Discussion on the Clinical Application of Acupuncture and Cosmetology from 'Where the Truth is Stabbed, the Spirit must be Cured First'

Xiao Yan; Hui Jianrong

doi:10.30560/mhs.v8n1p145

Xiao Yan Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, China
Hui Jianrong Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, China; Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30560/mhs.v8n1p145

Keywords: Healing Spirit, acupuncture and cosmetology, the view of the unity of form and spirit, application experience

Abstract

Acupuncture and moxibustion is one of the core parts of traditional Chinese medicine, through acupuncture and moxibustion on the skin can harmonise yin and yang, dredge the meridians and channels, beauty and health, and slow down the aging process. The many doctrines and classical needling methods in the ‘Internal Canon’ have laid a solid foundation for the theory and clinical operation of acupuncture and cosmetology. In this paper, we start from the theory of ‘Where the prick is real, the Spirit must be treated first’ in the ‘Ling Shu’, and discuss the clinical application of the theory of ‘treating the Spirit’ in acupuncture and cosmetology, with a view to providing references for clinical treatment and research.

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