Whats a Meridian?
The meridian system uses the Chinese 5 Elements system as a foundation. The Chinese 5 Elements model, developed over thousands of years in the East, is what acupuncture, acupressure, Traditional Chinese Medicine and various other modalities are based on. These Eastern modalities developed in a culture that views the body as a self balancing system, which, when it’s out of balance, requires action to help the body rebalance itself – it’s all about pattern rather than the Western idea of pathology or disease. Now, if you were to ask where the meridians are in the body, I could point you at a diagram. However, although acupuncture is offered for some conditions on the National Health Service in Britain, no one has ever been able to find the meridians. There are no little tubes through which the energy runs, like blood through veins. However, there is research that indicates a measureable change in electric charge on certain points on the body that correspond with the points mapped out on
