The versions of Shiguzhai Hui Ju Jian Bian Dan Fang by Wu Mianxue
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Chinese Journal of Medical History / Zhong Hua Yi Shi Za Zhi
Shiguzhai Hui Ju Jian Bian Dan Fang, was the only medical book for prescription and formula collected and compiled by Wu Mianxue in the period of the Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1573-1620). It had seven volumes in total with six of them popular at that time. The volumes contained 1,460 folk formula and clinical prescriptions which were divided into 111 categories based on their corresponding symptoms of diseases. The set was issued in the beginning of the 17th century, with only three subsets
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Dodd D. The Hamilton Birth Control Clinic of the 1830s [J] .Ontario Hist, 1983, 75 (1): 71
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Chinese Journal of Medical History / Zhong Hua Yi Shi Za Zhi
This open-label study evaluated the effects on body fat of the use of a low-dose oral contraceptive (gestodene75/EE20) in a group of 61 women (OC-U group) as compared to a nonuser group (OC-N group) of 51 women who did not receive an oral contraceptive. Weight, body mass index (BMI), waist-over-hip ratio and body composition data, obtained by bioelectrical impedance [percentages of body fat (%FAT), water (%TBW) and lean mass (%FFM)], were assessed before and after six treatment cycles. Baseli
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The meaning and indication of "Rou Ji"
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Chinese Journal of Medical History / Zhong Hua Yi Shi Za Zhi
"Rou Ji", as a name of disease syndrome, played an important role with its relevant theories and clinical experiences in historical recordings. However, it was treasured neither in modern archives nor by clinical physicians. The concept of "Rou Ji" started in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period (770 B.C. - 221 B.C.), and its name was first found in Shan Fan Fang in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589). The symptoms of this disease mainly sug
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Chinese traditional five-tone music therapy
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Chinese Journal of Medical History / Zhong Hua Yi Shi Za Zhi
The ideology of Chinese traditional five-tone music therapy started in the five-tone music practice for witch medicine (Wu Yi) or Shaman medicine (Sa Man Yi Xue) treatment in the primitive period. It came from the five-element thinking, ie , wood, fire, earth, metal and water which matches each inner organ in the human body to diagnose the lesion of the five main organs in traditional Chinese medicine. The five-tone system diagnoses the lesion of the five inner organs based on the changes of
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Cheng Lin and his life
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Chinese Journal of Medical History / Zhong Hua Yi Shi Za Zhi
Cheng Lin, a famous doctor in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, had a great reputation with his medical achievements. According to the prefaces and postscripts in a variety of books and local records, he was born earlier than 1616 and died later than 1700 in Huaitang in She Xian. He learned medicine from his uncle Cheng Jingtong when he was young. After that, he learned from the famous doctor Yu Chang. He visited Kaifeng, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Yangzhou, and made friends with many then ce
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