ÿ Fig 3 Prof. Zhu Zong-xiang of the Chinese Academy,of Sciences(left) and Prof. Hao Jin-kai of theYanan Institute of Acupuncture (righoare~ determining the meridian line by biophysical methods. 5 Secondly, through the confirmation of the LIP and HPS characteristics of meridian line before and after amputation of patients suffered from osteoblastoma, Prof Zhu announced that acupuncture meridian is a distinctive and independent system from the central nervous or blood circulatory system. (Fig 6 , 7 The third breakthrough of this Research Group was that by the application of the methods of LIP and HPS, a lot of animals as rat, rabbit, guinea pig, pig and sheep were found to exhibit acupuncture meridian system of similar orientation with that of human being.(Fig 8 )The width of animal meridian line is also I mm. Recently, Prof. Zhu has discovered that even in plants as melon, banana etc. there are meridian lines characterised also by LIP and HPS properties (Fig 9). Acupuncture meridian system seems to be a universal rule in biosphere. Is meridian visible ? With the cooperation of several Universities, Prof. Zhu and his colaborators discovered that under microscope, there are at least 4 cytological evidences relevant to the biophysical characteristics of meridian line. At the "1988 International Symposium on Acupuncture Meridian Biop- hysics" held in Beijing, Prof. Zhu announced that acupuncture meridian ought to be a MULTI-LAYER- ED, MULTI-FUNCTIONAL. MULTI-MORPHOLOGICAL, STEREO-STRUCTURAL HOMEOSTASIS SYSTEM of the body.(FigIO) 'A Fig 6 The Stomach Meridian line determined by the sound (red) and the electric (green) methods of a patient suffered 1'romAOPW#gdtfbrW,~rd.,sVY6Mft/15 amputation Fig 7 Photo shows the existence oflow impedance (green) and high percussion sound (red) lines after : CIA-RDF'96tbo(ft2Fk~Ot)100430003-4 Fig 8 Experimental Meri- dian of Stomach deter- mined by sound (red) and electric (green) me- Fig 4 The Stomach Meridian line determined by the sound(red) and the electric (green) methods met each other and coincided intima- tely with ancient chart (see Fig.5) Fig 5 The Stomach Meridian (white) sculptured 960. years ago met closely with the ex- perimental one (see Fig. 4) Fig 9 Low impedance lines (blue) and high percussion sound lines (red) deterrn ined on the body surface of me- lon. cj,~0003-4 Approved For Release 2000108115: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO04W n line Siraturn corneum--_ Ne ve fiber Epidernn, Nerve Deron, bundle Mast cell Fig 10 Morphological Model of qW subcutinc~% Blood qP vessel ftiie'd P, I Issue Meridian Showing the Multi-la- Connective yer, M ul ti- cytological distribu- ussuebundl ft!or~,-V, tions.under the Meridian Line.- AW raoa Aj* Finally, what is the significance of the se discoveries? Besides the scientific confirmation of the existence of Acupuncture Meridian Systeni,-Prof. Hao Jin-kai of the Yanan Institute of Acupuncture has applied the biophysical methods to orient exactly the I mm meridian line and then to treat many d6mplicated diseases as asthma, emphysema. 'coronary heart disease, Parkinson's disease by traditional acupuncture manipulation at the acupPint of the experimental line. Prof. Hao has got very good curati- effect on all of these diseases and named this treatment as the EXPERIMENTAL MERIDIAN ACU- PUNCTURE'THERAPV. (Fig 111 12) In conclus i on, biophysical and m0 ological verification of the Acupuncture Meridian System ,,~has. opened a new era of both Traditional Chinese Medicine and Modern Western Medicine.Acupunc- ture Meridian Theory Is indeed a great treasury of all peoples. Further approach on the highly scientific, generalized and abstruse th eory' ~nd to integrate this with all the achievements of modern science and technology including biology and biological sciences, physics, chemistry, bio-engineering, computer, cybernetics etc, will promote the reformation of a new science of Biology, Medicine and Human Body, which will much more benefit the peoples all over the world. May.29, 1989. Beijing, CHINA 's Fig I I EXPERIMENTAL MERIDIAN ACU Fig 12 The world outstanding mathematician. Prof PUNCTURE THERAPY created by Dr.Hao Chen Jing-run (Middle') who has suffered from Par- Jin-kai and Zhu Zong-xiang has treated manykinson's disease for 5 yearshas got marked impro- complicated diseases as asthma, emphysema, vement afterbeen treated by theMeridian Therapy. 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Y41 201.7893 d Fu ei an re are ineelty T iTm$ an e I n-sitive and accurate ACUPUN&URE y -the 617305. f;adss been produced bv TRdN'I INSTRUMENT, OR lis,in tr merit xa( tr ftly all the 12 meridians of Ill W1 t 14, 1 ri enre with the ancient _#;!