再谈阿是穴的命名

认为"阿是"为吴语者,最早是20世纪70年代台湾针家郭家梁。其后李锄等指出,阿是乃吴地方言之常用问语。"阿是"即"可是"。吴语是汉语中一支重要古老的方言,晋唐之前,即有记载。孙思邈《备急千金要方》中关于阿是穴的记载,则为吴语"阿是"的最早文字记载。首先将"阿是穴"作为腧穴分类之一为《针灸述要》。"阿是之法"为医者取穴之法,而"阿是穴"则系使用"阿是之法"所取得的穴位,两者有因果关系。"阿是之法"即《内经》中"以痛为腧"及"按之快然"两种取穴法,并非一种独特的取穴方法。不可随心所欲地提出诸如"反阿是穴"之类的概念。

Re-discussing nomenclature of Ashi point

This article argued that the earliest acupuncture scholar thought "Ashi" as the Wu dialect was GUO Jia-liang in Taiwan in the 70s of the last century. Thenceforth, LI Chu et al. pointed out:"Ashi" is the common question language of Wu dialect."Ashi" meaned "whether or not". Wu dialect is one of the important ancient Chinese dialect, there were records of it before Jin and Tang Dynasty. Record about"Ashi" in "Qian Jin Fang" of SUN Si-miao was the earliest text of the Wu dialect. "Summary of acupuncture and moxibustion" classified "Ashi point" as one of the acupoints earliestly. "Ashi method" was the principle of acupoint selection, while "Ashi point" just used this method, both of them had a causal relationship. "Ashi method" was the methods of "the pressure pain point was selected as needled point" and "pressure the pain point comfortably" recorded in the "Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic", which was not a unique method of acupoint selection. We can not put forward the concepts such as "anti Ashi point" arbitrarily.