Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture, Meridian Theory and Its Historical Development
Meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine in China and acupuncture therapy based on meridian theory are one of the most splendid cultural heritages of the Chinese nation. Huangdi Neijing holds that meridians are the ties connecting all organs and tissues of the human body. "Meridian, so it can decide life and death, except for all diseases, and it is indispensable to adjust the actual situation."
Meridian is used to by China people, but foreigners are puzzled about it. Because dissecting the human body according to the method of western medicine can't let us see the appearance of meridians; But Chinese medicine can cure all kinds of diseases according to its route, just as God helps them. West Renye Fang pays attention to results and curative effect. Seeing that so many patients and cases have recovered under the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, they are very anxious to find out the mystery.
According to statistics, at the beginning of this century, there were more than 7,000 foreigners studying TCM theory and TCM therapy in China, who came from 104 countries, and most of them were Europeans. A French female scholar believes that intractable diseases and chronic diseases can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture therapy, and good results can be achieved. The reason is that Chinese medicine not only treats local diseases, but also pays attention to the overall grasp of diseases and has a holistic view of diseases. And this is what western medicine lacks.
There is a story in Historical Records. Biography of Bian Que Cang Gong. It is said that when Bian Que passed by the State of Guo, he heard that the prince of the State of Guo had died and went to visit him in the palace. When asked about the death of the prince, the concubines in the palace, who are well versed in medical methods, said: The prince's blood and gas are out of season, and the disease occurs on the exterior and accumulates in the interior, so it cannot be leaked. Make yang slow and yin short, leading to sudden death. It's been crowing for half a day.
Bian Que said: Please tell the monarch that I can bring the prince back to life in Qin Yueren, Bohai Sea. Bian Que explained: My medical skill can distinguish Yin from Yang by smelling the disease. The prince is not dead. You can check it out if you don't believe me. There must be noise in the prince's ears, his nostrils must be open, and there must be residual temperature in his legs and genitals. This words, listening to that bastard dumbfounded, hurriedly invited Guo out. Explain to Guo: The prince's illness is called "corpse syncope" because "Yang enters Yin, Yang pulse falls, Yin pulse struggles, Yin and Yang are abnormal, and Qi is blocked. Therefore, the shape of the patient is static, just like death. " After that, Bian Que came to the prince's side and first gave him acupuncture to dredge his meridians. When I was a child, the prince really woke up. Bian Que used medicine to iron ribs again, and the prince could do it. Bian Que took a few mouthfuls of soup and left. In a few days, the prince really recovered.
In order to thank Bian Que for saving his life, Guo Si wanted to follow Bian Que to inherit his medical skills. Looking for Bian Que all the way. Up to now, the ruins of Qiting Temple in Sigou Village, Neiqiu County, Hebei Province still contain the ancient ginkgo tree resting under the king, which Guo looked for 2600 years ago, as well as the stone tablets and inscriptions recording this matter in later generations. The story of Bian Que's acupuncture, which brought Guo Wang back to life quickly, is a vivid record of Chinese medicine relying on his meridian theory and acupuncture to grasp the patient's condition as a whole, treat him according to syndrome differentiation, and make critically ill patients recover quickly.
Professor Zhu Zongxiang from Meridian Research Center of state administration of traditional chinese medicine Key Laboratory explained: "First, there are hidden circulating sensing lines in human body;" Second, the meridian phenomenon exists independently of the central nervous system and blood circulation; Third, the exact location of the meridians is basically consistent with the classic meridian map, and the system is considerable with modern scientific and technological means. " According to the description in Huangdi Neijing, the meridians in the human body are distributed in the deep layer of the human body, and the collaterals are distributed in the surface layer of the human body.
Professor Li, director of the Meridian Branch of the Chinese Acupuncture Association, said: "The human body has two systems: one is the material system and the other is the information system. Meridian is the information system of human body. Fu Shuo, a researcher at China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said: "Meridian western medicine has not been found. What is the reason? Because channels and collaterals are not concrete material structures, pipes, but phenomena of life activities, which only exist in the process of life activities. "According to this theory, Chinese medicine believes that human meridians are divided into the twelve meridians, that is, three yin meridians of hands and feet and three yang meridians of hands and feet, which are collectively called the twelve meridians. Eight strange meridians, namely, Du Meridian, Ren Meridian, Chong Meridian, Dai Meridian, Yang Meridian, Yang Wei, are collectively called "Eight strange meridians".
Huangdi Neijing holds that "evil guests" (that is, diseases) invade people's collaterals along loose skin, and then flood into meridians after filling. If it is not stopped, it will enter the internal organs along the meridians. Therefore, no matter what disease, it can be treated along the relevant meridians.
