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Introduction of Natural Treatment:

An Understanding of Human Diseases by Chinese

medicine

Wu Mingzhi

Wu Jihua

©Wu Jihua

Moscow 2010

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BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Wu Jihua (Thomas Wu, drthomas in internet) learned Chinese

medicine from his father, Wu Mingzhi, a famous doctor of herbal therapy
in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. He is the third
generation of a doctor`s family. Grandfather, Wu Xuecheng, was an herbal
doctor, too. As the youngest generation, Dr. Wu Jihua graduated from the
School of Public Health, Shanghai Medical University in July 1988, and
then he worked in the Hangzhou Disease Control Centre as a doctor of
internal medicine.

In 2002, Wu Jihua came to Moscow Russia from China and began

his post-graduate researches in Moscow Medical Academy of Sechenov
(Московская Медицинская Академия им Сеченова), under the
leadership of Professor Kucherenko Vladimir Zakharovich (Кучеренко
Владимир Захарович). In 2007, he got a degree of PhD in the
specification of Social Medicine for his thesis paper “Health Condition of
Old People in China and Organization of Medical Service for Them”. And
he got his license of doctor of internal medicine in Moscow in 2008. His
focus of research locates on the life quality of old people in Russia and
China. At the same time, he works in his own clinic to treat patients.

Every year Dr. Wu Jihua goes back to China to work with his father
and discusses with him about the treatment and science research. He was
selected a member of National Association of Acupuncture of Chinese
Science Union in 2001. He has also worked as a doctor of acupuncture for
the Russian sport-team KAMAZ-master since 2004.

With systematized knowledge both of Traditional Chinese Medicine

(TCM) and Modern Medicine, Dr. Wu Jihua gets a lot of completed
understandings of human diseases, which help a lot in treatment of patients.

Dr. Wu Jihua was selected to be an academician of International

Economic Security Academy on 04 April 2008.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My father, Wu Mingzhi, started to write an idea of understanding

human diseases when I was still a student in Shanghai Medical University,
and he taught me a lot with his great experience of almost 40 years practice
of treatment. Special appreciation is given to Professor V.Z. Kucherenko
M.D. (Кучеренко Владимир Захарович, доктор медицинских наук член
корр. РАМН), who continuously encourage me to do what I think is right,
and Professor Y. V. Mikhilova M.D. (Михайлова Юлия Васильевна,
доктор медицинских наук), who helped guide the research study reported
in this book. I would also like to thank Dr. Marina Vladimirovna PhD
(Марина Владимировна, кандидат медицинских наук) who helped
conceptualize the study and was supportive throughout in developing
statistical analyses.

There are also a large list of colleagues, who have been working in the
area of life quality of old people as doctors and nurses in our nursing-
houses. Thank you for your support.

Finally, I would like to acknowledge all the patients, including

Olga Kharchenko, Alexander Ivanov and Konstantin Megliytsiky, who are
healing from diseases, including diabetes, depression, drug-abuse and
hypertension. They have been willing to tell all people about own
experiences. By sharing your experiences you are helping to save lives.

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FOREWORD

--A history of a doctor`s family

In December 2007, I was in Hangzhou working with my father, who

has retired from a duty of Chief Doctor of Shangcheng TCM Hospital for
almost ten years. He is now still working as a doctor in the clinic of the
most famous and biggest, in China, herbal Pharmaceutical Production
Huqingyutang in Hangzhou. As my father is now 70 years old, I suggested
him two years ago to write down his experiences in practice treating
patients. So we began to work like this: he was writing in Chinese at home
and I am translating his words into English in Moscow.

And then I found that: what he wrote was very difficult for other
people to understand, because he used many traditional contracts which
could be understood by only whose who well know Chinese history and
historical literatures. So it is my duty now to explain and write it in details.
Of course I discussed with him and almost have called him every day since
then. This made him very pleased, as I had been working on my own career
for about eight years.

I used a lot of cases from my practice to supply evidence for his

ideas and hypothesis. Father was very satisfied when he read all these. He
thought this book would bring great help for doctors, if it would be read
with attention.

