Discriminating of "Fire" in Inner Canon of Huangdi(Huangdi Nei Jing) / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

There are many concepts relevant to "fire" which have gradually formed during the academic development of the theories of traditional Chinese medicine.In Inner Canon of Huangdi(Huangdi Nei Jing),the concept of "fire" appears more than 240 times,including fire of yin and yang,fire from the five elements,fire from the six climatic factors,monarch fire and ministerial fire,minor fire and sthenic fire.All these lay the foundations of the theory of "fire" in traditional Chinese medicine.But the concepts of "fire" of human body which seldom appear in Inner Canon of Huangdi(Huangdi Nei Jing) have been widely discussed nowadays,such as heart fire,liver fire and stomach fire,etc.These have been created in the later ages.Monarch fire and ministerial fire now become two kinds of physiological fire of human body,which belong to the terminology of the doctrine on five element's motion and six kinds of natural factors in Inner Canon of Huangdi(Huangdi Nei Jing).