Acupuncture and Moxibustion

Ⅸ-5Traditional MedicineQuzhou, ZhejiangBatch 4 (2014)Extension Item

01 · Historical Records

Yang Jizhou acupuncture originated in Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province; over four hundred years it has formed a complete theoretical and therapeutic system. Yang Jizhou (1522-1620) was a native of Liudu Yang in Quzhou, Zhejiang. He was not only proficient in acupuncture technique but also did not neglect drug therapy, advocating the combined use of acupuncture, moxibustion, and medicine, each drawing on its particular strength. In 1601, Yang Jizhou's Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion was published. The work summarized the principal academic experience of Chinese acupuncture before the Ming dynasty, collecting numerous acupuncture songs and rhymed formulas, re-examining and determining the names and positions of the acupoints, and appending whole-body and regional illustrations; it recorded the acupuncture manipulation techniques of successive dynasties and organized them, such as the Yang family's twelve methods of reinforcement and reduction.

02 · Core Techniques & Process

Yang Jizhou acupuncture formed its system of thought through its original manipulation techniques and rich clinical experience; in clinical practice it covers diseases of all specialties, including internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, and the five sense organs. The academic thought of Yang Jizhou acupuncture is to venerate the classics and diligently seek ancient teachings, to value pattern differentiation and apply treatment flexibly, to stress reinforcement and reduction in needling and emphasize manipulation, to seek the root when treating disease and attach importance to the spleen and stomach, to value the channels and make good use of extraordinary points, and to give equal weight to acupuncture and medicine so as to be comprehensive in medical skill. It holds that the way of acupuncture and medicine lies in the application of yin and yang, advocates mutual harmony between heaven and humanity, and expounds a naive dialectical view of the unity of opposites in the universe, such as life and death, longevity and premature death, permanence and transience, and yin and yang. The technique selects channels according to pattern differentiation and chooses points along the selected channel, using few but essential points and paying careful attention to manipulation. Its hereditary and original manipulation techniques include the Eight Methods of Inserting the Needle and the Twelve-Character Sequential Manipulation. In particular, since the Guangxu reign of the Qing dynasty, the tradition has been passed on like a torch in the Quzhou region, and renowned masters have emerged in every generation. Yang Jizhou acupuncture has distinctive characteristics: its hereditary acupuncture manipulation techniques, rich clinical experience, and precious acupuncture prescriptions all embody the vitality and creativity of Chinese medicine. They are of great significance to the research and development of acupuncture and also play a role in promoting the worldwide dissemination of China's acupuncture culture of traditional Chinese medicine. Yang Jizhou acupuncture has a broad range of indications, rapid efficacy, simple and easy operation, low cost, and few side effects, giving it clinical advantages; it also has a positive effect on health care and wellness.

The eight preparatory manipulations

The first of the Yang manipulations: the preparatory steps before and during insertion, practised until hand and mind work as one.

The twelve-character sequence

Twelve ordered movements break a single needling session into layers from locating the point through qi-moving and tonifying.

The Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion

Published in 1601, it summed up earlier acupuncture learning, included songs, re-verified point locations and illustrated the body.

Few points, well chosen

Points are chosen by syndrome and channel, few but exact, with the emphasis shifted to the quality of manipulation.

Needling, moxibustion and herbs together

Lu-style teaching does not reject herbs: needle, moxa and medicine are used together, each for what it does best.

03 · Regional Records & Related Items

Yang Jizhou acupuncture originated in Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province; since the Guangxu reign of the Qing dynasty it has been passed on like a torch in the Quzhou region, with renowned masters emerging in every generation. In the course of transmission across generations it gradually spread from Quzhou to Hangzhou, Jinhua, Shaoxing, and other places; thereafter it spread southward from Nanping and Jianning in Fujian to Guangdong, northward to Heilongjiang, northwestward to Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, and southwestward to Sichuan. At present it is transmitted along two main lines: one is master-apprentice or personal lineage study among local folk acupuncturists, and the other is transmission through the book Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, case records, related articles, academic papers, and academic exchange.

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04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding

In the course of transmission across generations, Yang Jizhou acupuncture gradually spread from Quzhou to Hangzhou, Jinhua, Shaoxing, and other places; then southward from the Nanping and Jianning regions of Fujian to Guangdong; northward to Heilongjiang; northwestward to Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi; and southwestward to Sichuan. After the Ming dynasty, Yang Jizhou acupuncture was continuously transmitted and developed on the basis of the Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. At present it is transmitted along two main lines: one is master-apprentice or personal lineage study among local folk acupuncturists, and the other is transmission through the Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, case records, related articles, academic papers, and academic exchange. Jin Ying (recorded in the official file of the associated inheritor): male, of the Han ethnic group, born in January 1969, from Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Chief physician of traditional Chinese medicine. In 1989 he was admitted to Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where he became a disciple of Professor Wang Zhanglian. He has mastered and inherited the academic system, operational principles, distinctive therapies, and original manipulation techniques of Yang Jizhou acupuncture (such as the Yang family's Eight Methods of Inserting the Needle and the Twelve-Character Sequential Manipulation). He has presided over the national and provincial continuing medical education project "New Advances in the Inheritance and Clinical Application of the Academic Thought of Yang Jizhou Acupuncture", served as deputy chief editor of Simple Therapies for Common Diseases, and published dozens of papers. He serves as vice president of the Quzhou Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, leader of the key discipline of traditional Chinese medicine (acupuncture and tuina) in Zhejiang Province, and chair of the Pain Specialty Committee of the Zhejiang Acupuncture Society. He is a representative inheritor of the fifth national-level batch of the intangible cultural heritage project "Acupuncture (Yang Jizhou Acupuncture)". He participated in the first China (Zhejiang) Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo and won a bronze award.

05 · Associated Representative Bearers

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06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography

Sources

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