Fascia: The Rosetta Stone Linking East to West
Dr Daniel KeownMBChB MCEM Lic Ac
Con-man
CHARLATAN
QUACK
TODAY
Explain, define, and even… PROVE … Qi exists.
Show you the Channels in 2-D; 3-D; and show you how to see them in every anatomical textbook ever made.
Give you the basics to start understanding all of Chinese medicine with science.
fundamentalism
a form of a religion, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
Problems
• Incompatibility between East and West
• Qi 'never been found'
• Channels ‘don't exist’
• Language 'airy-fairy'
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 study of ‘little ones’)
Embryology(the study of ‘little ones’)
is
The
Science of
Chinese Medicine*
*Don’t worry its not understood by most anyone…but not for much longer!
Lets talk about sex…
Lets talk about sex…
Yin and Yang
Sperm… and Egg
Morula
Compaction(the money shot)
Flat Disc
Neural Tube(Du Channel)
What organises this?
Noble prize in medicine
1996
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Noble prize acceptance speech
‘I did a one-month course as a nurse... ...this experience greatly supported my conviction not to become a doctor.’
Albert Lasker
Award for Basic Medical Research
1991
How is this Organised?
10 000 000 000 000cells
100 000 000 000 000000 000 000 000possible connections
The body is smart…
Systems
NodesandChannels
Systems
NodesandChannels
Systems
NodesandChannels
Qi can be seen!
source: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/07/time-
lapse-tuesday-a-frogs-electric-face.html
Qi(definition)
The energy by which matter crystalizes into form.
The organisational energy of the body best seen in the embryo
Jing Luo
Chinese Words are Characters!
‘silk’
Jing
‘Fascial’ ‘Rivers’
Jing Luo
Fascial Rivers and Fascial Net
or;
Connective Tissue Network
Channels Can Be Seen!
Channels Can Be Seen!
Microscopic Channels - Luo
Microscopic Channels - Luo
Liver Channel
Liver Channel
Liver Channel
Liver Channel
© Dr Dan Keown
Liver Channel
Phlegm in Liver Channel
Summary
• Don’t tolerate fundamentalism – marked by inflexible adherance to ‘scripture’ and incoherence. Acupuncture (Chen-chiu) is simple.
• Chinese medicine has a science and it is called embryology. We owe it to ourselves and our art to learn it!
Summary
• Qi is real, definable and even visible
• Jing Luo is best translated as channels or connective tissue network: and are real, easily visible and anatomically defined.