Introduction
This series of books has high clinical practical value, easy to understand and ready to use after reading. Thanks to the original public account author for collecting and organizing.
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Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Ming Yi Guan Series
Since the founding of Kuanjie Hospital 60 years ago, 36 famous senior TCM doctors’ academic thoughts and clinical experiences .
Academic Origins of Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital
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Hi friends, Happy National Day!
Did you go out during the National Day holiday? Because of the epidemic, you can’t easily leave Beijing, so I could only stay at school. Recently, I collected a series of very commemorative TCM books to share with you. The origin of this series of books starts with Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, also known as Kuanjie TCM Hospital (referred to as Kuanjie by students), is named after its location at the Kuanjie intersection.
When mentioning Kuanjie TCM, students generally associate it with diverse famous doctor experiences. When seeing a doctor here, “mostly Chinese herbal medicine is used.” Students who have rotated through departments or attended outpatient clinics at Kuanjie can experience that the use rate of herbal medicine or acupuncture in many clinics is nearly 100%. This environment’s formation owes much to the historical background of the hospital’s founding.
Back then, Beijing’s TCM (Yanjing Medicine) strength was roughly composed of three parts: Imperial Medicine School (Imperial physicians from the Republic era whose knowledge passed down among the people), Apprenticeship School (family heritage or private clinics or folk TCM forces such as bell doctors), and Academy School (in 1929 “abolishment of old case records” was announced, followed by the establishment of Beiping National Medical College. It was a critical time for TCM’s survival, and the academy focused especially on clinical teaching, with direct guidance from Xiao Longyou and Kong Bohua. Courses centered on TCM, with anatomy, Western internal medicine, Japanese, and calligraphy as secondary subjects). In 1956, Beijing TCM Hospital gathered a large number of famous TCM doctors based on these forces, resulting in abundant valuable experiences concentrated at Kuanjie.
Therefore, for many students truly interested in clinical TCM, coming to Kuanjie to study has a main mission besides graduation: inheriting the treatment experience left by Kuanjie predecessors. Many students come precisely because of Kuanjie’s rich TCM heritage.
Origin
Photos of the past and present of Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital
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When I first started university and followed clinical rounds at Kuanjie, I only copied prescriptions for outpatient clinics and helped teachers input data on the computer. I did not truly feel the specialty of Kuanjie. The first time I deeply felt Kuanjie’s TCM advantage was in the surgical ward.
At that time, I was doing a surgery internship. One morning, a patient with a buttock carbuncle was admitted, a middle-aged male from Dalian who liked to drink alcohol. I printed and let him sign the admission informed consent and anti-bribery agreement. As a retired worker from an oil factory, he left a deep impression on me.
When signing, the patient told me that he often had lumps on his body in childhood and went to Shen Dabao clinic in Gan Jingzi district of Dalian city (Shen Dabao clinic is a memory for many local people in Gan Jingzi, known for treating various diseases with TCM including many plasters, praised by citizens). With the use of herbal medicine, his condition improved. Later the doctor always treating him passed away, and he went to Western medicine hospitals with unsatisfactory results. Then he came to Kuanjie for treatment. According to him, only Kuanjie had the medicines he needed, so he had been coming for years. After applying the medicine, recovery was fast. Under the teacher’s guidance, I applied red gauze strips on his wound, and when he left, he strongly requested more red gauze strips to take home.
Surgery’s “yellow gauze strips” and “red gauze strips”
I thought since Shen Dabao hospital was gone, patients have to come to Beijing to treat this disease. If these medicine formulas and usage methods were learned, they will surely be useful to someone in the future. I asked the teacher about the preparation of these medicines. The teacher said they are in Zhao’s experience collection and the “Little Green Book” (Concise Dermatology). I checked and found only one red powder gauze strip.
Zhao’s Experience Collection and Little Green Book▲
Red Powder Gauze Strip▲
The teacher said Kuanjie’s red gauze strip, containing cinnabar, had once been questioned. That is to say, the red gauze contains cinnabar, so the red powder gauze strip is not the red gauze strip. Continuing to search, under keywords and indexes, I found this book,
“Traditional External Preparations of Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital”
In an inconspicuous corner of the book, I found this formula containing cinnabar, though drug proportions were not disclosed. It can basically be confirmed as the basic formula of the red gauze strip.
