試論《千金方》對消渴病的認(rèn)識

Golden Prescriptions for Emergencies opened the diabetes chapter, which collected 6 essays, 65 prescriptions, 6 moxibution methods. It stated that improper diet was the important cause of diabetes and intemperance in sexual life, over-taken powder, emotional stress or weak body could also cause diabetes. Meanwhile, it divided diabetes into three basic types: the intestine and stomache heat of excess type, thirst type, inducing type. In addition, it also put for ward some ideas about the acupuncture and moxibustion therapy, prognosis contraindication and complication.