Research On The Blood-pricking Therapy Of Huangdi Neijing

Objective and methodBlood-pricking therapy has a long history as early as the period of Huangdi Neijing (Huangdi’s Classic of Internal Medicine), Neijing has summarized this therapeutic experiences. This paper studies on blood-pricking therapy in Neijing, mainly on the theory of collaterals and the indications of blood-pricking therapy to observe whether the ancients decided blood-pricking points or pathological collaterals following the amount of qi and blood in the six meridians, whether the safety of the blood-pricking points keep pace with distribution of pathological collaterals. Neijing, this study is on the theory of collaterals and the indications of blood-pricking therapy. Theoretical research on collaterals divided into eight parts, collateral concept, and distribution of collaterals, physiological function of collaterals, pathological changes of collaterals, diagnostic methods and significance of collaterals, principle of blood-pricking therapy, pathological manifestation and methods to get blood-pricking areas. The study on indications of blood-pricking therapy, first step is to collect all the lists about indications of blood-pricking therapy in Neijing, second step is to frequency analysis on blood-pricking points and pathological collaterals. Research purpose is to analyze the application rule of blood-pricking therapy. Computer retrieval use software of Chinese Medicine, searching for the book of Neijing and make the Chinese words luo or xue as search term. The software of Chinese Medicine showed all the chapters in Neijing, which include the Chinese words collateral or blood. Annual retrieval use books of Explanation of Huangdi Neijing Suwen, Proofread and Translation on Lingshu. All lists with the Chinese words luo or xue are classified and sorted. Review the literature to understand the meanings of the lists. Divided the lists into two kinds, one kind refers to the theory of collaterals, the other kind refers to indications of blood-pricking therapy. At last, by the method of frequency analysis analyze the application rule of blood-pricking therapy.Content and conclusionThe content of this paper divided into four parts. Part one is blood-pricking literature research, part two is therapeutic effect and indications of blood-pricking therapy, part three is character of blood-pricking therapy in Neijing, and part four is some problems analysis about collaterals. The applying rules of blood-pricking therapy in neijing are cleaning out the blood stasis and removing the pathogenic qi. Appeared under the skin are collaterals especially superficial collaterals rather than meridians. The visible collaterals are divided into two kinds, sheng collateral caused by pathogenic qi and jie collateral caused by blood stasis. Blood-pricking therapy is effective to clear out blood stasis in sheng collateral and to remove pathogenic qi from jie collateral. The amount of bleeding is decided by the blood stasis and pathogenic qi. All the visible collaterals which attacked by blood stasis and pathogenic qi should apply the blood-pricking therapy to clear away the blood stasis and pathogenic qi. In Neijing, blood-pricking therapy is not stop until color of. the blood change into normal red, because the ancients think the changes of blood colors show the blood stasis and pathogenic qi which has been clear out. The ancients view if the blood stasis and pathogenic qi keep in the collaterals should lead great troubles to physical body, such as bi symptom. In Neijing, the amount of bleeding could be small, such as the blood drop as big as a grain of soybean. Blood-pricking therapy adopt blood-pricking on the points and pathogenic collaterals. There are22points pointed the name, the most in bladder meridian of foot-Taiyang, then in foot-Shaoyin and foot-Yangming. The amounts of points in the hand meridians are hand-Taiyin and hand-Yangming. Most points are under the knee and elbow joint,11points belong to five-shu point. The manipulation in blood-pricking pathogenic collaterals, in Neijing, the ancients would search the pathogenic collaterals by inspection, press-collaterals and pulse-taking.