[Exploration on the history of acupuncture in Chinese Buddhist Canon].

It is believed that acupuncture science of Buddhist medicine has a long history and great characteristics after the investigation, research and analysis on the historic literature of acupuncture in Chinese Buddhist Canon. The writers tried to give the statements from 4 aspects. 1.

[Discussion of Tian Nian of Ling Shu (miraculous pivot)].

During one's lifetime, the state of health and the life span in different people are different, also, our body has it's own specific physical situation at certain age, Tian Nian of Ling Shu (Miraculous Pivot) includes all of those content. To investigate this chapter may help our realization and practice of TCM physiology.

[The TCM physiological viewpoints in the Pre-Qin dynasty as interpreted from the medical texts from Mawangdui].

There were great developments about the TCM since the last years of Warring States. The physiological viewpoints were focused on vessel (channel), zang-fu viscera and various structures of the body. Although there were divergences between medical texts and contents because of different viewpoints.