In 256 A.D., Huangfu Mi, a medical scientist in the Jin Dynasty, overcame many difficulties plagued by diseases, systematically summarized the experience of acupuncture in previous dynasties before the Jin Dynasty, and wrote the first acupuncture monograph in China-Acupuncture A and B Classic.
Huangfu Mi was born in a rich family, but by his generation, he had fallen into poverty. When he was a child, his parents died early and he was fostered in his aunt's house, but he still didn't change the poor appearance of the rich children. I have been lazy, intolerant of hardship, and idle all day. Until I was 20 years old, I was still illiterate and lived a life of food and clothing. Later, after menstruation's enlightenment and teacher's education, I studied hard.
Just when he overcame the temptation of leisure and felt that life was meaningful, he suddenly suffered from rheumatism: half of his body was as uncomfortable as acupuncture, and sometimes he couldn't get up in pain. Several doctors were invited to treat the disease. After reading medical books such as Neijing, Neijing and Tang Ming Acupuncture Essentials, he gave himself a needle, and if some acupoints could not be penetrated, he asked his son to do so. In this way, I cured my rheumatism with acupuncture, cupping and massage. From then on, he studied harder and was determined to follow the example of the ancients in sorting out acupuncture classics and inheriting useful medical skills. He asked his son to work with the students. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to frequent wars, many bamboo slips were lost and the manuscripts were incomplete. Huangfu Mi collected all the acupuncture data in each book, checked them one by one, and decided to give up based on his own experience.
At that time, Emperor Wu of Jin heard his name and asked him to be the teacher of the Crown Prince. In order to accomplish the great cause, he resigned from his high position and borrowed books from the emperor in the politely refuse. The emperor gave him a batch of books to show that he was a "Corporal Li Xian". Huangfu Mi was very happy. He took the time to study and supplemented a lot of acupuncture materials.
Sometimes when the weather is bad and rheumatism recurs, if he can't write, he will lie in bed and dictate, so that students and their sons can take notes. After several years of hard work, at the age of 42, he finally wrote the first monograph on acupuncture in the history of the world.
This book *** 12, 128, scientifically classifies human acupuncture points, supplements many acupuncture points that are not recorded or named in ancient books, and determines 349 acupuncture points. The book introduces the therapeutic effects, contraindications and operation methods of various acupoints in detail, and also retains a lot of information lost in the past. As a link between the past and the future of acupuncture in China, this book promoted the development of acupuncture and became a model of acupuncture works in later generations.
In the 5th century, acupuncture and moxibustion classics A and B spread to Japan and South Korea. In the 7th century A.D., a department of acupuncture was established in Japan, with A-B Acupuncture Classics as the teaching material. Therefore, this book is not only the earliest and most systematic acupuncture monograph in China, but also plays a great role in international medical communication.