Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan.
Taiwan J Obstet Gynecol. 2013 Jun;52(2):171-84. doi: 10.1016/j.tjog.2013.04.005.
The human body is a hierarchical organism containing many levels of mutually interacting oscillatory systems. From the viewpoint of traditional Chinese medicine, health is a state of harmony emergent from the interactions of these systems and disease is a state of discord. Hence, human diseases are considered as disturbed functions rather than changed structures. Indeed, the change from normal to abnormal structure may be beneficent rather than maleficent. For example, when one kidney becomes twice the normal size following the destruction of the other kidney, it is good and not bad for us because we might be dead otherwise. Therefore, in Part 3 of this three-part series, emphasis is mainly laid on the acupuncture mechanisms of treating disturbed physiological functions rather than disordered structures. At first, the basic tenets of conventional neuroscience and cardiology are reevaluated so that clear understanding of how nervous and cardiovascular systems work together can be obtained. Then, the general principles of diagnosis and treatment in traditional Chinese medicine from the integrative perspective of complex dynamic systems are proposed. Finally, mechanisms of acupuncture therapies for treating 14 different categories of disorders will be elucidated via the magneto-electric inductive effects of the meridian system.
人体是一个具有多层次相互作用的振荡系统的层次结构。从中医的角度来看,健康是这些系统相互作用产生的和谐状态,而疾病是失调的状态。因此,人类疾病被认为是功能紊乱而不是结构改变。事实上,从正常结构到异常结构的变化可能是有益的而不是有害的。例如,当一个肾脏在另一个肾脏被破坏后变成正常大小的两倍时,这对我们来说是好的而不是坏的,因为否则我们可能已经死了。因此,在这个三部分系列的第三部分中,重点主要放在治疗功能紊乱的针灸机制上,而不是紊乱的结构上。首先,重新评估了传统神经科学和心脏病学的基本原理,以便能够清楚地了解神经系统和心血管系统是如何协同工作的。然后,从复杂动态系统的综合视角提出了中医诊断和治疗的一般原则。最后,通过经络系统的磁电感应效应,阐明了针灸疗法治疗 14 种不同类别的疾病的机制。