DocumentCode
414701
Title
Observations of the current change on acupuncture spots at the meal time
Author
Chun, Soon-Young ; Ji, Un-Ho ; Nagle, H. Troy
fYear
2004
fDate
24-25 June 2004
Firstpage
490
Lastpage
495
Abstract
One of major issues on oriental medicine is to clarify effects and substances of a vital energy called as ´Qi(Ki) ´. ´Qi(Ki) ´ is a flow of the vital energy which is channeled via Kyung-rak in the structure of the human body. The oriental medicine says that when the flow of the vital energy is blocked, a health is lost. The oriental medicine recovers the health by controlling the flow of the vital energy with acupuncture. Spots responded to a disease is the Kyung-hyul on the Kyung-rak. The Kyung-rak is a meridian of a medical treatment by acupuncture. This study is intended to measure changes of the flow of the vital energy in connection with changes of current capacity through measuring the current change of the Kyung-hyul by impressing DC voltage. The change of the vital energy flow was indirectly expressed by measuring the changes of the body current on the physical change of the body before and after the meal among physical environmental changes. For it, an experiment was conducted for the above physical changes. As the result of the study, healthy persons showed a regular change of the body current pattern before and after the meal. On the other hand, the pattern of unhealthy persons current changes was very different from the pattern of health person´s current changes.
Keywords
bioelectric phenomena; patient treatment; Kyung-hyul; Kyung-rak; acupuncture spots; body current pattern; oriental medicine; vital energy flow; Current measurement; Diseases; Electrical resistance measurement; Energy measurement; Fluid flow measurement; Humans; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical treatment; Viscera; Voltage;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2004. CBMS 2004. Proceedings. 17th IEEE Symposium on
ISSN
1063-7125
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2104-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CBMS.2004.1311762
Filename
1311762
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