Huang Kai-Wen
Library of Guangzhou University of CM, Guangzhou 510405, Guangdong Province, China.
Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2012 Mar;32(3):279-82.
Through the combination of manual retrieval and computerized retrieval, medical records of acupuncture-moxibustion in The Twenty-Four Histories were collected. Acupuncture cases from the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.) to the end of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)were retrieved. From the medical records of acupuncture-moxibustion in Chinese official history books, it can be found that systematic diseases or emergent and severe diseases were already treated by physicians with the combination of acupuncture and medicine as early as in the Spring and Autumn Period as well as the Warring States Period(475-221 B.C.). CANG Gong, a famous physician of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B. C.-A. D. 24), cured diseases by selecting points along the running courses of meridians where the illness inhabited, which indicates that the theory of meridians and collaterals was served as a guide for clinical practice as early as in the Western Han Dynasty. Blood letting therapy, which has surprising effect, was often adopted by physicians of various historical periods to treat diseases. And treatment of diseases with single point was approved to be easy and effective.
通过手工检索和计算机检索相结合的方式，收集了“二十四史”中有关针灸的医案。检索了从春秋时期（公元前770年至公元前476年）到明朝末年（公元1368年至公元1644年）的针灸病例。从中国正史中的针灸医案可以发现，早在春秋时期和战国时期（公元前475年至公元前221年），医生就已经采用针灸与药物相结合的方法治疗系统性疾病或急重症。西汉时期（公元前206年至公元24年）的著名医生仓公，通过选取疾病所在经络的循行路线上的穴位来治病，这表明经络理论早在西汉时期就已作为临床实践的指导。放血疗法疗效惊人，各个历史时期的医生都经常采用该疗法治疗疾病。而且，单点治病被认为简便有效。
