碩士 / 中國醫藥學院 / 中國醫學研究所 / 85 / Several decades of efforts to objectify Chinese medical pulse-taking have led to stalemate. Different research teams have different views, and although they use the same pulse names, the sphygmograms they attach to them are different. The results of their research thus lack mutual corroboration, and hence progress in clinical application is foreclosed.
The reason forth is clearly lies in the nature of Chinese medical knowledge. Nevertheless, it should theoretically be possible to restructure and refine Chinese medical pulse theory from a historical perspective and there by provide a solid basis for theobjectification of pulse-taking, so that modern scientific methods can be used to develop instrumentation that applies Western medical theory to the genuine benefit to traditional Chinese medicine.
This paper discusses the origins of ZhouXue-Hai''s theory of position, pace, form, and dynamic and its profound influence on modern pulse research. Zhou''s theories, which are faithful to tradition, yet creatively combine Chineseand Western medical theory, rest on the notion that the pulse conforms to laws, and on the need to escape the shackles of linking specifically defined pulses to specific disease entities.Tracing the evolution of pulse-taking positions and methods fromthe Nei-Jing onward, he shows the development of pulse-taking on the basis of set pulse patterns.
Because priority was given tothe pulse position rather than pulse form and dynamic, the floating position deviation and the defined floating pulse provide an example that illustrates not only how Zhou''s theory can be traced back to ancient pulse-taking and restores Zhang Ji''s flexible use of laws governing the pulse to life, but also allows the theory of pulse-taking methods of the defined pulses which have been used for nearly two millennia to be analyzed in terms of fingertip sensation. Zhou Xue-Hai provides a major contribution to a solid pulse theory that may allow researchusing various types of pulse-taking machines to address academic questions and point a clear direction for experimentation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/085CMCH0050010 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Feng, Ye, 馮曄 |
| Contributors | 張恆鴻 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 49 |
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