A Comparative Study on "Mai" and "Blood Vessels" in Early Chinese and Western Medicine: Based on Hippocratic Corpus and Cauterization Canon of the Eleven Vessels of the Foot and Forearm.

ABSTRACT: This study compared the theory describing the "four pairs of blood vessels" in the Hippocratic Corpus with the description of vessels (Mai, ) in the Cauterization Canon of the Eleven Vessels of the Foot and Forearm. The two theories are comparable because of the time period in which they were written, the similarities between the descriptions of the Mai and blood vessels, and the treatment methods for symptoms corresponding to their dysfunctions. We discovered that the Mai theory and the blood vessel theory in the Hippocratic Corpus were conceived with similar motivations. They had a lot of coinciding information with regard to the route of flow, but they proposed opposite cyclic directions. Interestingly, neither of them had established that a def

SUBMITTER: Huang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6590545 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature