Notes on Classical Chinese Medicine

In today's society, one dollar of drug dosage is equal to 3.35 Grams or 3.75 Grams. If rounded up, the dosage is 3 grams or 4 grams. Ancient medical books, including Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases, use kilograms, dou, liters, and liang. This is because at that time, they were based on the volume and weight of the container carrying the medicine. Some medicines were very light and were packed in a container of one kilogram or one liter. The weight was weighed on a scale. After subtracting the weight of the container, it was probably only 3 grams, which is equivalent to 1 qian used today. For example, if you go to the drugstore and buy 6 grams of Imperata cogongrass root, you will get a big bag. It is difficult to fit this medicine alone into the medicine pot. Therefore, the drug dosages recorded in ancient medical books: 1 kilogram, 1 dou, 1 liter, and 1 tael refer to the capacity of the container, which is equivalent to 3 or 4 grams when converted into grams of medicine sold in modern pharmacies. If you insist on taking the kilograms, dou, liters, and taels used for drug dosages in ancient medical books as the weighed dosages when buying rice, flour, and oil today, it will kill people, and it will also misunderstand the meaning of ancient Chinese medicine.

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