INTRODUCTION Traditional Chinese medicine offers several theories to explain the mechanism of acupuncture. One of these theories proposes that acupuncture points and meridians have unique electrical properties and their electrical skin impedance is lower than surrounding areas. The aim of this study was to evaluate the differences in electrical skin impedance between PC4 and the pericardium mer...

The aim of the current study was to investigate the histological and histochemical characteristics of large and small intestines of sea snake, Hydrophis cyanocinctus. Six adult sea snakes were collected from Minab beaches, located near the sea of Oman, in November, euthanized with chloroform, dissected and alimentary canal removed, tissues preparaed for sectioning and staining with Hematoxylin ...

One way to formulate this mathematically is to ask for an isotopy to remove the meridian loop m from a rigid wire w embedded in the 3-sphere, as shown in Figure 3a. (The wire represents the boy with his attached string, where the upper loop of the wire is his right hand, while the meridian represents the girl with her string.) Of course this is easy: just slide m along w to a point just below t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of Meridian-sinew Release therapy in Chinese patients with refractory active Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Few studies focused on the effect of combination of Meridian-sinew Release therapy and Methotrexate (MTX) on refractory active RA of Chinese patients. METHODS Eighty refractory active rheumatoid arthritis patients we...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Cytokine production and histopathological changes occur in the lungs of mice after intranasal inoculation with Campylobacter jejuni, but the levels of cytokines in different organs to which C. jejuni disseminates have not been studied. FINDINGS Adult BALB/c mice were intranasally inoculated with C. jejuni 81-176 (test) or phosphate-buffered saline (control) (n=16 per ...

Wang Lin, Pablo Benítez, J.C.Miñano, José Infante, Guillermo Biot 1. CEDINT, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 2. LPI-LLC, 2400 Lincoln Avenue, Altadena CA 91001, USA ABSTRACT: In this work, two SMS algorithms are presented for an objective design with different selected ray-bundles: three meridian ray-bundles (3M) and one meridian and two skew ray-bundles (1M-2S), the latter from pin hole poin...

Wang Lin, Pablo Benítez, J.C.Miñano, José Infante, Guillermo Biot 1. CEDINT, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 2. LPI-LLC, 2400 Lincoln Avenue, Altadena CA 91001, USA ABSTRACT: In this work, two SMS algorithms are presented for an objective design with different selected ray-bundles: three meridian ray-bundles (3M) and one meridian and two skew ray-bundles (1M-2S), the latter from pin hole poin...