My grandfather, Wu Xuecheng, was well known by people at that

time in the city Hangzhou. But I really very seldom heard about him. My
grandmother told me something about him, and it was not serious. What I
clearly remember is there was a stamp of doctor at home when I was a
child. On that stamp there were words like: National Doctor-Wu Xuecheng.
Then I got to understand that National Doctor referred to Doctor of
Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine. At his time, the European medicine
was just begun to develop in China, so there were different names for
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doctors—Western DOCTOR, and National DOCTOR, who were called
LANGZHONG before. There had been a lot of medical books in our home
before the culture revolution, but they were all burned by HongWeiBin, for
the old books were regarded as symbol that the owner loved Old Society
more than the New Society.

The evidence of his great power of medical practice was my

grandmother, who had born 11 children, including 9 daughters and 2 sons,
with my father the younger son , and she died at the age of 92 years. She
told me once, that she sat up to play cards with friends after having drunk a
cup of herbs which was cooked by grandfather, but two hours ago she had
just born a baby. Ours was a very rich and big family, with several houses
and shops and drug stores. Grandfather had two wives; my grandmother
was the younger one. The older wife also had born 7 children for him, 5
sons and 2 daughters. After his death, my grandmother had brought me to
visit the other wife of grandfather, we called her SECOND MAMA, they
were very friendly each other. They sat talking for a while and ate super
together. My grandmother was famous for her big family, so the people in
our street all called her Grandma Wu.

Grandpa died at age of 70 years. He died very early because of cancer

of urine bladder. This disease can be completely healed today, but when it
happened 45 years ago, it was still a disaster. It was time at the beginning
of 1960s, there was a great short of food in the mainland of China, grandpa
gave the only food to his children and he himself suffered a long time from
hunger. There was a story that we were told many times, which often made
father break to tears. That was the summer of 1960, father, he was still
single then, came back from the university. He had already several days
suffered from hunger. When he came into the hall, he saw that there was a
Mantou on the table, he grasped it and finished eating it in only several
seconds. When he lifted his head after having eaten it, he found that all the
family members were watching him. They all had not eaten anything the
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whole day. This is our bitter history of family, and it will be remembered
from generation to generation. Every time when we heard father talking
about this, we could feel that his heart was bleeding.

Political situation then made people think it very stupid to learn

medicine and to become somewhat expert. When my father at last realized
that he should carry on the family career on his shoulder, his father-my
grandpa- had already died of cancer and hunger. He began to learn
Traditional Herbal Medicine by himself and then he went to Professor Zhu
Guting and Professor Wu Songkang to learn from them. At that time
seldom there was such a young man who wanted to learn TCM as it was
regarded as old TOXIC from the Old society. The two professors accepted
him and had taught him all knowledge in this area before they died. They
taught him to identify the current situation of patients when it was many
complex symptoms that were found in the patient. This process is called
Bianzheng, i.e. recognizing, identification and classification. My father
became an expert and famous doctor in several years.

In 1974, died my aunt Wu Nanxing, who worked as an engineer in

the city Lanzhou. She came to Hangzhou to treat her gastric cancer in the
last years. In the process, my father got to know Professor Li Shukang, a
doctor of cancer in Zhejiang TCM Hospital. They became good friends and
my father learned a lot from him. The philosophy of Dr. Li Shukang M.D.
was that he used very heavy doses of herbs when he was sure the direction
of treatment was right. So his treatment was all the time very effective.

In 1983, my father met M.D. Professor Wu Boping of Beijing TCM

University. He taught father a large amount of accent literature, including
“Shanghan Lun” and “Jin Kui Yao Lue”, which was very difficult to
understand for most of people. For many years they work together and
became very good friends till today. Though Prof. Wu Boping is five years
older than my father, he keeps very closed tough with young people. In his
office, there are always many students from many other countries of the
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world. They all respect Prof. Wu for his wide knowledge and rich
experience in treatment.

My father had a lot of teachers, who were died already for many
years. In the years after the culture-revolution, China began to pay attention
to those old doctors of TCM who were almost above 80-year-old. They had
lost good time to record down their clinical experiences, so it was very
urgent to fulfill the task of reserving their scientifically clinical approach.
My father joined in this work and he helped those old doctors to write
down their experience. At the mean time he himself learned a lot. So my
father WU MINGZHI is not only a clinical TCM doctor but also a
theoretical research in this field. He has read so many books and learned
from so many famous doctors, so he was very modest to write down his
own. I know that in the storing-room of his apartment, there are thousands
of sheets of paper recording his treatment history. Thanks to my training in
Shanghai Medical University, I did statistic for his material, and found that
the recovery rate of his treatment is almost 90%. In other words, he is a
great doctor.