Although I did not learn the detailed formula of the cinnabar gauze strip, I gained this book unexpectedly. Opening it, there are a series of internal hospital preparation prescriptions, preparation methods, and applicable syndromes. Many overlap with Zhao Bingnan’s experience collection and the Little Green Book, but recorded more thoroughly.
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Practice and Following the Clues
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During the holiday at home, I tried several prescriptions from the book with good effects. One case impressed me: a patient infected with a skin disease, first very itchy; scratching led to small 1-2mm lumps; when broken, they oozed fluid. Wherever the fluid flowed, itching recurred, repeating the process. After a week of onset, he tried fresh aloe and anti-itch ointment to no effect; the itch was so severe he couldn’t sleep at night. According to this situation, Sichuan peppercorn and sophora root should be used to kill insects and stop itching. One prescription in the book’s aqueous preparations contained these ingredients. I prepared a large dose as recorded, without a medicine pot, using a stainless steel cooking pot full of decoction, soaked my hand for 30 minutes. The next day a small number of new eruptions still appeared, itch lessened, soaked again, on the third day no new eruptions occurred. The patient then stopped paying attention, and a few days later was fully recovered. The patient saved hospital registration fees and medicine cost, was very happy, and copied down the prescription.
In this process, I personally experienced Kuanjie’s advantage in treating skin diseases and deepened my interest in TCM dermatology. TCM students should be aware of their strengths and best do what Western medicine can’t, so as to demonstrate irreplaceable value. If always following Western medicine, TCM advantages may disappear. At Kuanjie, two especially obvious fields are dermatology and acupuncture, capable of handling many patients Western medicine is powerless against. During rounds, there is always something new to learn.
I did not look carefully at the cover of this book “Traditional External Preparations of Beijing TCM Hospital”. Later, while following senior acupuncturist Zhou Dean, I unexpectedly learned that he had a book called “Six Acupuncture Treatments.” Zhou said this book had limited initial publication and was out of print, with prices now many times higher online.
I looked it up and surprisingly found the cover is very similar to “External Preparations” book. Upon closer inspection, they are from the same series. Reading “Six Acupuncture Treatments”, I found it highly consistent with Zhou’s clinical acupuncture and herbal use, specific and comprehensive in summary.
“Six Acupuncture Treatments” content basically matches clinical prescriptions of senior Zhou Dean.
Senior Chen Tongyun’s experience treating melasma is also recorded in this series, here is one example.
“Ming Yi Guan Series 3: Chen Tongyun’s Clinical Observations on Disfiguring Skin Diseases” and Professor Chen’s clinical prescriptions.
Considering these books and comparing the clinical prescriptions of teachers, one conclusion is that the experiences recorded are still used by the predecessors today. This series originates from real clinical practice, systematically summarizing Kuanjie predecessors’ experience. If students apply these methods in clinical practice, Kuanjie’s experience can be passed to the next generation and students’ TCM skills can be truly improved.
Collecting the Whole Set
So here comes the question:
How many books are there in this series?
I searched online.
Books on Taobao are scattered, some volumes are missing, some are expensive.
I searched on Kongfuzi Old Books website, only one seller, selling one set, but the price is still high.
Really expensive, is it worth it?
Looking at the “He Puren Fire Needle Therapy” volume of the series
“Ming Yi Guan Series 6: He Puren Fire Needle Therapy”
I think the content is extremely valuable. For example, it mentions that during Mr. He’s learning process, the teacher rarely had time to explain patient situations one by one — which is a very real situation nowadays for young TCM doctors during clinical rounds. Given Kuanjie’s background, missing this series would be a pity. In reading and practice, if questions arise, one can consult Kuanjie teachers to quickly convert book knowledge into skills. The final choice: e-books.
During this National Day, I looked for physical books on various websites. Many volumes of this series cannot be found by Baidu search or through network disks. However, with perseverance and classmates’ help, and multi-channel searches, I finally collected all 36 volumes.
If you need this set, you can scan the QR code below. Forward this article to Moments and get 20 likes screenshot to receive this series.
Hope everyone enjoys studying.
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Text | Zhang Wenxuxuxuxuxu
Special thanks to: classmate Sun, resource master
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