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The view of life in Huang Di Nei Jing discusses the essence of human life by exploring the origin, structure and existence of human life, elucidates the overall quality of human life by observing the state and length of human life, and summarizes the characteristics of human life by analyzing the commonalities and unique characteristics of human life with other lives. On the one hand, this life view respects the objectivity and regularity of life, and enabling people to calmly face death but actively seeking higher possibilities of life, which reflects the reasonable self-awareness of ancient doctors towards human life. On the other hand, it affirms the intrinsic value of life, advocates meeting the subjective value of life and pursuing the external value of life, and expresses the self-pursuit of exploring the existence value of human life, which makes the life view in Huang Di Nei Jing quite humanistic. This humanistic life view has important reference significance for modern medical practice. Reasonable absorbing the humanistic spirit of the life view in Huang Di Nei Jing is conducive to the return of modern medicine to the medical essence of saving the dying and healing the wounded, as well as the establishment of the medical value of people-oriented.
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[Objective] To elucidate the original meaning, connotation and clinical significance of SanJiao.[Methods] Dig out the connotation of Sanjiao theory by means of genetic research methods, it's found that the Sanjiao includes not noly the Fu Sanjiao and the Sanjiao divided by parts of the body, but also hand Sanjiao and foot Sanjiao, pointing out emphatically the foot Sanjiao's along route and acupoints,diagnosis site, disease syndrome and treatment,and it expounds the physiology and pathology of Sanjiao.[Results]The Sanjiao Fu is visible stria connecting tissue,which has the storage and diarrhea function of Fu,every place will be smooth if the Sanjiao is smooth.The Sanjiao divided by parts of the body is unified in stomach,it's actually one Sanjiao.The ministerial fire of Sanjiao roots in the stomach,it is responsible for the Yang Qi of the entire body.The ministerial fire is responsible for digesting food and generating and transformating Qi of Ying and Wei,the upper side of Sanjiao is called upper burner,also called hand Sanjiao,being responsible for the heart and lung.It has 5 functions,supplying and distributing Wei Qi, governing the skin and muscle,passing through Ying Qi and Wei Qi,regulating channel of human body,being responsible for the function of striae.The lower side of Sanjiao is called lower burner,also called foot Sanjiao, being responsible for the gasification of the renal bladder.excreting two urines,conducting dross,it involves small intestine, large intestine, bladder and kidney.[Conclusion]Sanjiao is visible and nameable,it is rooted in the spleen and stomach, located in the muscle.The Sanjiao Fu is striae between the muscle.The ministerial fire of Sanjiao is responsible for the Yang Qi of the entire body,the middle burner is responsible for digesting food and generating and transformating Qi of Ying and Wei,the upper burner is responsible for the heart and lung,the lower burner is responsible for the bladder meridian.
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Objective] To discuss the rule of operation of heaven and earth on the basis of Five Yun and Six Qi and explore the importance on Yun Qi theory. [Method] Using the method of literature studies to explore the rule of Yun Qi theory and operation of heaven and earth. [Result] The theory of Five Yun and Six Qi holds the idea that the Qi of heaven and earth is athletic and the movement is regular.Five Yun concludes Big Yun and Small Yun.Big Yun is Sui Yun,five years a cycle according to the order of‘ wood,fire,earth,gold,water’.Six Qi concludes six steps and moves in circles.Heaven Qi goes left and Earth Qi goes right.The forms of motion concludes QiJiao movement,Sui Yun up and down and so on.Whether the form is normal or not relates much to the nature climate and the human morbidity.[Conclusion ]The theory of Five Yun and Six Qi shows the rule of climate created by the operation of heaven and earth.The regular movement of Five Yun and Six Qi varies a lot,making impact on nature climate and the human morbidity,which is the incisive meaning of the theory of Five Yun and Six Qi in Nei Jing.
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According to the project of WFCMS about carrying out the comparative study on different English versions of textbooks in TCM core courses, this study has done the research for one year. The selected English versions of HUANG DI NEI JING have been compared with the Chinese version sentences by sentences, paragraphs by paragraphs. It is found that the characteristics and diversities of the English versions home and abroad with the common problems of translation have been summarized. Thus, the solution of improvement has been provided and such results could be cited as the references for the translation and external-oriented teaching of HUANG DI NEI JING.
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This article was to elucidate that the needling depth is closely related to the meridian qi, disease location, disease nature and needled area based on the records of needling depth in Nei Jing (Canon of Internal Medicine). Moreover, different depths will produce different therapeutic efficacies;meanwhile, improper depth may lead to grave consequences.
