustion of salivary fluids of the respiratory system. As cough is apt to damage a person's vitality, it is inevitable that a protracted cough will make the person lose appetite for the daily meals and become worse and worse in health.The Melloey Buccal Tablet is made completely of edibles, which are Chinese olive, sweet almond, tuber of dwarf lilyturf, honeysuckle, licorice root, Chinese yam, big jujube, glucose, and peppermint. It is a tablet to be held as long as possible in the mouth, where it tastes sweet, cool and refreshing, with a thin herbal fragrance. Not only children but also adults are fond of it. It is widely loved not just for its taste, but also because of its ability to solve the problems of cough (particularly dry cough) and sore throat, with the added benefit of fostering the generation of vital energy and strengthening spleen and stomach.

If the cough is very grave, this Tablet should be taken with the simultaneous administration of Livermend, because an ingredient of Livermend, i.e. the fruit of Chinese magnoliavine, can "arrest lung excesses" and "calm cough and pacify asthma", while the other ingredients of Livermend perform the functions of tranquilization, activation of blood and resolution of stases, and elimination of inflammation.

If the cough is accompanied with a fear of cold (concurrently with the symptoms of influenza), the Tablet needs to be administered with Coldcurer, because the cassia twig in Coldcurer is an exterior-releasing medicinal (i.e. a substance that has the effect of dispelling exogenous pathogenic factors from the superficial, exterior aspect of the body, usually through sweating), which can be used to treat an illness caused by wind and cold, manifested as chilliness and mild fever, absence of sweating, headache, stuffed and running nose, sneezing, general aching, and floating and tense pulse. Moreover, it can suppress a number of harmful bacteria.

*Fever

Fever is caused by hyperactivity of the ministerial fire and insubordination of the gallbladder meridian. If a person has at first a headache, feels pain all over the body, fears cold, and then, a little time later, runs a fever, he/she may do well to put a few pieces of Feales in his/her mouth and drink some tepid water. The fever will naturally subside with a little perspiration. However, if the person continues feeling cold even though he/she is in fact febrile, or if he/she feels suppressed in the chest all the while, he/she needs to keep in the mouth not only Feales but also Melloy simultaneously. Strange to say, he/she will get the illness cured by so doing.

*Nasosinusitis

Traditional Chinese medicine treats this disease by using the method of activating blood and resolving stasis, diminishing inflammation, and relieving pain. To achieve these purposes, Aegiseme and Safbrain may be administered. Moreover, traditional Chinese medicine also upholds the concept of treating one and the same disease by different methods. A medical practitioner in addressing nasosinusitis may embrace this way of treatment and thus implement internal-heat clearance and detoxication if he finds that the patient has profuse purulent nasal discharges, so the patient should take Spearlor. The result of treatment is generally highly satisfactory.

*Tonsillitis

The chief pathogenic bacterium of tonsillitis is hemolitic streptococcus Type B. In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, nevertheless, acute tonsillitis is caused in most cases by a struggle between wind and heat, resulting in a tie-up at the throat with stagnation there of qi and blood. Therefore, the treatment should accomplish, as its main task, heat clearance and detoxication so as to facilitate passage at the pharynx and make the swelling subside. Melloey and Spearlor may be used for that therapeutic purpose. If the illness is grave, Aegiseme and Safbrain may be added. As for chronic tonsillitis of a general nature, all that is necessary is strengthening the patient's constitution, keeping the body comfortably warm and paying due attention to rest and nutrition, so as to reduce the chances of acute aggravation. In such a case, Salubry and Melloey may be taken and adequate measures adopted according to the needs of the season to keep the body's health well preserved.

*Common cold

Early in The Classic of Internal Medicine it was recognized that the common cold is principally caused by external "wind" evil, and the principle of giving support to healthiness and expelling the evil was put forward. The reader is expected to benefit, in this respect, from a knowledge of the two principles by which traditional Chinese medicine treats colds. They are given below.

For treatment of the common cold as well as colds induced by a seasonal epidemic, traditional Chinese medicine adopts the principle of using exterior-releasing therapy with pungent-powdered medicinals, by which the external evil factors are banished and the person's healthiness is made safe and unmolested---to the effect that the cold is cured. (Note: exterior releasing therapy: a general term for dispelling pathogenic factors from the exterior of the body, commonly used in the treatment of exterior syndromes; pungent-powdered medicinals: medicinals pungent in flavor and powder in form).

People who are aged, who have weak constitutions, who are convalescing, or who are women feeling weak soon after childbirth or usually frail in constitution may tend to catch cold repeatedly or may have colds linger on in them as if endlessly. Their colds seem to be somewhat different from the common cold of people in general. The principle of treatment of very weak people for their "common cold" consists in laying stress on strengthening healthiness and eliminating the pathogenic factors. In cases where the gastrointestinal tract becomes encroached upon, the complications ought to be dealt with by supplementary therapies of dampness resolution, stomach harmonization, and vital-energy regulation.

We are glad to recommend to you here our product Coldcurer, which conforms with the therapeutic principles described above, being based upon a prescription of accurate composition for that purpose, and which, therefore, can be used to treat the common cold of people in general and "that variety of the common cold", so to speak, which afflicts very weak people.In treating the common cold and other colds, it has been shown to take effect very soon. The common cold (or any other cold) can be cured in 2-3 days after administration of Coldcurer starts. Recrudescence is very rare, as has been found.

The method of administration of Coldcurer is very simple:

1. When under attack of any cold, take Coldcurer 3 times a day at 2 pieces a time. If the cold is complicated by a fever, take Feales in addition.

2. Those who have very weak constitutions need to take Coldcurer for a few more days after the fit of the cold is over, at 2 times a day and 1-2 pieces a time, in order to consolidate the therapeutic effect and strengthen their bodies.What is more, if the person often takes Sanlida or Feales, he/she will not easily catch cold, for the simple reason that people who are liable to fall prey to the common cold need to make themselves healthier.

*Bronchitis

Chronic bronchitis is a disease that persists for a long time. As a persistent disease inevitably causes deficiency in strength and vitality, most patients of chronic bronchitis have constitutions of the deficiency-cold type, which is reflected by the fact that their lungs, spleen and kidneys are all deficient in strength and vitality. In order to make the lungs and kidneys srong again, administration of Kilimend and Melloey are required; and for reinforcement of stomach and spleen and replenishment of the body with vitality, Inwarmer is to be taken in addition in the morning and at noon, and Toniyin to be taken both in the afternoon and in the evening.

*Asthma

Traditional Chinese medicine has a long experience of treating asthma, which dates back almost two thousand years. It has a method of its own and a theory that forms an independent system. Dialecticism is advocated. The peculiarity of the method and of the theory consists in maintaining that during the period of an acute attack the lungs are to be taken as the center of treatment and the purpose is to alleviate the symptoms; that during the period of remission, the root cause of the disease is to be tackled and the purpose is to cure the disease by taking the lungs, the spleen and the kidneys as the focus of treatment or regulation, and that herbal medicines are to be used to strengthen the spleen and tonify the kidneys, to stop coughing and calm panting, to regulate breathing and remove phlegm, so as to reach the aim of sustaining the healthy force of the body, banishing the evil force of illness, strengthening the constitution, and raising the resistance of the body.

*Pneumonia

There are quite a number of pathogenic agents that can invade the respiratory tract and cause pneumonia. Traditional Chinese medicines may be adopted at a later stage of treatment of the disease as the principal means for regulation to enable the patient to regain his/her health at an early time. Spearlor may be taken for two weeks to dispel the heat toxin in the lungs. Kilimend and Toniyin may be used after that for rehabilitation and for strengthening immunity so as to consolidate the achievements of treatment.

