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Spatial and Temporal Electrodynamics in Acuzones: Test-Induced Kinematics and Synchronous Structuring. Phenomenological Study

  • Babich, Yuri F. (Center of the Skin Electrodynamic Introscopy) ;
  • Babich, Andrey Y. (Center of the Skin Electrodynamic Introscopy)
  • Received : 2021.07.16
  • Accepted : 2021.09.07
  • Published : 2021.11.30
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Abstract

Background: So far there is no confidence in the basics of acupoint/meridian phenomena, specifically in spatial and temporal electrical manifestations in the skin. Methods: Using the skin electrodynamic introscopy, the skin areas of 32 × 64 mm2 were monitored for spectral electrical impedance landscape with spatial resolution of 1 mm, at 2 kHz and 1 MHz frequencies. The detailed baseline and 2D test-induced 2 kHz-impedance phase dynamics and the 4-parameter time plots of dozens of individual points in the St32-34 regions were examined in a healthy participant and a patient with mild gastritis. Non-thermal stimuli were used: (1) (for the sick subject), microwaves and ultraviolet radiation applied alternately from opposite directions of the meridian; and (2) (for the healthy one) microwaves to St17, and cathodic/anodic stimulation of the outermost St45, alternately. Results: In both cases, the following phenomena have been observed: emergence of in-phase and/or antiphase coherent structures, exceeding the acupoint conditional size of 1 cm; collective movement along the meridian; reversible with a reversed stimulus; counter-directional dynamics of both whole structures and adjacent points; local abnormalities in sensitivity and dynamics of the 1 MHz and 2 kHz parameters indicating existence of different waveguide paths. Conclusion: It is assumed that these findings necessitate reconsideration of some basic methodological issues regarding neurogenic/acupuncture points as spatial and temporal phenomena; this requires development of an appropriate approach for identifying the acuzones patterns. These findings may be used for developing new approaches to personalized/controlled therapy/treatment.

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Acknowledgement

This work did not receive any funding. We are grateful for all possible help and good advice gained in the past from: Prof. J. Jossinet (France), Mrs. S. M. Weinstein (USA), Prof. M. Y. Antomonov, Prof. V.B. Maksymenko and Prof. O.E. Kovalenko (all from Ukraine) And of course, under our circumstances, development of this initiative project would hardly have been possible without the USA & Canada grant STCU#1822, 2001-2004, http://www.stcu.int.

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