[Origin and development of HUA Tuo's acupuncturing sensation technique]

Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2021 May 12;41(5):570-4. doi: 10.13703/j.0255-2930.20200328-k0003.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Based on HUA Tuo's personal experience, teaching experience, works as well as ancient books of similar times, this paper discusses the origin and development of HUA Tuo's acupuncturing sensation technique, and analyzes the reasons why this technology has been lost. The formation of this technique is influenced by the descriptions of "regulating qi " "arrival of qi " and "reaching qi" in Neijing (Internal Canon of Medicine) and Nanjing, and combines with the clinical summary of conduction direction and specific position of acupuncturing sensation. Due to HUA Tuo's personal experience, the inheritance characteristics of acupuncture technology and the background of his times, this technology may have been lost, but it still affects the acupuncture concept and practice of "qi reaching affected area" in later generations.

以华佗的个人经历、师承授徒、著作及相近时代的古籍为线索,探讨华佗针刺感传技术的源流,并分析其失传的可能原因。这项技术的形成,受到了《内经》《难经》中“调气”“得气”“气至”等描述的影响,同时结合了临床上对针感传导方向和具体停留位置的总结。由于华佗本人的经历、针刺技术的传承特点以及当时的时代背景,这项技术可能失传了,但是仍然影响了后世“气至病所”的针刺理念和实践。.

Keywords: HUA Tuo; acupuncturing sensation; fail to be handed down from past generations; technique.

MeSH terms

  • Acupuncture Therapy*
  • Acupuncture*
  • Books
  • Medicine, Chinese Traditional
  • Qi
  • Sensation