Precision Medicine in Chinese Medicine

Abstract

This article attempts to demonstrate the scientificity and clinical practicability of the meridian and acupoint system in Chinese medicine by explaining the analogy of the meridian and acupoint system, in addition to some experimental results of the biomedical engineering of Western medicine. Precision medicine in Chinese medicine is accomplished through the coordinated operation of the neurohumoral regulation system, the cell transduction system and the meridian system. Appropriate stimulation of acupoints on the human body can trigger certain targets in the body and produce the desired response, such as anti-inflammatory reactions or pro-inflammatory reactions. It can also change the homeostasis of the human body's internal environment, including endocrine, physiological, pathological, psychological and cellular states by controlling body temperature regulation within a certain range. There are many functions of meridians. In fact, the meridian system can not only respond to acupuncture stimuli, but also transmit the effects of drugs to the target. Different acupoints on the surface of the human body have the same or different functions, and through the transduction of the meridian system, the local targets or all of the body will produce the same or different responses. Several experiments with acupuncture and other mechanical stimuli have confirmed the existence of this fact. But the experiment can only show a small part of the full function of acupuncture. The functions of various acupoints are equivalent to the functions of receptors, channels, ion pumps and other structures on the cell membrane. It is just that there are macro and micro differences in the form of expression. Intracellular and extracellular signal transduction, cascade reactions, and neurohumoral regulation are closely related to the meridian system.