title: [Academic features of CHEN Ying-long of the Chengjiang acupuncture school].
abstract: CHEN Ying-long is a famous acupuncturist in modern China. He is one of the disciples of CHENG Dan-an who is considered as the initiator of the Chengjiang acupuncture school. Through collecting and sorting of CHEN's theses and medical records which carried on and developed the Chengjiang acupuncture school, it is found that his academic features of acupuncture manifested in the following points: attaching importance on prac tice of qi and finger force; valuing the reinforcing and reducing manipulations according to midnight-noon and ebb-flow doctrine; utilizing moxibustion to treat difficult and complicated diseases; applied group points to treat chronic diseases; good at treating manic type of mental disorder with deep acupuncture at Fengfu (GV 16).
authors.affiliation: Department of Chinese Medicine, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian Province, China.
authors.forename: Xian-Jun
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Xiao-Zhong
authors.initials: XZ
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D026881:Acupuncture / Q000266:history*; D002681:China; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000266:history