The Neijing Acupuncture Diarrhea

Acupuncture is one of the important methods dealing with the diseases of our traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy.Strengthening the body resistance and eliminating the pathogenic factors is the basic principle of treatment diseases. And reinforcing and reducing methods of acupuncture is an concrete operation to carry out the acupuncture treatment of reinforcing and reducing . The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (Huangdineijing for short) is the research object of this paper .The manipulations of reinforcing and reducing methods of acupuncture and related theories are research contents of this paper.The main methods of reinforcing and reducing acupuncture are the reinforcing and reducing achieved by means of respiration and the reinforcing and reducing achieved by rapid and slow insertion and withdrawal of the needle,the reinforcing and reducing by keeping the hole open or close .Ying and Sui is the substitutive call of the reinforcing and reducing methods of acupuncture in the book of the Huangdineijing .Ying means reducing method and Sui means reinforcing method .Deqi is the basic of carrying out the reinforcing and reducing methods of acupuncture .It was advocated that Qi beneath the needle shoud be distinguished before carrying out the reinforcing and reducing methods of acupuncture .Qizhi is the stage that Yin Yang and Qi blood have been reconciled after manipulations of the reinforcing and reducing and so the needles can be removed out of the body after Qizhi . Controlling the spirit is always run through the course of carrying out the reinforcing and reducing methods of acupuncture .It is emphasized in the book of Huangdineijng that controlling the spirit plays an important role during carrying out the reinforcing and reducing methods of acupuncture .There are several evidences for choosing the reinforcing and reducing methods in the book of Huangdineijing: (a)according to the Xu(the insufficiency or asthenia) and Shi(the excess ) of the syndromes;(b)according to the pulse of Renying and Cunkou to...