Imaging of the Stomach,and Localization of the Stomach Meridian & its Acupuncture Points in a Human Cadaver by the use of the Indirect “Bi-Digital O-Ring,Test Imaging Technique”

Abstract

Since 1984, using the “Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (Molecular Identification, Localization and) Imaging Technique” originally developed by Y. Omura, the imaging of the outline of normal and abnormal internal organs has been successfully applied for clinical diagnosis and evaluation of therapeutic effects, without the use of expensive imaging instrumentation. Not only has it become possible to non-invasively image each internal organ and localize specific malignant tumors of specific internal organs, as well as neurotransmitters, but it has also recently become possible to demonstrate the presence and exact locations of the meridians corresponding to specific internal organs and their acupuncture points along the meridians through the use of either the Direct or Indirect “Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (Molecular Identification, Localization and) Imaging Techniques” while holding a microscopic slide of the specific human internal organ tissue. However, very little information was available to demonstrate the presence of the meridians and their acupuncture points in a human cadaver. In this study, we were able to demonstrate by use of the Indirect “Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (Molecular Identification, Localization and) Imaging Technique” the presence of meridians corresponding to specific internal organs and acupuncture points on the meridians, all of which were nearly identical to those found in a living human. For example, the authors found that the stomach meridian at both ends of one of the most well-known acupuncture points, Stomach 36, is located within 1 mm of the surface of the skin, and the average diameter of the meridian is less than 1 mm. Stomach 36 in this particular cadaver had a round shape with a diameter of approximately 1.8 cm at the skin surface. The acupuncture point, St 36, in this cadaver at the skin surface was round in shape and extended to the deepest underlying muscle layer of the tibialis anterior muscle, in three dimensions. In spite of the fact that the Indirect Bi-Digital O-Ring Test Imaging Technique showed a distinct pathway for the stomach meridian and the location of St. 36, there was no apparent difference to the naked eye between the meridian and the surrounding non-meridian tissue, nor between St. 36 and surrounding non-acupuncture point area. However, there seems to be a more dense connective tissue network between the skin layer and the fascia on the muscle tissue at the acupuncture point, as compared with the surrounding non-acupuncture point area. Each acupuncture point along the meridian appears as a round or oval bulge on the meridian, with significant dimensions rather than a small point in both living humans and cadavers.

Keywords

Internal organ Imaging technique Stomach Stomach meridian Acupuncture point Stomach 36 (St. 36)Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (Molecular Localization &) Imaging Technique Microscopic slide Reference control substance Electromagnetic resonance phenomenon Virus Bacteria HTLV-III Adenocarcinoma of the head of the pancreas Tibialis anterior muscle

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