China's earliest existing beriberi books "beriberi alopecia always"

     Chinese medicine for beriberi understanding is early, in neijing has already dabbling. When the nest yuan square the sui dynasty the pathogenic syndrome "volume 13 of the earliest and quite comprehensively designed article discusses for beriberi. Think beriberi cause "are caused by feeling the wind poison." Display that clinical symptoms also complicated, "since knee to feet have unfeeling, or if, or Yin Yin polio-free, like a moth flanges, or toes that's knee, or feet voluminous tibial flexor weak and do not..." . Also warned that the disease should be different from general disease, early detection and treatment expeditiously.

     For different situations take different approaches to treatment and take "life soup" and "sequel with the menservants intraoperative soup" and "bamboo drain soup", "the wind lead soup" and so on. And points out the disease occurs in "topography is low, rheumatism heavier" jiangdong lingnan, etc.

     In the later tang sun simiao also YaoFang daughter of discusses the beriberi, explicitly pointed out that beriberi is mainly due to lack of nutrition of the northern and southern dynasties, the book column has caused deep division since such famous than 80 square, its time for the treatment of beriberi, including recorded fairly thorough with Jane and easily contain lots of vitamins b's valley treatment such as beriberi medium-vigorous vines. Don WangDao the necessary written in "the secret to Taiwan, including relevant beriberi content accounted for a tenth of that book, with two rolls of length of the disease are discussed, the history, symptoms, treatment, prevention makes detailed discussion. This suggests that the fourth century population after beriberi multiple warmth-loving creature, book comprises the many folk treat beriberi partial prescription medicines such as feta and soybeans.

     Behind many physicians also to beriberi, this paper studies and discusses on its northern famous to the 11th century) tung brook (the beriberi alopecia Tony always "(2 volumes) monographs differentiation beriberi. This is our country the oldest beriberi books.

     The beriberi alopecia always "original book 1 (already are. Today the compiled deposit for when the series of si ku quan shu, yongle dadian for 2 (chromatography. The book widely collected from neijing, books, since the tang and song dynasty in the home of materia medica, were discussed beriberi of contents of beriberi qi-deficiency (also include lower limb arthritis kind of disease) etiology,, treatment have new insights. According to the signs, seasons, and regional characteristics, a systematic discussion on the book and summarized, with internal and external square 46 first, and some YiAn attached. Is a research beriberi important works.