title: [Which is right? "Theory of channel" or "Theory of blood vessels"].
abstract: The ancient medical science of Jingmai (Channel or blood vessel) applied the running sensation along channels of the so-called "Mai" to diagnose and treat diseases. Unfortunately, this had been lost in the Han Dynasty. Related information is recorded in the official history; there are related evidences in the unearthed Mai shu (The Book of Channel) and "Mairen (The Statue of Channel)", including the rediscovery and modern researches on the running sensation along channels; the successful cases of diagnosis and treatment by the method of running sensation along channels. The scholars supported the theory of blood vessel query the above ideas, which need to assemble large numbers of researches of the theory of channel to resolve the problems.
authors.affiliation: The First Hospital Affiliated to Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116011, China.
authors.forename: Cheng-Zhong
authors.initials: CZ
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D001877:Books; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans