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"The Wen Bing" (Warm Disease) is one of four great classics of Chinese Medicine (one of the others being the "Shang Han Lun") which all serious students of Chinese Medicine are required to study. Translated into English for the first time, this classic text undertakes a comprehensive discussion of the foundations of warm disease theory and the clinical treatment of warm diseases. It is divided into two sections. The first introduces all the basic information about warm disease, including its history, disease causes, pattern identification and general diagnostic and treatment methods. The second section devotes a separate chapter to each of the different warm diseases. It deals with the disease factors, clinical manifestations, pulses and treatments in thewarm diseases of the four seasons. It includes wind warmth, spring warmth, summerheat warmth, damp warmth, latent summerheat warmth, autumn dryness and warm toxins. In each of these warm diseases the disease concepts, etiologies, pathologies, main pointsof diagnosis and treatment policies are discussed first. It then goes on to explain the patterns and treatments of their characteristic disease transformations. A valuable source of theoretical and therapeutic information.
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As mentioned, it is an extension of the Studies of Shang Han Lun - several hundred years later. There were the Cold diseases, what else now but Warm diseases. However not originally written in confusing verse. It appears to have some of the Dutch (Red Beard) infuences in parts but is wholly traditional in presentation.
A typical study of subjects by Doctors of their time with a lifetime to notate the nuances of a disease.
Practical value? It is not likely we will refer to this kind of information in this day and age, but it is a good "look up" when trying to decide a formula.
With the study of Shang han lun and Wen Bing in Acupuncture College, a student can earn the right of passage in suffering through another academic requirement. You had to study Shan han lun - AND - Wen Bing ??!!
By Steven J. Mclaughlin