Discussion on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diarrhea from the Viewpoint of the 159th Item in Treatise on Febrile Diseases

Diarrhea is one of the most important syndromes discussed in Treatise on Febrile Diseases. The statement about diarrhea in Treatise on Febrile Diseases is highly concise, organized as well as detailed. Specifically speaking, the 159th item not only expounded 4 commonly used therapies for diarrhea, that is, dispersing by acrid drugs and purgating by bitter drugs, warming spleen and dispelling cold, restricting prolapse and controlling deprivation, separating clarity from turbidity, but also deduces the way ZHANG Zhong-jing reasons through the differentiation and treatment on diarrhea. In conclusion, the 159th item indicates the Zhongjing′s principle in the treatment of diarrhea which can be generalized as inferring the rest from what is already known.