How Does Moxibustion Work Scientifically?
By Yin Lo, PhD Moxibustion and acupuncture have always gone together as one compound name in the Chinese classics on treatment of illness. We have explained in previous articles in Acupuncture Today how acupuncture works in terms of modern science. GA_googleFillSlot(“acupuncturetoday_com_Articles_Pages_Rectangle”); How does moxibustion work in terms of modern science? The simple answer is that meridians are like optical fibers that transmit infrared radiation. Fudan University conducted an experiment on meridians and found the following: A high transparency (76 percent) at a wavelength of 2.66 microns has been measured along the axis direction of the collagenous fiber at the Gallbladder meridian on one lower limb in a human body. Along the fiber axis of the Stomach meridian, the transparency is 62 percent at wavelengths of 9-20 microns. The transparency vertical to the axis is 0.4 percent. There is a difference in transparency of more than 240 times between infrared light along the axi
