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    Amidst the nods of the crowd one after another, Liu Xingting said, "But fundamentally speaking, we still don't quite know what biological process acupuncture and moxibustion work through."

    Therefore, this is the root of doubt and doubt, and human beings have an innate rejection of things that they do not understand.

    Chu Lihua seemed to have found the reason in a flash of inspiration.

    ¡ª¡ª"In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the meridian is the channel that runs the blood and runs through the internal organs of the human body, and the acupoints are the important nodes on the meridian.

    Only when acupuncture is placed on specific acupoints to affect the operation of specific meridians can it play the expected role.

    Moxibustion is what acupuncture can't do, but moxibustion.  The truth is the same.

    However, modern biology has not found out whether the so-called meridians and acupuncture points have a reliable material basis.

    Since I don't know what acupuncture points are, what is the difference between acupuncture and moxibustion in different places has become an unresolved problem.

    Previously, scientists from Harvard University in the United States published a paper in the journal Neuron, partially explaining the basis of acupuncture and moxibustion.

    Especially through the comparison of two different acupoints, it explains why different acupuncture points can have different effects.

    The design of this research is very complicated, here I will extract the essence for you.

    To put it simply, Ma Qiufu's laboratory at Harvard University focused on two acupoints - Zusanli on the hind legs of mice and Tianshu on the abdomen of mice.  They found that stimulating Tianshu acupoint or Zusanli with electroacupuncture can well alleviate the sepsis condition of mice and reduce the death rate of sick mice by 23%.

    However, there are subtle differences in the responses of the two acupoints to acupuncture.  Specifically, only a weak current of 0.5ma is needed to stimulate Zusanli, and whether the mouse is pre-stimulated before sepsis or re-stimulated after the disease, the effect of treating the disease is good.

    On the contrary, if the Tianshu acupoint is stimulated, a high-intensity current of 3ma must be used to be effective, and it must be pre-stimulated before the onset, and re-stimulation after the onset will actually make the condition worse.

    In other words, the location of the needle, the strength of the needle, and the timing of the needle, the commonality of the three determines the effect of acupuncture.  And these indicators are particularly important in acupuncture and moxibustion techniques.

    From this perspective, although this study cannot be said to endorse traditional acupuncture techniques, it at least shows that many of the concerns in traditional acupuncture experience may really have practical significance.

    Why do these differences exist?

    Professor Ma Qiufu's team made some explanations for this.  They demonstrated that different parts of the nervous system are activated when the needles are placed in different places.

    Low-intensity stimulation of Zusanli can stimulate the adrenal gland to secrete dopamine and other nerve signal molecules through the vagus nervous system, thereby reducing the inflammatory response;

    While high-intensity stimulation of Tianshu acupoint regulates the inflammatory response by stimulating the secretion of norepinephrine in the spleen.

    If these nerve cells are killed separately, the effect of acupuncture on these two points will disappear.

    In other words, the so-called different acupuncture points are actually body locations that can be connected with different nervous systems.

    From this point of view, so many acupoints, complicated acupuncture and moxibustion techniques in traditional medicine may be to ensure that the nervous system of the human body is stimulated with the right intensity at the right time and at the right place.

    This should be a reasonable explanation for acupuncture and moxibustion that biologists can make.

    Of course, traditional medicine is mainly a summary of experience.  Since it is a summary of experience, it must be a mixed bag, because it is difficult for ancient doctors to judge what experience is really effective and what experience is just a coincidence, or even completely wrong.

    For example, a pack of herbal medicine is boiled and drunk, or a needle is inserted, and the patient feels much more comfortable. Many times, doctors don¡¯t know whether it is the effect of the herbal medicine or acupuncture, or the placebo effect, or the original disease of the patient.  It will gradually improve.

    It is precisely because of this that many researchers have been trying to reorganize and test the experience of traditional medicine with the logic of modern science and medicine, discarding the dross and extracting the essence, discarding the false and preserving the true.

    And now, we can also use moxibustion and placebo effect together to achieve the desired results.

    After all, the acupuncture points we moxibustion are all around the eyes that have been verified to be good for the eyes, no matter in elementary school, junior high school or high school.

    However, based on my research on Chinese medicine, in fact, adding Zusanli, Sanyinjiao and Yongquan acupoints, as well as appropriate Baihui acupoints to Fengchi acupoints, the effect will be even better.

      After all, in regulating eye diseases, liver and kidney functions and spleen functions play a key role.

    The kidney is the innate foundation, and it governs the joy of water, liver and eyes. I don't need to say it.

    As for the spleen, it is the acquired foundation and is mainly responsible for the function of transportation and transformation.

    For these acupoints, you can try to find them yourself first. If you don¡¯t know how to find them, let me talk about the acupoint of Zusanli to give you a demonstration.

    Just now I shared the research with you. For me, a particularly important inspiration is how to define acupuncture points.

    In the practice of traditional medicine, the specific location of many acupuncture points is quite vague or even controversial.

    For example, Zusanli, the approximate location is about 4 finger widths below the depression below the outside of the kneecap.

    Different patients and different doctors may find subtle differences in the location of Zusanli.

    However, there is one thing we don't need to worry about. The advantage of moxibustion is that it doesn't matter if the acupoints are not very accurate.

    The degree we are talking about is usually one point, but moxibustion is often one side.

    The surface is so big, it will always be reported.

    There are also some acupuncture points, and even the records in different medical books cannot be unified.  Since this is the case, is there any way for us to make a set of objective definition standards for acupuncture points?

    Take Zusanli and Tianshu points as examples.  According to the research sharing just now, we now know that these two points can activate different nervous system components and reduce inflammation.

    But how exactly are they connected to different nervous system components?  Is it because there are many special nerve endings under the skin of these two acupuncture points, which can transmit special nerve signals?

    If this is the case, can the location of acupuncture points be defined simply by the distribution of these nerve endings?

    Do a ct scan to locate it, no need to use vague descriptions like the width of a few fingers.

    Similarly, will we still be able to discover new acupuncture points, that is, those parts of the body surface that have a strong connection with a specific nervous system?  "

    Liu Xingting's rhetorical question made Chu Lihua feel a sense of pride. In fact, she has always been at the forefront of technology!  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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