The “Treatise on the spleen and stomach” (Pí Wèi Lùn) as the first record of multiple sclerosis in the medical literature – A hypothesis based on the analysis of clinical presentation and herbal medicine
Background: The “Treatise on the spleen and stomach” (Pí Wèi Lùn) is the work of the scholar and physician Li Gao (Jin-Yuan dynasties, 1115–1368 C.E., China). Li Gao described a clinical presentation that today would fall under the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and proposed the treatment with...
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Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-05-01
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Series: | Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2225411019307849 |