Research On Acupuncture-Moxibustion Historical Materials Of Twenty-Four Of Histories

Acupunture-Moxibustion is a medicine invented and developed by the Chinese nation during a long history of fighting against disease, as well as the crystallization of experiences of the Chinese doctors in their medical practice. Acupunture-Moxibustion guided by the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, applies needling and moxibustion to points on the human body to regulate the functions of the Zang-fu organs, meridians and collaterals, and qi and blood to prevent and treat disease. It is an important component part of Chinese medicine.The Twenty-Four Histories is a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of history from 2550 BC to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. The whole set contains 3213 volumes and about 40 million words. It is often considered an authoritative source of traditional Chinese history and culture, and is used for research on politics, economics, medicine , literature, science, military affairs and other subjects. Typically, after collecting credible sources, these canonical history records were produced in the next dynasty by officially organized editing, revising, and collating. It is officially considered as an officer' s job failure for every factual error left in the published records. Therefore, compared to "personally made history", they are considered as "credible history" by most professional history researchers.In nearly five years, the research on history of Acupunture-Moxibustion involves meridians and collaterals, acupoints, manipulation, clinical treatment , personage , ancient books , education , sino-foreign Acupunture-Moxibustion exchange, etc. Those researches of acupuncture history were base on medical materials, but the research base on none medical materials is still weakness.Based on the Twenty-four of Histories, this research is adopts the combination of manually retrieval and computer retrieval, collects and digs Acupuncture-Moxibustion historical materials from the Twenty-Four Histories, applies the theory and research method of history, bibliography, philology, education, develops a research about meridian, acupoints, treatment, personage, education , bibliography to Acupuncture-Moxibustion historical materials. In the part of meridians and collaterals and acupoint, it is thus evident that meridians and collaterals doctrine were consummate in Spring and Autumn period, the difference of Ancient and Modern meridians and collaterals, the meridians and collaterals theory system was formed in Han Dynasty; Between the Late Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty , it is first time to elevate Du Meridian and Ren Meridian position as the Twelve Meridians. The conception of acupoint came forth in the lately of Spring & Autumn Period.In the part of acupuncture clinical treatment, the Twenty-Four Histories include a lot of the ancient medical record, such as common ailment , difficult and complicated illness, and needling and moxibustion mistaken cases. Those historical materials help to understand the experience of predecessor, and plays a important roles in promotion the Acupuncture-Moxibustion presently. In the part of Acupuncture-Moxibustion personage, the historical materials include those acupuncture personage activity , achievement , and representative contribution. It helps to find out personage motivation of engaging in acupuncture, formation and development of academic thinking, noble medical ethics,health preserving and health protection . Chinese ancient educational system of acupuncture can be generally divided into two aspects, namely the folk medicine education and the official medicine education, both systems accelerates the development of the ancient acupuncture education. The ancient acupuncture education has its references for modern education. Catalogues of Twenty-Four Histories supply the complexion of ancient acupuncture books origin and development as well as the advantage and disadvantage.