英文摘要 |
The rise of acupuncture and moxibustion can be traced back to more than two thousand years ago. Usually the knowledge of both medical skills has been accumulated and handed down to later generations by four ways. The first way is family heritage. The second way is disciple heritage. The third way is common practices found among people. The fourth way is the heritage of acupuncture literature and canons. Of course, the most influential legacy of acupuncture and moxibustion comes from canons. Earliest canons such as Foot and Arm Eleven Meridian Moxibustion Classic, Ying Yang Eleven Meridian Moxibustion Classic, Huangdi's Internal Classic, Classic of Difficult Issues, and A-B Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion have the greatest impact on later generations. The later acupuncture and moxibustion literature just follow, revise, and add extra information and data to make this ancient medical technique more colorful and better. This essay is to concentrate on acupuncture canons from earliest to the present literature as a way to show how knowledge and practice of both acupuncture and moxibustion are handed down from generation to generation. Thus, from an ocean of diversified canons, seven fields of studies are discussed to show some indispensable ingredients of acupuncture and moxibustion canons: the number of acupoints, depth of inserting needles, rhymed songs and odes of acupuncture, specific acupoints, eight extra meridians and eight confluent acupoints, time therapy of acupuncture and moxibustion, and holistic therapy of acupuncture and moxibustion. In these analyses, legacy and clinical applications are the focal points to show the gradual progress of their reorganization found in these canons. |