The essence of acupuncture effects-allocation of life substance / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

This article points out that there are the same substances between the Zang-fu organs and tissues, the essence of the correlation between the acupoints and the organs is transferring the same substances between the correlative Zang-fu organs and tissues to regulate their functions. The rule of transfering the same substances relates to the property of five-elements of five-organs. The viewpoint provides the basis for multi-syndromes in one disease and many kinds of diseases having same syndromes in TCM, or multi-acuponits treating one disease(organ) and one acupoint treating many diseases(organs) in acupoints effects, which has important signifi cance for understanding the intension of‘regulating qi' by stimulating the acupoints and treating disease with the points or compounding the points properly in clinic.