Acupuncture microsystems have proved clinically successful, despite being apparently based on little more than empirical descriptions of point relationships with the body as a whole. ECIWO biology (which stands for Embryo Containing Information of the Whole Organism) suggests a coherent hypothesis to explain the microsystems, which are credited with providing a natural, stimulatory control for pathology throughout the body.
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