Zhao Jing-Sheng
Institute of Acu-moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.
Zhen Ci Yan Jiu. 2018 Jul 25;43(7):397-9. doi: 10.13702/j.1000-0607.180165.
The theory that meridians connect the upper and lower, interior and exterior of the whole human body comes from the clinical experience of acupuncture therapy mainly by choosing the acupoints of 12 regular meridians at the four limbs. During the process of merging the theories of meridians and -organs (viscera), the expression of the intrinsic relationship of such connection gradually becomes more and more complicated. Therefore, the study on the correlation between the meridian and viscus should start from the characteristics of the meridian theory itself, and discriminate the "reasonable and unreasonable" components of the related theoretical descriptions in the literature in order to explore the scientific values of this correlation. Based on this viewpoint, the present article makes a brief analysis on this proposition from the following two angles of view: the understan-ding of such proposition and the historical evolution of the meridian theory.
经络连接人体上下、内外的理论主要源于针灸疗法的临床经验，针灸疗法主要选取四肢十二条正经的穴位。在经络与脏腑理论融合的过程中，这种连接内在关系的表述逐渐变得越来越复杂。因此，经络与脏腑相关性的研究应从经络理论本身的特点出发，甄别文献中相关理论描述的“合理与不合理”成分，以探寻这种相关性的科学价值。基于这一观点，本文从以下两个视角对这一命题进行简要分析：对该命题的认识以及经络理论的历史演变。
