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2) The principle of medication in modern medicine
Using chemical materials with special chemical structure and function to prevent and treat disease is the main principle of medication in western medicine. The theory of western medication and its drug system have largely been built in modern time, especially since the 19th century. Its theory is based on modern medical sciences including physiology, pathology, etiology, therapeutics, pharmaceutical chemistry and others. The objective of its clinical treatment is aimed at the pathogenic and etiologic factors that can be expounded by physical, chemical and biological knowledge, and the chemical substances that can exert therapeutic effect on these factors are adopted as medicines. Western pharmacology is in accordance with its therapeutics, and these are essentially based on chemical principles. |
The five flavors of drug not only have their respective efficacy, but also act as one of the bases for meridian distribution of drugs. Accordingly, the carrier of Anyu’s miraculous medicines is the meridians and collaterals, and that of western medicines is the blood.
§4 Meridians--collaterals and blood
1) Carrier of Anyu’s excellent medicine series is the meridians and collaterals
The importance of meridians and collaterals is superior to common anatomical structure. They are regulatory system of human function, surpassing the known function of anatomical structure.
It was described in Huangdineijing—Lingshu—hailun that “The so called twelve meridians and collaterals run interiorly in zang-fu, and exteriorly to limbs”, they “determine life and death, process various diseases, and regulate asthenia and sthenia”. It was also pointed out in Nanjing—Twenty three Nans that “The meridians and collaterals allow the passing of Qi and blood, linking Yin and Yang, and thus nourishing the body”. |
| The meridians and collaterals are neither the known nor the unknown anatomical, but the “super-anatomical” functional structure. In a paper occupying 15 pages in Medical Bulletin published by Academia Sinica, Fei Lun et al. reported that “The material base of human acupoints of meridians and collaterals is a complex system constructed by interwoven blood vessel, nerve plexus and lymphatic vessel within the background of connective tissue.” |
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