Reading Huangdi Neijing to Solve 54.3 Questions about Plain Needles —— The Relationship between Nine Needles and Yin and Yang in the Four Seasons of Heaven and Earth

(Interpretation)

"The emperor said: I smell nine needles, which should be yin and yang in the four seasons of heaven and earth. I would like to hear about it and pass it on to future generations, thinking it is normal. " The Yellow Emperor said: I heard that the Nine Targets correspond to the four seasons of Yin and Yang. Please tell me the truth, let it spread to future generations and become a routine for treating diseases.

"Qi Bo said: One day, two places, three people, four seasons, five tones, six rhymes, seven stars, eight winds and nine games, the body should also be suitable, and the needles should also be suitable, so it is called nine needles." Qi Bo said: One day, two places, three people, four seasons, five tones, six rhymes, seven stars, eight winds and nine games, all parts of the human body correspond to these, and the needles are sick, so they are called nine needles.

"On the day of human skin, human flesh is local, people are connected, people are strong, and people have voices." Specifically, human skin is like the sky that covers everything; Human muscles are like thick ground; The rise and fall of a person's blood is like a person's prime; Tendons have different functions in different parts, just as the four seasons have different climates; The human voice is in harmony with the five tones of nature.

"People's yin and yang and law, people's teeth are Ying Xing, people go in and out with the wind, and people are nine orifices and three hundred and sixty-five collaterals." The yin and yang of human viscera are similar to the six methods; People's teeth are arranged like stars in the sky; People breathe like the wind; People's nine orifices and 365 collaterals are distributed all over the body, like nine fields.

"So, one needle of flesh, two needles of pulse, three needles of tendon, five needles of bone, six needles of regulating yin and yang, seven needles of benefiting essence, eight needles of expelling wind and nine needles of opening nine orifices should be 365 solar terms, that is to say, each has its own master." Therefore, the first needling is skin, the second needling is muscle, the third needling is vein, the fourth needling is tendon, the fifth needling is bone, the sixth needling is yin and yang, the seventh needling is vital energy, the eighth needling is cold-repelling, and the ninth needling is nine-orifices-dredging, which should deal with the qi of 365 knots, that is to say, each of the nine needling is useful.

"People's heart should be eight winds, people's popularity should be heaven, people's teeth and ears should be five tones and six methods, people's yin and yang should be blood, and people's liver should be nine." People's emotions are as changeable as the eight winds, people's vital qi runs endlessly like the sky, people's ears and ears are as orderly as the five tones and six laws, people's blood gas and yin and yang meridians are like the earth of biochemical things, and people's liver gas communicates with their eyes, corresponding to the number of nine.

Today, I learned the relationship between the four points and nine needles of heaven and earth and Yin and Yang. And continue to study, so call it a day.