~puncture than chart strumeni Actory Tel: 201 -7893 -J43 !a, 'M Pr, -, ~t'zc Ay, Y F A Pri t d b .-oret Pr NOM c B CHIN Approved For Release 2000108/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400430003-4 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 Centerfor Biomedical Research ) Reflexology (manipulating areas on the feet to affect the rest of the body) was listed as "near bizarre" in a Times cover article on the alternative therapies [Claudia Wallis, "Why New Age Medicine is Catching On", November 4, 19911, 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 and plants as well reportedly) parts and passes the "qi" through them to maintain one's health and vitality. According to Huang-Di-Nei-Jin, the most ancient known gigantic Chinese work on traditional medicine, The- system consists fourteen "Jin- Mai" lines plus numerous "Lou-Mai" lines that governs the circulation of the "qi" and the "Xue", the two most important elements of life, and adjusts somatic functions from feedback. It is believed by the work the comprehensive control system of the highest level in living body. 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 psi 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 EFHB (Exceptional Functions of Human Body, the Chinese terin 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, 43-5](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 bloating) reach their forehead, the desired ESP information appears as an "image" on a special "TV screen" there. There are as many patients receiving the Jinluo-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 prescripts the traditional Chinese "Zhong-Yi" drugs and treatments along with their Aspirin pills, etc.), since they took the existence of the Jinluo system as an well established fact right from their birth. Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400430003-4 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400430003-4 2 Wang Weiyi, a famous Chinese physician of Song Dynasty (960-1279) was the first to inscribe the fourteen Jinluo lines onto a copper body model for acupuncture-Jinluological teaching, study and therapy, forming that what v,-e see often today in an acupuncture clinic. However, direct anatomic efforts fa;,,-d to convincingly identify these lines either in vivo or in vitro, thus the q-,._-,~stion whether they really exist became a hot controversy in China and the related.. _udies are active in many state-funded traditional medicine centers, research instit-,-:zes and universities. Professor Zhu Zongxiang, who leads a group in the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Science (Academia Sinica) claimed recent that after nineteen year's scientific studies, they had proven rigorously the Jinluo lines' existence in human, animal and even plant bodies, by at least three independent and distinctive biophysical methods, including pulsed electronic and mechariical-acoustical stimulations -response studies and specific micro-electrode measurements. According to Prof. Zhu, the Jinluo lines are identified by their low electric impedance, high electric potential, and special acoustic and thermographic conductive characteristics as compared with those of the channel's adjacent areas. Also, as they reported, the most important meridian phenomenon, known as propagating sensation along channel (PSC, the current of numb, distensive feelings 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 rheograrn, etc. [Zhu Zongxiang, Xu Ruimin, et al., 'A Study on the Low Impedance characteristics of the Meridian Lines before and after necessary amputation", Ziran Zazhi, 9, 281 -287(1986); Zhu 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 which shows all the fourteen Jinluo lines described in the fore-mentioned ancient works with complete agreement on their positions. 'Me study reports that the typical width of the lines is about one millimeter, that their sizes and locations are stable from one's infancy to adulthood without much change, and that they remain detectable at the same locations in amputated limbs. Applying the same group of methods, Prof. Zhu claimed that similar meridian lines are also found in animals like rat, rabbit, and plants like banana, water melon, Hami melon, and cucumber. These claims have brought wide attentions among Chinese scientists and news media, partially because some of their claims are contradictory to another popular school of general believe in China that the channel system relies on the non-equilibrium physiological dynamic processes of the living body and therefore it would not be detectable in vitro. According to a report of the official Xinhua News