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Acupunctural Medicine in Taoism
About five thousand years ago in the Stone
Age, it was impossible for the ancient people in that Stone Age to treat
diseases by applying the acupunctural needle or having surgical
operations using stone knives, and applying moxibustion. It was
only the Taoists that could cure the diseases following the will of the
Heaven in Taoism. The acupuncture could not be taught to whoever
wants to become an acupuncturist, but only to those who were endowed with
actively gifted spiritual human personality, were capable of being
enlightened with the truth and principles of the acupunctural medicine,
and then could practice the acupuncture and thus cure the diseases of the
people. The acupunctural medical expertise of the Taoists was
recorded on the plate of bamboos or on the plate of trees, and was
secretly inherited down to the persons, who were found to have the
actively gifted spiritual human personality.
Many famous medical acupunctural
doctors were brought forth and they applied the acupunctural practice, an
excellent medical practice, for anesthesia and surgery from about 1000 BC
to around two thousand years ago.
Taoists’ Medical Practice Was Inherited to the Posterity
In Chapter 64 of Linshu Book it was
described a significant loss when a doctor cannot meet with a person who
he can teach the medicine and transfer the medical expertise to.
There is also a description of calamity from the heaven poured on to a
doctor, who teaches the medicine to those persons that are busy making
money and caring only for their own interest.
In Chapter 4 of Suwen Medical Book,
a doctor was advised not to teach the acupuncture unless having found an
“appropriate” person, as it might be easy for people to
understand the acupuncture by listening to, but it is very difficult for
them to be truthfully expert in the acupuncture.
Taoists’ Medicine is based on the Theism, Respect for the
Heaven (God)
In Chapter 8 of Linshu Book, for a
person to be born, he or she needs to receive a virtue from the Heaven,
and also needs to receive chi from the Earth. Virtue is combined
with chi and then composes into a nucleus of life, which will be
generating an individual personage by pouring the energy into spirit,
soul, will, consideration, and wisdom.
In Chapter 9 of Linshu Book, a doctor can
look after a patient only after he has mastered the truth and principles
of the acupuncture. When a doctor practices a private medicine
without knowing the principles of the acupuncture, the doctor will incite
a calamity from the Heaven.
Modern medical practice has been
developed from materialism in a process of scientific development.
However, the Taoist acupunctural medicine respects the Heaven, and is
based on the relationship of the human beings with the Heaven, which is
God.
According to the result of a recent
survey on 1,044 persons done by Dr. Pacallin, a researcher at the McLean Clinical
Ethics Center
in the University
of Chicago, 76
percent of the people surveyed believe in the existence of God; 59
percent admitted a kind of the existence after death in this life.
Theory of Yin and Yang in Taoism
Yin and yang are basic materials to
create the world, as yin and yang are mixed together to produce a nucleus
of nutrients and become elements to compose into all the lives on the
earth. Unless there is yin, no yang will be generated.
Without yang, there will be no yin (Yookyungdoick Eum Yang che
sang). In the theory of parting and meeting of yin and yang in
Suwen Medical Book, yin and yang can be divided into tens, hundreds,
thousands, and tens of thousands, and infinitely, but the gist of yin and
yang is one.
In the recent Chinese acupunctural
medicine, yin and yang are not in a static condition, but are constantly
in a state of decreasing, increasing, moving and changing.
The theory of relativism of yin and
yang in Suwen Medical Book explains that the yin and yang is the way
(truth) between the heaven and the earth, is the basis of all things in
the world, and is a mother of all the change, is the very beginning of
the life and death, and is the wealth of the divinity.
All the lives on the earth live by
the same principle as do trees, which can grow by receiving nutrients,
yin (minus) element, through their roots, and then generating energy,
yang (plus) element, by having a photo-synthesis at their leaves.
When human beings eat food, which is
yin (minus), to generate the nucleus of nutrients, which combine yin and
yang, the chi of food, which is strong in the food, rises toward the
upper hole of the stomach and then becomes minus electric current
(abscess), and becomes protective chi (wuiki) by being combined with the
plus electric current at the respiration place, in which lungs and organs
are connected. Other foods produce nutrients needed by the human
body in the process of going through from internal organs including
stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and straight intestine
through its excrement by normal activity of internal organs and
intestines, which receive energy, yang (plus), from outside through
meridians and meridian acu-points connected to the outside skin.
Theory of Meridians in Taoism
The medical book in Taoism in a
stone age, about five thousand years ago, when diseases were cured of by
stone needle and moxibustion, describes the meridians and meridian
acu-point lines as follows:
Chapter 33 of Linchu Book Annotation
includes that meridians (meridian vessels) are inwardly connected to
internal organs, and are outwardly connected to the joints of limbs.
Chapter 1 of Linchu Book explains
that when nutrients enter the internal organs in the human body, chi is
penetrated into 365 meridian acu-points on the skin and into blood and
flesh, and helps supply the nutrients throughout the whole body.
Theory of Meridians in Taoism talks
about the meridians, which is a direct line from the meridian acu-points
directly supplying energy, yang, on the outside surface, to the internal
organs in the human body.
In 2005, the Department of Physics
and Department of Chinese Medicine of Seoul National University in South
Korea scientifically proved that there are lines linking the internal
organs with the surface of the body on the outside, and that nucleus
having genes are active in the lines and these are stem cells in the
modern medical concept, and that the acupunctural treatment can cure
various presently incurable diseases and physical paralysis.
The internal organs are linked to
the external surface of the human body, and have activity and excrement
out the waste material through the skin. The modern medicine says
that a skin is generated in a day and then dies on the day.
