Standardized Study And The Rules Of Usage On Navel Therapies From Ancient And Modern Documents

Objective: I sum up the general law between manipulations of different navel therapyies and the diseases to conclude the suitable indications of various navel therapies. And do the standard and feasibility study of the specific manipulations of navel therapy to provide more accurate documents for modern reseach and clinical application. In this way, the method of scientific research and clinical application will have evidence. Methods: 36 related books out of 703 ancient books before Qing dynasty which come from Chinese Medical Tantras and papers published at national and provincial magzines from 1989 to 2008 which come from vip chinese journal database are collected. There are 1063 papers which are related with indications of navel therapy. Then we summarize the times of indications of various navel therapies to find out the main indications of navel therapies. Conclusion: By analyzing the ancient and modern documents, we deduce about 200 kinds of diseases related to eight systems of the whole body which are suitable for navel therapy and prove the hypothesis that the navel connects with five zang-organs, six fu-organs, the twelve regular meridians and eight extraordinary meridians, it is the general pivot of yin and yang qi transformation and the best action point to regulate the whole body and the navel therapy can treat the diseases of whole body. Based on the differences of history, manipulations and drug application characteristics of navel therapy, we sum up the specific feasible manipulation steps of the TCM navel therapy.