Anatomo-Functional Correlation between Head Zones and Acupuncture Channels and Points: A Comparative Analysis from the Perspective of Neural Therapy.

Martha Liliana Beltrán Molano,Carlos Alberto Vásquez Londoño,Laura Bibiana Pinilla Bonilla,Eduardo Humberto Beltrán Dussan

doi:10.1155/2014/836392

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Abstract

Background. Neural therapy and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are part of complementary and alternative medicine in western world. Both of them share characteristics in diagnosis and therapeutics in search of changes in tenderness, pain, and skin stiffness related to visceral disease, as well as therapeutic procedures with specific stimuli on the skin that generate local, segmental, or remote reactions. Head zones explain segmental viscerocutaneous relations in neural therapy; however, interference fields and remote reactions after infiltration of local anesthetic go beyond this segmental distribution. Methods. This descriptive research required review and analysis of texts of Henry Head and traditional Chinese medicine. Results. Anatomical and functional relationships were found between Head zones in body, and head and neck with 14 acupuncture channels and their points. Anatomical areas of strong correlations were found: Head zones of heart and lung with heart and pericardium channels; Head zones of genitals with bladder and kidney channels. Strong functional relations between all Head zones, channels, and acupoints were found when following the pattern of segmental dermatomes; 235 acupuncture points were found in concordance.

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In the Western world the neural therapy and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) take part of alternative and complementary medicine, known as regulatory therapies, because it activates the organism compensatory-regulatory mechanisms in order to generate responses against the disease and restore the balance [1].Neural therapy is based on the principle of nervism where the nervous system acts as a generator and controller shaft of all human biological phenomena [1, 3, 4] and on the basic system according to Pischinger, in which the extracellular space works as a network responsible for organic regulatory processes through interconnections that allow the flow of information throughout the body [1]
Pathological processes or irritations are called interference fields or neurodystrophies that can cause blockages in the basic system or short-circuit in the nervous system leading to imbalance [1, 5, 6]
The purpose of this study is to find the possible anatomical and functional relationships between Head zones and acupuncture channels and points, results that will help in explaining how two different alternative and complementary medical systems supported by their own systems of biological communication have links that can be useful to understand health and disease process in a more comprehensive way

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In the Western world the neural therapy and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) take part of alternative and complementary medicine, known as regulatory therapies, because it activates the organism compensatory-regulatory mechanisms in order to generate responses against the disease and restore the balance [1].Neural therapy (or Neural Therapeutic Medicine according to Colombian School [2]) is based on the principle of nervism where the nervous system acts as a generator and controller shaft of all human biological phenomena [1, 3, 4] and on the basic system according to Pischinger, in which the extracellular space works as a network responsible for organic regulatory processes through interconnections that allow the flow of information throughout the body [1]. Traditional Chinese medicine has described, for more than 3000 years, an extensive network of channels (Jin mai) and collaterals (Luo mai) which are channels that transport qi (energy) and xue (blood). These channels are interconnected forming a network of comprehensive energy communication. Neural therapy and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are part of complementary and alternative medicine in western world Both of them share characteristics in diagnosis and therapeutics in search of changes in tenderness, pain, and skin stiffness related to visceral disease, as well as therapeutic procedures with specific stimuli on the skin that generate local, segmental, or remote reactions. Strong functional relations between all Head zones, channels, and acupoints were found when following the pattern of segmental dermatomes; 235 acupuncture points were found in concordance

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