Glossary of traditional Chinese Medicine

An English-Chinese Glossary of traditional

Chinese Medicine

A
Abdominal flatulence
Abdominal fullness and distention
Abdominal retention
Accompanied Symptoms
Activating blood and dissolving stasis
Acuesthesia
Acupuncture points
Acupuncture therapies
Adjuvant drugs
Afternoon fever
Alternate chills and fever
Anorexia
Aphtha
Apoplexy
Ashi point
Associate drugs
Association of combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine
Association of traditional Chinese medicine
Asthenic cardioyang
Asthenic cardioyin
Asthma
Otopuncture therapy
Auscultation-olfaction
Aversion to wind and cold

B
Basis of theory of traditional Chinese medicine
Belching
Blood deficiency
Blood heat

Body fluid

C
Calming liver wind
Canthus
Carbuncle
Cathartic method
Cardiac and renal coordination
Cardiac-splenic asthenia
Chest pain
Chest stuffiness
Chi pulse
Chinese materia medica and prescriptions
Chinese medical
Chinese medicine anesthesia
Chinese patent drugs
Clear abundant urine
Clearing damp
Clearing heat and expectoration
Clearing wind-damp
Clearing Ying heat and cooling blood
Coating color
Cold hands and feet
Cold-heat mixing
Cold limbs
Cold stroke
Coma
Compendium of Materia Medica
Complications
Constipation
Consumptive disease
Contrary treatment

D
Defensive Qi instability
Deficiency-excess mixing
Delirium
Diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine
Diaphoresis
Diaphoresis, pungent cold

Diaphoresis, pungent warm

Diarrhea
Different treatments for the same disease
Differentiation, eight principles
Differentiation of diseases
Differentiation of symptoms and signs
Differentiation, six meridians
Differentiation, triple energizer
Differentiation, Wei-Qi-Ying-Xue
Differentiation, Zang-Fu
Diphtheria
Diseases of Qi-blood-fluid
Dispersing cold and freeing Bi
Doctrines of various historical schools
Dry heat
Dry stool
Dysentery
Dyspepsia
Dysphagia
Dyspnea
Dysuria

E
Edema
Eight principles
Electuary
Elimination
Emesis
Endogenous hygrosyndrome
Endogenous cold
Endogenous dryness
Epilepsy
Epitaxis
Eruption
Etiology
Exterior syndrome
Exterior sthenia
Exterior asthenia
Extremely cold limbs

F
Facial distortion
Feeling
Fluid deficiency
Frequent micturition
Frequent vomiting

G
Gastric asthenia
Gastric cavity
Gastro-Qi
Generation-inhibition in five elements
Gingiva
Greyish fur

H
Harmonizing liver-spleen
Heart fire hyperactivity
Heart-kidney Yang deficiency
Heart Yang hypoactivity
Healthy Qi
Hectic fever
Hemorrhage Zheng

I
Insomnia
Inspection
Intergeneration
Inter-restriction
Inter-subjuation
Irregular pulse

K
Kidney Yang deficiency
Kidney Yin deficiency

L
Large intestine damp-heat
Large pulse
Leukorrhea
Liver fire flaming
Liver-stomach disharmony
Liver wind agitation

Liver Yang rising

Liver Yin deficiency
Long pulse
Longer menstrual interval
Loose stool
Lung heart
Lung Qi deficiency
Lung Qi impairment

M
Measles
Menstrual irregularities
Merdian-collateral theory
Meridial distribution
Mutual promotion

N
Night sweat
Nine orifices
Normal pulse
Nourishing blood and liver

P
Pale tongue
Palpation
Palpitation
Pathogenesis
Peeled coating
Pestilence
Pharynx neurosis
Phlegm-damp obstructing lung
Pill
Pores
Principal and subordinate
Pulse condition
Pulse-taking
Purgation-tonifying

Q
Qi-blood and fluid
Qi deficiency
Qi depression

Qi function

R
Rapid pulse
Relaxing bowels
Removing stasis to promote blood circulation
Resolving damp, aromatic
Resuscitation
Retch
Reverse restriction

S
School in favour of the doctrine of warm diseases
School of febrile diseases by cold injury
Scrofula
Sighing
Smallpox
Somnolence
Sore
Spleen Qi deficiency
Spleen Yang deficiency
Spleen Yin deficiency
Spontaneous sweating
Stranguria
Stomach cold
Stomach heat
Strengthening healthy energy
Striae
Stringy pulse
Sunstroke

T
Tenesmus
Tonifying deficiency
Tonifying kidney and holding Qi
Tonifying Qi and spleen
Treating excess with purgation
Treatment with syndrome differentiation
Twenty-eight pulses

U
Ulcer

Urinal incontinence
Uterus

V
Vitaport

W
Whitish fur
Whooping cough

Y
Yellowish fur
Ying and Yang in balance

Z
Zheng