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| WANG Qi's 30 lectures of using herbs—the fifth lecture of the theory of moist and dryness of Chinese herbs |
| Hits 1546 Download times 1739 Received:May 26, 2014 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2014.12.01 |
| Key Words
herb with moist nature;herb with dryness nature;moist and dryness |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | WANG Qi | Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China |
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| The theory of moistening for dryness mainly described herbs with moist and dryness nature. Their clinical applications were discussed. Moist herbs had different nature of cool, warm, acrid, salty. They also had different efficacy of moistening with nourishing blood, nourishing yin, clearing away heat-evil, promoting blood, and moistening lung, liver, heart, kidney. Except for the nature and efficacy, the experiences of CHEN Wu-duo and LI Dong-yuan in using herb of dryness, and the theory of LIU Wan-su and ZHU Dan-xi's in rectifying imbalance with dry medicine were cited, suggesting that correct methods of using Chinese herbs with moist and dryness nature were necessary. |
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