Xu Chun-Juan, Chen Rong, Yang Yong-Shou
Jiangxi Higher Training School of TCM, Fuzhou 344000, China.
Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2008 Nov;28(11):845-7.
XI Hong, a famous acupuncturist in the Southern Song Dynasty, has an important influence and status in history of Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion. After he moved to Linchuan, Jiangxi province, his descendants passed acupuncture from generation to generation. According to records, it was passed to 12 generations. After the tenth generation, it was also passed to apprentices besides descendants, such as accomplished acupuncturists CHEN Hong-gang, LIU Jin and others, forming XI Hong acupuncture school of thought. The poem of acupuncture and moxibustion XI Hong Fu is the representative work about XI Hong academic thought, which was additionally compiled or written by XI Hong's apprentices according to XI Hong academic thought. The poems are of characteristics in acupuncture application and association of acupoints. The academic thought and therapeutic methods of acupuncture in the poems still are widely used in modern clinical acupuncture practice.
席弘是南宋著名针灸学家，在中国针灸史上有着重要影响和地位。他迁居江西临川后，其后人代代传承针灸医术，据记载传至十二代。十代之后，除了家族后人，也传于弟子，如著名针灸医家陈宏纲、刘瑾等人，形成了席弘针灸学术流派。《席弘赋》是关于席弘学术思想的代表性著作，由席弘弟子根据其学术思想额外编纂或撰写而成。该赋在针灸应用和穴位配伍方面颇具特色。赋中针灸学术思想及治疗方法至今仍广泛应用于现代临床针灸实践。
