Wu Wen-Qing
China Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Literature, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.
Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi. 2009 May;39(3):154-8.
This article mainly expounds on the recognition and denomination of drastic cholera in modern Traditional Chinese medicine. After cholera spread into China, some doctors found that this disease was different from "Huoluan" recorded in ancient Chinese medical books. They began to do research on the subject and invented new disease terminology such as Diaojiaosha, Bieluosha, Fuyin, Shiyihuoluan etc. Thereafter, more and more doctors of TCM began to accept the nomenclature and connotation of cholera in western medicine. Huoluan, the ancient TCM terminology has been given a new connotation which has been used until now, becoming the formally recognized name of the drastic epidemic disease.
