Abstract:

Terms play very important roles in discipline development, academic communication and dissemination. Acupuncture and moxibustion terms date from ancient times, and inevitably carry traditional culture factors to some extent, which leads to difficulties in translation. There are many terms loading much Chinese cultures were indexed in National standard, General Nomenclature of Acupuncture and Moxibustion(GB/T 30232—2013), which were mostly translated in the form of pinyin. In order to provide support to further standardize the terminology of acupuncture and moxibustion, we analyzed the English translation in some fields in GB/T 30232—2013, such as filiorm peculiar needling methods, four methods of Feijingzouqi, and compound reinforcing and reducing methods.

Key words: General Nomenclature of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, national standard, cultural standards of terms