The Flow and Supply of Blood in Taoism
Various nutrients produced at
internal organs and intestines in the human body become mixed into and
generate blood, which then circulates around the human body fifty times a
day per 24 hours night and day, along with chi of stomach, and supplies
nutrients throughout all places in the human body, including internal
organs and intestinal parts, marrow in the brain, marrow in the bone,
neurons, and thus helps the human beings see, hear, breathe, talk, think,
and have activities, and live lives.
Causes for Diseases in Taoism
When the blood circulates in the body and
supplies nutrients, certain part of the body does not function
normal activity and thus cannot produce special energy needed by the
internal organs, or produced enough energy, then it will impact on the
internal organs or the human body and raise diseases.
Treatment of Diseases in Taoism
Chapter One of Linchu Book describes
that when a doctor says he cannot treat the disease because the disease
is chronic and old, he does not know the truthfulness of the acupunctural
medicine. It is important for a doctor to figure out internal
factors of a patient when practicing to a patient. After his
practice and expertise in medicine becomes advanced and mature, the
doctor comes to know the healthiness and weakness of the body and spirit
(chi) of the patient by pulsing. The book says that this is a
very important matter, because when the doctor does not figure out, by
pulsing, what evil chi penetrated into which meridian vessel, he cannot
find causes of the disease or a treatment method for the disease.
The principle of the acupunctural
medicine is to find which organ in the human body and why it and its
protective chi, which does activity and is connected to the surface of
the body, do not have its activity, and then to recover the function of
the internal organs in the human body. In this light, the
acupuncture of Taoism is an excellent medicine, which can even treat and
cure of the diseases, which are presently considered incurable in the
modern medicine.
Taoists’ medical books, about
five to six thousands years ago in the ancient Stone Age, say that all
the lives on the earth are composed of nuclei of nutrients, a combination
of yin and yang. It is said that all the lives on the earth live by
the same principle as do the trees, which grow by absorbing the
nutrients, yin (minus), through their roots, and then having a
photo-synthesis and producing, and supplying energy, yang (plus), at
their leaves.
Human beings take food, yin (minus),
to produce the nucleus in nutrients, a combination of yin and yang.
When the food, yin (minus), enters the stomach, the strong chi of the
food rises to the upper hole of the stomach and then turns into minus
electric current. At a place, where human beings inhale and exhale,
thus connecting lungs to organs, the strong chi of the food becomes
protective chi (wuiki) by having been mixed with a plus electric
current. Protective chi (wuiki) circulates the blood by
becoming chi in a human body, and turns into active energy as pertained
to at internal organs and parts in the human body.
The food left at a stomach goes
through a stomach, a small intestine, a large intestine, and rectums, and
then is to be emitted outside a human body. In the process, human
organs and parts are provided with the energy, yang (plus), from the
outside through the meridians and meridian acu-point lines, which are
connected to the surface at the outside. Then, the organs and parts
can have normal activity and produce special nutrients needed by a human
body. The nutrients produced at the internal organs and parts of
the human body will be mixed and then become blood. The blood
circulates in a human body fifty times for 24 hours night and day per
day, and supplies the nutrients to all parts of the human body including
internal organs, brain marrow, bone marrow, and neurons. Therefore,
people can breathe, see, hear, think, talk, think, and have activity and
live lives.
While blood circulates and supplies
nutrients throughout a human body, an organ or a part might not function
properly and thus the blood might not be able to produce the special
nutrients demanded or might produce less than what is needed. The
impact in such a situation will reach the related organs and parts of the
human body, and thus causing to generate various diseases and sicknesses
including neck disk, loin disk, palsy, paralysis, heart diseases, liver
diseases, stomach diseases, kidney trouble, and brain damage.
Treatment of Diseases
These days, many patients suffer
from chronic diseases without curing causes for their diseases, even
though they have medical check-ups, blood examinations, various x-ray
pictures, and even though they find out organs diseased, have treatment
on such diseases by surgical operation based on the modern medicine, and
have some significant efficacy on the limited part of the diseases.
In the oriental medicine, we
find the causes of diseases by pulsing, find which internal organ or
intestine does not function properly, thus causing troubles at neck disk
or loin disk, or brain damage, and we fundamentally cure the diseases by
recovering the function of the organs weakened or diseased.
The pulsing in the oriental
medicine cannot be learned simply by reading medical books. It is a
difficult medical expertise for a doctor to get, and it requires a doctor
to keep reading medical books, pondering and being enlightened on, and
getting awakened to the expertise.
As the pulsing was so difficult in
the oriental medicine, the Confucian scholars, two thousand years ago,
prescribed 12 meridian vessels by mixing materialistic viewpoints of
philosophy, cosmos, life, and nature with the Theory of Yin Yang and Five
Elements, and also recorded that there are a critical acu-point (yohyeol),
which cures a disease, out of meridian points (kyunghyeol).
However, the acupuncture deteriorated, because basic Chinese 12 meridian
vessels and critical acu-points were like apples in a picture well drawn,
but they were not helpful substantively in curing the diseases.
People might wonder how long it
takes to cure various incurable diseases in the modern medicine,
including cerebral palsy, neurosis, muscle paralysis, and various brain
damage diseases. It will be determined depending on how long a
patient has had a disease. A period needed for curing a
disease is on average about one third of the period of disease
generation.
The process of curing a disease can
be explained as follows: When an acu-needle is applied on a patient
first time, he or she feels no pain, but as he or she gets cured, he or
she feels pain when a needle is applied on him or her. Those
patients, who could not walk or move, begins to walk and move with a
little help and support. However, they feel pain and feel trembled
on feet and arms. This is a sign that they are going through a
phase of revival of capillary neuron, after which they will recover to a
normal state.
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