Kinesiology 3325A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Acupuncture, Small Intestine, Large Intestine
4 Apr 2018
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Acupuncture is a primary component of tcm (traditional chinese medicine) From the latin: (cid:862)acus(cid:863) = needle & (cid:862)puncture(cid:863) = to puncture. Acupu(cid:374)cture poi(cid:374)ts are located alo(cid:374)g (cid:858)(cid:373)eridia(cid:374)s(cid:859) which transport life energy (qi) A recent study suggests that acupoints have biophysical properties (eg. electric, acoustic, thermal) the difference between two close spots is the biophysical properties; the acupoints do show biophysical properties compared to random points. Mechanisms of action for acupoints remain elusive (difficult to find) No one point is better than the other, but this is the best they have right now. Triple heater (triple burner something to do with the pancreas; and it is also associated with the metabolism of the body) Altogether, there are 361 accessible acupoints that can be stimulated. This is not an invasive surgery, only at the surface of the body to allow for qi flow; this is a less invasive in the invasive scale.
