title: [Exploration on academic thoughts of four medical families of acupuncture-moxibustion of the LING, YAN, SHI and SHENG in northern Zhejiang Province].
abstract: The academic origin and characteristics of medical families of acupuncture-moxibustion in northern Zhejiang Province were explored in this paper. With acupuncture-moxibustion characteristic of medical families in northern Zhejiang Province such as the LING (see text), the YAN (see text), the SHI (see text) and the SHENG (see text) analyzed and arranged, it was found out that taking the Internal Canon of Medicine as theory basis, their academic thoughts comprehensively absorbed acupuncture-moxibustion theories in all ages, and they continuously made innovations through constant practices, resulting in academic thoughts that focusing on application of acupuncture-moxibustion in clinic, using moxibustion for deficient illness and adopting acupuncture-moxibustion and Chinese herbs for severe and acute patients. The academic thoughts of medical families of acupuncture and moxibustion in northern Zhejiang Province are featured by unique acupoint selection and ma nipulation, thorough moxibustion methods and combined application of Chinese herbs and acupuncture-moxibustion, which is a clinical system of diagnosis and treatment with typical Jiangnan features.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D026881:Acupuncture / Q000193:education* / Q000266:history*; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000266:history; D002681:China; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D009071:Moxibustion / Q000266:history*