Author(s): WANG Feng, QIN Yuge, QIN Yuheng, LI Li, LI Mei, Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Dongjing County Community Health Service Center of Songjiang District, Shanghai
Pages: 274-278
Year: 2016 Issue:  3
Journal: Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
Keyword:  treating spirit; spirit-qi acupuncture; lifting-thrusting twirling method; reinforcing and reducing methods; using spirit to prompt qi; Huangdi Neijing; qi;
Abstract: By analyzing the articles in Huangdi Neijing(Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor),combined with the verification of consciousness in vitro in clinic and modern science,it is found Huangdi Neijinghas made special requirements of treating spirit for physicians using spirit-qi acupuncture.The physicians consciously use different methods to motivate the spirit of physician and patients,especially patients,to transform it to the physiological effect of patients,which could minimize the psychological factors that make negative influence on treatment;also the psychotherapy is considered as the most important principle of treating spirit.The reinforcing and reducing methods in later generations,mainly lifting-thrusting twirling method,unintentionally lead patients into a basic or strong status of treating spirit or keeping spirit during the process of achieving stimulation and needle sensation.To partially perform the special role of treating spirit for physicians in Huangdi Neijing on patients could cause the chages including patient-based using spirit to move qi.It not only inspires the body’s natural resistance to disease and self-healing,but also motivates the self-protection mechanism of keeping spirit.