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Chinese and Soviet Scientists Cooperate to Confirm !!
Existence of the "Jinluo" Line ( Meridian Channels )
by LEPING ZHA
( Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh /
Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research )
Reflexology (manipulating areas on the feet to affect the rest of the body) was listed as
"pear bizarre" in a recent Times cover article on the alternative therapies (Claudia Wallis, "Why
New Age Medicine is Catching On", November 4, 1991], compared with the "more credible"
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's
health and vitality. These channels are also strongly believed by most Chinese parapsychological
researchers as well as qigong masters as the pathway of the subtle energies which carries pu
information (L. Zha & T. MeConnell, "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 functions
published in China since 1979. Some reported the ESP message's propagating speed along the
lines as a typically 15 to 50 centimeters per second among the gifted EFHIB (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", Ziran Zazhi(Chinese Nature Journal), 11, 43-51(1988)], a figure
well above the control group's (0 1 to 14 centimeters per second). They observed that once the
"qi feelings" (usually tingling and boating) reach their forehead, the desired ESP infopartios
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
presta ts the uaditional Chine: "Thong-Vi" dings and treatniems along with their Asptt. 13P.
etc.), since they took the existence of the Jinluo system as an well established fact right from
their birth.
No convincing anatomie evidence of these channels was found so far, but the hot subject is
carried in many state-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 had proven there are really 14 Jinluo lines in the human body by at least three
independent and distinctive biophysical features, including low electric impedance, high electric
potential, and acoustic or thermographie conductive characteristics as compared with the
channel's adjacent areas. Also, as they reported, the most important meridian phenomenon.
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known as propagating sensation along .....
propagating during needling at an acupoint), has been extensively studied and verified by
classical physiological experiments such as ECG, EEG, EMG (electromyograph), EGG
(electrogastrograph), local impedance rheogram, etc. [Zhu Zongxiang, Xu Ruimin, et al., "A
Study on the Low Impedance characteristics of the Meridian Lines before and after amputation",
Ziran Zazhi, 9, 281-287(1986); Zhut Zongxiang. "The Advances and Prospect in Physiological
and Biophysical Approaches to the Acupuncture Meridian System", Ziran Zazhi, 9,
327-332(1986); Zhu Zongxiang, et al., Acupuncture Research, 5, 308- (1980), 7, 169-, 238 -.
299- (1982), 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 media, partially & rose tout af
e a beadictory to another popular school
of general believe that the channel system relies on the non-equilibrium physiological dynamic
processes of the living body and therefore it will not be detectable in vitro.
According to a recent report of the official Xinhua News Agency (September 26, Beijing,
by Zhu Baihua), Chinese and Soviet scientists are cooperating closely to further reveal the reality
of meridian channels by modern Biophysical means, and major progress has been achieved.
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From 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 the both sides had made exchanges frequently
since May, 1990. A delegation led by Professor Zhu visited the Soviet ste in the past June. and
Dr. Klamov (name translated from Chinese , director of the Cytologiead Biophysics Institute's
radiology department, is working in the Professor Zhu's lab in Beijing. The report says the
Russian researchers have successfully detected acupoints which on the whole agree with the
Jinluo map made by Zhu's group.
Also from other Xinhua reports, Dr. Qian Xuesen, the prominent Chinese rocketeer, Dr.
Robert Jahn(PEAR, Princeton University)'s predecessor of the Goddard Professorship in the Cal.
Tech. Jet Propulsion Laboratory who has been providing the crucial supports to China's psi
studies from the very beginning, was granted by the party a one-of-the-kind "Outstanding
Scientific Contribution Award" which was described as the highest boner 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 Icaders, Dr. Qian mentioned that he will aim to further advance the "Somatic
Science" research in China, along with the many other mentioned subjects like the Biological
Sciences and the System Engineering.
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