Category: Misc. CM articles

A restructuring of Warm Disease names (QBW)

By: Qin Bo-Wei

By: Qin Bo-Wei Translated By: Jason Blalack The names in the warm disease current are extremely complicated. Besides the name, warm disease itself, there is wind-warmth, spring-warmth, summerheat-warmth, autumn-warmth, winter-warmth, damp-warmth, warm-epidemic, warm-toxin, warm-malaria, as well as lurking summerheat, autumn-dryness etc. All of these are within the scope of warm disease. I think that these should be restructured with some added explanation. Only after we rectify these terms will we be able to perform some judicious pruning. Spring-warmth: Warmth is

Lurking Pathogens (Qin Bo-Wei)

This essay on lurking pathogens (also referred to as lingering, hidden, deep-lying, or latent pathogens) is particularly relevant in today’s era, where we have students and practitioners using the term to describe all sorts of chronic disorders. Qin suggests that the utility of the term may be questionable. Although Qin emphasises the lurking pathogen theory that came out of the warm disease tradition, his historical analysis and questioning can be applied to the general use of the term today. It should first be pointed out that Qin is known as one of the greatest synthesisers of Chinese medicine. He was renowned for his deep classical study and his ability to take an immense amount information and extract the commonalities. Qin made great efforts to systematically integrate ideas of the past. These essays come from this perspective.

Lurking pathogen Qin Bo-Wei Warm Disease

Cold Damage vs. Warm Disease (QBW)

By Qin Bo-Wei (秦伯未)

This small essay in taken from Qin Bo-Wei’s larger Warm Disease thesis that was written in 1963. This essay was published in The Lantern Volume 8 No.2, May 2011, as part of a larger three-part essay entitled Some Issues in Warm Disease by Qin Bo-Wei.

Cold Damage Qin Bo-Wei Shang Han Lun Warm Disease Wen Bing

Understanding Case Records Pt. 2

A Touch of Ling: Learning from ancient case records

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This article originally appeared in The Lantern, Volume 7, No.3 September 2010.

by Jason Blalack

Studying Chinese medicine case records is an invaluable way to enhance one’s clinical skills beyond basic textbook knowledge.

Jason Blalack Qin Bo-Wei TCM Ye Tian-Shi Yin Qiao San

Understanding Case Records Pt. 1

Further thoughts on understanding Ye Tian-Shi’s case records.

By: Jason Blalack

Ye Tian-Shi is quite arguably one of the most important clinicians in Chinese medical history. His most important contribution, Case Records as a Guide to Clinical Practice (lin zheng zhi nan), is a compilation of case records by his students. It should be noted that, for a period of time in the Qing Dynasty that doctors/students would only study this book while ignoring the “classics.” Although criticized for this by their teachers, it definitely demonstrates the impact that Ye’s case records had on medicine.

Ye Tian-Shi