中医常用词汇 Terms Commonly Used in TCM.docx

1、中医常用词汇 Terms Commonly Used in TCM中医常用词汇 Terms Commonly Used in TCM 中国医药学Traditional Chinese Medicine 治未病prevention of disease 中医基础理论Basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine 脏腑zang-organs and fu-organs, viscera 临床经验clinical experience 功能活动functional activities 辨证论治treatment based on syndrome diff

2、erentiation 形神统一unity of the body and spirit 本草materia medica, herbs 阴阳失调imbalance of yin and yang 中药Chinese materia medica, Chinese medicinal herbs 条达舒畅free development 四气五味four properties and five tastes 延年益寿prolonging life, promising longevity 针灸acupuncture and moxibustion, acumox 养生防病cultivating

3、 health to prevent disease 各家学说theories of different schools 正气healthy qi, vital qi 汗法diaphoresis, sweating therapy 病邪pathogenic factor 下法purgative therapy, purgation 整体观念concept of holism 吐法emetic therapy, vomiting therapy 疾病的本质与现象nature and manifestations of disease 补土派school of invigorating the e

4、arth 阴阳的相对平衡relative balance between yin and yang 病因学说etiology 疾病的发生与发展occurrence and development of disease 养生health-cultivation, 同病异治treating the same disease with different therapies 医疗实践medical practice 异病同治treating different diseases with the same therapy 治疗原则therapeutic principles 五脏five zang-

5、organs, five zang-viscera 寒凉药物herbs of cold and cool nature, cold-natured herbs 六腑six fu-organs, six fu-viscera 滋阴降火nourishing yin to lower/reduce fire 经络系统system of meridians and collaterals 滋水涵木enriching water to nourish wood 余热未尽incomplete abatement of heat 瘀血致泻disease caused by blood stasis 有机整体

6、organic wholeness/integrity 先天之精congenital essence 表里关系exterior and interior relation 形与神俱inseparability of the body and spirit 开窍opening into 开胃promoting appetite 自然现象natural phenomena 脉象pulse conditions, pulse pattern 哲学概念philosophical concept 邪正关系states of pathogenic factors and healthy qi 对立统一un

7、ity of opposites 发热恶寒fever and aversion to cold 相互消长mutual waning and waxing 头身疼痛headache and body pain 相互转化mutual transformation 久痢脱肛proctoptosis due to prolonged dysentery 阴阳属性nature of yin and yang 养阴清热nourishing yin and clearing away heat 相互联系interrelation 清肺热clear away lung-heat 相互制约mutual rest

8、raint, mutual restriction/interaction 湿邪犯肺pathogenic dampness invading the lung 动态平衡dynamic equilibrium 清热泻火clearing away heat and reducing fire 阴平阳秘yin and yang in equilibrium 腠理muscular interstices, striae, interstitial space 阴阳的互根互用interdependence of yin and yang 水湿停滞retention of water and dampne

9、ss, water retention 相互依存interdependence 癃闭retention of urine 阴阳离绝separation of yin and yang 气血运行circulation/flow of qi and blood 相反相成opposite and supplementary to each 阴阳转化transformation between yin and yang 生理功能physiological functions 阳消阴长yang waning and yin waxing 病理变化pathological changes 阴胜则阳病pre

10、dominance of yin leading to disorder of yang 临床诊断clinical diagnosis 阴胜则阳病an excess of yin leads to deficiency of yang 阳胜生外热exuberance of yang leading to exterior heat 阳胜则热predominance of yang generating heat 阳中求阴obtaining yang from yin 寒极生热extreme cold generating heat 绝对偏盛absolute predominance 热极生寒e

11、xtreme heat generating cold 阳虚则寒yang deficiency leading to cold 阳损及阴impairment of yang involving yin 阴阳俱损simultaneous consumption of yin and yang 阴液不足insufficiency of yin-fluid 阴阳两虚simultaneous deficiency of both yin and yang 病机总纲general principle of pathogenesis 阳虚发热fever due to yang deficiency 病机p

12、athomechanism, pathological mechanism 阴阳自和natural harmony between yin and yang 阴阳胜复alternative predominance of yin and yang 木乘土the wood over-restrains the earth 虚寒证deficiency-cold syndrome 木火刑金wood-fire impairs the metal 扶阳退阴strengthening yang to reduce yin 金水相生generation between the metal and water

