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| File Name : MERIDIAN.ASC | Online Date : 09/14/94 |
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| Contributed by : Jerry Decker | Dir Category : BIOLOGY |
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From: leping@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Leping N Zha)
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Subject: Chinese - Russian Scientists Join to Prove the
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Body "Meridian Channels"
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Date: 20 Nov 91 05:14:53 GMT
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News from P.R.China :
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Chinese and Soviet Scientists Cooperate to Confirm the Existence of the
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"Jinluo" Line ( Meridian Channels )
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Reflexology (manipulating areas on the feet to affect the rest of the
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body) was listed as "near bizarre" in a recent Times cover article on the
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alternative therapies (Claudia Wallis, "Why New Age Medicine is Catching On",
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November 4, 1991) compared with the "more credible" treatments like
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acupuncture, while they are both based on the same ancient Chinese theory of
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"Jinluo" system, the "meridian lines network" which links virtually all human
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(and animals as well reportedly) parts and passes the "qi" through them to
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maintain one's health and vitality. These channels are also strongly believed
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by most Chinese psi (EFHB in their term) researchers and qigong masters as
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the pathways of the subtle energies which carries psi informations. They even
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published papers measuring (mainly subjectively) the ESP message's propagating
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speed along the lines among the gifted EFHB children as typically several
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centimeters per second, and reported once the "qi feelings (usually tingling
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and bloating)" reach their forehead, the desired information appears as a
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picture on a special "TV screen" there. There are as many patients receiving
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the Jinlou-based traditional Chinese madicine treatment today in China as
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those who using Western medicien (many use both simultaneously since it is not
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unusual for a Western styled doctor, "Xi-Yi", also prescripts "Zhong-Yi"
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drugs and treatments along with Aspirin pills, etc.), since they took the
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Jinlou system as an established fact from their birth.
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No anatomic evidence of these channels was found so far, but studies
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on the subject is still carried in many state-funded Chinese traditional
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medicine centers, research institutes and universities. Professor Zhu Zong-
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xiang, who leads a group in the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese
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Academy of Science (Academia Sinica) claimed that from 17 year's careful
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studies in his lab, they had proven there are really 14 Jinluo lines in the
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human body by three independent biophysical methods (Zhu Zongxiang, Xu Rui-
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min, et al., "A Study on the Low Impedance characteristics of the Meridian
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Lines before and after amputation", Ziran Zazhi[Nature Journal], 9, 281-287;
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Zhu Zongxiang, "The Advances and Prospect in Physiological and Biophysical
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Approaches to the Acupuncture Meridian System", Ziran Zazhi, 9, 327-332;
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additional references pending), including acoustic conduction speed and
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electrical conducting impedance. A detailed experimental channel location
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map had been produced by 1989. These claims have brought wide attentions
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among Chinese scientists and news media, partially because the claim is
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contradictory to a general believe that the system builds on the dynamic
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processes in the living body and therefore it will not be detectable in
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vitro.
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According to a recent news item from the official Xinhua News Agency
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(September 26, Beijing, Zhu Baihua reporting), Chinese and Soviet scientists
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are cooperating to further reveal the reality of meridian channels by using
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modern Biophysical means, and major progress has been made already.
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From the source, the research center headed by Professor Zhu signed a
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collaborate agreement with the Institute of Cytological Biophysics, Soviet
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Academy of Science, to lunch a series of morphological and biochemical
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experiments on Jinluo. The Soviet scientists would investigate the special
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structure of the channels by optical and electron microscopes, as well as
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to measure the lines objectively by biochemical (enzymic) methods.
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The news reports that the scientists from the both sides had made
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exchanges frequently since May, 1990. A delegation led by Professor Zhu
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visited the Soviet site in the past June, and Dr. Klamov (name translated
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from Chinese), director of the Cytological Biophysics Institute's
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radiology department, is working in the Professor Zhu's lab in Beijing.
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The report says the Russian researchers have successfully detected acupoints
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which on the whole agree with the Jinluo map made by Zhu's group.
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Also from other Xinhua reports, Dr. Qian Xuesen, the prominent
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Chinese rocketeer, Dr. Robert Jahn's predecessor of the Cal Tech Jet Propul-
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sion Laboratory's Goddard Professorship who provided the crucial supports to
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the China's psi studies from the very beginning, was granted by the party a
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one-of-the-kind "Outstanding Scientist Award" which was described as the
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highest honor ever to a scientist in China. The Chinese government had also
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started a "learn from Dr. Qian" movement throughout the nation's scientific
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and technological units. In the grant awarding ceremony attended by the
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party's top leaders, Dr. Qian mentioned that he will aim to further advance
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the "Somatic Science" research in China, among many other subjects like
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the Biological Sciences and System Science.
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( November 16, 1991 )
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