Exploration of Academic Thought on"No Fixed Acupoints for Treating Diseases"of Xin'an Practitioner Wang Ji
10.13359/j.cnki.gzxbtcm.2025.02.022
- VernacularTitle:新安医家汪机"治病无定穴"学术思想探析
- Author:
Yanping ZONG
1
;
Jing WANG
;
Yonglei ZENG
;
Jinchen GUO
;
Bing GAO
;
Lingji LI
Author Information
1. 安徽中医药大学针灸推拿学院,安徽合肥 230038
- Keywords:
Xin'anmedicine;
Wang Ji;
no selection of fixed acupoints for treating diseases;
syndrome differentiation and treatment;
different treatment for the same disease
- From:
Journal of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2025;42(2):409-414
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Wang Ji is an outstanding representative of Xin'an medicine,he has made a lot of achievements in academic thought of acupuncture and moxibustion,which mainly contains the academic features such as"acupuncture treatment mainly purging excessive pathogen"and"use of moxibustion with caution for the disease-free person",as well as"no selection of fixed acupoints for treating diseases".The scholars in past dynasties did a lot of research on his theory of"acupuncture treatment mainly purging excessive pathogen"and"use of moxibustion with caution for the disease-free person",but did less research on his theory of"no selection of fixed acupoints for treating diseases",this paper explores Wang Ji's life and his representative works,and analyzes the theory of"no selection of fixed acupoints for treating diseases".Wang Ji advocates the disease treatment principle of differentiation of meridians and collaterals,qi and blood,as well as yin and yang,and his acupoint selection rules focuses on flexible prescription according to syndrome differentiation,point selection according to disease differentiation,which critically criticizes the dogmatic behavior of the conventional theory that"a certain acupoint corresponding treatment for a certain disease",he reminded the physicians that in treating disease by acupuncture and moxibustion,syndrome differentiation should be according to meridians and collaterals differentiation,acupoint application should be flexible and changeable.
