Duan Fujin

This book is the Duan Fujin volume of the "Chinese Modern Masters of TCM Clinical Practice Series," edited by Li Ji and Duan Fengli and published by China Press of Traditional Chinese Medicine in August 2007 as a national key book of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. About 281,000 characters long, it is structured in four parts—biography of the physician, treatment of specific diseases, miscellaneous clinical talks, and chronology—systematically organizing Professor Duan Fujin's medical career and clinical experience. The biography narrates his path of learning, practicing, scholarship, and teaching along four threads—"art, skill, refinement, and breadth"—outlining the formation of his academic thought. Treatment of specific diseases uses disease to organize discussion, discussion to organize cases, and cases to organize remarks; it classifies conditions such as chest impediment and heart pain, arthralgia syndrome, gout, fever, cough, diabetes, headache, dizziness, insomnia, sweating disorders, stomachache, diarrhea, constipation, strangury, thyroid diseases, allergic purpura, urticaria, postoperative and chemoradiotherapy-related conditions of cancer, and menstrual disorders, listing under each condition the pattern types with corresponding treatments and formulas. Miscellaneous clinical talks collects short pieces on the sovereign-minister-assistant-courier relationship, formulas and pattern-differentiated treatment, cassia twig harmonizing the constructive and defensive levels, analysis of the Kidney Qi Pill, and insights on drug use. The chronology lists the important events of his life in chronological order. The book shows both his clinical approach—grounded in formula science and governing formulas by pattern identification and established method—and preserves a large number of original case records, making it an introductory read for understanding Duan Fujin's academic profile.