Information Models of Acupuncture Analgesia and Meridian Channels

Acupuncture and meridian channels have been major components of Chineseand Eastern Asian medicine—especially for analgesia—for over 2000 years. In recentdecades, electroacupuncture (EA) analgesia has been applied clinically and experimentally. However, there were controversial results between different treatment frequencies, orbetween the active and the placebo treatments; and the mechanisms of the treatments andthe related meridian channels are still unknown. In this study, we propose a new term ofinfophysics therapy and develop information models of acupuncture (or EA) analgesia andmeridian channels, to understand the mechanisms and to explain the controversial results, based on Western theories of information, trigonometry and Fourier series, and physics, aswell as published biomedical data. We are trying to build a bridge between Chinesemedicine and Western medicine by investigating the Eastern acupuncture analgesia andmeridian channels with Western sciences; we model the meridians as a physiologicalsystem that is mostly constructed with interstices in or between other physiologicalsystems; we consider frequencies, amplitudes and wave numbers of electric field intensity (EFI) as information data. Our modeling results demonstrate that information regulatedwith acupuncture (or EA) is different from pain information, we provide answers to explainthe controversial published results, and suggest that mechanisms of acupuncture (or EA) analgesia could be mostly involved in information regulation of frequencies andamplitudes of EFI as well as neuronal transmitters such as endorphins