Zhao Xi-xin, Wang Xue-xia, Zhao Zhao, Ran Peng-fei, Lü Xiao-rui
School of Acupuncture and Massage, Henan College of TCM, Zhengzhou 450008, China.
Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2009 Mar;29(3):227-30.
Based on leads provided by Neijing and other literature, analyze origins of the three-yin and the three-yang and the their respective contents of yin and yang, indicating the principle that the order of yang-qi from more to less is Yang ming, Tai yang, Shao yang, and the order of yin-qi is Tai yin, Shao yin, Jue yin. According to the location of five (six) zang-organs, respective yin-qi content is defined, and according to the principle of more yin-qi matches more, and less yin-qi matches less, five (six) zang-organs match each other. The zang-organs above the diaphragm joints with The Hand-Channels and the zang-organs below the diaphragm with The Foot-Channels, completing the nomenclature of twelve meridians. The names of the six yang-channels correspond to the yin-channels of the exterior-interior relationship, the yin-channels link with hands (feet), and the yang-channels also link with hands (feet), and the amount of yin-qi of the zang-organs corresponding to the yin-channels and the amount of yang-qi of the fu-organs corresponding to yang-channels are in a state of balance. Based on this principle, nomenclature of six channels are completed. Emphasize that the nomenclature of twelve meridians contains profound TCM theories, especially, TCM, by yin-yang, three-yin and three- yang, illustrates living phenomena from the whole to the system and organ level in human body, and the scientific principle "yin-yang can be unlimitedly divided" and its significance, which must guide the studies on living phenomena with modern life sciences from the whole to the molecular level.
依据《内经》等文献提供的线索,分析三阴三阳的起源及其各自的阴阳内涵,指出阳气由多到少的顺序为阳明、太阳、少阳,阴气的顺序为太阴、少阴、厥阴。根据五脏(六腑)的位置,确定各自的阴气含量,并按照阴气多者配多、阴气少者配少的原则,使五脏(六腑)相互匹配。膈上的脏与手经相连,膈下的脏与足经相连,完成十二经脉的命名。六阳经的名称与表里关系的阴经相对应,阴经连手(足),阳经也连手(足),与阴经对应的脏的阴气含量与与阳经对应的腑 的阳气含量处于平衡状态。基于此原则,完成六经的命名。强调十二经脉的命名蕴含着深刻的中医理论,尤其是中医通过阴阳、三阴三阳,从人体的整体到系统和器官层面阐释生命现象,以及“阴阳可无限划分”这一科学原理及其意义,必须用现代生命科学从整体到分子层面指导对生命现象的研究。