Treatise on Pathogenesis
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CORE DEFINITION
Written by Chao Yuanfang in the Sui Dynasty. It is the first monograph in China on etiology, pathogenesis, and syndrome differentiation. It does not discuss treatment, but specifically explains 'how diseases come about.'
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Debug manual. If you only know how to prescribe but not how to diagnose, read this book. It describes in extreme detail the logic of each step in the occurrence of a disease (how the bug is generated). This is a required course for improving diagnostic reasoning ability.
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It focuses on 'where the disease comes from' rather than 'how to treat it,' breaking down the disease into a step-by-step inferable generation chain (pathogenesis), serving as a causal map for diagnosis.
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