Study on the Vital Channel’s Running Route

Abstract

The vital channel’s running route was investigated in this study according to the description of Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic and Classic on Medical Problems. The related literature showed that the understanding of the ancients about the vital channel’s running route was mainly come from the intuitive observation on the pulsation of abdominal aorta. This fact suggest that the different experience and observation resulted in the differences and confused vital channel’s running routes, which actually refl ect the early visage of meridian theory forming.

以《黃帝內經》、《難經》所述為根據,探討了沖脈的循行路線。認為對腹部脈動的直觀體察是古人認識沖脈循行的主要依據,而沖脈循行線路的紛雜歧異,實際上反映了經脈學說開始形成時的早期面貌。