[Acupoints around the neck: a philological analysis and re-recognition on "acupoint-meridian" relationship].

The acupoints around the neck are the essential acupoints, discussed together with the five- points in the Chapter of ( '). In this paper, based on the literature analysis, the special evidence on the arrangement of the Chapter is interpreted in detail so as to display the recognition on the acupoints in '. In view of the acupoints around the neck, the theory of "acupoint-meridian" relationship is explained. The correlation of acupoints and meridians expressed by ancient scholars is analyzed in the evolution from Tianhui medical bamboo slips to (). It is proposed that the narration of acupoints in terms of "meridian" and "region" should be distinguished from the meridian tropism of acupoints. The importance of "the origin of meridian " should be re-identified in the academic history so as to declare the academic value of acupoint arrangement described in .