Huang Chang, Liang Jiankang, Zhang Qicheng, Lu Tao
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2019 Jun 9;2019:7826234. doi: 10.1155/2019/7826234. eCollection 2019.
This study compared the theory describing the "four pairs of blood vessels" in the with the description of vessels (, ) in the . The two theories are comparable because of the time period in which they were written, the similarities between the descriptions of the and blood vessels, and the treatment methods for symptoms corresponding to their dysfunctions. We discovered that the theory and the blood vessel theory in the were conceived with similar motivations. They had a lot of coinciding information with regard to the route of flow, but they proposed opposite cyclic directions. Interestingly, neither of them had established that a definitive relationship exists between the vessels and the heart, but other internal organs, such as the liver, were considered to have connections with the and blood vessels in the two literatures. Furthermore, there were similarities among the descriptions of symptoms, and the ancient Western treatments for these symptoms were largely the same as those recorded in the ancient Chinese medical literature, especially the treatment for backache. The comparisons put forward in this study not only reflect the consistencies between the understanding of the human body and the way diseases were treated in Chinese and Western medicine in the early days, but also demonstrate that the two types of medicine had finally embarked on different developmental paths because of the differences in the philosophies and cultural backgrounds in their respective regions.
本研究将[某文献中]描述“四对血管”的理论与[另一文献中]血管（[具体血管名称1]、[具体血管名称2]）的描述进行了比较。这两种理论具有可比性，原因在于它们的成书时期、[某文献中]描述与血管描述的相似性，以及与它们功能障碍相对应症状的治疗方法。我们发现，[某文献中]的理论与[另一文献中]的血管理论有着相似的构思动机。它们在血流路径方面有许多一致的信息，但提出了相反的循环方向。有趣的是，它们都未确立血管与心脏之间存在明确的关系，但在这两篇文献中，其他内脏器官，如肝脏，被认为与[某文献中]及血管存在关联。此外，症状描述存在相似之处，并且古代西方对这些症状的治疗方法与中国古代医学文献中记载的基本相同，尤其是对背痛的治疗。本研究提出的比较不仅反映了早期中西医在人体认识和疾病治疗方式上的一致性，还表明由于各自地区哲学和文化背景的差异，这两种医学最终走上了不同的发展道路。
