医療・保健福祉領域における新しい東洋医学診断法に関する研究 : 経路・経穴のインピーダンス測定装置による東洋医学的診断ソフトの開発

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Despite the remarkable development of modern medical science, the medical treatment system in Japan does not always satisfy the patients because most of medical doctors lack the holistic view to patients. Thus, it is necessary to pursue a new medical treatment such as Life-based Medicine (LBM) in the advanced age and declining birth rates era. Acupuncture therapy has been developed from enormous trials and errors and performed clinically in China for several thousand years. It is considered to be very useful to improve and prevent life-style diseases as a new LBM treatment. In the present study, we developed a new meridian diagnosis instrument to determine the balance of the human body based on Chinese Traditional Medicine theory. We measured electric conductivity of 12 true meridians in 10 subjects by using our new instrument built-in a constant current (10μA) generation circuit (INA126) attached with three standardized electrodes. Our data show that the amplitude and the phase of sine waves of the electrically stimulated meridians changed in accordance with the stimulation time. We hypothesize that the electric conductivity of meridians could be partially due to volume transmission mechanism.
2003-03-25