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Dr Daniel Keown MBChB MCEM LIC Ac
• Studied medicine at Manchester University, UK
• Studied Acupuncture at College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading
Cover today
• Problems – East vs West
• Solution – understanding embryology
• Visualising Qi and Channels*
• Understanding the points
*Warning: contains 'gore’
‘Meridians’
• Imaginary lines on the earth… Imaginary in the body?
• Terrible translation: 'channels' much better
source: M Angeles Rabadán; http://www.ibmb.csic.es/index.php?pg=lab
oratorio&tab=186&idLaboratorio=18
Christine Nusslein-Vollhard
Noble prize acceptance speech
‘I did a one-month course as a nurse... ...this experience greatly supported my conviction not to become a doctor.’
Noble prize in medicine
1996
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
1991
Qi can be seen!
source: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2
011/07/time-lapse-tuesday-a-frogs-electric-face.html
Qi can be ‘understood’!
• Organisational energy
– best seen in embryology
• Nerves/emotions also exhibit this
Acupuncture 'theory' is now 'reality'
• Channels behave just as Chinese medicine teaches
'Channels' are spaces between fascial planes that surgeons use
• Points behaviour has logic
Xi Cleft Points
• Occur where fascia/ channel has rotated?
Source: https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Musculoskeletal_System_-_Limb_Development