WU Yuefeng, LAI Xinsheng, LI Chenyun. Tongyuan Theory and The Book of Changes (《易经》)[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2019, 60(1): 7-9.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2019.01.002.
The Book of Changes( 《易经》) is representative of traditional Chinese classics
from which Tongyuan therapy borrows some theories and summarizes traditional theories of acupuncture
whose academic connotation is enriched and mechanism is partly clarified. The relationship between The Book of Changes and Tongyuan theory is expounded through such 3 aspects as the inspiration for physiology of Tongyuan from The Book of Changes
the relationship between the circulation of the original qi and yin-yang in Tongyuan theory and Taiji and yin-yang in The Book of Changes
as well as the relationship between gua-qi theory and meridians and collaterals