The Venae Literature Collation And Research

The conception of collaterals is earliest recorded on the book named Huang Di's Canon of Internal Medicine , written before Qin Dynasty to the Warring States Period. The theory of collaterals is formed before Qin Dynasty, developed after Han Dynasty and had been at the high state and splendour in Qing Dynasty, which now becomes one of hotspots of researching on the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine.After extensively collecting the material, the auther has hackled the traditional and modern documents of collaterals and summed up the basic theory of collaterals completely,including the constrution and distribution of collateras,The characteristic of Qi and blood circulation,the function of physiological function,pathologic change,diagnosis and treatment.Therefore, the auther comments the traditional and modern theories about collaterals,retrospects complexion of collaterals origin,analyses the backgroundas,the symbol,the pattern of the collaterals theory establishment and pecularity of technical development. The auther also discovers the conception of Mai, which includes vessels and meridians and raveled the connotation and the extension of conception of collaterals. At the same time, the auther shows the ideals of herself about defining of standardization of collaterals' conception.At methodology, this article shows foreland research of collaterals, analyzing the distinguish of TCM and West medicine of collaterals, concluding several hypothesis, commenting the train thought and method of research collaterals.The research on collaterals and the theory of collaterals is related to several aspects, such as documents, theory and clinic. And the theory of collaterals spans several periods , together with the connotation and extension of the conception of collaterals are uncertainty. So this paper is the first step research on collaterals and the documents of collaterals.