Meridian science is also the basis of human acupuncture and massage, and is an important part of Chinese medicine. In Chinese medicine, meridians are the channels that run the qi and blood, connect the internal organs to the body surface and various parts of the body, and are the regulatory system of the body’s functions.
However, meridians are not confirmed by physical anatomy, as blood vessels are. So there has been controversy for a long time.
According to Science and Technology Daily, a paper published recently in the international authoritative journal Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine shows that for the first time, researchers, mainly from the Institute of Life Science and Technology of Xin’ao Group, clearly observed continuous fluorescent lines migrating along the meridian points of the human body. This work provides strong evidence for the existence of meridians in Chinese medicine. Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Harvard Medical School participated in the collaboration and validation.
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“Chinese medicine is the cultural heritage of China for thousands of years and is practiced through”
“If it is true, then the ancient people are really powerful”
“Chinese medicine for thousands of years, still need to prove what”
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“Unknown ≠ non-existent, the more you learn the more you realize that what is known to mankind is still too little.”
“So, opening the Ren and Du meridians to become a martial arts master is also just around the corner”
According to the report, a major basis for the Western medical community’s denial of the science of Chinese medicine has always been the “inability to confirm the existence of meridians” at the anatomical level.
“In recent decades, several teams at home and abroad have done a lot of exploration through various methods, but none of them could observe stable meridian trajectories with sufficient length on the human body.” Dr. Qing Tang, head of the Neo team, said that this time, the team’s experiment obtained clear fluorescent images of meridians over 20cm long in the arm part of the pericardial meridian.
This is the first time that researchers have used a new tracing method to obtain meridian tracks in humans since the 1980s, when radioisotopes were used for tracing.
This time, the meridian imaging is more stable, and the trajectory of multiple points along a meridian is clearer and more reproducible, according to Tang Qing.
The team initially used the contrast agent sodium fluorescein, which was excited and photographed using a laser over the next few hours to obtain the migration trajectory of the fluorescein in the body.
The results showed that the trajectories generally developed along adjacent acupuncture points of the pericardial meridian, from Neiguan, to Interdigit, to Quchi completely overlapping with the pericardial meridian acupuncture points, forming a stable meridian line.
By comparing ultrasound imaging with infrared imaging, the possibility of fluorescent lines flowing along the vessels was ruled out. To rule out the possibility that the fluorescent line trajectory was a lymphatic vessel, the researchers designed another experiment with simultaneous injection of sodium fluorescein and indocyanine green, a contrast agent mainly used for lymphography, and the results showed that the two trajectories did not completely overlap, so the possibility that the previously observed sodium fluorescein fluorescent line was a lymphatic vessel could be ruled out.
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