A Case Represented Definite Meridian Phenomenon (Part I) / 全日本鍼灸学会雑誌

We treated a patient (aged 57, a housewife, traumatic cervical syndrome), to be called a meridian sensitive patient, who displayed definite meridian phenomenon.<br>In the patient, a type of meridian phenomena, Phenomenon of Propagated Sensation along the Channels (PSC), was examined. Reffering the Nagahama and Maruyama's method and the method used in China, we employed a method whereby a pressure stimulus was applied with a press needle alternately to <i>the terminal point</i> on each of <i>the 12 regular meridians</i> as well as to a certain point on each of <i>the extra meridians</i>.<br>As a result, the following coincidence rates of PSC and the classical meridians were obtained:<br>20% <i>(the small intestine meridian, the posterior median extra meridian, the impetuous pulse</i> and <i>the extra meridian around the waist)</i> of all the 20 meridians were almost entirely coincident.<br>55% of all the meridians were partly coincident.<br>25% <i>(the spleen pancreas meridian, the heart meridian, the pericardium meridian, the lung meridian</i> and the <i>anterior midline meridian)</i> were not coincident.

A Case Represented Definite Meridian Phenomenon (Part II) / 全日本鍼灸学会雑誌

In the previous paper, we reported on the pathways of PSC and also upon the coincedent rates of PSC and the classical meridians.<br>In this paper, some remarkable observations on the PSC of the same patient are reported on: the echo sensation of PSC on <i>the posterior median extra meridian, the inn-ue extra meridian</i> and <i>the regular meridians</i>, excepting <i>the heart meridian</i>, reached to the head where the patient had her chief complaint. The farthest traveled echo sensation of PSC was on <i>the inn-ue extra meridian</i> and the broadest on <i>the kidney meridian, the bladder meridian</i> and <i>the yan-wei extra meridian</i>. PSC displayed body symetry and reproducibility. Fingerpressure applied at a point along the path of echo sensation served to interrupt the sensation over an area immediately following that point. The spatial length of PSC was enlarged by heating the area in question.