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[Origin and development of HUA Tuo's acupuncturing sensation technique]
Qian Xu1, Ping-Ping Tang2, Xin-Jun Wang1
1College of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu Province, China.
Abstract:
Based on HUA Tuo's personal experience, teaching experience, works as well as ancient books of similar times, this paper discusses the origin and development of HUA Tuo's acupuncturing sensation technique, and analyzes the reasons why this technology has been lost. The formation of this technique is influenced by the descriptions of "regulating qi " "arrival of qi " and "reaching qi" in Neijing (Internal Canon of Medicine) and Nanjing, and combines with the clinical summary of conduction direction and specific position of acupuncturing sensation. Due to HUA Tuo's personal experience, the inheritance characteristics of acupuncture technology and the background of his times, this technology may have been lost, but it still affects the acupuncture concept and practice of "qi reaching affected area" in later generations.
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