英文介绍中医
patients lost perspiration should avoid Losing 是三夺也；大泄之后，是blood." And "the first contraindication refers to 四夺也；新产及大血之后，emaciated patients; the second to patients lost 是五夺也。此皆不可泻。” blood; the third to patients after severe
perspirationl;the fourth to patients after
severe diarrheal and the fifth to patients of
postpartum hemorrhage. Purgation is
contraindicated in all these cases."
To sum up, the close and complicated 总之，三者的关系是relationships between the three are often shown 紧密复杂的，这常在生理in physiology and pathology, and are of great 和病理上体现，对于辨证importance in TDS. 论治非常重要。
Unit Eleven
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MERIDIANS AND COLLATERALS-THE PATHWAYS TO LINK THE WHOLE BODY(1)
经络—人体联络的通道(1)
The meridian-collateral theory is
concerned with the physiological functions
and the pathological changes of the 经络理论是有关经络系统meridian-collateral system, and their 的生理功能和病理变化以及和relationships with zang-fu organs. It is an 脏腑之间关系的理论。它是中important component of the theoretical 医理论系统的重要组成部分，system of TCM. And it is considered as a 被认为是所有中医临床学科特theoretical basis of all clinical subjects of 别是针灸、推拿和气功的理论TCM, especially that of acupuncture, 基础。另外，它还指导其它分moxibustion, tuina and qigong. Besides, it 支学科的临床实践。 guides the clinical practice of other
branches of TCM.
The meridians and collaterals are pathways
along which qi and blood circulate through
the whole body. The meridians are the major 经络是气血循行全身的通trunks of the meridian-collateral system and 道。经是经络系统的主干，纵run longitudinally within the body, while the 行于人体，而络是经的分支，collaterals are the branches of the meridians 呈网状分布于全身。因此，经and are reticularly distributed over the 络沟通人体脏腑肢节，上下内whole body. Hence, the meridians and 外，使人体的脏腑组织成为一collaterals, connecting the zang-fu organs 个有机整体。 with extremities, the upper with the lower
and the internal with ihe external portions
of the body, make all the body's organs and
