Discussion on TCM Cognition of Weightlessness and the Pathogenesis of Weightlessness Muscular Atrophy from Theory of Qi Hoisting

VernacularTitle:用气机升降理论探讨对失重的中医学认识及失重性肌萎缩的中医病机
Author: Yan ZHANG ; Mingze GAO ; Yuxiu SUN ; Wenhui XU ; Yayun ZHAO ; Ke LI ; Bowen YU ; Sumin HU
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Weightlessness; weightlessness muscle atrophy; qi hoisting; TCM pathogenesis
From: World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2014;(4):749-752
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: With the development of business of manned spaceflight, the body damage of astronauts on the space en-vironment has received growing concern. Weight loss is the most important cause of various diseases, and the weightlessness muscle atrophy is one of urgent problems to be solved in aerospace medicine. Although there is no concept of weightlessness or weightlessness muscle atrophy in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), TCM can grasp the pathogenesis of complex diseases, and provide important theoretical references for the prevention and management of weightlessness diseases, especially weightlessness muscle atrophy. In this paper, TCM Cognition of weightlessness and the pathogenesis of weightlessness muscle atrophy was studied by the sight of TCM theory of qi hoisting. The discussion was made from aspects of circulation of qi and blood, zang-fu function. This work is wished to be beneficial to apply the TCM theory in aerospace medicine.