2004, Vol.17, No.4

The Journal Of Korean Medical Classics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.29

pISSN : 1229-8328 / eISSN : 2713-850X
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In the Circular flow of Meridians〔經脈〕, the circulation of Nutrient Gi〔營氣〕 is that the essence Gi〔精氣〕 of food starts from Middle Cho〔中焦〕, via heart and lung into the ring-type round of 12 Meridians〔十二經脈〕 in turn of hand Meridians〔手經〕 and foot Meridians〔足經〕, Yang Meridians〔陽經〕 and Eum Meridians〔陰經〕. The circulation of Defensive Gi〔衛氣〕 is that if going out from Eum part〔陰分〕 into Yang part〔陽分〕, is rounding on the Yang Meridians, if going out from Yang part into Eum part, is rounding on the five Jang〔五臟〕 in order of Kidney〔腎〕-Heart〔心〕-Lung〔肺〕-Liver〔肝〕-Spleen〔脾〕. Because the process of accumulating the essence Gi has a property of One-way flow, it flows from terminal to the direction of body trunk, has no distinct channel with its immaterial nature, and is concentrated on the lower part to that the five Jang belong.

Nei Ching referred to as a canon of Chinese medicine is a comprehensive life philosophy that applied the life principle of the universe to the human body to combine the philosophical concept with the human nature as well as the functions of the body's organs. The book formed a complete system of a Qi Philosophy by using the medical terminology and theory based on the concept of Qi. It is remarkable that the Qi philosophy of Chang Tsai, who is a Neo-Confucianist and representative scholar of Qi philosophy in the era of Song Dynasty, has been influenced by the Qi philosophy in Nei Ching and developed into a Confucian school Furthermore, Chang Tsai's theory, in effect, impacted upon the rise of Qi Determination of the Human Nature in Medicine of Zhang Jie Bin who is a profound thinker in the era of Ming dynasty. As mentioned above, both traditional philosophy and medical philosophy in china in regard to Qi Theory have interacted and developed each other. This paper is to make a comparative study of the Qi Determination of the Human Nature proposed by Chang Tsai and Zhang Jie Bin and to trace the orgin of the Qi Determination of Human Nature.

This paper is mainly on the epistemology of 『Dodeok-gyeong(道德經)』 and 『Hwangje-Naegyeong(黃帝內經)』, and the relation of each other. Amog the conclusions, following things are worth mention. The point of 『Dodeok-gyeong』 can be said as the epistemological "Do(道)". When it expressed as something, it cannot be the original form. This principle can be applied to 『Hwangje-Naegyeong』 in the flow of Gi(氣) and in the property of movement of Eumyang-Ohaeng(陰陽五行). In 『Dodeok-gyeong』, the notions of the relativity of all things, come out as interpromotion and interacting. It can be related to the typical etiology and pathology of the Eastern medicine. In 『Dodeok-gyeong』, the emphasis on woman which represents the 'Eum' also emerged well in 『Hwangje-Naegyeong』. 『Dodeok-gyeong』 emphasize on the relative value of the contrasted things. In the Easten ideas, the smallest thing can be the same as the largest thing with the exception of comparison of each other. As the same way, the human body can be the small cosmos, and the Heaven and human beings correspond to each other.