1. The "Internal Classics" called the disease "Changdong" and "Chiwo", and pointed out that feeling external evils and improper diet are two important links in causing disease. [1]
2. The "Difficulty Sutra" refers to it as "great swelling", which points out that "a person with big swelling will become tense and heavier, and count to the point of difficulty."
3. "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" and "Golden Chamber Synopsis" collectively refer to dysentery and diarrhea as "Xia Li", and its effective prescriptions for treating dysentery such as Baitouweng Decoction have been used in later generations. [2]
4. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty Ge Hong's "Elbow Reserve Emergency Recipe", there is a saying that "Heaven goes poisonous gas, pinches heat, abdominal pain and diarrhea". The disease is called "diarrhea", which is gradually accepted by later generations of doctors.
5. "Prescriptions for Qian Jin Yao" call this disease "Stagnation".
6. The "Jisheng Prescription" of the Song Dynasty officially used the name of "dysentery": "The so-called dysentery of today is the so-called stagnation in ancient times."
7. The "Danxi Heart Method" further clarifies that dysentery is epidemic and contagious. It points out that "the disease causes dysentery, and one family has similar infections from top to bottom", and discusses the cause of dysentery based on "damp and heat", and proposes a universal treatment The principle of diarrhea. [3]
8. There were monographs on dysentery in the Qing Dynasty, such as Wu Daoqiong's "Dysentery Shenhui" and Kong Yuli's "Dysentery".