在中醫書籍中,有着很豐富的關於痢疾的紀載,但它所謂的痢疾,含義是很廣泛的,它包括了一切以「下痢紅白,裹急後重」爲主徵的疾病。至於痢疾的微生物病原,主要的有阿米巴原虫和赤痢桿菌之類,這些,在中醫過去,可說是完全無知。中醫對痢疾的微生物病原,雖然完全無知,但在臨床上的治療成績,却是不容否認的。祇要客觀地從中醫的文獻記載,以及現有的中醫療效中去審察一 In traditional Chinese medicine books, there is a wealth of records on dysentery. However, its so-called diarrhea has a very broad meaning. It includes all diseases characterized by “diarrhea, red and white, and acute and later weight”. As for the microbial pathogens of dysentery, the main ones are amebic protozoa and erythromycin bacilli and the like. These can all be said to be totally ignorant in the past. Chinese medicine on the microbial pathogens of dysentery, although completely ignorant, but the clinical treatment, but it is undeniable. As long as objectively from the traditional Chinese medicine records, as well as the existing efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine to examine one