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Bloodletting therapy is one of the important methods in various traditional medicines. By analyzing the features of bloodletting indicators, apparatuses and methods recorded by the classics of traditional Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine, i.e. Huang Di Nei Jing (Internal Canon of Yellow Emperor) and Si Bu Yi Dian (Four Medical Tantras), this article pointed out the different indexes for bloodletting therapy in the two traditional medicine systems, elucidated the varied apparatuses and theories, as well as the evidences for selecting different bloodletting methods, providing theoretical supports for sharing and combining the bloodletting methods of the two traditional medicine systems.
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This article summarized the characteristics and rules of acupoints grouping recorded in Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internal Medicine), holding that it had passed important concept of acupoints grouping, formed the embryonic form, and brought up basic grouping types including distant and proximal grouping, and interior-exterior grouping, despite the small number of involved acupoints. Besides, it also paid much attention to other factors that may influence the therapeutic efficacy of acupoints grouping. Therefore, Huang Di Nei Jing has played a crucial role in guiding the development of acupoints grouping theories.
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In ancient china, four famous literatures, Huang Di Nei Jing, Nan Jing, Ben Cao, Shang Han Lun appeared, which made the foundation of oriental medicine. Huang Di Nei Jing, the book of acupuncture, is the most essential literature among these four litertures. So the question asking the identity of oriental medicine can be turned into the question about the identity of acupuncture. The investigation into origin will not be the only way to study of identity but one of the most attractive means. So we can answer with the study of origin to the question about identity. Acupuncture is comprised of theories like jing mai, qi xue and technical factors like moxibustion, bian which is like present operating knife. To trace the origin of acupuncture, we must investigate not only technical factors but also theories. But it will be impossible to trace every theories underlying the acupuncture in this small thesis. This is the reason that I restricted my attention to the principle of preventive medicine, regimen. Before the excavation of Mawangdui, the belief that acupuncture started long ago before Han period had been generally accepted. But there was not any proof proving the presence of acupuncture in the excavated literatures representing the Han period medicine. This fact announced that we must draw the time of establishment of acupuncture back after the Mawangdui literature buried in B.C. 168. But we can find the proof of the presence of acupuncture just before B.C. 168 in Shiji written by Si Mi Qian. Through these facts and inferences that we got until now, we can reach a conclusion that acupuncture would have appeared around 190-176 when Chun Yu Yi was practicing as a doctor. As you know, in the Mawangdui literature, what was associated with jing mai was moxibustion. But at the same time, moxibustion was being used just as the experience medicine technique without theory. So the moxibustion would has been about to be associated with jing mai theory in Mawangdui period. The word zhen jiu, the acupuncture and moxibustion, means there was a way to reconcile two techniques. It was by assuming bu and handing xie over to acupuncture that moxa can coexist with acupuncture. bian is used for infection treatment more than bloodletting tool in ancient china. but there is a bridge between acupuncture with bian. Acupuncture inherited its appearance from bian. It is generally believed that blood-letting is commonly developed in the classic east and west medicine. But the blood-letting could be harmonious with the old chinese belief that vitality must be retained in the body? No. The blood-letting is not generally practiced in ancient china. We can scarcely find the evidence of blood-letting in the ancient literature now in hand except Huang Di Nei Jing. Blood-Letting widened its territory in ancient chinese medicine with the help of the medical version of wuweierwubuwei principle which means 'not do anything, then everything does'. But soon lost its territory. Even in the Huang Di Nei Jing, We can find its disappearance. What is the reason? For its disharmony with chinese life idea, 'not lose essence'. Acupuncture replaced the blood-letting. It was the response of the ancient chinese healers to the regimen spirit and harmonious with chinese life view. Regimen spirit, the medical version of 'wuweierwubuwei' does not pursue cure after being ill but defense before disease. Acupuncture, meeting the demands of time, appeared in pre-han period as the association with jingmai theory which may be developed in regimen field, inheritence of moxa's esperience, and the shape of bian.
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Humans , Acupuncture Therapy/history , Bloodletting/history , Books/history , History, Ancient , Medicine, Chinese Traditional/history , Moxibustion/historyABSTRACT
The record of speech-language abnormalities scattered in some chapters of two classics of traditional Chinese medicine, Huang Di Nei Jing and Zhong Zang Jing. The descriptive modes of these abnormalities in Huang Di Nei Jing were more diversified than in Zhong Zang Jing. In aspect of clinical values, speech-language abnormalities in Huang Di Nei Jing were used to guide clinical diagnosis and treatment, such as describing body constitution and clinical mistreatments, but rare in Zhong Zang Jing.
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The academic connotation of "pathogenic factors" is discussed in this article from three aspects of etiology,diagnosis and treatment.It is considered that endogenous or exogenous pathogenic factors oppose to and destruct healthy energy.TCM pathogenic factors,obtained from "examining syndromes for causes of diseases",are diverged from physical,chemical and biological those in modern medicine.What is meant by "therapy of expelling pathogenic factors" is not a single method of dispelling toxin and killing germs,but the resort of regulating the integrated abilities of the human body fighting against pathogenic factors.