五運六氣說에서 본 동양의학의 人體藏象論과 생명정신의 易學的 境界

Abstract

The essay is an attempt to making a changeological approach to the Oriental medicine. The point is the jiangxiang theory of human body. The jiangxiang theory is based upon the conception of comprehending internal organs through external symptoms in the relationship of disease symptoms and diagnosis. It belongs to an epistemological methodology of inferring and diagnosing the appearances of physiological principle and pathological principle associated with the structure of biological organs and the function of physiological principle in the vital stream of wuyunliuqi. The jiangxiang theory is a device of methodology of making a special theoretical system rather than means of actually applying to clinical practice. It is closely associated with a category of yin-yang and the organizing system of wuxing. This changeological thinkng way is in contact with the medical horizon of life spirit oriented toward the value of life in accordance with the principle of life. In an integral connection of the medical practice with the methodological passage, it is possible to say that it makes a progress beyond Daoist medicine and Confucian medicine through an integral unity of knowledge and wisdom in Oriental medicine. Consequently, it makes a medical process of elevation from the irreversible world of life appearance to the reversible world of life spirit.