Background: The chapter 20 on Pulse Diagnosis and Treatment of gynopathy during pregnancy in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber define “Pregnant Women’s Fetal Injury” : ‘when a pregnancy woman suffering from fullness in the abdomen, inability to urinate, heaviness below the waist, as if she has fluid-retention syndrome. In the seventh month of pregnancy, the Taiyin (spleen) channel should be nourishing the fetus, but it fails to do so. The heart qi is in an excessive state. She should be treated by acupuncture at Lao Gong(PC 8) and Guan Yuan(RN 4). When urination is slightly relieved, the syndrome will recover. See Jīn guì yù hán jīng’. The clause is simple and concise but difficult to understand. Medical practitioners of past dynasties either retained the original text or, as Wu Qian of the Qing Dynasty said in his commentary on the Golden Mirror of Medical Ancestry: Essential
271.3《金匱要略》婦人「傷胎」釐定與重新詮釋
