从气机角度探讨腰痛

Study on lumbago based on qi activity

"腰脊者,身之大关节也"。腰者,肾之府,肾主骨,故腰为人身重要之所,鉴古今之论,古多涉生理功能,今多至器质之变,器者气之体,气者器之用,气之升降出入,无器不有,天地人皆为器,皆有气之升降出入运动,人体之脏器法位,脏腑之气化功能法时,是故脏腑有高下之别、表里之分、经络之连属,其气化之机亦法天之四时六气、地之五运五方,人之腰部,为气之中分,腰以上为天为阳,腰以下为地为阴,肾为五脏之一,主收藏之气,今试从气机之理,论腰痛之变,为中医治疗提供新思路。

The lumbar is large joints of the body＇. Lumbus as the house of the kidney, and kidney controls the bone, so the local of lumbus is very important to the human body. Studying on past and present basic theory of TCM, physiological dysfunction is the most important reason to cause the lumbago in the past, but now, a growing number of lumbago is caused by organic disease. Organs as the house of the qi while qi as the life of the organ, everything has the activities about descendling, ascending, exiting and entering of qi, including the nature, earth and human, based on TCM theory of correspondence between man and universe. Zang-organs correspond to geographical position while zang-organs qi correspond to nature activity in human body, so the viscera has their own fixed positions, the interior and exterior relationship and meridian relationship, while the zang- organs qi correspond to four seasons, five directions, and five movements and six climates. The lumbar is located in the central part of the human body, so the upper portion of the lumbar belongs the heaven and yang while the lower belongs the earth and yin, the kidney is one of the five viscera, and the kidney is in charge of hibernation, in order to provide new ideas of Chinese medicine treatment, this paper will study on lumbago based on qi activity.