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Existence of the " Jinluo" Line ( Meridian Channels
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by LEPING ZIIA
( Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uni versity of Pittsburgh /
Pittsburgh NMR Centerfor Biomedical Research
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the feet to affect the rest of the hotly) was
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the
moic ci edible
treatments
like acupuncture, while in
fact they
are both based on
the same ancient Chinese
theory of "Jinluo"
system,
the
critical
"meridian
line network" which
links
virtually
all
the.
human (and animals as well reportedly) parts and passes the "qi" through them to maintain one’:,
health and vitality. These channels are also strongly believed by most Chinese parapsychology
1,1
researchers as well as qigong masters as the pathway of the subtle energies which catties
[
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information
1 L. Zha &
T. McConnell,
"Parapsychology
in
the People’s Republic of China:
1979-1989"
, JASPR ,,85. 119-143(1991)).
There are huge number of papers on relations between Jinluo system and
psi Junctions
published in China since 1979. Some reported the ESP message’s propagating speed along the
lines
as
a
typically
to 50 centimeters per second among
the
gifted EFIIB
(Exceptional
Functions of Human Body,
the Chinese term
for ESP and PK) children and qigong masters
\Zhuang Jianxiang, et al. (Inst, of Space Medico-Engineering, ISME), "Measurements on Human
Electromagnetic Energy Field", Varan Zazhi(Chinese Nature Journal),
1 1 , 43-51(1988)], a figure
well above the control group’s (0
’
to 14 centimeters per second). They observed that once the
"qi
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and bloating) reach
their forehead,
the desired ESP
inlojui.'
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appears as an "image" on a special "TV screen" there. There are as many patients receiving the
Jinlou-theory based traditional Chinese medicine therapy regularly today as those using Western
medicine, in the country where one fourth the earth’s population lives (many actually use both
simultaneously since
it
is not unusual
for a Western medicine doctor, "Xi-Yi" as called, also
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etc.), since they took the existence of the Jinluo system as amwell established lact tight bom
their birth.
No convincing anatomic evidence of these channels was found so far, but the hot subject is
carried
in many
stale-funded
Chinese
traditional
medicine
centers,
research
institutes
and
universities. Professor Zhu Zongxiang. who leads a group
in the
Institute of Biophysics of the
Chinese Academy of Science (Academia Sinica) claimed that from
17 year’s careful studies in
his
lab, they hud proven there arc really
14 Jinluo
lines
in
the human body by
at
least
tnrec
independent and distinctive biophysical features, including low electric impedance, high electric
potential,
and
acoustic
or
thermographic
conductive
characteristics
as
compared
with
tin-
channel’s
adjacent
areas.
Also,
as
they
reported,
the most
important
meridian phenomenon.
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propagating during
needling
at
an
acupoint),
has
been
extensively
studied^ and
verified by
classical
physiological
experiments
such
as
L.CG,
LBG, BMG
(clecttonivogtaph),
1..GG
(electrogastrograph),
local impedance
rheogratn,
etc. {Zhu Zongxictng, Xu Ruimin,
et
at.,
A
Study on the Low Impedance characteristics of the Meridian Lines before and after amputation”,
Ziran Zazhi,
9, 281-287(1986); 7.1m Zongxiang, "The Advances and Prospect in Physiological
and
Biophysical
Approaches
to
the
Acupuncture
Meridian
System”,
Ziran
Zazhi,
9,
327-332(1986); Zhu Zongxiang,
et at., Acupuncture Research, 5, 308-
(1980),
7, 169-
, 23c -
,
299-
(1 982),
8,
73-
(1983);
etc. |. A
detailed experimental channel
location map had been
produced by
1989. These claims have brought wide attentions among Chinese
scientists and
news mob a, pa-many
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of general believe that the channel system relies cm the non-equilibrium physiological dynamic
processes of the living body and thereiore
it will not be detectable in vitro .
According to
a recent report of the olfieial Xinhua News Agency (September 26, Beijing,
bv Zhu Baihua), Chinese and Soviet scientists me cooperating closely to
f urther reveal the reality
of meridian channels by modern Biophysical means, and major progress has been achieved.
T
Prom
the
source,
the
research
center
headed
by
Professor Zhu
signed
a
collaborate
agreement with the Institute of Cytological Biophysics, Soviet Academy of Science, to lunch a
series of morphological and biochemical experiments on Jinluo. The Soviet
scientists would
investigate the special structure of the channels by optical and electron microscopes, as well as to
measure the lines objectively by biochemical (enzymic) methods.
The news reports
that the scientists from
t lie both sides had made exchanges frequently
since May, 1990. A delegation led by Prole.' sor Zhu visited the Soviet sun in the past June, and
Dr, Klamov (name
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radiology department,
is working
in
the
Professor Zhu
s lab
in
Beijing.
Hie report sa\s
the
Russian researchers have successfully detected acupoints which on
the whole agiec with
the
Jinluo map made by Zhu’s group.
Also from other Xinhua reports. Dr. Qian Xucsen, the prominent Chinese rocketeer. Dr.
Robert Jahn(PEAR, Princeton University)’s predecessor of the Goddard Professorship in die Cal.
Tech.
Jet Propulsion Laboiatory who has been pioviding
the
crucial
suppoits
to China
s
psi
studies from
the very
beginning,, was
granted by
the
party
a
onc-of-thc-kind
Outstanding
Scientific Contribution Award" which was described as the highest honor ever to a scientist
in
China. The Chinese government had also started a "learn from Dr. Qian" movement throughout
the nation’s scientific and technological
units.
In the grant awarding ceremony attended by the
party's
top
leaders,
Dr.
Qian
mentioned
that
he
will aim
to
further advance
the
ooui.uk.
Science" research
in China, along with the many other mentioned subjects like
the
Biol-vu,-;.,
Sciences and the System linginccriug.
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