Fascia

The Rosetta Stone Linking East to West

Dr. Daniel Keown MBChB MCEM Lic Ac

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’

Problems

• Incompatibility

• Qi 'never been found'

• Channels ‘don't exist’

• Language 'airy-fairy'

Qi

• Energy generally invisible anyway

‘Meridians’

• Imaginary lines on the earth… Imaginary in the body?

• Terrible translation: 'channels' much better

Language

• Imprecise

• Inaccurate

• Just plain wrong?

Truth and Reconciliation

• Either one wrong…

• Or misunderstanding ?

Embryology

• The science of Chinese Medicine

• Poorly understood by most… everyone!

Lets talk about sex…

Yin and Yang

Sperm… and egg

morula

source: http://blog.chron.com/realrehab/files/legacy/archives/pictures/Embryo%20Morula.jp

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compaction

source: http://www.mun.ca/biology/desmid/brian/

BIOL3530/DB_07/fig7_9.jpg

Flat Disc

source: M Angeles Rabadán; http://www.ibmb.csic.es/index.php?pg=lab

oratorio&tab=186&idLaboratorio=18

What organises this?

Morphogens

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

Systems theory

Practical application

• Apply ‘nodes’ and ‘channels’ to body embryological picture and you get…

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_(Chi

nese_medicine)

Channels can be seen!

• Liver channel video, lung channel video, arm video (fasciostomy)

Liver Channel

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuxqTFfVAB8

Liver Channel

credit: https://manumissio.wikispaces.com/Liver+

Meridian

Lung Channel

Lung Channel

image courtesy of http://lieske.com/channels/5e-lung.htm

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

How does acupuncture work?

Well Points

• Fascia extremely tight

Spring Points

Opening up but still tight

Stream Points

At area of enormous change Fascia starts loosening up

change

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River Points

Loose, fasciostomies can be done

Fasciostomy (look away if squeamish)

Sea Points

Fascia very loose beyond this

Loads of space!

Luo points

• Connections between fascia

• ?Same word as Luo (fine channels)

Xi Cleft Points

• Occur where fascia/ channel has rotated?

Source: https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Musculoskeletal_System_-_Limb_Development

Mindfulness in needling

• Needle connects into space between fascial network

• Acupuncture is stem cell therapy!