Abstract
Based on related elaboration of the Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine, this article analyzed and summarized the clinical meaning, application principles and the basic operating methods of Traditional Acupuncture (TA), and demonstrated that the TA is completely different to modern needle stimulation. TA has a specific application background, direct-viewing thinking mode and clear operational connotation. The key of operation in TA is how to grasp and control Qi, which typically reflect the unique image of the Chinese civilization with intuitive perceptual characteristics of thinking. In contrast, modern needle-stimulation uses needles as a stimulus, to activate a series of physical and functional reactions in a body. There have great differences between the two. It was indicated that correctly understanding with the basic principle and specific meaning of TA is very important in acupuncture clinical and research works.
Highlights
Based on related elaboration of the Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine, this article analyzed and summarized the clinical meaning, application principles and the basic operating methods of Traditional Acupuncture (TA), and demonstrated that the TA is completely different to modern needle stimulation
The key of operation in TA is how to grasp and control Qi, which typically reflect the unique image of the Chinese civilization with intuitive perceptual characteristics of thinking
Traditional Acupuncture (TA) therapy has a different definition from Needle-Stimulation
Summary
Traditional Acupuncture (TA) therapy has a different definition from Needle-Stimulation. Acupuncture therapy was employed in the Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine to illustrate medical theories, therapeutic principles and methods. This classic has laid the groundwork for related fields, and subsequent opinions in acupunctures from general physicians were merely adding to it through for example, simplifying and clarifying the Meridian and Collateral principles, creating new puncturing methods, to compare medicine with the functions of acupoints and to combine the Chronotherapy with acupuncture, etc. This article analyzed and summarized discussions in the Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine as the evidence to conclude the clinical meaning, application background, therapeutic principles and operational methods of TA therapy. Lation will provide a dependable reference for today’s clinical practices and research in acupuncture
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