[Recognition and application of blood vessels in Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun].

Through exploring the recognition and application of blood vessels in Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun (Treatise on the Causes and Manifestations of Diseases), it is found that the recognition and concrete application of blood vessels have been developed comprehensively as compared with those records in Nei Jing (Internal Classic). In general, the importance of blood vessels have been improved. For example, the close relationship between blood vessels and emotions and grouth have been emphasized, the body shape and mind been involved in the connotation of blood vessels, the blood vessels been of the top priority in the embryonic formation. In detail, the application of blood vessels has been more specific and flexible in tendency, in which, the vessels have been particularly mentioned in the tongue and eyes, as well as bleeding. All of those provide a certain reference to study the theoretic development of TCM, acupuncture and moxibustion in the periods of the Han and Tang Dynasties.