13、 祛风散寒expelling/eliminating wind to dispersing cold 生克制化interrelationship between generation and restriction 消导积滞promoting digestion and removing food retention 制则生化restriction ensuring generation 潜阳熄风suppressing yang to quench wind 母病及子disease of the mother-organ affecting the child-organ 五行学说theory

14、 of five elements 传变transmission of disease, progress of disease 运动变化motion and variation 子病犯母disease of the child-organ affecting the mother-organ 正邪相争struggle/combat between healthy qi and pathogenic factors 肝肾精血不足insufficiency of liver and kidney essence and blood 相生相克mutual generation and restri

15、ction 肝阳上亢hyperactivity of liver yang 生我，我生to be generated and to generate 心肝血虚asthenia / deficiency of heart and liver blood 克我，我克to be restricted and to restrict 心肝火旺exuberance of heart and liver fire 生中有制restriction within generation 心火亢盛hyperactivity/exuberance of heart fire 克中有生generation withi

16、n restriction 滋肾养肝nourishing the kidney and liver 木曰曲直wood is characterized by growing freely and peripherally 方位配五行correspondence of the directions to the five elements 火曰炎上fire is characterized by flaming up 温肾健脾warming the kidney and strengthening the spleen 土爰稼穑earth is characterized by cultivat

17、ion and reaping 肾阳式微declination of kidney yang 金曰从革metal is characterized by change 脾阳不振inactivation of spleen yang 病缓起gradual onset of disease 脾胃虚弱hypofunction/weakness of the spleen and stomach 肝阴不足insufficiency of liver yin 地道不通menopause 相乘相侮over-restriction and reverse restriction 平肝和胃soothing t

18、he liver and harmonizing the stomach 水湿停聚retention of water-dampness 水火不济discordance between water and fire 肾阴不足insufficiency of kidney yin 藏象学说theory of visceral manifestations 心肾不交disharmony between the heart and kidney 奇恒之腑extraordinary fu-organs 宣通水道dredging water passage 水谷精微cereal nutrients, e

19、ssence of water and food 通调水道dredging and regulating water passage 传化水谷transmission and transformation of food 行气利水activating qi to excrete water 贮藏精气storage of essence 水液停滞retention of fluid 治疗效果curative / therapeutic effect 后天之本postnatal / acquired base of life 藏而不泻storage without excretion 调畅气机re

20、gulating qi activity 泻而不藏excretion without storage 肝气上逆upward flow of liver qi 表热里寒exterior heat and interior cold 水曰润下water is characterized by moistening and downward flowing 肝旺脾虚hyperfunction of the liver and weakness of the spleen医.学.全.在线.网.站.提供 脾主运化the spleen governing transportation and transf

21、ormation 大肉陷下obvious emaciation and muscular atrophy, extreme emaciation 肝气郁结stagnation of liver qi 面色红润ruddy complexion, rosy cheeks 胆虚证gallbladder deficiency syndrome 胆虚不得眠insomnia due to gallbladder asthenia 腐熟水谷digesting food 导便法laxation 食欲不振poor appetite 跌打损伤traumatic injury 脘腹胀闷epigastric dist

22、ension and depression 动静结合integration of motion and quietness/stillness 嗳气酸腐eructation with fetid odor 定喘relieving asthma 泌别清浊separating the clear from the turbid 心主血脉the heart controlling blood and vessels 食物残渣residue of food 心气充沛abundance of heart qi 大肠主传导the large intestine governing transmission

23、 and transportation 防御外邪入侵preventing the invasion of exogenous pathogenic factor 癃闭dysuria, retention of urine, anuria and dysuria 血液充盈plenty of blood 面黄肌瘦emaciation with sallow complexion 脉道不利unsmoothness of vessels 止珠偏斜strabismus, squint, ocular deviation 面色无华lusterless complexion 调节水液regulation o

24、f water 脉象细弱thin and weak pulse 排泄糟粕excretion of waste material 面色萎黄sallow complexion 髓海不足insufficiency of marrow-sea 汗血同源sweat and blood sharing the same origin 精神委靡dispiritedness, listlessness, lower spirit 升降出入ascending, descending, coming in and going out 月经不调irregular menstruation 气为血帅qi serves as the commander of the blood 冲任不固weakness of thoroughfare and conception vessels 气血凝滞stagnation of qi and blood 经期延长prolonged menstruation 血瘀blood stasis 小肠实热sthenia-heat in the small intestine 气滞腰痛lumbago due to qi stagnation 气机调畅smooth activity of qi 气虚滑胎habitual abortion due to qi asthenia