Zu den morphologischen Grundlagen der Akupunktur - Eine anatomische Nomenklatur der Akupunktur-Strukturen -

Journal/Book: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Akupunktur. 1996; 39/3: 54-60.

Abstract: It does not require a great deal of fantasy to state that, if the ingenious author of the classical Copper Man (Tong-Ren), Wang Wei-Yi (987-1067 AD), were he alive today and working in his medical field, would have named the foramina of acupuncture according to the terminology of the "Nomina Anatomica" [29]. The anatomy of his Coppper Man is exemplary and completely accurately modelled according to modern criteria. The old original which is in Tokyo is hollow and can be opened up (fig. 4). Replicas of the human internal organs were probably inside originallly, but they are not there now [30]. Detailed dissection, let alone histologicmicroscopic studies of the human organism, which are familiar in modern Western anatomy, were certainly not usual in China at the time. Therefore, in the text on the Copper Man, the common terminology of traditional Chinese medicine was chosen for the various anatomical structures; but, in fact, the majority of these names are identical in meaning to those used in our modern anatomical topography and morphology. To date, this fact has not been given sufficient consideration both in the East and West.

Keyword(s): Akupunktur, morphologische Grundlagen, anatomische Nomenklatur.

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