*Pulmonary tuberculosis

Pulmonary tuberculosis is called lung phthisis, or wasting away of the lungs, in traditional Chinese medicine. At present, the anti-tuberculosis therapy of Western medicine is exercising a decisive control over pulmonary tuberculosis. However, when an ex-patient of pulmonary tuberculosis happens to have his/her immunity lowered during a certain period, the surviving bacilli in the body are apt to "resume the burning", which is an important cause of the relapse of pulmonary tuberculosis. Oral administration of some herbal products for regulation purposes can raise the body's immunity and play an important role in the prevention of relapse of pulmonary tuberculosis. It is advisable to take Kilimend and Toniyin first and, for obtaining a better effect, add to them Safbrain. Safbrain may be replaced by Inwarmer in 1-2 months, but administration of Kilimend and Toniyin is to be continued.

*Emphysema

Emphysema pertains to the realm of dyspnea syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine, and advice has been offered to tackle the therapy in such a way as to accord with the individual constitution of each patient and to give priority to the treatment of those aspects of the disease which are urgent and call for immediate attention so as to take full advantage of what is still healthy in the patient's body and banish as soon as possible all evil signs of the disease. Spearlor and Toniyin may be administered first, and when the patient's condition has become stable special attention should be paid to the replenishment of the lung fluid and the kidney fluid, which are the nutrients, but are usually called yin by the traditional medical profession. By that time, Kilimend may be added and Spearlor suspended.

### *Diseases of the Digestive System*

*Dyspepsia

What is known in Western medicine as functional dyspepsia pertains to the field of gastric-cavity pain, as is called in the parlance of traditional Chinaes medicine, which actually means epigastric tenderness. The methods of treatment often used by tradition are those for strengthening the spleen and stomach and for removing earlier-than-overnight food remnants in the body. The best choice for reaching this aim is administration of Salubry.

*Gastritis

Clinical manifestations of chronic superficial gastritis are poor appetite and conspicuous decrease in food intake. This disease deplorably recrudesces very often. Long-term administration of Western medicines tends to do some harm to the functioning of the stomach. It would be more appropriate to take herbal medicines to tackle the disease at its very root. The basic method is by administration of Salubry. If a need to reinforce the therapeutic effect is felt, Inwarmer may be administered in the forenoon and at noon, and Toniyin may be used in the afternoon and in the evening. Thus not only will the symptoms be dismissed, but the stomach will also be nourished and the constitution strengthened. Two birds will be killed with one stone, so to speak.

*Atrophic gastritis

Atrophic gastritis is a disease of the digestive sytem characterized by atrophy and thinning of the stomach mucosa, often with decrease in or disappearance of the glands. It pertains to the realm of stuffiness, tenderness and bloating of the gasttric cavity, in the terms of scholarly traditional Chinese medicine.

The prevalent method in traditional Chinese medicine for clinical treatment of chronic gastritis is what is termed "analgesia by regulation". Remarkable effect has been achieved by this logical way of application of herbal medicines for the cure of chronic gastritis Aegiseme is to be used first (for one month), Inwarmer is to be used in the forenoon and at noon, and Toniyin is to be taken in the afternoon and in the evening at the same time. When the patient's condition has become so good as to warrant the cessation of administration of the medicines, only Salubry need be taken continually---for long-term health preservation.

*Constipation

In treating constipation, traditional Chinese medicine depends on dialectical reasoning and analysis to arrive at the correct diagnosis of the disease and on the principle of seeking for the root cause of the disease to decide on the prescriptions and on the individual medicinals to be used. The concrete treatment method is generally as follows:

A .Those patients who have excess-fire (with symptoms shown as headache, fondness for cold drinks when thirsty, irritability and restlessness, great difficulty in evacuation of bowels, yellow-colored urine) need to have their bodies cleared of internal heat and their bowels purged of feces. They should take Gastility first for two weeks, with Spearlor at the same time. Each time take half caplet of Gastility for child between 1-3 years old.

B. Those patients who have deficiency-fire should have their body fluids increased to moisten those parts of the body that are dry. They should be given small doses of Gastility and requested to take Toniyin at the same time, each according to the condition of his/her constitution.

A person who is habitually constipated needs to have his/her gastrointestinal functioning adjusted. Toniyin and Salubry may be taken for a long time at the health-care dosage. The disease thus cured will not tend to recrudesce for a long time to come.

*Diarrhea

In traditional Chinese medicine, chronic diarrhea is called long diarrhea and classed along with the syndrome of spleen insufficiency with damp retention. Administration of Salubry and Inwarmer will have very good results.

Elderly patients of chronic diarrhea should be persuaded to go to hospital for colonoscopy so as not to miss the chance of having a more serious disease discovered and treated in time.

*Gastric ulcer

In order to get the gastric ulcer healed the patient must presevere in taking the proper medicine for a long time, do his/her best to improve the function of digestive glands and increase the defensive strength of the stomach mucosa, keep a relaxed state of mind and observe strict regularity in dietary behavior. All these are of pivotal importance.

*Colitis

This disease is not a local pathological change of the colon. Its main cause is lack of vital energy in the spleen, which renders the spleen incapable of performing vigorously its transporting and transforming function. During the time when the disease is raging, it is necessary to clear the colon of heat toxin. Spearlor should be taken for 2-4 weeks. A better effect may be achieved if Safbrain is taken in addition. This is a method of the utmost efficacy, which combines the treatment of the spleen and the stomach with that of the colon.

*Hemorrhoid

The way by which traditional Chinese medicine treats hemorrhoid differs radically from that of Western medicine. Western medicine advocates excision, while traditional Chinese medicine directs the treatment at the cause of the disease and uses such methods as clearing the body of heat toxin, resolving blood stasis and diminishing the inflammation. For common cases special treatment is not needed. For serious cases, conservative methods are used to reduce the patients' suffering of pain, to prevent the slipping and hanging down of the hemorrhoid core, to eliminate the inflammation and to reduce the bleeding of the hemorrhoid core.

### *Diseases of the nervous system*

*Epilepsy

Blockade of channels and collaterals in the human meridian system is the direct cause of an attack of epilepsy, but a combination of heat toxin with blood stasis is, in its turn, one of the main events in the body giving rise to closure of the meridian passage. Administration of Acherid and Gastility can dispel the heat toxin and blood stasis so as to improve the supply of oxygen and blood to the brain, whereby there might be a better chance for effective control to be exercised over the epilepsy. If a patient is liable to have repeated epileptic seizures, there is a great probability that his spleen and kidneys will be injured thereby and his supply of vital energy and blood will become inadequate. Administration of Salubry and Toniyin can tonify his spleen and kidneys and replenish his vital energy and blood.

*Parkinsonism

This disease pertains to deficiency and impairment of vitality, according to traditional Chinese medicine, and the principal pathological changes are said to occur in three viscera, which are the kidneys, the spleen and the liver. Since "the renal organ governs the bone and enables the marrow to grow, with benefit accruing and reaching up to the brain", as is stated in classics of Chinese medicine, renal deficiency will be followed by inadequacy of brains, which will cause the person to show delayed reflexes and move awkwardly as if he had difficulty in initiating voluntary movements. If the muscles are not properly nourished, they will lose elasticity and smack of rigidity. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine treats this syndrome by standing on the platform of the classic teaching "Nourish the kidneys and tonify the brain; strengthen the spleen and enrich the vital energy."

*Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia pertains to the realm of depressive-manic psychosis in traditional Chinese medicine and is given the epithet "phlegm clouding of the mind". Theoretically speaking, schizophrenia stems from disequilibrium of yin and yang. Therefore, the patient should be treated from the point of view of the whole person taken as an intgral entity. Safbrain may be used to banish the pathogenic evil and resolve the phlegm, which should not be confused with sputum. Other medicines recommended herein (take Inwarmer in the forenoon and Toniyin in the evening) may also be given to the patient to adjust his vital energy and blood, to restore yin and yang to equilibrium, and to strengthen his immunity.

*Senile dementia

Traditional Chinese medicine holds the view that senile dementia is closely connected with abatement of the functional capability of the brains as well as with that of the ability of the viscera to generate vital energy and blood through transformations. What is more important in this respect is whether the kidneys are functioning normally or not, for only when the kidneys abound with nutrient essence can they generate brains by biochemical transformations, which depend for their success on the quality of performance of the digestive function besides.

*Dizziness

In traditional Chinese medicine this disease is generally considered to be no less than vertigo. It is in most cases due to deficiency in vital energy and blood, inadequacy of renal essence, or insufficient nourishment of the brains, though in some cases it may also be ascribed to weakness of the stomach or intestines. The symptoms of vertigo can be improved remarkably in a short time by taking Inwarmer and Salubry.

*Multiple sclerosis

Traditional Chinese medicine views multiple, or disseminated, sclerosis as a type of atrophy-flaccidity syndrome, for treatment of which herbal medicines targeted on its cause should be used to enrich vital energy and break through the blocked collaterals of the human meridian system ( Acherid and Coldcurer ) and to strengthen the spleen and nourish the kidneys ( Inwarmer ). It is particularly important to enlist such herbal medicines for use during the period of a remission, because recrudescence of the disease can be prevented and a lot of labor and trouble in the future may be avoided by incurring a small cost at present.

*Polyneuritis

Polyneuritis is equivalent in traditional Chinese medicine to what is called the blockage disease, which is a diseased state characterized by invasion of pathogenic factors that cause stagnation of the flow of vital energy and blood and blockage of the meridian collaterals, and is, moreover, akin to the atrophy-flaccidity disease, which is a diseased condition characterized by flaccid paralysis with muscular atrophy of a limb. It has various causes, such as malnutrition, obstacles in metabolism, infection, and hypersensitivity. The lesions are generally at the endings of peripheral nerves, causing difficulties to distal portions of the extremities in making symmetrical and asymmetrical movements. Thus, this disease consists in functional impairment and injury to the autonomous nerve system. Polyneuritis with numbness and pain in the distal portions of the extremities, for cure of which this prescription, i.e. Acherid, can be used in all cases, but medication has to be stopped as soon as recovery is seen to have been achieved. Excess medication is not to be encouraged.

*Neurasthenia

According to traditional Chinese medicine, neurasthenia is caused by what is professionally termed (1) heart-spleen dual deficiency and (2) yin deficiency with up-flaming fire. Herbal medicines and traditional medical methods ought to be adopted for regulation so as to tonify the heart and the spleen. At the same time, the patient should adjust his/her frame of mind, keep firm reins on his/her emotions, and be always even-tempered and good-humored.

*Headache

In traditional Chinese medicine, "headaches" fall into two categories, which are

(1) externally contracted headache: various types of headache ascribed to exogenous afflictions, e.g. (a) headache due to attack of external wind-cold, marked by pain in the head extending to the nape and back, aversion to cold and wind, soreness and pain in the joints, watery nasal discharge, thin and whitish tongue coating and floating tense pulse, (b) headache due to attack of external wind-heat, usually associated with fever, thirst, constipation, and floating, rapid pulse;

(2) internal damage headache: headache, unilateral or bilateral, marked by slow onset and intermittent recurrences, with manifestations indicating presence of endogenous pathogenic factors, e.g. (a) stagnant-blood headache: chronic headache, stabbing in character and fixed in location, often occurring after a traumatic injury, (b) blood-deficiency headache: headache marked by dull pain in the head, usually accompanied by dizziness, pallor and palpitation. This type of internal damage headache is connected with disorder in liver, spleen, kidneys and the human meridian system.Acherid is reputed in China to be a good medicine for treating obstinate headache; explosive neuralgia in different parts of the body; dizziness, which is a sensation of unsteadiness with a feeling of movement within the head; numbness, which means reduced sensitivity to touch, not loss of the ability to feel and move; and also big pain in general.

### *Eye, nose and throat diseases*

*Glaucoma

Our eyes can see because they are supplied with vital energy and blood. It is the opinion of traditional Chinese medical scholars that for the prevention and cure of glaucoma or cataract it is necessary to keep the channels and collaterals of the human meridian system free for passage so as to enable vital energy and blood to flow upward without impediment. Besides, there is also the need to strengthen the preson's constitution for better performance of various physical functions so that energy can be absorbed and transformed. Administration of Sanlida, Aegiseme and Toniyin will be very helpful for achieving remission of the disease.

*Cataract

It is common knowledge that a cataract is lens opacity. Many people over 60 have some degree of lens opacity. Although the mechanism of senile cataract is still not clear, it will not be much wrong to say that in the case of old people the cause of the opacity may be traced to lack of vital energy and blood, which results from aging and physical deterioration. Anyhow, medical treatment is suitable only at the early stage of the disease and a little time later.

*Nosebleed

There are many diseases which entail this symptom. From the standpoint of traditional Chinese medicine, the causes of nosebleed fall into two categories, which are dryness-heat and deficiency-cold. The majority of people whose noses frequently bleed show symptoms of both categories. They belong to what traditional Chinese medical scholars call the "yin deficiency with up-flaming fire" type. (They have such symptoms as flushed cheeks, irritability, sore throat or increased libido.) As for those people who suffer from nosebleed only of either of the two categories mentioned above, their symptoms are as follows:

* Those who have the dryness-heat in their bodies show red eyes, swollen gums, sore throat, and constipation. They should take Gui Pills and Toniyin.

* Those who have the deficiency-cold in their bodies show poor appetite, languor, aptness to be tired and lack of strength, cold hands and feet, and shapeless or even watery stool. They should take Gui Pills and Inwarmer.

*Stomatitis

Ulcerative stomatitis, or aphthous ulcer, a recurrent oral disease, is ascribed by traditional Chinese medicine to exuberance of deficiency-fire in the human body. It is necessary to pay special attention to oral hygiene and the regulation of spleen and stomach. A comparatively good therapeutic effect can be achieved by adopting a method which combines external treatment with internal treatment.

### *Diseases of the blood-circulation system*

*High blood pressure

High blood pressure pertains to the realm of "headache' and 'vertigo' in traditional Chinese medicine, which holds the view that hypertension cannot be treated by solely depending on hypotensive drugs, that a dietary routine designed on a scientific basis can play a positive role in the prevention of the illness and recovery from it, and that the effect of a hypotensive drug can be enhanced by proper regulation of the patient's constitution with the help of a traditional Chinese medicine, whereby the dosage of the hypotensive drug and its side effect can be reduced.

An old person's hypertension is caused by abnormalities in metabolism or structural and functional changes in the cardiovascular system or in the kidneys brought about by the process of aging. For this reason, lesions in such target organs as heart, brain, and kidneys are more liable to appear in aged patients of hypertension. Long-term regular treatment and regulation can manifestly improve the prognosis and diminish the complications.

Safbrain may be taken for a period of time to clear the blood vessels of fat and stagnant blood; Ilextesor may be used to reduce the blood pressure and blood fat; and Sanlida may be used to break through the veins and arteries for promotion of microcirculation to stabilize and steady the blood pressure. For regulation of the illness during a later period Salubry, Ilextesor and Inwarmer may be taken for a considerable length of time.

