[The role of textual research discipline in the formation and development of the learning of warm disease].

The theory of warm disease is basically founded in Su wen ( Plain Questions ) , with its basis laid down, and developed to mature in the Qing Dynasty. In addition to the developmental rules of medical science itself and the epidemics of warm disease at the turn of the Ming-Qing Dynasties, this theory rapidly developed and became an independent theory, the adoption of methodology of textual research also played an indispensable role. Specialists of warm disease sorted out, checked, and revised previous works, with discerning, annotating all terms and nomenclatures to raise questions, solvingdifficulties, strengthening the integrity, reliability, and precision of works on warm disease, thus deepened the knowledge of the nature of warm disease, promoted the formation of the specific system of diagnosis and treatment for the learning of warm disease.