经络的人体定向水环境调控体系学说

目的经络研究及认识的相关情况说明了经络是人体已知组织结构具有未知功能的体系,该体系与脉管系统和脉管外组织液均有必不可分的关系,受神经、内分泌、免疫等系统调控支配,分析这些问题有助于对经络的全面认识. 方法通过回顾和总结古典经络学说的文史研究,结合现代经络研究的一些发现和认识,进行综合分析. 结果经络的本质可能是"人体定向水环境调控体系‘就是以连续的人体水环境为基础,特别是循经低流阻通道(十四经脉)为主干道,以信息快速传递的神经系统为主导,以物质快速运输的血液系统为源头,以穴位为枢纽,来反映人体与环境、人的整体与局部协调统一的功能调控体系. 结论人体正是通过这个"定向水环境调控体系"进行一系列物质、能量、信息传递活动而有机地组织成为一个整体.针灸刺激经穴产生的效应不是影响机体某个系统或某类功能,而是一种综合、整体调节.疏通经络是中医治疗疾病的手段,保持经络的畅通是中医保健的目的.

Regulation system of directed water environment of meridians

AIM: The studies on meridians show that the meridians are the system with known structures and unknown functions. It is inseparably related with the vessels and tissue fluid and controlled by the nerve, endocrine,and immune systems. Analysis on these issues will be helpful in understanding the meridians. METHODS: To make a comprehensive analysis through the review and summarization of historical literature together with the discoveries of modem studies on meridians. RESULTS: The nature of meridians is probably the Regulation System of Directed Water Environment. That is, taking the continuous water environment of human body as the basis, especially the low resistance of flowing passage (14 meridians) as the trunk, the nerve system transmitting information quickly as the guide, the blood system transporting materials quickly as the source, and the point as the pivot, to create the coordination between the human body and environment and the whole and the local. CONCLUSION: The human body is an organic whole carrying out a series of transmission activities of material, energy, and information through the Regulation System of Directed Water Environment. The effect achieved by stimulating points through acupuncture and moxibustion is a kind of comprehensive regulation for the whole body, not only an influence on a certain system or function. Removing obstruction of meridians is the means of treatment and keeping meridians unobstructed is the purpose of TCM for health-care.