Muyang Yan1*#, Wei Yan1*, Zhengbo Zhang2 #
1 Institute of Geriatric Cardiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China
2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China
* Muyang Yan and Wei Yan contributed equally to the work.
# Corresponding authors: Muyang Yan and Zhengbo Zhang. Muyang Yan is from the Institute of Geriatric Cardiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China; Tel: +86013910149061; E-mail: yanmy301@sina.com. Zhengbo Zhang is from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China; Tel: +86013693321644; E-mail: zhengbozhang@126.com.
Abstract : Meridians(Jingluo, 经络), which have been debated in the medical community for thousands of years, are still in invisible and untouchable status. Its functions determine the human body life or death. Combined Chinese and modern medicine, we have firstly identified the anatomy and histological composition of triple energizer, which is the sum of connective tissues and its network is the carrier of meridians. Meridians are simply located on the triple energizer structure and is parts of it. We establish the concept of triple energizer-meridian network system. For the first time, we have seen meridians, touched and anatomized them, which feature universal significance to human health, and will open a new era of life science.
One Sentence Summary: On the basis of revealing triple energizer, we unravel the anatomical essence of the meridians, from which we have seen the meridians, touched and anatomized them.
Main Text: The theory of meridians has been developed in the ”Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine” [1]. Modern medicine still has a great deal of controversy on whether meridian structures exist or not. Qingren Wang of Qing Dynasty wrote ” Traditional Chinese Medicine Anatomy Correction ” and denied the existence of meridians[2].Even experts who support it are unable to locate its positions, and believe that this theory derived from ancient civilization, which was discovered and applied by Chinese ancestors after the ice age. Some doctors think that it was a product of the aliens, and people on earth cannot create such a magical meridian civilization.
There are a lot of researchers who study meridians. In 1950s, some people thought that the meridians were blood vessels spreading everywhere in the body. A North Korean researcher claimed to have found the meridians bodies in 1960, but committed suicide after found to be false. In 1970s, people tried to measure the meridians sensing phenomenon, and discovered the existence of its sensing way; by 1980s, researchers found that the isotope could follow the meridians pathway movement information, and at the same time detected that the meridians circuit had a low electrical resistance and smooth sound and light signal transmission. to commit suicide to commit suicEntering this century, hypotheses of neurology, liquidness and energy were formed to deal with the functions of meridians[3].
After thousands of years practice, meridians are proven to have functions without anatomical morphology. Modern medicine thinks that it might have only a functional virtual organization structure without real morphological localization. Ultimately, meridians remain to be an unsolved enigma.