While balancing yin and yang is one basic principle of Chinese medicine, balancing methods for combination of meridians and acupoints had been described throughout the history of Chinese medicine. We have identified six historical systems for combinations of acupuncture points in historical writings. All of them represent symmetrical combinations which are defined by the steps in the Chinese Cl...

BACKGROUND According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory, acupuncture effects are based on the integrity function of meridians. Meridians are thought to regulate body function through the normal flow of qi and/or blood. Disturbances in this flow are thought to cause disease, and acupuncture techniques are believed to cure disease by regulating this flow. However, it is still difficult ...

The anatomical basis for the concept of acupuncture points/meridians in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has not been resolved. This paper reviews the fascia research progress and the relationship among acupuncture points/meridians, primo vascular system (PVS), and fascia. Fascia is as a covering, with common origins of layers of the fascial system despite diverse names for individual parts. ...

Acupuncture involves activating specific points on the skin, usually by inserting needles. was based principles of traditional Chinese Medicine. Traditional acupuncturists understood health in terms a vital force or energy called "Qi" that circulates between organs along channels meridians. The flow 'Qi' must be right strength and quality each these meridians so is maintained. Acupoints are loc...

Previous studies suggest that superoxide anions are possibly traveling along acupuncture meridians. The electrical potential difference (EPD) between acupoints may be related to the movement. To test the above hypothesis, we conducted a study investigating the effects of acupoint antioxidant interventions on the meridian EPD. Firstly, ST39 (L) and ST44 (L) were screened out for the EPD detectio...

Meridian theory is one of the core components of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It gives an integral explanation for how human life works, how a disease forms, and how a therapy acts to treat a disease. If we do not understand the meridians, it is hard to understand the TCM. People in China and abroad had been working hard for 50 years, trying to understand the meridians; the...

Orientation discrimination was measured for line targets in the fovea and in locations along four meridians (vertical, horizontal, 45 degrees and 135 degrees ) in the peripheral visual field. In all locations, the performance for vertical and horizontal contours was on average almost twice as good as for oblique ones. In addition, especially in peripheral locations along oblique meridians, thre...

We show that in some sense, " most " knots have meridian of length strictly less than 4. We do so by finding geometric information on the cusp shapes of a class of links called generalized augmented links. Since any knot can be obtained by an explicit Dehn filling on one of these links, the geometric information on these links gives geometric information on new classes of knots and links.

Suggestions that peripheral imagery may affect the development of refractive error have led to interest in the variation in refraction and aberration across the visual field. It is shown that, if the optical system of the eye is rotationally symmetric about an optical axis which does not coincide with the visual axis, measurements of refraction and aberration made along the horizontal and verti...