Theory
The frame the prescriptions were written in, and what it means for what you can look up.
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Ashi points
Tender sites needled where they are found: the Lingshu's rule of taking the painful place as the point, Sun Simiao's name for it, the WHO definition, how trials record a point with no code, and the dispute over trigger points.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 10 min
Channel sinews and divergent channels
The secondary pathways of the Lingshu beside the twelve channels: the sinews of chapter 13, the divergences of chapter 11, the connecting vessels of chapter 10 and the skin regions of the Suwen, and what modern studies have done with them.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 9 min
Common patterns
Qi stagnation, qi deficiency, blood deficiency, qi and blood deficiency, dampness and bi, as the WHO terminologies and ICD-11 name and describe them.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 9 min
The eight principles
Interior and exterior, cold and heat, deficiency and excess, yin and yang: how the WHO terminologies define the four pairs, where the scheme came from, and what agreement studies have measured.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 9 min
The four examinations
What looking, listening and smelling, asking and palpation each record, as WHO's terminologies define them, and how often practitioners examining the same patient agree.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 11 min
The six stages and the four levels
The Shanghan lun's six stages, the warm disease school's four levels and Wu Jutong's three jiao: what each sorts, where it came from, how acupuncture authors use it, and what research has tested.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 9 min
Warm disease and epidemics
The warm disease school from Wu Youxing's Treatise on Pestilence of 1642 to China's COVID-19 treatment plans, as historians, systematic reviews and trials report it.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 9 min