Brief analysis on Tang Zong-hai's view about qi transformation in channels
Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2009 May;29(5):409-11.
[Article in Chinese]
Institute of Acupuncture and Moxihustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China. bjsuyun2004@sina.com
This present paper interprets and analyzes the connotation of qi transformation in Tang Zong-hai's idea of channels in the Qing Dynasty. During the middle and late periods of the Qing Dynasty, western medicine was introduced into China on a large scale, starting with "Channels being the qi transformation pathway of viscera" clearly raised in Essence of Medical Classics on the Confluence of Chinese and Western Medicine written by Tang Zong-hai, and in combination with relevant discussion of physicians of successive dynasties on channels, qi information and others, it was revealed that the connotation of channels expounded by Tang Zong-hai with qi transformation view is of a certain rationality, and it was further realized that the concept of "channels" in traditional twelve meridians theory indeed contains some thought source of qi information theory of traditional Chinese medicine.
