(Department of Prescriptionology, College of Oriental Medicine, Dongeui University)
This thesis aims to provide an analytical basis for existing or new prescriptions based on the theory for properties and tastes of Korean oriental herbal medicines. To this end, prescriptions presented in the Various Changes in the Dominations of the Six Energies and their Relations with the Diseases of Plain Questions were analyzed based on the theory for properties and tastes of Korean oriental herbal medicines in Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine. This thesis focused on symptoms and prescriptions based on the theory for properties and tastes of Korean oriental herbal medicines, which were described in tire Various Changes in tire Dominations of tire Six Energies and their Relations with the Diseases of Plain Questions with regard to the year when Taeeum is affecting the earth energy and the dampness energy is partially over-abundant. Those symptoms and prescriptions originate from the theory of the five elements and six climates. The symptoms were analyzed from the perspective of physiology. The prescriptions were first analyzed based on the theory for properties and tastes of Korean oriental herbal medicines in Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine. Then, a mix formula of oriental medicines pursuant to those prescriptions was studied. Lastly, established prescriptions, which were in conformity with the above prescriptions, were selected. From the physiological point of view, symptoms with regard to the year when Taeeum is affecting the earth energy and the dampness energy is partially over-abundant can be, based on the theory of the five elements and six climates, diagnosed as the symptoms from impaired kidney due to excessive dampness energy. Established prescriptions pursuant to prescriptions based on the theory for properties and tastes of Korean oriental herbal medicines can be broken down into the following: Poria powder with five herbs (Oryeongsan); Divine black bird decoction (Jinmootang); Tetrandra and astragalus decoction (Banggihoanggitang); Licorice, dried ginger, poria and bighead atractylodes decoction (Gamgangryeongchooltang); Spleen-reinforcing powder (Shilbeesan). Therefore, symptoms of six kinds of weather presented in the Various Changes in the Dominations of tire Six Energies and their Relations with tire Diseases of Plain Questions can be analyzed from the physiological point of view. As a result, in addition to the methodology that analyzes existing prescriptions within the boundary of the theory for properties and tastes of Korean oriental herbal medicines in Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine, it is expected that a theoretical basis for new prescriptions can be provided by analyzing established prescriptions based on prescriptions from the theory for properties and tastes of Korean oriental herbal medicines.