Abstract
The mechanism of the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (BOT) might be explained by the following working hypothesis(which is indicated by border lines in sentence).
Flexor voluntary movement of finger muscles to make the O-Ring in BOT is brought about by activation of the α-motor neuron innervated to these muscles, through activation of the pyramidal tract originated from the motor cortex. On the other hand, tonus of muscle is maintained involuntarily by activation of another system, the y-motor system, which is innervated to the muscles in both sides of the muscle spindle which informs the muscle length through afferent nerve impulses to the α-motor neuron to maintain the tonus of muscle. It is known that γ-motor system to the flexor finger muscle is inhibited by the descending serotonergic system originated from the raphe nucleus in the brainsystem.
When a definite organ is diseased, the sensitive spot responds to stimulation of light touch with a fine stick in the definite skin area. Since the relation between such a spot of the skin and the diseased organ is definite (organ representative area), one can realize the diseased organ by stimulation of such a spot. Opening of the O-Ring by external force against voluntary closing force of O-Ring by action of the flexor muscle might be a result of reduction of muscle tonus due to activation of the descending serotonergic system.
Furthermore, it was shown that BOT is able to determine the nature of disease by using the corresponding diseased tissue of cover-glass preparation.
Existence of receptors in the pineal body that respond to distant sources such as photo, earth magnetic field (MF) and qi are evaluated by responses of the spontaneous electrical activities of the pineal gland cell to these stimuli. It is also known that photo or MF inhibit N-acethylserotonin-transferase (NAT) which is the converting enzyme from serotonin to N-acethylserotonin in the pineal body resulting in increase of serotonin content. Since serotonin content in the pineal gland is 5.0 times higher than the other brain area, changes of serotonin content in the pineal gland might largely influence those in the blood.
If the photo sensitive receptor in the pineal body is also activated by resonance, since BOT is not successful under closed eyes, and NAT is also inhibited by activation of such resonance receptor, the increased serotonin content in the blood might activate the descending serotonergic system and then the O-Ring might open showing the nature of disease. This assumption is supported by the observation that ORT is not successful in patients suffering from a pineal gland tumor.
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