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Tiancheng Xu1, Shiyuan Li2, Xianhong Xu2
1the affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of CM, Nanjing 210029, Jiangsu Province, China.
Abstract:
Meridian theory plays an important role in the guidance of clinical practice of acupuncture and moxibustion. Since the publication of Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing (A-B Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion), the meridian theory has been developed. In the paper, in view of complex science, the topological properties of acupoint-symptom network were analyzed quantitatively by taking acupoint as node and indication as the connection, such as high clustering coefficient and the small world effect. It was the first time to give the abstraction for the topological proof of the high efficiency information transmission property of acupoint-symptom network meridian system at different times. Its quantitative and digitalized significance was analyzed on the development of meridian theory under the complex scientific background so as to provide a new thought and method for the study of meridian theory and acupuncture modernization.
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