CANG GONG
VALDEMIR MOTA DE MENEZES
- Two Famous
Acupuncturists in Ancient China
- In the early Han dynasty, around BCE 200,
- there was another
important medical practitioner whose name is often mentioned along with
Bian Que.
- This is
Chun Yuyi,
- better
known as Cang Gong,
- who practiced the medical traditions of the Yellow
Emperor and Bian Que.
- Cang Gong made his diagnoses based on the “five colors,”
- part of the ancient
Chinese system of Five Elements active
- in the human body:
- metal, wood, water, fire,
earth.
- Wood,
for example, represents the color blue;
- fire is red;
- earth is yellow;
- metal is white;
- and water is black.
- Our internal organs, and
their functions, are also part of this five-part system:
- the liver corresponds
to wood;
- the
heart to fire;
- the
lungs to metal;
- the gall bladder to the yellow earth;
- and the kidneys to
black water.
- These
correspondences help TCM doctors diagnose illnesses
- by the color of the
patient’s complexion.
- The Historical Annals recounts how the Han emperor Wendi
once held
- a
conversation with Cang Gong
- in which the doctor recited a list of 25 different
illnesses
- he
had cured in his lifetime,
- based solely on the patients’ external appearance.
- In another famous
incident,
- Cang
Gong was treating a patient with dental cavities,
- which he cured by applying a stone
needle to an acupuncture point
- on the patient’s left hand.
- Other famous doctors in the history
- of TCM include Zhang
Zhongjing,
- Sun
Simiao and a long, long list of others.
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