| dc.description.abstract | Treatise on impotence, written by Han Shan Zheng in the 23rd year of Guang Xu (1897) in the Qing Dynasty, is the first Chinese medicine book with the erectile dysfunction as the theme discovered today. Mr. Han believed that “if cannot be a good minister, be a good doctor.” after his failure in the imperial examinations. When the malaria occurred in his hometown, the quack doctors mistakenly caused many deaths and injuries. Therefore, he self-studied the theories of Wumen medical school, and admired Yeh Tian Shi and Xu Da Zhuang. In order to improve his medical skills, he studied medicine with Menghe medical school and Fei Sheng Fu. During this period, he realized that the hobby of invigorating kidney and tonifying yang is still the same in the folk, and hurts a lot of people, so he wrote Treatise on impotence.
Impotence is the most well-known unmentionable disease. In the medical books of the past dynasties, there are often only a few lines of text to describe the disease of
impotence, and the rationale is unclear, and even only provides prescriptions without drug properties and pharmacological descriptions. In the past, tonifying yang methods were often used for treatment. Han Shan Zheng contradicted the previous reasoning, eliminated the mistake that impotence was caused by yang deficiency, and inherited the thoughts of Zhu Zhen Heng to put forward the opinion that “sapping one’s true yang is inherent, but sapping one’s true yin is really a lot.” In today’s society, the popularity of tonifying yang and invigorating kidney is still unabated, which is actually a misunderstanding about the disease cause. Based on the original manuscript of Treatise on impotence and referring to the database of ancient medical books and Chinese medicine classics, this article studies the thoughts on body, the medical thoughts and the medication ideas in Treatise on impotence, and Mr. Han’ s outstanding features have brought many precious values to later generations of Chinese medicine physicians.
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