A Study on Methods of Acupuncture Points Combination and Hierarchy Concept of Acupuncture Prescription(鍼處方) in Korean Medicine(韓醫學)

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J Korean Med. 2020;41(3):9-21

Publication date (electronic) : 2020 September 01

doi : https://doi.org/10.13048/jkm.200222

Kangyoon Kye

, Byoungsoo Kim

Department of Physiology, College of Korean Medicine, Daejeon University

Correspondence to: 김병수, Department of Physiology, College of Korean Medicine, Daejeon University, 62 Daehak-ro, Dong-gu, Daejeon, 300-716, Korea, Tel: +42-280-2627, Fax: +42-280-4782, E-mail: kbsoo25@dju.kr

Received 2020 June 29; Revised 2020 July 27; Accepted 2020 July 27.

Abstract

Objectives

This study is to understand and develop Acupuncture treatment in Korean Medicine(韓醫學).

Methods

Firstly, the definitions of Acupuncture Prescription(鍼處方) and Methods of Acupuncture Therapies(鍼法) were clarified. Secondly, the results from the researches of previously existing Acupuncture Prescriptions(鍼處方) were analyzed.

Results & Conclusions

Acupuncture Prescription(鍼處方) represents the results achieved from combining Acupuncture Points(腧穴) according to the symptoms of diseases. Methods of Acupuncture Therapies(鍼法) denote methodologies for proposing Acupuncture Prescriptions(鍼處方) which were accomplished by combining Acupuncture Points(腧穴) based on a specific theory.

The existing methods of combining Acupuncture Points(腧穴) derived from the analysis of Acupuncture Prescription (鍼處方) have a meaning in suggesting a direction for acupuncture treatments. However, deficiencies still exist to restore the absence of universality and objectivity in acupuncture treatment. Researches on Methods of Acupuncture Therapies(鍼法) based on the principle are required accordingly.

The concept of hierarchy exists in Acupuncture Prescription(鍼處方) and it ranks Acupuncture Points(腧穴) as primary and secondary according to the indications of the Acupuncture Points(腧穴). Since there is the time difference in needling process, the concept of hierarchy is fulfilled through the needling procedure.

Keywords: Acupuncture Prescription(鍼處方); Methods of Acupuncture Therapies(鍼法); Korean Medicine(韓醫學)

Fig. 1

Analysis of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Prescription in 『A study of Clinical Prescription of Acupuncture and Moxibustion(臨床鍼灸處方學)』5)

Fig. 2

Analysis of Acupuncture and Moxibustion prescription in 『A study of Prescription of Acupuncture and Moxibustion』14)

Fig. 3

Treatment approaches in ‘Western medical acupuncture’15)

Table 1

How to Propose Acupuncture Prescriptions(鍼處方) in 『A study of Clinical Prescription of Acupuncture and Moxibustion(臨床鍼灸處方學) 』 Presented in 『A study of Prescription of Acupuncture and Moxibustion』

Table 2

Comparisons between ‘Western medical acupuncture’ and ‘Acupuncture Treatments in Korean Medicine(韓醫學)’

Table 3

Frequently Used Methods of Acupuncture Therapies (鍼法) Presented in 「A Survey About the Recognition Regarding the Korean Acupuncture Method and Research Direction」7)

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