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Experimental: Electrical Properties of Skin Along Meridians in the Extremities Before and After Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy by Naohiro Nagayama, M.D. & Hiroshi Motoyama, Ph.D.
Some stimuli directed to an organ may alter the flow of subtle energy which is assumed to be flowing in the human body. The aim of the present study was to examine the change of electrical properties along the Lung meridian by fiberoptic bronchoscopic procedure.
Square wave pulses (3V x 256 usec) were applied before and after the fiberoptic bronchoscopic procedure, between indifferent electrodes placed on extensor surface of forearms and lower legs and active electrodes placed on Well points of the meridians which lie near the root of finger and toe-nails of patients who underwent the procedure for diagnosis (N=24). The response electric current was characterized by 3 parameters: BP (before polarization) current, AP (after polarization) current and IQ (integrated Coulomb).
Bronchoscopic procedures not including broncho-alveolar lavage (BAL) procedure (N=14) decreased the IQ value, the electric capacity beneath the Well point of Lung meridian [from 1.70 +- 0.39 to 1.47 +- 0.23 (10^4 pF, M +- SD), p< 0.01], and procedures including BAL (N=10) decreased not only the IQ value of Lung meridian [from 1.99 +- 0.40 to 1.48 +- 0.26 x 10^4 pF (p < 0.0005)] but also the BP value that reflects the electric resistance approximately along the Lung meridian (from 2.06 +- 0.29 to 1.86 +- 0.26 mA, p < 0.01).
The fiberoptic bronchoscopic procedures, which are uncomfortable stimuli for human lungs, changed electrical condition at the Well point of, and approximately along, the Lung meridian. This finding shows the possibility that phenomena in the lung are reflected by the change of physiological properties along the meridians, especially the Lung meridian, probably via subtle energy flow.
Keywords: Bronchoscopy, electricity, Ki, subtle energy, meridian, skin, Qi
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