Brief discussion on "shidong" diseases and "suosheng" diseases in Miraculous Pivot and reference to differentiate them

Abstract

According to Miraculous Pivot:meridian, the indications of twelve meridians were divided into two parts, the "shidong" diseases and "suosheng" diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners of later generation provided several assumptions to differentiate them, but a general conclusion was still not drawn. In this paper, the opinions of previous researches were summarized; based on this, the viewpoints of each opinion were reviewed, and the authors' opinion on method to differentiate "shidong" diseases and "suosheng" disease was proposed. It was concluded the differences of "shidong" diseases and "suosheng" disease in Miraculous Pivot was only based on style of the composing, not involving medical principles. The role of two parts on diagnosis and treatment was similar.