The science of acupuncture

[soaring crane]

http://yinyangpodcast.blogspot.de/2014/03/the-science-behind-acupuncture.html?m=1

 

This is pretty interesting. Not sure if it belongs in the general discussion...

[Brian]

Attended a lecture by an acupuncturist at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America who referenced the same work. Very interesting. He finished with a discussion of medical qigong and how he thinks it is the future of medicine.

 

I was able to speak with him for about fifteen minutes before the seminar. A student of JAJ who studied in China for 7 years.

[soaring crane]

I got the link from 'Karen Vaughan' at facebook. Anyone who is looking for good TCM and other alternative health information would do well to look her up and 'friend' her. She's very nice, and extremely knowledgeable and socially active. When I get back to NY next time, I'm going to look her up.

 

https://www.facebook.com/Acupuncture.herbs.Karen.Vaughan?fref=ts

[silent thunder]

Multiple studies confirm that meridian points and acupuncture points have conductivity 10-100 times greater than the surrounding skin.

 

Collagen aligns with lines of stress in the body, which typically run within the same planes as the acupuncture lines, so it is not improbable to suppose that the energy of acupuncture is conducted along lines run through collagen fibres.

 

Thus in terms of biophysics the human body is an open biological loop of liquid-crystal character whose inputs and outputs are a field matrix formed by the system of acupuncture meridians. Part of the energy of the acupuncture system is a complex field which is beyond the human body. All forms of energy known in physics are found in it. In a close interaction with the physical body is its bioenergoinformational “shell” that consists of a “fine-energy” biofield substance. The mechanisms of interaction between the energoinformational component of the key systems of the physical body and its bioenergoinformational "shell” as part of the environment are the subject matter of fine human anatomy. Thus in terms of radio physics, too, the human body may be thought of as an open bioenergoinformational system exchanging energy and information with the environment.

 

I enjoyed this: http://ramed.wikidot.com/en:fundamental-new

 

and thought this was well worded: http://somaticreflections.wordpress.com/tag/acupuncture/