illustrated中医常用英语词汇

中医常用词汇

01

中医常用词汇

Terms Commonly Used in

TCM

中国医药学

Traditional Chinese Medicine

中医基础理论

Basic theory of traditional

Chinese medicine

临床经验

clinical experience

辨证论治

treatment based on syndrome

differentiation

本草

materia medica, herbs

中药

Chinese materia medica, Chinese medicinal

herbs

四气五味

four properties and five tastes

针灸

acupuncture and moxibustion, acumox

各家学说

theories of different schools

汗法

diaphoresis, sweating therapy

下法

purgative therapy, purgation

吐法

emetic therapy, vomiting therapy

补土派

school of invigorating the earth

病因学说

etiology

养生

health- cultivation,

医疗实践

medical practice

治疗原则

therapeutic principles

寒凉药物

herbs of cold and cool nature,

cold-natured herbs

滋阴降火

nourishing yin to lower/reduce fire

滋水涵木

enriching water to nourish wood

瘀血致泻

disease caused by blood stasis

先天之精

congenital essence

形与神俱

inseparability of the body and spirit

开胃

promoting appetite

脉象

pulse conditions, pulse pattern

邪正关系

states of pathogenic factors and

healthy qi

发热恶寒

fever and aversion to cold

治未病

prevention of disease

脏腑

zang-organs and fu-organs, viscera

功能活动

functional activities

形神统一

unity of the body and spirit

阴阳失调

imbalance of yin and yang

条达舒畅

free development

延年益寿

prolonging life, promising longevity

养生防病

cultivating health to prevent disease

正气

healthy qi, vital qi

病邪

pathogenic factor

整体观念

concept of holism

疾病的本质与现象

nature and manifestations of

disease

阴阳的相对平衡

relative balance between yin and

yang

疾病的发生与发展

occurrence and development of

disease

同病异治

treating the same disease with different

therapies

异病同治

treating different diseases with the same

therapy

五脏

five zang- organs, five zang-viscera

六腑

six fu-organs, six fu-viscera

经络系统

system of meridians and collaterals

余热未尽

incomplete abatement of heat

有机整体

organic wholeness/integrity

表里关系

exterior and interior relation

开窍

opening into

自然现象

natural phenomena

哲学概念

philosophical concept

对立统一

unity of opposites

相互消长

mutual waning and waxing

头身疼痛

headache and body pain

久痢脱肛

proctoptosis due to prolonged

dysentery

养阴清热

nourishing yin and clearing away heat

清肺热

clear away lung-heat

湿邪犯肺

pathogenic dampness invading the

lung

清热泻火

clearing away heat and reducing fire

腠理

muscular interstices, striae, interstitial

space

水湿停滞

retention of water and dampness,

water retention

癃闭

retention of urine

气血运行

circulation/flow of qi and blood

阴阳转化

transformation between yin and yang

阳消阴长

yang waning and yin waxing

阴胜则阳病

predominance of yin leading to

disorder of yang

阴胜则阳病

an excess of yin leads to deficiency

of yang

阳胜则热

predominance of yang generating

heat

寒极生热

extreme cold generating heat

热极生寒

extreme heat generating cold

阳损及阴

impairment of yang involving yin

阴液不足

insufficiency of yin-fluid

病机总纲

general principle of pathogenesis

病机

pathomechanism, pathological mechanism

阴阳胜复

alternative predominance of yin and

yang

虚寒证

deficiency- cold syndrome

扶阳退阴

strengthening yang to reduce yin

祛风散寒

expelling/eliminating wind to

dispersing cold

消导积滞

promoting digestion and removing

food retention

潜阳熄风

suppressing yang to quench wind

五行学说

theory of five elements

运动变化

motion and variation

正邪相争

struggle/combat between healthy qi

相互转化

mutual transformation

阴阳属性

nature of yin and yang

相互联系

interrelation

相互制约

mutual restraint, mutual

restriction/interaction

动态平衡

dynamic equilibrium

阴平阳秘

yin and yang in equilibrium

阴阳的互根互用

interdependence of yin and yang

相互依存

interdependence

阴阳离绝

separation of yin and yang

相反相成

opposite and supplementary to each

生理功能

physiological functions

病理变化

pathological changes

临床诊断

clinical diagnosis

阳胜生外热

exuberance of yang leading to exterior

heat

阳中求阴

obtaining yang from yin

绝对偏盛

absolute predominance

阳虚则寒

yang deficiency leading to cold

阴阳俱损

simultaneous consumption of yin and yang

阴阳两虚

simultaneous deficiency of both yin and

yang

阳虚发热

fever due to yang deficiency

阴阳自和

natural harmony between yin and yang

木乘土

the wood over-restrains the earth

木火刑金

wood-fire impairs the metal

金水相生

generation between the metal and water

生克制化

interrelationship between generation and

restriction

制则生化

restriction ensuring generation

母病及子

disease of the mother-organ affecting the

child- organ

传变

transmission of disease, progress of disease

子病犯母

disease of the child-organ affecting the

mother-organ

肝肾精血不足

insufficiency of liver and kidney