*Hypercholesterolemia

No method is better than that of using traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of hypercholesterolemia. Hypercholesterolemia is detrimental to a person's body, but a level of cholesterol in the blood which is lower than normal is bad all the same for the person's health. There are quite a number of Chinese herbal drugs which can lower the level of cholesterol in the blood and prevent atherosclerosis at the same time. What you need to do for this purpose is take Safbrain and simultaneously take a small dose of Gastility for a certain length of time in order to expel cholesterol from the body for achieving the effect of lowering the hypercholesterolemia. Salubry may be taken for a long time for the purpose of regulation.

*Angina pectoris

Angina pectoris, which is due to a discrepancy between the myocardial demands for oxygen and the amount delivered through the coronary arteries, pertains to the realm of "chest qi-blockage" and "heartache" in traditional Chinese medicine, by which is meant that although the illness is in the heart it is connected with three viscera---the spleen, the liver and the kidneys. In the view of traditional medical scholars, there is not enough force in the body to urge blood to flow through the vessels, with the result that the blood begins flowing slowly, stagnates and has difficulty in passing through. This is the premise and basis of incidence of this disease.

Therefore, the treatment of angina pectoris should start from strengthening the spleen and resolving the phlegm; activating blood and resolving stasis. Safbrain, Aegiseme and Holisticare should be taken first, for a certain period of time, and then Holisticare ought to be taken continually for regulation.

*Arteriosclerosis

In treating coronary arteriosclerosis, or atherosclerosis, traditional Chinese medicine relies chiefly on activating the blood, resolving the phlegm and breaking through the meridian collaterals In this case, Safbrain may be administered. However, both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine find it difficult to make a fundamental cure of the disease. They only ameliorate the symptoms, lower the level of blood fat and try to reverse the development of the light-yellow patch of sclerosis on the artery that has already been formed. In order to prevent further development of artherosclerosis, regulation needs to be carried out by long-term administration of Holisticare and Salubry.

*Heart disease

At an early time in its history of development traditional Chinese medicine recognized a number of types of heart disease. As a science and technology for the treatment and cure of human diseases, traditional Chinese medicine has a rich and lustrous past. In the case of treating heart diseases, it usually starts by taking heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys as a whole, as an integral entiry--- with the result that not only the heart is benefited by the effective treatment but also the other viscera are given proper regulation and health-care protection. The effect has often been remarkable in that both the symptoms and the root cause were eliminated. Generally speaking, Safbrain should be taken first, and the effect can be improved by adding to it Aegiseme. For regulation purposes, Holisticare may be used for a long time.

*Heart failure

For patients of heart failure, Sanlida must be used to break through the microcirculations of the veins and arteries. Inwarmer should never be forgotten for replenishment of vital energy and strengthening of spleen and stomach, which will produce an effect far greater than merely looking after the heart.

*Apoplexy

Herbal drugs, acupuncture and medical massage of traditional Chinese medicine constitute an important means of treating the sequelae of apoplexy. The rehabilitation therapy of apoplexy has as its first aim attaining recuperation of the cerebral tissue from injuries that it has suffered. This therapy adheres to the principle of restoring intelligence to the mind primarily by making the meridian channels and collaterals completely free for passage and secondarily by harmonizing vital energy and blood.

Deformity of joints and/or muscular atrophy as the sequela of a stroke, for which administration of Acherid is to be carried out at 3 times a day (2 pieces a time). After continual administration for 10 days there should be a pause of 5 days. In so doing, great benefit has been found to accrue to the patient's progress of recuperation. This method of inserting a pause of 5 days in the course of two installments of medication lasting 10 days each brings also good effect when Acherid is used for treatment of epilepsy.

*Anemia

For the great variety of anemias, medicated diets may be selectively used by a patient for regulation and nourishment. It is necessary for him/her at the same time to pay attention to the adjustment of general mental disposition. That is to say the convalescent should regulate his/her mind as well as his/her body, which is an effort conducive to the normalization of functions of the spleen and the stomach and to the generation of vital energy and blood by transformation. A proper balance must be kept between work and rest all that time. Take Inwarmer in the forenoon and Toniyin in the evening.

*Varicose veins

For treating varicose veins in the lower limbs, traditional Chinese medicine adopts the method of breaking through the venous microcirculations, activating blood and resolving blood stasis. Sanlida and Safbrain may be administered in order to facilitate dissolution of the thrombi, removing obstacles from the blood vessels, clearing the blood vessels of waste, and eliminating swelling, aching and itching. In daily life, the patient should further reduce the intensity of his/her labor and lay more stress on physical exercise.

### *Endocrine, metabolic and urological diseases*

*Hepatitis

In the treatment of hepatitis, traditional Chinese medicine takes resolution of heat toxin as the focal point of work in the early stage. Therefore, Spearlor may be administered for a certain length of time (one month). The traditional practitioners generally consider the treatment of hepatitis a two-sided task, by no means confined to the liver, but with regulation of the patient's splenetic and gastric functions also indispensable. For this reason, administration of Livermend, Inwarmer and Salubry is necessary to take at the same time. Kilimend may be added when the patient's condition has stabilized. Kilimend and Salubry may be used for a long time

*Cirrhosis of liver

Cirrhosis of liver at the early stage is due in most cases to the fact that three internal organs, which are the liver, the spleen and the kidneys, have been affected by pathogenic agents with the outcome that stagnation of the flow of vital energy and blood ensues. Aegiseme, Livermend and Safbrain, which are capable of softening and dissolving hard nodules, may be chosen for use for the purpose of intercepting fibrosis of liver cells in the process of their recuperation so as to forestall the occurrence of hepatic cirrhosis. Kilimend may be used later because the focal point of treatment in the later stage has been transferred to the nourishment and fostering of the fluids of liver and kidneys.

*Fatty liver

The weakening of the body of the organism leading to deterioration of the digestive function is what makes fat accumulate,. There is excess fat which cannot be digested. However, with the improvement of the digestive function, the excess amount of fat will naturally diminish, and the patient's condition will naturally look up. In therapy, the effort to get rid of the excess fat is combined with that of strengthening the spleen and the stomach. The patient needs to engage more in physical exercise and to eat predominantly foods not only low in carbohydrate but also low in fat so as to reduce the ingestion of fat.

*Cholecystolithiasis

In the view of scholars of traditional Chinese medicine, cholecystolithiasis and cholecystitis pertain to the realm of "hypochondriac pain" and "jaundice", which are induced, on the one hand, by dissatisfaction with one's own life and career and, on the other, by eating too much fatty, sweet, and greasy food, with the consequence that functional disturbance of the liver occurs (manifested by irascibility, stuffy feeling in the chest, hypochondriac and lower abdominal distension with pain). At the same time, the spleen is losing its ability to transport healthfully; and damp heat is being generated inside. Consequently, bile condenses into hard stones. The fundamental principle in traditional Chinese medicine governing treatment of this disease can be phrased succinctly as "bile draining, anti-icterus, bowel unblocking, heat purging and anti-inflammation"---a heavy task which consists of (1) using an agent or substance that promotes increased flow of bile to relieve jaundice; (2) using a therapeutic method for removing internal heat by catharsis and other means; and (3) eradicating inflammation by all means. Accordingly, Spearlor, Gastility and Aegiseme need to be taken by the patient.

