Li L T
Traditional Chinese Medicine Department, Medical College, Shandung Province.
Am J Chin Med. 1987;15(1-2):13-8. doi: 10.1142/S0192415X87000035.
"The lung is connected with skin and hair" is a theory of traditional Chinese medicine. From the view of comparative physiology we researched the inter-relation of lung and skin and hair and found it in water. From living protein to fish respiration is by the structure corresponding to the skin and the organ which originated skin. Though amphibia have lung respiratory effect of skin still locate 2/3. Aves. Mammals and human beings use lungs to respire. In fact air exchanges from nature through the thin water molecular layer of the surface of the pulmonary alveoli. So the lung is derived from "skin and hair" to adapt to inter-respiration.
“肺主皮毛”是中医理论。从比较生理学角度研究肺与皮毛的相互关系，发现其根源在水。从生命蛋白质到鱼类呼吸，是通过与皮肤及起源于皮肤的器官相对应的结构进行的。两栖类虽有肺呼吸，但皮肤呼吸作用仍占三分之二。鸟类、哺乳类及人类用肺呼吸。实际上，自然界的空气是通过肺泡表面的薄水分子层进行交换的。所以肺是从“皮毛”演化而来以适应气体交换的。
