Three Essential Principles of
Acupuncture Therapeutics
Three
essential principles of acupuncture therapeutics: disease differentiation;
meridian differentiation; and pattern differentiation. Acupuncture
treatment is different from treatment of materia medica. However, syndrome
differentiation system of internal medicine is adopted all the time for the
present acupuncture textbooks. It is held that the characteristics of acupuncture
can not be fully reflexed, and advantages of acupuncture can not be brought
into full play. Therefore, it's urgent to build up a modem theory on acupuncture
treatment which is fit for the clinical practice of acupuncture and can give a
better play for the treatment of acupuncture. A clear target is one of the characteristics
of acupuncture treatment. And it is based on the understanding of the location
of disease, therefore, disease differentiation is held as the basis of acupuncture
treatment. The aim of meridian differentiation is to select distal effective points
on the base of diseases differentiation, which is also taken as the characteristics
of acupuncture treatment. Syndrome differentiation is a process of
understanding the general pathological states of the human body, it is an
important process to enhance the therapeutic effect of acupuncture. Thus, the
key point for establishing the modern acupuncture theory is clarifying the
values of disease differentiation, meridian differentiation and syndrome
differentiation.
Source: Yang G.
Discussion on
the key points of building modern theory of acupuncture treatment. Zhongguo Zhen
Jiu. 2013 Oct;33(10):935-7.
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