{"id":12874,"date":"2021-11-03T02:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T02:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knowlative.com\/?p=12874"},"modified":"2022-04-26T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T09:20:42","slug":"cun-distances-in-tcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowlative.com\/de\/cun-distances-in-tcm\/","title":{"rendered":"Cun &#8211; Distances in TCM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;Cun&rdquo; is the relative unit of measure of distances in the human body used in Chinese Medicine (Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM). <\/p>\n<p> Like the &ldquo;inch&rdquo;, usually understood as deriving from the width of the human thumb (2,54 cm), 1 Cun is the width of the thumb of the person being measured. The genius idea of ancient Chinese doctors is to have developed a relative measure that changes upon the shape of any human body. So, 1 Cun measured in one person can be very different from 1 Cun on another person depending on their dimension and shape. <\/p>\n<p> The Cun varies also within the same person in different regions and it is precisely measured dividing the distance by 2 fixed anatomical landmarks by a convectional number of Cuns. <\/p>\n<p> Conventionally: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The width of the thumb si 1 Cun<\/li>\n<li>The length of the second phalanx of index finger is 1 Cun<\/li>\n<li>The width of index and middle finger together is 1,5 Cun<\/li>\n<li>The width of index to little finger together is 3 Cun<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> But the more precise way to measure Cuns in the body is to follow the rules in the picture. <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\"><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowlative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Attachment-1-7-scaled.jpg\" class=\"et_pb_lightbox_image\" title=\"\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap \"  style=\"max-height: 600px !important;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.knowlative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Attachment-1-7-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" height=\"auto\" width=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.knowlative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Attachment-1-7-scaled.jpg  500w, MEDIUM}-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px; ) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 500px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-12875 \" style=\"max-height: 600px !important;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/center><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Cun&rdquo; is the relative unit of measure of distances in the human body used in Chinese Medicine (Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM). 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