After many years of practice in treatment, my father has already

developed his own style: exact diagnostic, sufficient dose, and protect
gastric function. So when he was sitting with patient in visiting, he talked
with patient long time and with hundreds of questions. By this mean, he
gets to know them about all details relating with health. In contract with
doctors who writes prescriptions before the patients finish their complaint,
he always gets more correct diagnostic and comprehension of situation of
them. He usually talks with patient with great patience and spends a long
time to listen to them. After he had determined the diagnostic of patient’s
symptoms, he wrote down his treatment, which would sometimes give
other doctors a surprise. He gave doses of herbs not as the textbooks write,
but 2-5 times more. In his brain he remembers about 500 kinds of herbs and
their effective doses. As his opinion, the dose of herbs which are written in
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the textbooks never worked. In his reception, you can always find some
compounds which were used to protect the gastric function. He emphasized
that all the herbs bring about hazards to the stomach when they are used at
a big dose or for a long time. So he pays very serious attentions to the
protection of stomach so that the patient would keep the treatment to the
end, instead of giving up in the halfway. In the last ten years he has already
retired from his duty as a chief doctor, but he keeps on working as a doctor.
At the same time, he teaches me. It is our family tradition that he should
only teach me, his son. Only when the doctor does not have a son, he will
teach his daughter. So for my father it is a great happiness that I am a
doctor just as he is.

I myself did begin to learn traditional medicine long before my father

began to teach me. Even when I was still in the school at age of 12-13 year-
old, I had already read some of the books of herbal therapy, because I
found some very old books in the back of broad in the room of
grandmother. These books are nowadays kept by my aunt Weixing, first
younger sister of father. She has retired for over ten years after had worked
as a TCM doctor for about 30 years. She has never entered a medical
university or a college, but she learned all her knowledge of TCM medicine
home. Grandpa did not tend to teach her, but she did strongly want to learn.
She simply toke books to read with direction of grandpa. In the last years of
his life, aunt Weixing became his powerful assistant, because my father
was in Nanking studying in a University.

The style of aunt Weixing’s practice of treatment was somehow

different from my father’s. She has learned more from grandpa. Her
prescriptions were more traditional, as she often used those prescriptions,
which were prevented two thousand years ago. There have been always
two groups of TCM doctors, application of old prescriptions or not is the
difference between them. My father, for example, never used old
prescriptions as they were, he always edit them with different situation of
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patients. But aunt Weixing used these prescriptions without any edition,
because she thought there was no necessarily to edit old prescriptions, they
were simply perfect. Any edition will only reduce the effectiveness of
prescriptions. The effectiveness of treatment of aunt Weixing has not been
studied by statistic, but it was the fact that she had a lot of patients, who
believed her and never went to other doctors.

Aunt Weixing is the tenth child of grandmother and the eighth

daughter. She felt in love with a soldier of PLA China in the beginning of
Cultural Revolution in 1968, she went to a very small city with her lover
and then married with him. She worked as a doctor there. In 1975, my
father asked a high carder to help to get a transferring order for her to come
back to Hangzhou; she then began to work in Hangzhou Acupuncture
Hospital as a chief doctor. Her husband also went back. He worked in the
government of our district, and found himself a new young girl and began
to live with her. Aunt Weixing got to know about this and they devoiced
ten years ago. After her younger son, whom she decided to teach medicine,
chose to live with his rich father and did not think about medicine anymore.
She began to teach me. She taught me by a wholly different way:
remember, remember and remember. She did not explain very much, but
told me to remember. She thought that if I remembered little contents, she
would have nothing to discuss with me. She believed that: to read the book
hundreds of time, you find the meaning by yourselves. My father has
always explained me about details; he did not want me only to remember.
Aunt Weixing asked me first remember all and then she would discuss with
me. And her father taught in such a way.

So I have two teachers, my father and aunt Weixing. And they teach
me by different ways.

Two years ago, when father was diagnosed be have a cancer in urine
bladder, our family had a shock. But only in a week, father gathered his
power of spirit and began to treat himself. Of course he was done operation
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of laser to take the cancer away. And then he was treated by chemical
therapy for about a year. At the same time, he himself wrote prescriptions
to drink herbs. I once had a taste of his herbs, which was so bitter and made
me very sick. But he insisted drinking them for about a year. In the last
week of 2009, he was done the last test. There was no cancer in his body.
Thanks God, thanks mama, who took great care of him cooking every day,
and thanks himself that he decided to carry on treatment for himself by
herbs. “How can I treat myself without herbs if I am writing prescriptions
for people every day?” said he. He succeeded.

