Study on the shu-points of five zang (viscera) for treatment of insomnia based on the theory of the five zang (viscera) storing vitality / 中国针灸

ABSTRACT

According to Prof. DONG Gui-rong's law of syndrome differentiation of "viscera, yin and yang, qi and blood, deficiency and excess" in internal injury diseases and academic thought of syndrome differentiation of regulating five zang vitality for treatment of insomnia, the author consults a great number of ancient and modern literature of TCM, analyzes the controlling functions of five zang storing vitality on whole organism and the relation between heart vitality and brain vitality, and explain the basis of acupuncture at five-zang shu-points of the Gallbladder Channel to regulate vitality of five zang-organs for treatment of insomnia from intension and functions of five zang vitality, whole regulative mechanism of five zang vitality, the cause and pathogenesis of insomnia of over or too less five zang-vitality induced by pathogenic factors, and according to typing and syndrome differentiation of five zang vitality, theory and principle of acupoint selection, so as to establish and put forward the method and theory of acupuncture at five zang shu-points of the Gallbladder Channel for treatment of insomnia.