The meridians of traditional Chinese medicine are invisible, so how were they discovered in ancient

In the early days, people's understanding of the structure of the human body was very superficial, they did not know why the blood in the human body circulated, and they did not know the role of human breathing, butThe ancients were full of wisdom, and they defined the meridians according to the situation in which the exhalation and inhalation of this gas flow through some kind or carrier, and at first it was thought that the meridians were blood vesselsIt is also clearly written in the bookThe meridians can be seen through the wrists, and the weak parts of the ankles**. It can be seen from this that the meridians of TCM are not ethereal, they are an entity. However, after subsequent verification, the meridians and blood vessels are completely incompatible, so the meridians are also defined as an invisible and intangible network function.

The cognition of meridians represents the initial understanding of human anatomy by the ancients, and with the continuous development of entering the new science, the dissection time has revealed the main structure of the human body more and more clearlyFrom some traditional Chinese medicine classics, we can see that until the Qing Dynasty, the meridians and viscera were still physical things, and the viscera diagram was even depicted in the bookAlthough there are many anatomical errors, we can know that they are specific in the meridians and viscera of traditional Chinese medicine.

The passage is not virtual, not to mention, we can see the structure of the blood vessels with the naked eye, so the meridians are just blood vessels that can be seen directly, and it is not an uncommon thingIt is also shown in the bookThe meridians are not visible, and the meridians float and often go through the qi and blood, which clearly tells us that the meridian system is actually the vascular system.

As forWhy the ancients called blood vessels meridians is also a wrong perceptionBut we can also understand that, after all, we cannot ask the ideas of the ancients to be comparable to modern medicine. Some people also believe that in addition to blood vessels, the meridians of Chinese medicine may also be lymphatic and even nerve connective tissues, but in any case, people have different opinions about the meridians of Chinese medicine.

The theory of meridians is that through repeated observation and experience by ancient medical scientists in China, when a certain internal organ or a certain part is found to be diseased in clinical practice, sometimes there will be tenderness and other sensations in a certain part of the body surface, or nodules and color changes will appear on the **. As recorded in the chapter "Lingshu and Back": "If you want to get it, you should understand it in the middle according to its place."

That is to say, if the internal organs are diseased, the pain will be relieved immediately after pressing on a certain part of the body surface to form a reaction point.

It is through a lot of traditional Chinese medicine practice, because the structure of the human body is very complex, continuous experiments, and finally came to such a result.

The meridian theory is gradually formed by the working people of our country through long-term medical practice and continuous observation and summary. It is further pointed out that the formation of the meridian theory may be through the following ways:

Observation of conduction such as needle sensation;

a summary of the efficacy of acupoints;

reasoning about pathological phenomena on the body surface;

Enlightenment of anatomy and physiology.

It is the discovery of the meridians because many scattered points (acupuncture points) were first discovered, and then these fragmented points (acupuncture points) were strung together to form today's so-called "meridians", so there was the theory of meridians. This kind of thinking is actually to use the reductionist thinking method of Westerners to understand the theory of traditional Chinese medicine.

It is the concrete embodiment of how it is formed, that is to say, there is a "technique" first, and then there is a "reason".

Exist. They were found to be archaeological artifacts, and they were found to have corresponding acupuncture points and veins on them, which were also inseparable from the development of practice and ideology at that time.

Exist. In ancient times, the ancestors instinctively used the natural resources at their fingertips to save themselves, so the ancestors discovered the acupuncture points, and gradually realized a series of perceptual cognitions about the internal structure of the human body, and connected the acupuncture points into meridians. With the inheritance of generations, the ancestors raised the perceptual cognition to the rational cognition, and then deepened, cognitively and then recognised, forming the prototype of the meridians of traditional Chinese medicine.

The meridians should be built on the basis of acupuncture points, the ancients would use acupressure sticks to poke stones and other ways to relieve pain when they were unwell, and summarized the so-called acupuncture points in the long process of practice, in today's view, many acupuncture points are just nerve nodes, and the connection lines of acupuncture points have become meridians, which are equivalent to primitive nerve lines, but there is no nerve in ancient times!

The discovery of the meridian figurines was more than 1,000 years earlier than the previous discovery, and the inconspicuous bamboo slips are a medical classic.

The early qigong masters practiced qigong, and the interior scene was reflected. The air flow follows the meridians and derives the law.

This should be considered a family statement:

The discovery of the meridians should be based on the Yellow Emperor's inner meridians.