张锡纯解生石膏之发汗

Zhang Xichun's Explanation of Effect of Sweating of Gypsum

张锡纯善用石膏,反对"石膏大寒慎用"及"石膏止汗不发汗"之说,尤尊《神农本草经》及《名医别录》所言石膏微寒之性与发汗之功,用量尤大。其提出白虎汤治疗伤寒入里化热证的原理有赖于石膏清热发汗之功,藉此拓展应用,明确阳明实热留滞经腑及阳明之热已尽入腑二证的治法,临床意义尤大。

Zhang xi-chun has a good use of gypsum,opposed the says of "gypsum is cold and use it with caution"and "gypsum hidroschesis don't sweat".Especially complied with The Holy Husbandman's Classic on Roots and Herbs and Supplementary Records of Famous Physicians,which says that the nature of gypsum was small cold and the effect of it was sweating.To sum up,the quantity of gypsum was a large number when treated an illness.Put forward of Baihu Tang in the treatment of typhoid fever in chemical heat depends on the principle of the gypsum heat sweating,and expanded the application of two syndrome of TCM,which concluded clear Yangming real heat retention by the inner parts and the heat have made into the inner parts of viscus.And it has a especially big clinical significance.