Today father is still working as a consultant of TCM clinic in

Hangzhou. He is so happy to find out that he is needed by people. Good
luck, dear Dad.

So this is our history. This is why I want to write this book. This book
will be a part of our family history, too.

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Chapter One Human Body as a Whole Reason of Hypertension

Many doctors told me that they well understood diseases of human

body. But I think when they did out a diagnostic, they forgot it. For
example, Dr. Denis wrote: (diagnostic for the patient Helena) Primary
hypertension. I once asked him, what he meant by the word – primary? He
said that there could not been found any exact reason of hypertension. So
he had put a diagnostic as primary hypertension. I asked why he did not say
that the patient was healthy since he had not found any reason of high
blood pressure. “But the blood pressure is higher than normal.” He said. I
did very respect his knowledge of medicine, but not his understanding of
human being. Since he did not find any abnormal in the patient, even with
the help of modern medical equipments and lab technology, why did not he
realize that the “abnormal” numbers of blood pressure was just normal for
this patient. Of cause he began to prescript the patient with pills and
recommended further analysis of lipid in the blood. He himself was afraid
to think that “nothing could be done”, so he absolutely wanted to do
something even though he himself was not so sure this would help or not.
But he had to do something, instead of simply speaking to the patient that
he was absolutely healthy. I thought the patient would be very happy to
hear that and completely relax himself. Maybe in next morning the number
of blood pressure would be already normal.

The change of human blood pressure happens very often. As we

know, when we go in for sport, or begin to fight, even make love, blood
pressure rises above normal and this is absolutely usual. Such a lift of
blood pressure can never be called hypertension. A Diagnostic of
hypertension refers to the blood pressure in a calm morning and in a
constant level. So when doctors could not find any reasons of a high blood
pressure, they put a diagnostic as primary hypertension.

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But we think there is no such hypertension without reason. The
reasons of a hypertension can be one or more from the following four
types.

• Fatigue is the most frequent reason of a transient lift of blood pressure or a

hypertension if you like to call it so. In other words, the body of people has
to cheer up itself to fulfill the necessary task. Such a lift of blood pressure
could always be felt by the patient. What he needs is simply to have a rest.
In Chinese medicine this is called “Deficiency of blood and Qi” , which is
meant insufficient supply of blood to the brain, so the patient feels tired
badly and wants to sleep. Sometimes there is a serious feeling of dizziness.
Even the patient’s face becomes white, and his pulse is very weak.
Chemical receptors in human brain find that there is little oxygen in the
blood because the pumping-up of blood to the head becomes insufficient.
Receptors give the heart signals through the nerve and order the heart to
work harder. Thus, blood pressure rises. This is a process of stress. There is
nothing terrible. This is a common reason of high blood pressure in people
at age of 40-50 years. The same situation occurs when there is a bone
swelling in the neck, which brings about deficiency in blood circulation of
the brain.
• Emotion, no matter good or bad, they make people more need of energy
and oxygen in the blood to work. The process has nothing to do with the
oxygen in the blood tested by receptions, but the nerves only. The raise of
blood pressure usually disappears after the patient calms down. Only when
patient is constantly in a strong emotional attack, there could be situation
that the blood pressure of patient would raise continuously. This group of
patient occurs at age of 40 years or even earlier. Transferring the focus of
thought sometimes helps. So sometimes only an hour of sport well help the
patient to release from the pressure. In Chinese medicine this is called
“Stagnation of Qi”, i.e. energy of Shao-Yang channel moves slowly
because the channel is narrowed when emotion is controlling the body.

