The attribution of Chinese medicine to the meridian is the part of the body that indicates the action of the drug, the attribution of Chinese medicine to the meridian is different, the therapeutic effect is also different.
Return is the meaning of belonging to, and the meridian is the meaning of the meridians, internal organs, attributed to the meridian refers to the selective role of Chinese medicine for a part of the human body, that is, a certain kind of Chinese medicine on the human body of some of the meridians, as well as the internal organs have a special affinity for the role of the.
Returning to the meridian originated in the earliest Jin Yuan period Yishui school, in the Tibetan doctrine based on the elephant, the ancient medical doctors through a long time to observe, combined with the bias of the drug as well as the effect of the role of the internal organs, such as insomnia, patients taking a drug, produce drowsiness, etc. After the role of the heart, combined with the master of the gods summarizes the role of a drug has a tranquilizing effect. This side is the earliest attribution.
Before the Jin Yuan period, China’s understanding of herbs is limited to the four qi and five flavors, poisonous and non-toxic, while the theory of categorization of traditional Chinese medicine to a new level, so that a certain drug on a certain evidence more simple, greatly facilitating the accuracy of the doctor’s choice of drugs.
The categorization of the Jing explains the efficacy of the Chinese medicine, that is to say, it indicates the scope of application of the medicine to treat the disease and clarifies the mechanism of action of the medicine.