Kontakt 2007, 9(2):391-402 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2007.060

Scientific basis of acupunctureBiomedicine

Yury P. Limansky¹, Serge A. Gulyar¹, Ivan Z. Samosyuk²

¹ Fyziologický ústav А. А. Bogomolce NAN Ukrajiny, Kyjev, Ukrajina

² Národní lékařská akademie postgraduálního vzdělávání P. L. Šupika, Kyjev, Ukrajina

1. Existing theories of acupuncture are based on particular experimental data and do not completely cover the principle of the problem: function of acupuncture points, principle of meridians, and biological purpose of physiological reactions induced by the stimulation of acupuncture points.
2. We propose an assessment of the functional role of acupuncture in terms of the proposed hypothesis of the "ecoceptive system" controlling the electromagnetic homeostasis of the organism. The functionally unified acupuncture points fulfil the task of electromagnetic receptors.
3. The afferent part of the ecoceptive system is formed by a uniform system of the connective tissue - matrix, connecting the external environment through acupuncture points with intercellular space and also with intracellular structures. These protein structures exert characteristics of liquid crystals, which are able to absorb the electromagnetic field of infrared and microwave ranges, to conduct the electromagnetic field energy in one direction and to induce the piezoelectric effect. Experimental demonstrations were acquired indicating that fibres of the connective tissue exert ionic and electron conductivity. In a number of tissues, there are cells, which are interconnected by direct transmembrane channels - "conexon synapses". Ions and electrons can be connected through the conexon synapses. The matrix provides "informational" control of physiologic processes and participates in the electromagnetic reception.
4. The achievement of the equilibrium of a uniform physical field in the organism and transfer of information about disturbances of this field is implemented through the mediation of interstitial connective tissue layers - meridians connected with the cytoskeleton and nucleus of each cell into a uniform morphologically-functional system.
5. Key components of the functional system of the electromagnetic regulation of the organism equilibrium are as follows: electromagnetic receptors (acupuncture points), molecular photoreceptors, conductive tracks (collagen and photospecific protein structures) and acceptors of action results (structures exerting energy equilibrium). In addition to the direct control over the nervous and endocrine system, the activity of the ecoceptive system depends on parameters of the external electromagnetic energy and on providing the organism structures with energy.

Keywords: Acupuncture points; meridians; electromagnetic field; homeostasis; living matrix; functional system of electromagnetic equilibrium

Received: August 22, 2007; Accepted: November 14, 2007; Published: December 21, 2007  Show citation