In the ancient medical books of China, a medical record of famous doctor Su was recorded: Yuan Hongxi, marshal of southern tour, fell ill due to busy business in summer, and ate chilled fruits and vegetables in hot weather, causing diarrhea. His medical officer prescribed Ling Wei soup with talc, Akebia stem and plantain seeds to treat diarrhea. Diarrhea is good, but it is constipation. The medical officer gave him Runchang pills again and pulled out his stomach. So repeatedly, he finally stood up to urinate, and his abdomen was swollen. Lying down to pee, everyone is helpless.
Sun Dong thinks this is caused by staying too long in summer. Because it is afternoon, the pulse condition is not accurate, and the medicine will be prescribed tomorrow morning. Yuan Hongxi grabbed him and said, "I have been ill for a long time. Today, you have to prescribe medicine for me anyway. " Sun Dong Lodge had to make him "Yi Sanyuan San Qian" fried fragrant soup. The next day, the patient's condition remained the same. Sue said, "I see! This is something wrong with the triple energizer meridian! Huangdi Neijing records that this is a disease of urine ignorance. The bladder meridian falls in the middle of the temperature, which leads to the mismatch of orifices, so you can't urinate when standing. When sleeping, the bladder falls sideways and oozes blood. Only by supplementing the vitality of the middle and second jiao, removing the damp heat of the lower jiao, and making the third jiao return to normal, urine will be more natural. " Using this concept to guide the treatment, the patient really recovered.
This is a typical medical record of treating difficult diseases under the guidance of meridian theory. Chinese acupuncture therapy is based on meridian theory to implement medical treatment. He Puren, a senior consultant of the Chinese Acupuncture Association and a professor at Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said: "If you don't understand meridians, it's wrong to speak! According to the meridian theory of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine can easily diagnose some diseases: for example, there is an acupoint below Zusanli, and you can know if it is appendicitis by clicking it. This point is called the appendix point. This is based on meridian conduction. Similarly, your stomach is not good, which is reflected in Zusanli; You have liver disease, which is reflected in Xu Qiudian. Therefore, the diagnosis cannot be separated from the meridians. "
From 2000 to 2005, the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the University of Hong Kong treated 6 1 case of stroke paralysis with acupuncture, and most of them got better, of which 65,438+05% recovered completely, and their mobility was no different from that of ordinary people. In 40% cases, there is a significant improvement, such as slightly swinging your feet or moving slowly. Zhou Jiefang, an assistant professor at the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, believes that acupuncture can stimulate cerebral vasodilation through meridians, increase blood flow, effectively dissolve thrombus and eliminate vascular obstruction. If patients receive acupuncture treatment within six months after illness, the chances of recovery can be greatly improved.
According to the German magazine Focus, in 2004, German medical scientists passed a large-scale clinical trial involving 500,000 people, which once again proved that acupuncture therapy is effective. This conclusion is expected to give a green light for acupuncture therapy to be included in the German medical insurance system. Stefan, the doctor in Berlin? Willrich confirmed to the magazine that they confirmed the efficacy of acupuncture therapy in this experimental investigation on natural therapy, which may be the largest in the world so far. In the survey, 50% migraine patients were relieved after receiving acupuncture treatment; For those patients with low back pain or knee pain, many people have been relieved to varying degrees after receiving acupuncture treatment.
In 2005, researchers from Yale University School of Medicine published a large-scale clinical research report in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, pointing out that acupuncture has a good effect on cocaine and other drug addicts. The Yale University study was led by psychologist Maglin, and the research team treated 82 heroin and cocaine addicts with acupuncture and other therapies. Maglin said that regardless of heroin addiction or cocaine addiction, acupuncture has a high placebo effect, which can reduce patients' desire for drugs. However, he admits that no one in western medicine really understands the detailed process of acupuncture restoring the self-healing function of human body. Yale's experimental report strengthens the argument that acupuncture is effective, while in the United States, there are more than 654.38+0.5 million licensed acupuncturists, which shows that acupuncture has become the mainstream medicine.
In the long-term practice of getting along with nature, the ancestors of the Chinese nation have learned the truth that "man is everywhere, the land follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows the nature" and formed a unique dialectical medical view of health care and treatment. It is different from western medicine in human body structure, pathogenesis and treatment law. As the cultural heritage of mankind, these ways of understanding and realization have been paid more and more attention and understanding by people all over the world. It also further confirms the correctness of the sentence "The more national things are, the more international they are".