Salubry, which should be taken in addition, can correct the disorder in fat metabolism, dissociate with liquefaction the cholesterol in the bile so as to maintain the liver and gallbladder functions at the normal level, and decompose all gallstones. The patient should be advised to drink more water.

*Diseases of the thyroid gland

Traditional Chinese medicine classes diseases of the thyroid gland in the category of "goiters". The procedure used by practitioners in the treatment of hyperthyroidism is: (1) adjustment of the organism's immunity; (2) regulation of functional activities of the nervous system and also those of the body-fluid system ; (3) inhibition of the secretion of thyroxine. Traditional Chinese medicine has conducted effective treatments from the following angles: nourishing body-fluids and reducing fire, resolving blood stases, and activating blood. Patients of diseases of the thyroid gland may reasonably take Spearlor and Safbrain.

Clinical treatment of a great number of cases of hyperthyroidism has been conducted by using methods combining traditional Chinese medicine with Western medicine, as if they were two sides cooperating in the performance of one task, so that each side was able to benefit from the other's strong points by using them to make up for its own weakness. Optimum results have thus been achieved.

*Diabetes mellitus

Treatment of diabetes mellitus by traditional Chinese medicine has a very long history, particularly in respect to control of patients' conditions, elevation of immunocompetence, prevention and treatment of complications, and alleviation of symptoms, in all of which traditional Chinese medicne is known to have made a rich harvest of eminent achievements

Patients of diabetes mellitus of the first and second phases may be advised to take Holisticare, Safbrain and Toniyin.

On the basis of the theory of dialectical diagnosis, traditional Chinese medicine divides diabetes mellitus into two types: the heat-toxin type and the deficiency-cold type.

A. The incidence of diabetes mellitus with the patient developing "occlusive arterial disease of the foot and lower leg" is closely connected with presence of. Heat toxin in the body, stagnation in flow of vital energy and blood, and deficiency in body-fluids. There is a need here to take Spearlor, which can clear the body of heat toxin.

B. Addition of Inwarmer is necessary for those patients who have constitutions of the deficiency-cold type (Symptoms seen are loose and thin stool, painful knee-joints, and cold limbs).

*Hypoglycemia

Hypoglycemia is not a disease on its own but a physiological phenomenon brought about by certain pathological and physiological factors which cause reduction of blood sugar to a level below the physiological limit. Hypoglycemia is due principally to the person lacking moderation in eating and drinking, his/her body being frequently overtired, or the dwelling place being unsanitary. With the elapse of time, the person's internal organs come to be so adversely affected that their functions are thrown into disorder, resulting ultimately in retardation of the flow of vital energy and blood. However, the person may expect an extraordinary turn in his/her health after beginning administration of Holisticare,Kilimend and Salubry.

*Gout

Gout is a disease that comes in the wake of inordinate eating. Great attention must, therefore, be paid to the implementation of dieting. However, there are in traditional Chinese medicine two methods of treatment, both being based theoretically on dialecticism. They are the method of activating blood and resolving stasis and the method of warming and tonifying spleen and kidneys. Administration of Acherid will facilitate the excretion of uric acid and stop pain, and that of Toniyin can warm and tonify spleen and kidneys. They are good health-care products for patients of gout.

*Nephritic calculi

In treating nephritic calculi, or renal stones, traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes grasping one hieroglyph, which is phonetically "tong" and semantically, in English, "open" or "through". The basic principle implied in this hieroglyph is " eliminating the renal stones as far as possible to make the way "open" (or: for things to pass "through") and, in this interpretation, prevention of reappearance of the stones is also implied as a step forward--- both for the purpose of relieving the patient's suffering and for protecting his/her renal function." Based on the dialectic theory of treatment advocated by traditional Chinese medicine, the majority of herbal drugs used for nephritic calculi have the effects of clearing the body of internal heat, tending to increase the discharge of urine, resolving blood stases , dissolving hard nodules, and alleviating or stopping pain. The benefit is not restricted to one locality of the body but is spread all over the internal environment of the entire organism, albeit the regulation made is not of the same degree at different parts of the body.

*Chronic nephritis

Patients of chronic nephritis generally show in urinalysis: proteinuria, occult hematuria, and signs associated with tubular defects; and in clinical manifestations show: palpitation, fatigability, sallow cheeks, and wakefulness in the night. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, this is a demonstration of the typical heart-spleen dual deficiency. Treatment of this disease by means of herbal medicinals should be conducted in adherence to the principle of having the heart and the spleen regulated and tonified at the same time as having the turbidity and stasis in the body resolved. A patient is suggested to take Inwarmer, Kilimend, and Aegiseme. If Sanlida is taken simultaneously, the therapeutic effect will be better.

*Chronic renal failure

In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, a renal disease, no matter which, will cause serious damage to the functioning of various viscera of the body, if it is protracted. The main objects damaged are the spleen and the very kidneys themselves, on which deficiency and injuries will be inflicted,and the illness will become more and more serious with the elapse of time until, at last, the body's healthiness is exhausted and chronic renal failure ensues. However, experts of renal diseases in traditional Chinese medicine have accumulated rich experience in the treatment of chronic renal failure. They emphasize upholding healthiness by banishing stases in the body, by regulating the spleen and the stomach, and also by nourishing the kidneys and the blood.

*Diabetic nephropathy

There is an adage in traditional Chinese medicine, which says, "Chronic diseases enter the meridian collaterals." As the kidneys are the places where the collaterals congregate, diabetic nephropathy arises, as a matter of fact, from long protraction of diabetes mellitus and presents itself on the patient chiefly in the form of edema of limbs. In the view of traditional Chinese medical scholars, this disease is the consequence of decline in strength of the spleen and the kidneys; so, in treatment, stress should be laid on blood being activated, stases being resolved, body fluids being nourished, and collaterals being made free for passage. The effect will be very good if Kilimend is used for administration over and above customary treatment.

*Urinary-tract infection

Traditional Chinese medicine assigns urinary-tract infection to the category of "strain strainguria"( i.e. strainguria as a result of overstrain, marked by dripping of urine with dull pain) and describes its etiology as having been affected by external evil so that the body's resistance is much lower than usual. In conformity with the above statement, a method of treatment which clears the body of damp heat and nourishes the spleen and the kidneys has come into being with, good clinical results, as a rule.

### *Andropathy*

*Impotence

At present, there are quite a number of methods for treating impotence. A choice can be made from among them according to personal requirement. Either of the following two ways can achieve the aim and additionally fortify the man's constitution and prolong his lifespan---so significantly that he may be assured of longevity: 1. By taking Sanlida, which shows a quick result. You should take both Sanlida and Inwarmer, if you want to take Sanlida for a long time, the effect will be better and without any side effect. 2. By taking Holisticare and Kilimend, which has a slower but steady effect.

* Prostatic hyperplasia

According to traditional Chinese medicine, prostatitis and prostatic hyperplasia have their seats in the urinary bladder, but they are linked to kidneys, lungs, spleen and the triple energizer (a collective term in traditional Chinese medicine for the three portions of the body cavity, through which qi and fluids are transmitted). The method used for treatment consists in softening and dissolving the hard nodule and breaking through the impeded channels and collaterals. Clinical practice has shown that the administration of Sanlida and Aegiseme has such good effects on prostatic hyperplasia and prostatitis as to be beyond the patient's expectation.

