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KMID : 1003820170210010001
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Journal Of The Korea Institute Of Oriental Medical Diagnostics
2017 Volume.21 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.12
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Do ancient people have 9 breaths per minute respiratory rate?
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Kim Ki-Wang
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Abstract
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Objectives: Some major Chinese medical classics like Huangdineijing (黃帝內經) and Nanjing (難經) assert that a normal person breaths 13,500 times every day. It's just half of real breathing cycles of human. So I tried to find a reasonable explanation to solve this conflict between truth and literal description.
Materials and methods: To find breath count descriptions in Chinese ancient books, I used Kanseki Repository (http://kanripo.org/). To find precedent research on this topic, I used China National Knowledge Infrastructure (http://cnki.net).
Results: 33 books refers to human breath cycles for a day, and most of them introduce 13,500 as human breathing frequency of one day. Some recent papers on Laoguanshan (老官山) Western Han dynasty manuscripts show new clues on this topic.
Conclusion: I assume that 13,500 cycles, the incorrect human breathing frequency of a day, might be originated from adjusting the meaning and usage of the word "Xi (息)".
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KEYWORD
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breath , Xi , Huanddineijing , thirteen thousand five hundred breaths , Laoguanshan medical classics
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