On the Gate of Life Be the Inborn Origin

CHU Quan-gen

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1006-3250.2001.04.003

Abstract：The theory of “Kidney is the inborn origin of the body”whose influence has existed even to this day advocated by Li Zhongzi,the medical scientist in Ming Dynasty is questioned in this article.The author holds that Li's theory is actually the negation of the achievements in medical research gained by the other medical scientists in chinese history and it also brings about various contradictions and problems in the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine.As the postnatal organs of the body,kidney itself cannot be regarded as the inborn origin.The concept of gate of life advocated in The book of The Classcic on Difficulty and elucidated by the medical scientists in Ming Dynasty with great efforts contains rich connotation and its important position as the real inborn origin of the body should be detined.By do so,some contradictions in the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine can be solved and hence,the theory is necessarily improved,and meanwhile,the method and scope of thinking in the research of the fundamental theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine can also be developed and widened.