### *Diseases of the immunosystem*

*Weak immune

Traditional Chinese medicine puts great emphasis on "Treatment in advance of disease" and "Guard against a disease before it comes". Early in the ancient Classic of Internal Medicine it was pointed out that "a master physician gives treatment prior to the appearance of illness", which means that a brilliant physician is skilled in taking precautionary measures and making arrangements for treating an illness before it occurs or before it has become grave, so that the disorder is placed under control before it bursts out, or before it has become apparent. The gist of the so-called "treatment in advance of disease" is no more than reinforcement of immunization, i.e. the strengthening of the ability of an organism to resist illness. This has a threefold implication: (1) increasing the physical endurance of the organism; (2) raising its resistance to diseases; (3) eliminating a disease, slowing down the progress of the disease or taking the progress under control.

*Fatigability

Fatigability means here that a person lacks strength and generally feels tired both physically and mentally. A little exertion makes him/her sense some fatigue. The organism's levels of immunological function and resistance to disease are both comparatively low. A practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine would consider lack of strength of the whole body to be a symptom of hepatogastric heat-stagnancy complicated by splenetic insufficiency. The patient might be advised to take some ready-made herbal medicines as are recommended herein (Holisticare and saluabry) for regulation and nourishment of the body. He/she should also engage every day in some physical exercises suitable to his/her constitution.

*Lupus erythematosus

Systemic lupus erythematosus is the most typical of diseases which have an autoimmune mechanism. It can injure skin, mucosa, serosa, blood vessels, joints, heart, kidneys, liver, spleen, lungs, stomach, intestines, blood and lymph--- all tissues and organs of the body. Therefore, as a matter of course, this disease shows complicated and variable symptoms.

In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, this disease is caused by heat toxin in the blood. The focus of treatment is generally placed on having the pathogenic evil dispelled and the symptoms alleviated during the acute phase, when Spearlor, Safbrain and Salubry may be administered, but the focus is moved to replenishment of deficiency and tackling of the root cause of the disease during the phase of remission, when Holisticare may be added. The method of treatment should be altered in accordance with the concrete clinical manifestations of the disease in order to get good therapeutic results.

*Allergies

A person who is susceptible to allergies also may prepare for him/herself a glass of sour fruit juice or tomato juice. After drinking the glass of sour juice, he/she needs to take Toniyin, which will prevent blood capillaries from expanding in diameter and thereby cause remission of allergies.

Feales is best for the treatment of allergies.

### *Gynecologic diseases*

*Leukorrhagia

If leukorrhea (white vaginal discharge) is discovered to have abnormally increased, the best policy is to go to hospital in good time to have a relevant examination made, so as to exclude the possibility of having contracted a disease and to be sure of one's good health. If certain microbes have been found to be involved, Aegiseme needs to be taken. However, if routine examination of leukorrhea fails to find the probable pathogenic microbe, attention should be paid to any advice which might be given by traditional Chinese medical scholars, because they would likely say that the main cause of the symptom is weakness of spleen and kidneys and that Inwarmer ought to be taken for regulation of spleen and stomach and for nourishment of the kidneys, which are suffering from insufficiency.

*Candidiasis

Scholars of traditional Chinese medicine would likely consider candidiasis in the lower reproductive tract to be the outcome of a tangle of damp heat in the body, aggravated by some external pathogenic evil. Damp heat is what is called the endogenous factor in traditional Chinese medicine, and the pathogenic evil the exogenous factor. The endogenous and the exogenous factors interact on each other, causing the disease to linger on for a long time. In the course of treatment, preparations used in traditional Chinese medicine may be adopted by selection on the basis of the disease manifestations, for application either to the entire body or to a locality. The ultimate criterion for judging success of the treatment of the vaginitis is elimination of inflammation, strengthening of the organism's immunity, and maintenance of an environment of acid-base balance in the vagina.

*Premenstrual syndrome

Menstruation is connected with heart, liver, spleen and kidneys---four of what Chinese people popularly call "the five internal organs". Therefore, the premenstrual syndrome, which often comes in company with the menses, has manifestations which are also connected with the four internal organs. If the connection is with heart and liver, the manifestations will be "being in a bad mood", "being apt to get angry", "having a headache" or "suffering from insomnia". If the connection is with spleen insufficiency or renal insufficiency, the manifestations will be diarrhea, edema, and in very few individuals red itching rubella, oral ulceration, joint pain, or simple fever. The ready-made traditional Chinese medicines recommended by us may be taken for regulation of the body.

*Dysmenorrhea

Dysmenorrhea was divided by scholars of traditional Chinese medicine dialectically into five syndrome patterns, of which the first pattern broke up later into two. The six patterns are described below.

qi-stagnation dysmenorrhea: a type of dysmenorrhea caused by emotional depression and marked by distending pain in the lower abdomen accompanied by discomfort and distention in the chest and breasts before or during menstruation.

Blood-stasis dysmenorrhea: a type of dysmenorrhea characterized by a stabbing pain in the lower abdomen (which becomes tender) before or during menstruation with little menstrual discharge, the pain being usually alleviated by a discharge of blood clots.

Cold-congealing dysmenorrhea: a type of dysmenorrhea marked by sluggish menstrual flow with a cold feeling and pain in the lower abdomen, which can be alleviated by warmth.

Damp-heat dysmenorrhea: a type of dysmenorrhea accompanied by leukorrhagia with yellowish discharge.

qi-blood-deficiency dysmenorrhea: a type of dysmenorrhea marked by a negligible amount of thin and pink-colored menstrual flow associated with persistent dull pain in the lower abdomen, which usually occurs during the late period of menstruation and can be alleviated by pressing.

Kidney-insufficiency dysmenorrhea: a type of dysmenorrhea caused by a congenital defect, early marriage, intemperate sexual life or multiple deliveries, and usually accompanied by dizziness, aching in the loins and weakness of legs.

Administration of Aegiseme and Inwarmer can produce a good effect.

*Pelvic inflammation

Pelvic inflammation is a gynecologic disease which is often encountered. Traditional Chinese medicine divides it into five syndrome patterns, two of which are described below.

Damp-heat down-pouring syndrome: a syndrome marked by frequent and painful urination, a yellow fetid discharge from the vagina, and/or morbid leukorrhea in pelvic infections.

Stagnant-blood retention syndrome: a syndrome in which the chief role belongs to blood stasis, which is a pathological product of blood stagnation, but this syndrome includes in its scope extravasated blood and blood moving sluggishly in circulation or congested at a part in the lower reproductive tract, all of which may turn into pathogenic factors.

For the damp-heat down-pouring syndrome, Aegiseme and Toniyin may be taken with benefit; and for the stagnant-blood retention syndrome, Safbrain may be taken in addition. These herbal products can be taken in cordination with Western medicines so as to achieve both a temporary solution and a permanent cure.

*Endometriosis

Scholars of traditional Chinese medicine are of the opinion that this disease is closely connected with the menstrual cycle and that the principal method of treatment should be by activating the blood, resolving the stases already formed, regulating the flow of vital energy, and alleviating pain. In order to achieve these purposes, the patient needs to take Aegiseme and Safbrain. Besides, regulation of spleen and stomach is also indispensable.

*Habitual abortion

If a miscarriage has already happened, Aegiseme and Safbrain need to be taken to clear the body of extravasated blood. If it is still early enough to prevent the miscarriage and save the fetus, Gui Pills, Holisticare and Salubry may be used to replenish blood and vital energy and reinforce life power.

*Bleeding after artificial abortion

In order to stop bleeding and relieve pain, the woman should take Aegiseme and Safbrain first to clear the body of extravasated blood, then take Holisticare and Salubry to replenish vitality and reinforce life power.

*Infertility

If the infertility is due to obstruction of the Fallopian tube, Aegiseme and Safbrain may be taken, and that will produce a good effect.

