[Recognition of links of the brain with the channels and collaterals in the Huangdi's Internal Classic].
OBJECTIVE
To approach to recognition of links between the brain and meridians at the early stage of formation of TCM theory.


METHODS
The relative papers in the Huangdi's Internal Classic were analyzed, compared, induced and synthesized, attaining the recognition of links between the brain and meridians.


RESULTS
In the Huangdi's Internal Classic, it is indicated that the main meridians directly connected with the brain have The Foot-Yangming, The Foot-Taiyang Channels, and The Governor and The Qiao Vessels; the eye system, the vertex, Fengfu (GV 16) and the jaw are the parts of the meridians passing in and out the brain; in the brain there are some pathways of meridians.


CONCLUSIONS
The Huangdi's Internal Classic has richer recognition of the links between the brain and meridians, to which should be pay attention in clinical diagnosis of brain diseases.
Zhang
Jian-bin
JB
Affiliated Zhongda Hospital of Dongnan University, Nanjing, China.
Wang
Ling-ling
LL
D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D001921:Brain; D006257:Head; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D016740:Meridians