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KMID : 1003820050090020010
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Journal Of The Korea Institute Of Oriental Medical Diagnostics
2005 Volume.9 No. 2 p.10 ~ p.24
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A Study on the Cun, Guan, Chi (Inch, Bar, Cubit) from the Elementary Course for Medicine{Yi Xue Ru Men)
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Lee Soo-Kyeung
Park Won-Hwan
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Abstract
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Background and Purpose: Feeling the pulse is based on the pulse condition and alteration to observe the condition of the human body’s health and by using a healthy person’s pulse as a standard we are able to analyze the patient’s pulse to find the attacked channel and collateral, viscera and bowels and understand the pathology such as diseases caused by exogenous evil, disorder of internal organs, and seven modes of emotions. Observing the color and shade of the patient’s face, listening carefully to the sound of the patient, and feeling the pulse are methods in accordance with Su Wen ’Plain Questions’, ’The Classic on Difficulty’ (5th century B.C. Bianque), ’The Classic of Sphymology’ (280 A.D. Wang Xi), ’Pulse Formulas’ (1189 A.D. Cui Jiayan), and is systematically edited for those who have started studying to easily reach the profound state. Therefore, ’The Elementary Course for Medicine’ has been used from ancient times as the textbook for diagnostics.
Methods: In this Study, we will inspect commonly used pulse feeling methods, the inch, bar, cubit thesis, the viscera and bowels thesis from The Elementary Course for Medicine and inquire the difference of the text from ’Plain Questions of Huangdi’s Internal Classic’, ’Treatise on Febrile Diseases’, ’Classic on Difficulty’.
Results and Conclusion: 1. In ’The Elementary Course for Medicine’ the site of the wrist along the pulsation of the radial artery is divided into inch, bar, cubit and has defined the inch, bar, cubit crossways. 2. In ’The Elementary Course of Medicine’ the inch, bar, cubit for the left hand and right hand is subjected to each viscera and bowel. By assigning the left hand’s inch, bar, cubit to the cardial orb, the hepatic orb, the renal orb, and the right hand’s inch, bar, cubit to the pulmonic orb, the splenic orb, the vital gate it has been able to feel the pulse for each viscera and bowel by using the interpromoting and interacting relation of the five evolutive phases.
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KEYWORD
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Feeling the pulse, the Elementary Course for Medicine(Yi Xue Ru Men), Cun, Guan, Chi (Inch, Bar, Cubit)
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