Agency (September 26, Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400430003-4 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400430003-4 1991, Beijing, by Zhu Baihua), Chinese and Russian scientists were closely cooperating to further reveal the reality of meridian channels by modem Biophysical means, and major progress has been achieved. From the source, the research center headed by Professor Zhu signed a collaborate agreement with the Institute of Cytological Biophysics, the former Soviet Academy of Science, to lunch a series of morphological and biochemical experiments on Jinluo system. The Russian 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 Prof. Zhu visited the Soviet site in June, 1991, and Dr. Klamov (name translated from Chinese), director of the Cytological 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. "Experts" commented in a Xinhua news (May 23, 1992, by Lang Jing and Chen Jianshan) that the experimental proof of the Jinluological basics achieved from arming the traditional Chinese medicine system with modem science will "inexorably bring fundamental changes in our understanding on life and human potentials". Also from other Xinhua reports, Dr. Qian Xuesen, the prominent Chinese rocketeer and former Chairman of the Chinese Science and Technology Association, 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-a-kind "Outstanding Scientific Contribution Award" which was described as the highest honor 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 leaders, 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. (Revised on May 25,1992 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400430003-4 Approved For Release 2000108115: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400430003-4 A New Chinese Academy of Parapsychology by LEPING ZHA Somatic Science, the common term used in China for Parapsychology (see L. Zha and T. McConnell, "Parapsychology in the People's Republic of China: 1979-1989", JASPR, 85, 119-143) is still legitimate and favorably received there, according to recent correspondence from PRC. The Chinese Academy of Somatic Science, a self-funded scientific research institute consisting of several administrative departments and research units mainly in Beijing, was officially established in late 1990. The formal aim of the Academy was stated to carry out "basic studies of somatic science" on the "exceptional functions of the human body (EFHB, usually psi functions, ESP and PK), qigong, and traditional and modem Chinese medicine using a "Multi- disciplinary approach", so as to "lay a good foundation" for future development and application, in order to "benefit the mankind". The head of the Academy's 18 member council, Mr. Mang Zhenghuan, was formerly the Director of the Science and Technology Board of National Defense Science, Technology, and Industry Committee. W Zhang is also the current president of the Chinese Society of Somatic Science (CSSS), the sole official Chinese scholastic organization of Parapsychologists. The Director of the Academy's academic committee, Prof. Chen Xin, is an Academician of the International Academy of Space Science, and the honorary director of the Institute of Space Medico-Engineering (ISME, an important Chinese psi research center). Prof. Lin Shuhuang, a physicist and a major researcher in the field, was elected as the Academy's president. In July, 1990, the CSSS launched its publicly-circulated official journal, Chinese Journal of Somatic Science, which is edited by staff members of Ziran Zazhi (Chinese Nature Journal). The first issue contains papers on macro-PK experiments with high-speed movie camera, along with many other topics. The Journal comes with a list of contents and abstract of major papers in English. ~Ie Chinese psi researchers are currently seeking opportunities to cooperate with Western parapsychologists. The Academy is planning to form a delegation to visit major North American parapsychological laboratories in the near future. 'Me proposed delegation may include major Chinese subject(s), if proper testing arrangements can be scheduled. Invitations and financial assistance will be welcomed, and may be made through the China International Culture Exchange Foundation's Somatic Science Research Development Fund (of which Prof Lin Shuhuang is a member of the governing board), 3107 Beijing Hotel, 33 East Chang An Avenue, Beijing 100004, PRC. Suggestions and inquiries can also be addressed to Leping Zha at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA ((412)268-3263, E-mail leping@unix.cispittedu). Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400430003-4 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400430003-4 A New Chinese Academy of Parapsychology by LEPING ZHA Somatic Science, the common term used in China for Parapsychology (see L. Zha and T. McConnell, "Parapsychology in the People's Republic of China: 1979-1989", JASPR, 85, 119-143) is still legitimate and favorably received there, according to recent correspondence from PRC. The Chinese Academy of Somatic Science, a self-funded scientific research institute consisting of several administrative departments and research units mainly in Beijing, was officially established in late 1990. The formal aim of the Academy was stated to carry out "basic studies of somatic science" on the "exceptional functions of the human body (EFHB, usually psi functions, ESP and PK), qigong, and traditional and modem Chinese medicine using a "multi- disciplinary approach", so as to "lay a good foundation" for future development and application, in order to "benefit the mankind". The head of the Academy's 18 member council, Mr. Zhang Zhenghuan, was formerly the Director of the Science and Technology Board of National Defense Science, Technology, and Industry Committee. Mr. Zhang is also the current president of the Chinese Society of Somatic Science (CSSS), the sole official Chinese scholastic organization of Parapsychologists. The Director of the Academy's academic committee, Prof. Chen Xin, is an Academician of the International Academy of Space Science, and the honorary director of the Institute of Space Medico-Engineering (ISME, an important Chinese psi research center). Prof. Lin Shuhuang, a physicist and a major researcher in the field, was elected as the Academy's president. In July, 1990, the CSSS launched its publicly-circulated official journal, Chinese Journal of Somatic Science, which is edited by staff members of Ziran Zazhi (Chinese Nature Journal). The first issue contains papers on macro-PK experiments with high-speed movie camera, along with many other topics. The Journal comes with a list of contents and abstract of major papers in English. The Chinese psi researchers are currently seeking opportunities to cooperate with Western parapsychologists. The Academy is planning to form a delegation to visit major North American parapsychological laboratories in the near future. The proposed delegation may include major Chinese subject(s), if proper testing arrangements can be scheduled. Invitations and financial assistance will be welcomed, and may be made through the China International Culture Exchange Foundation's Somatic Science Research Development Fund (of which Prof Lin Shuhuang is a member of the governing board), 3107 Beijing Hotel, 33 East Chang An Avenue, Beijing 100004, PRC. Suggestions and inquiries can also be addressed to Leping Zha at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA ((412)268-3263, E-mail leping@unix.cispitt.edu). Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400430003-4 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400430003-4 1991, Beijing, by Zhu Baihua), Chinese and Russian scientists were closely cooperating to further reveal the reality of meridian channels by modem Biophysical means, and major progress has been achieved. From the source, the research center headed by Professor Zhu signed a collaborate agreement with the Institute of Cytological Biophysics, the former Soviet Academy of Science, to lunch a series of morphological and biochemical experiments on Jinluo system. The Russian 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 Prof Zhu visited the Soviet site in June, 1991, and Dr. Klamov (name translated from Chinese), director of the Cytological 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. "Experts" commented in a Xinhua news (May 23, 1992, by Lang Jing and Chen Jianshan) that the experimental proof of the Jinluological basics achieved from arming the traditional Chinese medicine system with modem science will "inexorably bring fundamental changes in our understanding on life and human potentials". Also from other Xinhua reports, Dr. Qian Xuesen, the prominent Chinese rocketeer and former Chairman of the Chinese Science and Technology Association, Dr. Robert Jahn(PEAR, Princeton University)'s predecessor of the Goddard, Professorship in the Cal. Tech. let 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-a-kind "Outstanding Scientific Contribution Award" which was described as the highest honor ever to a scientist in China. 'Me 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 leaders, 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. (Revised on May 25, 1992 Approved For Release 2000108115: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400430003-4