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"Golden rule" of nourishing the kidney in Traditional Chinese medicine Ⅳ
Generally, we stop bleeding at the sight of bleeding. However the ancients proposed the theory of “observing the blood not to stop bleeding”. As early as the eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing put forward that the doctor can not stop bleeding blindly when treating blood symptoms caused by intense heat. Instead, bleeding can be stopped by purging intense heat. The theory of “observing the blood not to stop bleeding” requires that the doctor should find the nature of the disease in treatment, and should not just focus on stopping bleeding, but ignore the cause of bleeding. In other words, search for the primary cause of disease in treatment. When curing the kidney disease patients, we often follow a principle called exterior and interior concurrent treatment. The exterior treatment, even if the pathogenic factors also influence the interior, instead just the exterior, the exterior and interior concurrent treatment. For example, relieving exterior syndromes and removing dampness. Sometimes, TCM has slow effect, as the patients were entangled by dampness. TCM paid more attention to how to ease the damage of the disease to kidney.
Increasing body fluid for curing constipation, also called increasing water for curing constipation, is from a famous medical work of Qing Dynasty “Detailed Analysis of Epidemic Warm Disease”. it means that when there is water, the boat can sail smoothly. But when there is no water, the boat will stop. At this moment, however hard you try to push the boat, it won’t sail. But if there is enough water, it will be easy to push the boat. Increasing body fluid for curing constipation in TCM just make use of this principle to cure astriction caused by lake of body fluid and heat accumulation and dry fluid.
