[Study on the term of eight confluent points].
In order to understand the connotation and the implication of the eight confluent points, relative modern and ancient literatures were studied systematically. It is discovered that the term of eight confluent points changed several times in its developing history. The term is called as Jiaojing Banue in the very beginning, and later Jingmai Jiaohui Baxue, Bamai Jiaohui Baxue, Ba fa Jiaohui Baxue, etc. Its short terms can be seen as Ba fa Jiaohui and Bafaxue. Other names even shorter can be Bahui, Ba fa and Baxue, etc. The above mentioned names are mixed during their application, and it is also once misunderstood as the concept of Bahuixue in Classic on Medical Problems. It is named as eight confluent points nowadays, and the extra meridians changed from the target meridians which are being intersected with into the major subject in the confluence. While the eight points changed from the main body of confluence into the object of intersection, which indicated that the concept has already changed.
Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Key Laboratory of Theory and Methodology of Meridians, State Administration of TCM, Beijing 100700, China. jsz21@yahoo.com.cn
Jing-Sheng
JS
Zhao
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