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• Metabolism of water is one of the common reasons of high blood pressure
in all ages. The most frequent situation is the common cold. When people
catch a cold, metabolism of water which is regulated by the energy of
kidneys fails to drive the useless water out of the body. Observed in many
cases, the patients with a cold usually have an edema in the area of the neck
and back. They cannot turn their neck freely. In Chinese medicine, this is
called a syndrome of Tai-Yang (The great Yang), which locates in the
human back. Edema in the neck limits the movement of neck and decrease
the blood flow in the neck from the chest to the head. In the brain there
could be insufficient oxygen and occurs a headache in patients. As a result,
the blood pressure rises. Simple treatment by a hot shower or a sauna,
especially on the back, will well release the symptoms. In the countryside
people who caught a cold sometimes slept on the top of a stove which was
used to bake bread. After perspiring the symptoms disappear. Other
reasons, which result in the disorder of water metabolism, such as diseases
of kidney and accumulated water in the abdomen, will also cause a rise of
blood pressure. In such situations, there could be some herbs or even some
pills to drive more urine out of the body. Herbs seldom cause a disorder of
mineral sole in the body. In Chinese medicine, this is called “Water-
dampness Edema”, i.e. syndrome Tai-Yang on the surface of body.
• Hyper function of body metabolism is another reason of high blood
pressure. This means that the body of patient is in a high speed. Almost all
the organs work very actively. He has difficulty fell into sleep. He has
constant dryness in his mouth. He even has a disgusting, because there is
dryness in his stomach. This situation is much more like a car without
water in the dispeller. So he felt rapid heartbeats and dryness in the skin.
Treatment of these patients focuses on recovery the balance of level of
function within all the organs in the body. In Chinese medicine this is
called “Deficiency of Yin and Hyper activeness”. When people work in the
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constantly on a high level. In other words, they are continuously in stress.
The blood pressure of these professions also rises above normal.
So these are the most frequent reasons of high blood pressure.
Many doctors when reading Chinese medicine do not understand
what these symptoms mean in modern medicine, so they think Chinese
medicine is the whole different system from modern medicine. But I want
to say: that Chinese medicine can be understood and explained by modern
medicine’s conceptions. In this book I will try to explain you Chinese
medicine with modern conceptions, which were understood by all doctors.
Treatment of hypertension depends upon on the type of syndromes.
• Deficiency of blood and Qi can be treated by herbs which enlarge the
energy in the body and which promote the movement of blood flow. The
typical prescription is BUZHONGYIQI Tang (Decoction of herbs so
called, which enlarge the energy).
Ingredients: Dangshen—Radix Codonopsis Pilosulae; Huangqi –
Radix Astragali seu Hedysari; Baizhu—Rhizoma Atractylodis
Macrocephalae; Chenpi—Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae; Fuling—Poria;
Chaihu—Radix Bupleuri; Shengma—Rhizoma Cimicifugae; Gancao—
Radix Glycyrrhizae
• Stagnation of Qi can be treated by Decoction of Regulation Qi of Liver—
Chaihu Shugan, which help the energy to grow from centre of the body to
the surface, i.e. dispersing the energy so that not to accumulate together.
This is called anti-stagnation.
Ingredients: Chaihu—Radix Bupleuri; Zhiqiao—Fructus Aurantii;
Baishao—Radix Paeoniae Alba; Xiangfu—Rhizoma Cyperi; Qingpi—
Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride; Chenpi—Pericarpium Citri
Reticulatae; Yujin—Radix Curcumae; Chuanlianzi—Fructus Toosendan
• Water-damping Edema can be treated by herbs which drive the water out of
body to eliminate dampness without occurrence of unbalance of salts in the
blood.

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Ingredients: Guizhi—Ramulus Cinnamomi; Cangzhu—Rhizoma
Atractylodis; Baizhu—Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae; Fuling—
Poria; Zexie—Rhizoma Alismatis; Yiyiren—Semen Coicis; Chenpi—
Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae; Fangji—Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae;
Cheqianzi—Semen Plantagnis.
• Deficiency Yin can be treated by herbs which replenish the vital essence
and remove heat. This prescription is called Liu Wei Dihuang Wan. The
herbs will increase the liquid components of the body, especial intercellular
liquid.

What important here is that the reasons and treatment of hypertension

are compatible with each other. So treatment is based on the reasons of
diseases. All doctors have a dream to understand the reasons of any
diseases, which seems impossible for many diseases, including those we
believe that we have already known.

I had a 47-year-old male patient named Konstantin. He had a serious

hypertension. The blood pressure of his usually was 160/100 mmHg, with
pulse of 56-60 times per minute. He had tasted almost all kind of pills,
including CaB and Antikidnerine. But he had not received the expected
effects. His doctor called to ask me to meet the patient and try to find out
the truth.

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