Crucial questions that
comparative approach
succeeded to answer
▪ according to scientific
method 1st condition:
meticulous observation ▪

© 2008-2019 Stefano Marcelli


:: brown text means unrevised translation or incomplete work ::

 NB: the author uses the words "channel", "meridian" and "vessel" as synonyms to define the system of lines, tubes or slices transporting the undemonstrated energy called Qi (pronounce "tchi") to all parts of the body. Anyway he considers "meridian" more suitable for scientific speech and literature, also because it is already employed in other fields of knowledge as in geography and morphogenesis.

 

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 Why right and left branches of the large intestine meridian cross each other on the midline, unique exception over 12 main meridians? Answered and published here (Medical Acupuncture Journal)


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Why the kidney meridian path forms a circle on the medial aspect of the foot, whereas the bladder meridian does not the same on the lateral aspect? Answered and published here  (same article as above)


● Why the small intestine meridian draws a zig-zag in the shoulder, scapular area? Answered and published here  (same article as above)

● Why amongst the back-shu points is listed Dushu, referring to Governor Vessel, even though TCM does not connect it to a specific organ? Is there a plausible explanation for why it finds just between Xinshu (Heart point) and Geshu (Diaphragm point) and not elsewhere? If it is an organ, which would it be? Is there in the body a Governor organ? According to my observation the answer is yes, there is!
Answered and published here (a page of this website)
● Why the stomach and gall bladder meridians that are of yang nature runs down the anterior aspect of chest and abdomen like intruders into a yin meridian territory? Why differently the back is covered by yang meridians only?
Answered, not yet published
 
● Why at least one fourth of the dorsal, lateral and yang aspect of the foot is occupied by the liver meridian that is a yin meridian?
Answered, not yet published
● Why the sole of the foot is exclusively controlled by the kidney yin meridian?
Answered, not yet published
● Why in the the arms and hands meridians are so orderly, with the 3 yin and 3 yang fully covering ventral and dorsal aspect respectively?
Answered, not yet published
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 Why Traditional Chinese Medicine privileged pericardium, rather than pleura or peritoneum, and assigned it the rank of main organ with own meridian? What is the true organ/function the ancient Chinese wanted to point out  under the name of pericardium?
 Answered, not yet published
● Why head surface is covered by yang meridians, and head internal organs only by yin meridians?
Answered, not yet published


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Ask Dr. Marcelli stefanomarcelli@tiscali.it a question about particular features of the Acupuncture Meridian System that are not listed here, so that he can try to give an answer according to the comparative approach, and by the means of scientific method. Or - much better - you are invited to communicate your own answered questions, which will be published and credited in this site and in possible scientific papers. Science means sharing and progress of knowledge. Before I applied the scientific method to acupuncture research, there were no new acquisitions in the knowledge about the Acupuncture Meridian System since thousands years, so it was officially dead and generated comprehensible rejection by rational minds, differently from TCM herbology, which has already incorporated plenty of new acquisitions from modern chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology. 

 

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