This post originally appeared in The Bulletin of the Xinglin Institute 2016.1.
One of the more common modern uses of Chinese medical case histories (yi’an 醫案) is pedagogical. Cases are presented to allow the student to learn how to apply the doctrines of Chinese medicine in actual clinical situations. Continue reading From Text to Case and Back Again: The Codification of Ye Gui’s Clinical Experience in “Systematic Differentiation of Warm Disease”