Line 1 in (wen bing tiao bian, 温病条辨)
一, Warm disease includes wind warmth, warm heat, warm epidemic, warm toxin, summerheat warmth, damp warmth, autumn dryness, winter warmth, and
warm malaria.
This nine disease, as
stated above, are almost mentioned in Shang Han Li 《伤寒例》 of Wang Shu He (王Wang Shu He (王叔和)), when he descirbes [warm disease family], he used to quote the
original text of Nan Jing 《难经》. When we refer disease according to the changes of seasons, there
is realy those disease, Wang Shu He would also have seen those disease when he
treats disease. But Wang Shu He (王叔和) could not made
the treatment of warm disease and he desecribes the disease in the Shang Han Li
(伤寒例), he confused
warm disease with cold damage. He considered that the method for treatement of
external contraction in Shang Han Lun is the best way, and in the end, he
gathered every external contraction in Shang Han Li (伤寒例) and treated them with the treatment
of cold damage. Posterity also cannot break down Wang Shu He’s theory and follows
this conventionally for a millennium, therefore disaster never end. This is
because Wang Shu He (王叔和) left behind wronf precedent. No
wonder Fang You Zhu (方有执) and Yu Jia Yan (喻嘉言) argue against Wang Shu He (王叔和). But many doctors argued with Wang Shu He (王叔和) but did not present an alternative treatment for warm disease. Although
Yu Jia Yan (喻嘉言) made a treatment for warm disease, but he still
remains in the category of cold damage, what he causes damage is not different
with Wang Shu He (王叔和), therefore posterity gets
to have nothing to depend on. This book establishes the treatement for warm
disease in detail through detailed survey about old and new things, but cold
damage still follows the method of Zhang Zhong Jing (張仲景). Wang Shu He (王叔和) provides a clue, Li Dong Yuan (李東垣), Liu
He Jian (劉河間), Wang An Dao (王安道), Wu You Ke (吳又可), Yu Jia Yan (喻嘉言), and Ye Tian Shi (葉天士) state, and then I
polish thie well.
Wind warmth [disease] occurs in early spring, at that time, yang qi begins
to outflow, [wind qi ] of reverting
yin gets exuberant, wind evil with warmth causes disease. Warm heat [disease] occurs in
from late spring to early summer, at that time, yang qi gets exuberant and exuberant warmth becomes
heat [disease]. Warm epidemic is that pestilential qi spreads, often this is
combined with foul turbidity. If this is the prevalence of the disease, every
house is infected. Warm toxin[disease], indicates
warm disease with various toxin in which foul turbidity is severe. Summerheat warmth [disease] occurs in the middle of summer, in
other words, this is summerheat disease with severe heat [evil]. Damp warmth [disease] occurs in from late summer to early autumn, heat evil engenders in damp evil,
in other words, this is summerheat disease with severe damp. In autumn
dryness [disease], metal qi of autumn is exuberant, dry qi causes disease. In
case of winter warmth [disease],
it must be cold in winter but is warm, yang qi is unable to stored, warm evil
invades people and causese disease. Warm malaria [disease] occurs when the people who is in yin
vacuity is damaged by the evil of summerheat. In that case, yang qi cannot be restrained by yin qi, so only yang
qi gets exuberant and causes disease.
If
seeing every doctors discourses on warm disease, those discourses tend to fail
to check another thing while checking one thing. Therefore this book presents an
outline at the first part and I named it Wen Bing Tiao Bian (溫病條辨), Systematized Identification of Warm)
一、温病者∶有风温、有温热、有温疫、有温毒、有暑温、有湿温、有秋燥、有冬温、有温疟。
此九条，见于王叔和《伤寒例》中居多，叔和又牵引《难经》之文以神其说。按时推病，实有是证，叔和治病时，亦实遇是证。但叔和不能别立治法，而叙于《伤寒例》中，实属蒙混，以《伤寒论》为治外感之妙法，遂将一切外感悉收入伤寒例中，而悉以治伤寒之法治之。后人亦不能打破此关，因仍苟简，千余年来，贻患无穷，皆叔和之作俑无怪见驳于方有执、喻嘉言诸公也。然诸公虽驳叔和，亦未曾另立方法，喻氏虽立治法，仍不能脱却伤寒圈子，弊与叔和无二，以致后人无所遵根据。本论详加考核，准古酌今，细立治法，除伤寒宗仲景法外，俾四时杂感，朗若列眉；未始非叔和有以肇其端，东垣、河间、安道、又可、嘉言、天士宏其议，而瑭得以善其后也。
风温者，初春阳气始开，厥阴行令，风夹温也。温热者，春末夏初，阳气弛张，温盛为热也。温疫者，厉气流行，多兼秽浊，家家如是，若役使然也。温毒者，诸温夹毒，秽浊太甚也。暑温者，正夏之时，暑病之偏于热者也。湿温者，长夏初秋，湿中生热，即暑病之偏于湿者也。秋燥者，秋金燥烈之气也。冬温者，冬应寒而反温，阳不潜藏，民病温也。温疟者，阴气先伤，又因于暑，阳气独发也。
按诸家论温，有顾此失彼之病，故是编首揭诸温之大纲，而名其书曰《温病条辨》。