| To compare the similarities and differences between Wind-warm Disease and Winter-warm Syndrome in TCM classics. Methods:Using the mathematical statistics and data mining methods to sort and analyze information of the two diseases in TCM classics, such as etiology, disease-bit, treatment and prescriptions. Results:The causes of wind-warm syndrome involved wind-evil, latent pathogen, warm-evil and mistreatment, and its site of cerebral apoplexy located in lung; TCM syndrome of wind-warm included lung-wei syndrome, syndrome of Qi system, syndromes Ying and Xue system; Its therapeutic methods included clearing heat, relieving the exterior, ventilating lung and nourishing yin; Rhizomali-gusticichuanxiong-notopterygium, gypsum fibrosum-gegen, mint-forsythia, almond-gypsum fibrosum could treat Wind-warm syndrome; WeiRui decoction was commonly used in treating wind-warm syndrome. Winter-warm syndrome was caused by weakness and the abnormal weather. The disease often located inside our bodies. The syndrome mainly included the heat of lungs, liver and kidney attracted by evil, and Ying blood syndrome. The main treatment was clearing inner heat. Yangdan decoction was commonly used to treat winter-warm syndrome. Conclusion: Although TCM treatment rules of wind-warm disease and winter-warm syndrome share some similarity, the disease location of winter-warm syndrome is in interior of body and yin channel; the treatment of wind-warm syndrome aims to diffuse and resolve, while to treat winter-warm syndrome shall focus on clearing heat. |
