The Study Of The Relations Between Breathing With Adjusting Qi And Its Application In Acupuncture

ObjectiveThe primary role of acupuncture treatment is to regulate qi in the human body, adjusting qi is the key of acupuncture treatment effect, and breathing also plays a very important role to the regulation of qi in the human body. This study summed up the relations between breathing with adjusting qi and its application in acupuncture through the he basis of sorting, analysis, induction of the study of medical ancient books and qigong ancient books and modern literature about breathing and breathing in the application of acupuncture. It may works to acupuncture doctors to use the combination of acupuncture with breathing to cure diseaseMethodsCollect certain literature, mainly is to collect literature related with the relationship between breathing with regulating qi and breathing filling purging. Lastly, summarize the relationship between breathing and regulating qi, and its application in acupuncture.Results1. Summarize three ways that the ancients adjust qi through breathing: paying attention to the effect of inhalation can tonify the deficiency, paying attention to the breath can dispel disease qi, paying attention to pranayama can rise to adjust the action of mind.2. Preliminary summarized the research of the way that six-word qigong to preserve one’s health and cure disease.3. Summarize the study of the cure mechanism of preserve one’s health of abdominal breathing.4. Summarizes the clinical use of the six-word qigong and abdominal breathing.5. Summarizes the main description of breathing filling purging in ancient medical books, and points out their similarities and differences.6. Summarizes the clinical application of the breathing filling purging.7. Preliminary summary the abdominal breathing,s application in acupuncture.ConclusionThe ancients attaches great importance to the role of breathing in keeping health and curing disease, and summarizes effective ways to keep diseases away through breathing, such as fuqing qigong, convinced method, six-word qigong and pranayama. Modern physiological functions of breathing also was studied. It is difficult to let the patient to do the six-word qigong. But doctor can let the patient to do abdominal breathing as it is the commonality of the six-word qigong.Since the breathing filling purging lacks of modern research on specific theory of Reinforeing and Redueing Method, and sometimes doctors will match up abdominal breathing with the Reinforeing and Redueing Method of breathing in clinic, so we can take advantage of abdominal breathing when we use acupuncture to cure patient in clinic in order to achieve better effect of regulating qi and controlling mind.