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Why did you delete the one source that we've been talking the most about? Why do you want to hide the truth from readers? The concepts of qi and meridians are very contentious, because they don't exist from a reductionist, disectionist, Western medical science point of view. 

Do you want to know what meridians are? Every type of tissue, muscle fiber, etc, is wrapped up and enclosed in fascia. Meridians are the spaces in between these fascia, you are never going to ""find"" them by cutting bodies apart and looking at them in a microscope. They are the nothingness that provides function, as in verse 11 of the Tao Te Ching 
""Thirty spokes converge
In the hub of a wheel;
But the use of the cart
Will depend on the part
On the hub that is void.

With a wall all around
A clay bowl is molded;
But the use of the bowl
Will depend on the part
Of the bowl that is void.

Cut out windows and doors
In the house as you build;
But the use of the house
Will depend on the space
In the walls that is void

So advantage is had
From whatever is there;
But usefulness arises
From what is not.""

These interfascial spaces have increased salt concentrations and thus increased electro-conductivity properties, and it is the manipulation of the bioelectrochemical energy (i.e. ""qi"") in these spaces which acupuncture seeks to accomplish.

Now yes, this is original research on my behalf, and cannot be included in the text. But the SOURCE which is suggestive of such MUST be included in the text: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bem.20403/abstract;jsessionid=58BB2FDAA1322DB50ADB06D305F41969.d03t04   "