If the case is one of primary infertility, then Sanlida needs to be taken to promote microcirculations in the reproductive system, and Gui Pills, Kilimend and Salubry may be taken to replenish blood and tonify kidneys so as to strengthen and rectify the function of sex hormones.

*Mastofibroma

From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, besides hormonal imbalance, it is the dual deficiency of blood and vital energy in women which entails disorder of blood and vital energy in breasts that eventually causes the formation of mastofibromas. If herbal medicines which are capable of warming phlegm-damp as well as qi and blood, such as Aegiseme and Inwarmer, are used, they ought to be able to cure this disease, i.e. mastofibroma. By the same token, because traditional Chinese medical scholars say that harmony in internal organs, the thriving of healthiness, and the equilibrium of yin and yang are the basic guarantee of the human body's physical well-being, Salubry should also be taken.

*Involutional syndrome

Traditional Chinese medicine treats diseases connected with the climacteric by disentangling first of all "the knot in the heart", which means helping a patient get rid of all nonsensical misgivings and fears and keep an optimitic frame of mind. The next step is to make the patient regulate his/her body by the principle of "nourishing the liver and kidneys and enhancing vitality and tonifying blood", according to his/her economic circumstances, and engage in appropriate physical exercises.

### *Diseases of skin and skeleton*

*Eczema

The incidence of skin disease is due chiefly to blood and skin having lost their normal compositional structure and, therefore, become unable to perform their functions. Traditional Chinese medicine treats skin disease by combining the therapeutic task at hand with the care of lungs, spleen, and kidneys at the same time, and is thus in a position to give a hope of life to the blood in question and restore to it its normal composition and its ability to perform its rightful functions. In this way the skin, or rather the cells that have necrotized, will fall off, and a new, normal skin will come out, with eczema and whatever other skin diseases involved having healed up.

The principal cause of subacute eczema is the retention of damp-heat. The treatment should place the focus on nourishment of the spleen and carry out heat-clearance and detoxication (by Feales and Spearlor), strengthening of spleen and elimination of damp (by Inwarmer). Salubry may be added for better effect.

*Acne vulgaris

Although acne vulgaris appears on the skin surface, it is actually a manifestation of latent heat in the internal organs and is connected with sebum and the infestation of follicles with bacteria and parasites. Traditional Chinese medicine divides acne vulgaris into three types, which are treated respectively by clearing the body of damp-heat ( should take Spearlor), by diminishing inflammation and by dissolving the hard nodules (should add Aegiseme). For patients of acne vulgaris of a very grave type, such as cystic acne vulgaris, and for patients of stubborn skin diseases, better therapeutic effects can be achieved by taking Safbrain and Aegiseme additionally.

Spearlor is suitable for eliminating the acne on a young person's face (known by the vulgar name of acne unmentionable) and for healing eczema and skin inflammation. Four weeks make one course of treatment.

Middle-aged women can take Aegiseme for eliminating chloasma and acne.

*Osteoporosis

There is an aphorism in traditional Chinese medicine: "Kidneys govern bone and the skeleton". The thriving or decline of the renal essence has a close bearing on the growth and metabolism of bone and the skeleton. Roughly speaking, osteoporosis occurs after menopause, in middle-aged or old women. As the internal organs begin losing their power of performing their respective functions after menopause, the spleen and stomach become weak and cannot provide enough nutrients to nourish themselves and the other organs, thereby inducing renal insufficiency. If renal essence should become deficient, the skeleton will be deprived of adequate nutrition, with aggravation of osteoporosis following in the wake, as an inevitable consequence. Therefore, the principle of "Nourishing the kidneys and strengthening the spleen and stomach" has been put forward for treatment of osteoporosis. Femegain and Toniyin can render great help for decelerating the progress of osteoporosis.

*Rheumatoid arthritis

In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, rheumatoid arthritis arises from liver, spleen and kidneys being deficient in vital energy and blood. The basic method of treatment, therefore, consists in eliminating blood stases, relieving pain and resolving phlegm-turbidity.

1. As this disease is very stubborn, it is not enough to take Safbrain alone. Sanlida must be used to break through impeded venous and arterial microcirculations in order that some remission of the illness may be achieved. A comprehensive treatment and regulation of the body from both inside and outside is indispensable.

2.The medicinals in the Acherid will concert their forces and drive the pathogenic factors out of the body. Taking Acherid and Coldcurer together is best treatment way.

Acute rheumatic arthritis with dreadful swelling and pain, for which Acherid is to be administered 3 times a day (at 2 pieces each time). The pain and swelling will vanish in 10 days.

*Osteoarthritis

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the liver governs muscle while the kidneys govern bone and the skeleton. The main cause of osteoarthritis is hepatic and renal insufficiency bringing about lack of nourishment for the muscle and the bone. The manifestation, in most cases, is seen as blood vessels being impeded by stagnant blood. When the arteries and veins are not completely free for passage, there is pain where any impediment exists. Therefore, the chief therapeutic principle ought to be "Nourish and tonify liver and kidneys, activate blood and resolve stases, break through impeded arteries and veins, and stop pain." For this purpose, Aegiseme and Inwarmer may be administered, in combination with traditional Chinese physiotherapy.

*Ankylosing spondylitis

In treating ankylosing spondylitis traditional Chinese medicine adheres to the principle of nourishing the kidneys, strengthening the loins, and unblocking collaterals to alleviate pain. Treatment by this principle can succeed in putting the disease under control, reducing pain and preventing deformity.

Activities are very important to a patient of ankylosing spondylitis, because they are helpful in maintaining a certain range of movement of the spine and thus improving the quality of existence.

Acherid can not only replenish a person's decreased vitality and generate the requisite body fluids but can also pass through the twelve main channels of the human meridian system, acting both inside and outside, so as to stop pain in the chest and abdomen, which is often due to blood stasis, and pain in the limbs, which is often due to obstruction by cold-damp.

Moreover, it can reach, by virtue of the innate power of the medicinals, any intracranial damage that happens to exist and carry out the repair physically, though in many cases a depressive state of mind may masquerade as severe headache, on which occasion Acherid will serve as a simple analgesic and relieve the pain speedily.

Acute sciatica and emergency-period herniated disc, for either of which administration of Acherid is to be carried out orally at 2 times a day (3 pieces a time). Relief from pain is likely to ensue on that very day, and complete healing can be achieved in 10 days.

*Psoriasis

The theory of traditional Chinese medicine maintains that the lungs govern the skin and that the true root cause of psoriasis is disequilibrium of yin and yang in the five internal organs and, so, the problem of treatment of this skin disease needs to be handled dialectically--- from the angle of the whole body. Generally speaking, for treating psoriasis traditional Chinese medicine employs therapeutic methods which can be summed up as (1) "nourishing blood and moistening dryness" and (2) "heat-clearance and detoxication". For relieving the gravity of this skin disease Feales, Spearlor and Inwarmer have proved to be of some help.

### *Cancer*

*Cancer

Cancer that occurs in the form of one or more tumors usually grows at a certain part of the body, but it is actually a systemic disease. For a great number of cancer patients, local treatment or even excision cannot solve the problem radically. The dominant view in traditional Chinese medicine concerning the treatment of cancer is that cancer is caused by toxic substances running rampant in the blood and treatment should be conducted first by cooling the blood to get rid of the heat toxin, next by reinforcing the vitality of spleen and stomach so as to strengthen the life power of the patient, and finally by providing the patient with proper regulation including rich nourishment.

