TAKING MEDICATION IN CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE CORRECT TIMING OF QI CURCULATION IN MERIDIAN SYSTEM: AS VERIFIED BY BDORT COMPATIBILITY TEST

Abstract

It is recommended in most of traditional Chinese Acupuncture texts and it is a common knowledge to all acupuncturists in China that for the beat therapeutic result., the acupuncture therapy should be rendered in correspondence with the timing of Qi circulation in the Meridian system. The classics further started that by taking advantage of the different timing of Qi circulation in Meridian system, one could improve the functional capacity and vitality of the internal organ depending on the particular timing that Qi circulates to that particular organ. One could also use that particular timing to treat the ailment for that particular organ and to better the physiological role of that particular organ thereby safeguarding the wellbeing of the whole body. The method of achieving this goal is by means of acupuncture, acupressure, Qi Gong, the diet, medication, exercise and the proper rest and sleep.

According to the theory, the Qi circulation in the Liver Meridian reaches the organ of liver exactly between 1-3 a.m.

Qi Circulation in the Lung Meridian reaches the organ of lung at 3 -5 a.m.

Qi in the Large Intestine Meridian reaches the- large intestine at 5-7 a.m.

Qi in the Stomach Meridian reaches the stomach at 7-9 a.m.

Qi in Spleen Meridian reaches the spleen at 9-11 a.m.

Qi in Heart Meridian reaches the heart at 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Qi in the Small Intestine Meridian reaches the small intestine at 1-3 p.m.

Qi in the Bladder Meridian reaches the bladder at 3-5 p.m.

Qi in the Kidney Meridian reaches the kidney at 5-7 p.m.

Qi in the Pericardium at 7-9 p.m.

Qi in Gall Bladder Meridian reaches the gall bladder at 11 p.m. - 1 a.m.

Qi reaches Triple Burner at 9-11 p.m. (the Triple Burner Meridian System covers the serous membrane lining the pelvic abdomino walls and investing the viscera, and forming a complete covering for various internal organs except pericardium.)

For about 1000 years in Asia, many doctors have administered medication or acupuncture therapy according to the Qi circulation in the meridian to obtain the optimum result. In the West, doctors have traditionally prescribed medications without specifying any particular time of day. Recently, circadian rhythms have been explored by the medical community in the west; in an effort to achieve synchronization of the medication with a patient’s body clock. Some physicians have discovered that the medication works more effectively with fewer side effects if taken at specific time during the day. In some situations the improvement has been so effective that the physicians has been able to reduce the dosage of the medication while achieving the same result. It is common knowledge to allergist that hay fever symptoms are at their peek when the patient wakes up; or before corticoid levels start to surge. Also Patients with arthritis have a tendency to have less pain in the morning and more in the evening, therefore many physicians have recommended patients take their antiinflammatory medication around noon or shortly thereafter. In this way the drug effect would be at its optimum in the evening. Many medical journals have studies that there is a higher risk of having a stroke or heart attack between 6 a.m. and noon and asthma symptom tend to peek at 4 a.m. when the adrenaline and cortisol that helps relax the bronchi and airway are at the lowest levels. The peptic ulcer and heartbum are usually worse at night. There is an increasing trend for the doctors to prescribe medicine and advise patients of what drug to use and also when to take it, because research found that certain diseases tend to be worse at certain times during the day. Corresponding the time to administer the medicine with the time the disease is at the worst seems to have a better result for the patients. Many physicians would advise asthma patients to take their medication at 3 or 5 p.m. so it can work at its peek strength overnight. The company that makes Singulair recommends the patients to take the medication in the evening so the drug effect would peak when the asthma attacks. The pharmaceutical companies are developing drugs that are carefully timed to circulate through the body when the symptoms are likely to be the worst. Known as chronotherapy it is used by several pharmaceutical companies to make a time release medication according to when the drug would be at its optimum strength of effect when the symptoms appear. Some companies developed the technology SyncroDose that will allow the drug to be released at certain hours of the day as the coating of the pill erodes. Some of the new drugs are designed to release in unequal amounts of medicine so it would circulate through the body at higher levels when the symptoms are at its most serious state, and at lower levels when it is not. Some of those SyncroDose medications which are released in the body curiously coincide with the acupuncture time table when Qi circulates along the meridian system. For example, Qi in the Lung Meridian reaches the lung at 3-5 a.m. and when there is any impedance against the smooth flow of Qi to the respiratory system the symptom of distress appears. This corresponds to the research finding that asthma is worse between 4-6 a.m. The new findings in the West found stroke and heart attacks occur most often in the morning and and noon, and the acupuncture time table states Qi circulates to the heart before noon. Both Eastern and Western medicine have the similar finding of the synchronization of the drug administration when the symptom is at its worst. Taking medication by the body's clock would serve the best interest for the patient.

To experiment with drugs at their most therapeutic effect for the patients, we have used the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test. We tried to find if the same drug would have a different O- Ring positive strength at various times of the day including the time when the Qi in their particular meridian is reaching at the particular organ.

We found a particular drug which had a moderately positive strength with the BDORT tested at some other time of the day would show a strongly positive strength (in the BDORT) if tested at a specified lime when Qi circulates to that target organ. For instance, for asthma patients, if a certain anti-asthma medication is tested in the day time that showed 4+ or 5+ BDORT, the same drug would show 6+ BDORT when tested between 3-5 a.m. when the Qi in the Lung Meridian reaches the lung at that time. For high blood pressure patients, the anti-hypertension drug which tested to be 4+ BDORT at other time of the day became 5+ or 6+ when tested in the morning. We also found that taking the medication with acupuncture therapy synchronizing with Qi circulation at the target organ have the best synergic effect with an utmost benefit for the patients.