Discussion of the generative nature of fire in connection with the concept of "six pathogenic factors all can transform into fire" and its evolution
Theoretical Studies|更新时间:2023-06-05
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Discussion of the generative nature of fire in connection with the concept of "six pathogenic factors all can transform into fire" and its evolution
Journal of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese MedicineVol. 46, Issue 5, Pages: 617-621(2023)
作者机构:
北京中医药大学中医学院 北京 100029
作者简介:
Prof. JIA Chunhua, Ph.D., Doctoral Supervisor. School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, No.11, Beisanhuan Donglu Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029. E-mail: jiachunhua125@163.com
基金信息:
National Natural Science Foundation of China(82074582)
LI Zhan, JIA Chunhua. Discussion of the generative nature of fire in connection with the concept of "six pathogenic factors all can transform into fire" and its evolution[J]. Journal of beijing university of traditional chinese medicine, 2023, 46(5): 617-621.
DOI:
LI Zhan, JIA Chunhua. Discussion of the generative nature of fire in connection with the concept of "six pathogenic factors all can transform into fire" and its evolution[J]. Journal of beijing university of traditional chinese medicine, 2023, 46(5): 617-621. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-2157.2023.05.004.
Discussion of the generative nature of fire in connection with the concept of "six pathogenic factors all can transform into fire" and its evolution
Fire is of great significance to human civilization
and its generative nature refers to the important property that fire can only be generated by burning combustible materials. Ancient physicians interpreted disease pathogenesis through metaphorical cognition
mapping the generative nature of fire to the fire pathogen. Generating fire-heat pathogen under the influence of wind
cold
dampness
dryness
traditional Chinese medicine practitioners eventually developed the concept that "six pathogenic factors all can transform into fire". This article first analyzes the formation process of the generative nature of natural fire. We suggest that because the generative nature of fire is deeply rooted in history
ancient physicians tended to place the metaphorical cause of disease
the fire pathogen
in the position of Y when describing the transformation and generation process of pathogenic factors that have the same structure of X∧C→Y
thus constituting the structure of transformation into fire. Then
we discuss the formation and significance of the concept of "six pathogenic factors all can transform into fire"
which is a representative pathogenesis
and reveal the specific empirical basis of wind transforming into fire
cold and dampness transforming into fire-heat
and extreme dryness transforming into fire
and we analyze the contribution of each of them to other "transforming into fire" pathogeneses. Finally
we show that the widespread existence of the structure of transforming into fire and the absolute predominance of "transforming into fire" pathogenesis in fire and heat pathogenesis are likely due to the generative nature of fire
which in turn has limited the ability of traditional Chinese practitioners to understand the "transforming into fire" pathogenesis as similar to "six pathogenic factors all can transform into fire" .