This view is convincing in that it agrees with the findings of modern science, especially in respect to the existence of toxic substances as the cause of the growth of cancer. This can be seen from Science Desk Reference (1995) of the New York Public Library, in which it is stated on page 192 that "When normal cells suddenly become abnormal, grow too quickly, consume large amounts of the body's energy, and produce toxic substances, they are often referred to as cancer cells." Thus, it may be deduced that elimination of toxic substances in the blood is an important step in the cure of cancer. If a person happens to have an inexplicable pain somewhere in his/her body that has persisted for a considerable time in spite of all the efforts made to cure the body of it or if he/she has got inexplicably a sensation similar to that of osteoporosis but worsening at a higher speed, he/she may well take some tonic of good standing, such as Salubry and Feales, continually or intermittently, for no other purpose than that of doing an experiment in connection with cancer treatment. During and after radiotherapy Holisticare and Gui Pills should be taken.

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### Table of Regulated Prescriptions

In the Table of Regulated Prescriptions, the products of the Company are arranged according to their drug properties from the left side to the right, with those having the hot property placed on the left side, those having the intermediate property in the middle, and those having the cool property on the right side, the background color being used to serve as a hint. Red color represents the medicine being warm or hot; absence of color represents the medicine being intermediate in regard to drug property; and blue color represents the medicine being "cool" in drug property. If a product having a very hot or very cold property is taken alone, all by itself, for a very long time, the body's yin and yang equilibrium will be subjected to a bad influence. For this reason, in taking traditional Chinese medicines you need to observe the instructions of the said pamphlet so as to keep a proper balance between yin and yang during a long period of administration. As for drugs which are intermediate or nearly intermediate between hot and cool they can be taken all by themselves.

When you are taking any of these Chinese herbal medicines, you must control your alcohol drinking. Otherwise, the therapeutic effect will be adversely affected.Those who are weak in constitution must refrain from indulgence in sex, so that their diseases might not be aggravated.

When consulting the Table of Regulated Prescriptions please note the meanings of the following symbols:

A: Amount of treatment

B: Amount of health care

1: Product of the first choice

2: Eligible product

* Please consult Regulation Program of Traditional Chinese Medicine

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### About SANLIDA

HK SANLIDA International Healthcare Products Company,Ltd. aims at introducing to the whole world traditional Chinese medicinal herbal healthcare products that have been shown by thousands of years of practice to be highly reliable and efficacious. This Company not only uses high-tech means to research and develop healthcare foods, herbal diet supplements, etc. which are based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine , but also has extensive cooperation with research units and production enterprises in China. It has for sale superior-quality traditional Chinese medicinal products. These products can be shipped to countries which we have listed on web www.sldint.com

HK SANLIDA Int'l Healthcare Products Company is also a global internet-based company that meets the demand of information era. By relying on its globalized operating and managing capability and its ability of making use of the latest information technology, this Company has established a perfect tracking system for global marketing, dispatching and delivery of goods, and for rendering of customer service, thus providing all-round technical support for widening sales channels and expanding points of sale.

### *Invitation of Applications*

This Company is inviting applications for the position of Medical Sales Representative by people who can speak and write English or any other foreign language, have basic skills of using a computer to do office work and have self-discipline and lofty aspirations. A general member of SANLIDA is welcome to be a Sales Representative if he/she has spare time to share the information of good products with other people.

In order to ensure for medical sales representatives optimization of personal income; attainment of high efficiency, great ease and high speed in doing work; stabilization and long continuance of employment; globalization of market expansion; and maximization of opportunity for promotion this Company has designed, in conformity with the needs of the trade, a humanized sales representative management model, set up an incentive system for sales representatives which can be operated all over the world and established a simple and high-efficiency platform for management of sales representatives' work.

A sales representative may be promoted to the position of a distributor, regional distributor, or general supervisor in step with the growth of the business of the region. HK SANLIDA provides a broad range of opportunities and a large platform for development for great numbers of ambitious, earnest and down-to-earth people .

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### A Momentous Development in TCM

*Advent of the System of Disease-entity Identification

The idea of conducting treatment of a disease on the basis of overall analysis of symptoms and signs, including the cause, nature and location of the illness and the patient's physical condition, is the crystallization of thousands of years of medical practice in China and has served for centuries as the guiding theoretical principle of traditional Chinese medicine in both prophylaxis and disease treatment.

This type of treatment, which is based on initial identification of the pattern of the disease being treated and which stresses that the diagnosis be made by observing the organism's reflection in its entirety, embodies a mode of clinical thinking that advocates individualization in diagnosis and treatment.

People of the modern era adore precise and objective data. They think that diagnoses and treatments in traditional Chinese medicine are vague, abstract and replete with subjectivities. For this reason, the Public Health Ministry of China has long since included in the "State Plan of Subjects for Priority Research" the topic of "How to raise the precision of Disease Pattern Identification in traditional Chinese medicine".

From qualitative description to quantitative analysis is universally acknowledged as the path along which a science must travel in its development. On the premise of strict conformity with the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine and the paramount rule of giving treatment on the basis of disease pattern identification, experts in traditional Chinese medicine arranged and studied information from three sources: the immense ancient and contemporary Chinese medical literature; the summing-up records and reports of famous traditional Chinese medical scholars' experience in disease pattern identification and cases of their successful treatments; and the records of epidemiologic investigations. Information processing technology was employed to combine and quantify the information from these sources, whereby quantified data, the parameters of disease pattern identification, were obtained and used in compilation of the Quantitative Syndrome Differentiation Table.

After many years of hard work, the experts in traditional Chinese medicine were able to establish the Disease-entity Identification Research Platform supported technically by a databank. They created the "disease-entity identification system".

What after all is the disease-entity identification system? The symptoms and bodily signs which a patient presents are what differentiation and identification depend on for diagnostic work. They are called "syndrome manifestation". The essential pathological character of the disease ascertained through differentiation and identification carried out on the syndrome manifestation is called the "disease-entity". The name used in diagnoses formed by combining the designation of the location of the disease with the disease-entity is termed the "disease name". Recognition of the disease-entity by differentiation of it from other items is the key to the success of identification, whereas determination of the disease name is the object striven for. The syndrome manifestation, the disease-entity and the disease name form a complex structure and constitute together the disease-entity identification system, which reveals the natural law that governs it and the substance and characteristics of the differentiation and identification work. It is a significant academic development in the science of traditional Chinese medicine.

*TCM Intelligent Diagnostic-therapeutic Software

On the basis of the Quantitative Syndrome Differentiation Table and the principle of disease-entity identification, a databank has been established containing the knowledge of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment; a computer operation program has been compiled according to the rules of logical thinking; and an intelligent computer-operated TCM diagnostic-therapeutic system has been brought into being. It is a huge system covering the entire area of traditional Chinese medical care, including fields, such as internal diseases, gynecology and pediatrics, for the purpose of helping traditional Chinese medical practitioners make diagnoses and carry out treatments.

The system has been so compiled as to contain 1,000 symptoms, 460 diseases, 60 disease-entities, 1,700 normative disease pattern models, 720 often-used traditional Chinese medicinals, and 670 traditional Chinese medicinal prescriptions. For the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disease-entities, this intelligent system can provide 10 therapeutic projects to each applicant for diagnosis and treatment, so as to help doctors make the optimum diagnostic and therapeutic decisions.

*TCM Telemedicine

Taking into consideration the fact that the diagnoses and therapeutic plans provided by the TCM Intelligent Diagnostic-Therapeutic System are high in accuracy and normative in contents, this Company is planning to adopt it ( the Intelligent Diagnostic-Therapeutic System ) as the Company's supplementary diagnostic and therapeutic instrument in TCM Telemedicine, so as to provide the broad masses of patients and subhealthy people with service which is more individualized.

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