Discussion on Research Ideas and Methods on the Core of Meridian Theory

• Published in: Journal of acupuncture and tuina science Vol. 6; no. 5; p. 258
• Main Author: 周逸平 汪克明 吴子建 蔡荣林 龙迪和 何璐 刘靖
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: 中医治疗; 子午线; 生物学
• ISSN: 1672-3597; 1993-0399

May be the important idea and practice that challenged and questioned modem science of traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） would become the resource of primary innovation. Some ideas such as systemic holism and treated with pre-disease had already improved the development of recent biology. Meridian-Viscera Correlativity （MVC） theory is the core in meridian theory, and it illustrates the circulation of qi and blood that is dominated by the heart governed vessel and lung governed qi, and also it contributes to the complex relation system in meridian-viscera, viscera-viscera, meridian-meridian. Although we know that modem medicine is about the complex signal transmitting system of somatic-viscera, viscera-viscera, somatic-somatic that composed by brain and neuron-endocrine-humeral system. So, apply the theory and methods of systemic biology and look the human body as a whole, through collecting biological signals in a large scale to deeply study nervous system, especially the limbic-hypothalamus-autonomic nervous system, and combined the research on the signals transduction of bioactivity material, genomics and the interaction between environment signals,