Zhang Xichun's Outstanding Contribution

Zhang Xichun didn't begin to learn "Western Books" until he was about thirty years old. At first, he liked western medicine to explain new things. Later, after studying for ten years, I felt that western medicine was mostly included in Chinese medicine. Therefore, the theory that Chinese medicine includes western medicine became the theoretical basis for his participation in western learning. The so-called worship of foreign things is to develop Chinese medicine and attempt to communicate Chinese and western medicine with Chinese medicine as the main body. He made a comprehensive attempt from theory to clinic, from physiology to pathology, from diagnosis to medication. As far as other drugs are concerned, they are more inclined to take the advantages of western medicine and make up for the shortcomings of Chinese medicine. He believes that western medicine is a local medicine, which is the key to the disease; Seeking the cause of TCM is the root of the disease. Treatment should give consideration to both specimens and specimens. So Chinese medicine and western medicine can be used together.

In more than forty years of treatment, he took pains to establish medical records from beginning to end. His medical record is a good example of medical record, which can be used as a model for Jin Liang later. He believes that medical records and the accumulation of medical records are important methods and conditions for learning medicine in practice. He benefited a lot from it. Later, those medical records became an integral part of "Western medical experience".

At that time, Fengtian Medical Journal, Shanghai journal of traditional chinese medicine, Medical Chunqiu, Hangzhou Sansan Medical Journal, Journal of Chinese and Western Medicine, and Singapore Medical Journal all hired him as a special contributor. He published many original medical works in these newspapers. Later, he collected the experience of 18 years, added a suffix to the prescription to explain and explain the emergency medical records, and also adopted the western theory and justice theory in the prescription to integrate and compile the medical records of ginseng and western medicine. This is a summary of his life's clinical experience and his painstaking study of medicine. From syndrome differentiation and treatment to the choice of main prescription of drugs, they are close to reality, stress practical results and have many original opinions. Before his death, the book was published in stages and spread widely. It was praised and welcomed by the medical community at that time and was called the "first accessible book" of Chinese medicine. Sun Ruibang wrote an inscription for this book: "I spent 50 years trying my best to write several studies on the combination of Chinese and Western; Yao's words are all pearls and jade, and Puji Cang is all over Kyushu. " The first three issues of the book were edited by him, with Fang as the purpose and attached comments. General discussion * * * generally discusses 35 kinds of diseases and syndromes such as yin deficiency, fatigue and fever, wheezing, yang deficiency, heart disease and lung disease from the aspects of physiology and medical records, and adds relevant theories and treatment methods of western medicine. Because the fourth and seventh issues were compiled by his son and his disciples, which were lectures on pharmacology, medical theory, medical records and treatise on febrile diseases respectively. The book contains 189 prescriptions, which are simple and applicable. Among them, 160 prescriptions were written by him, which has practical value and is quite popular with general Chinese medicine.

Although limited by historical conditions and world outlook, his academic thought did not get rid of the influence of reformism at that time, and he had many idealistic views, but his contribution to medicine, especially his attempt to integrate traditional Chinese and western medicine, could not be denied. He deserves to be a doctor of modern medicine who dares to practice.