合方研究

Study on Combined Prescriptions

一个方剂虽能治疗数种病症,但若遇到病情较为复杂,而治疗功效范围不能涵盖全部时,只能扩充药味来解决。由于新方不易创立,便可考虑于此方剂上同时加入另一个或数个适合方剂,来扩展疗效,因为既有之方剂是经过多代医者临床实践后肯定其疗效而留下的,故采取方剂与方剂相加,成为便捷又易掌握疗效之方法。方证使用者常以单一方剂作为最基本单位,爰引类比推理法,透过已有之方证对应来而产生合方,即依循辨证论治法则,对应复杂病症所采取一种动态调整。多个关键主证系决定合方主要依据,而方与方相合可产生累加、协同、相反相成,甚至新的功效。由于古方历经多年临床验证,医者若能活用既有方剂,将能拥有更多的论治思路与方法。

Even though a single prescription may be applied in different treatments, it may not be effective in treating patients with complex conditions. In cases like this, the problem can only be solved through the expanding of medicines in a prescription. Because a new prescription is not easy to create, the usage of adding another or more appropriate prescriptions into the prescription can be considered to expand the curative effects. The existing prescriptions were left by the confirmation of their curative effects from clinical tests which made by doctors of several generations. Therefore, the combination of prescriptions is a method which is convenient and easy to control the curative effects. By analogical reasoning, prescription user often uses a single prescription as a basic unit to generate the combined prescriptions from the existing corresponding prescription. It follows the rule of treatment based on syndrome differentiation to take a dynamic adjustment for complex symptoms. Disease with multiple major symptoms is the main basis for a doctor to use combined prescriptions. The combination of different prescriptions may produce the curative effects of addition, reinforcement, antagonism, or even new effects. Since traditional prescriptions have experienced many years of clinical tests, doctors who utilize traditional prescriptions actively will have more methods and ways to treat diseases.