title: [Essence of meridians and collaterals: circulatory conduction system of bio-electricity of human].
abstract: The running courses of twelve meridians are explained through the electrical properties of cell membrane, and the phenomenon related with meridians such as mechanism of acupuncture analgesia and acupuncture anesthesia, pause of the propagated sensation along channels, nature of propagated sensation and width of propagated sensation is expounded in this article. As a result, it is held that the meridian system, a circulatory conduction system of bio-electricity of human, is an independent system from the known nine large systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedics, Tianjin 464 Hospital, Tianjin 300381, China. ashang9482@126.com
authors.forename: Zhen-De
authors.initials: ZD
authors.lastname: Shang
mesh_terms: D015669:Acupuncture Points; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000502:physiology; D003097:Collateral Circulation; D006801:Humans; D016740:Meridians