Categories of Indications
for the Very Early Chinese Materia Medica :
Wu Shi Er Bing Fang (Prescriptions for Fifty-two Diseases)
(written
between 1065 and 771 BC)
|
Disease |
No. of |
|
Skin
ulcers and carbuncles |
42 |
|
Urinary
problems |
29 |
|
Hernia |
24 |
|
Wounds
and injuries |
17 |
|
Frostbite |
14 |
|
Snake
bites |
13 |
|
Warts/tumors |
10 |
|
Internal
hemorrhoids |
9 |
|
External
hemorrhoids |
4 |
|
Poison
arrow wounds |
7 |
|
Lacquer
sores (dermatitis) |
7 |
|
Convulsions
from wounds |
6 |
|
Male
sexual disease(s) |
5 |
|
Mad dog
bites |
3 |
|
Infantile
convulsions |
2 |
|
Malaria |
2 |