Propagation of light along a pericardium meridian is measured and compared with that along a non-meridian path one cm away from the meridian. Source-light is illuminated on the Nei-Guan(PC6) and propagated light is detected at three points along the meridian. Four reference points are one cm away from the corresponding meridian points, respectively. Light propagates better along the meridian than the reference path with more than twenty percent difference for all the subjects tested.

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Acup. And Electro-Therapeutics Res. Int. J.

• W. Zhang, R. Xu and Z. Zhu, "The influence of acupuncture on the impedance measured by four electrodes on meridians," Acup. And Electro-Therapeutics Res. Int. J., vol. 24, pp. 181-188, 1999

Am. J. Acupuncture

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Beijing Biomedical Eng.

• W. Zhang, "<TEX>$CO_2$</TEX> emission from skin of meridians," Beijing Biomedical Eng. (in Chinese), vol. 15 pp. 221, 1996

Bioelectromagnetism, 1998. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on

• H. Lazoura, M. Cohen, E. Lazoura and I. Cosic, "Do Acupuncture Points Have Different Absorption Properties to Laser Light than Surrounding Skin?," in Proc. 2nd IEEE Int. Conf. Bioelectromagnetism, IEEE, Melbourne, Australia, 1998, pp. 172-173 [CrossRef]

Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

• M. Reichmanis, et. aI., "Electrical correlates of acupuncture points," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. BME, vol. 22, pp. 533 , 1975 [CrossRef]

J. of Kor. Phys. Soc.

• C. Choi, et. al. "Biophoton Emission from the Hands," J. of Kor. Phys. Soc. vol. 41(2), pp.275-278, 2002.8

J. Trad. Chin. Med.

• H. Heine, "Anatomical structure of acupoints," J. Trad. Chin. Med., vol. 8, pp. 207-212, 1988
• M. Ciszek, J. Szopinski and V. Skrzypulec, "Investigation of morphological structure of acupuncture pointsand meridians," J. Trad. Chin. Med., vol. 5, pp. 289-292, 1985

Journal of the Optical Society of Korea

• K. -H. Kwon, et al. "The analysis of light coupling and propagation for a composite fiber-dielectric slab with a conductor cladding," J. Opt. Soc. Korea, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 20-27, 2003 [CrossRef]

PNAS

• Z. H. Cho, et. al. "New findings of the correlation between acupoints and corresponding brain cortices using functional MRI," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol. 95 pp. 2670-2673, 1998 [CrossRef]

Proceedings of the 2nd Additional Contributions

• M. Markert, "Whole body measurement of biophoton emission, Biophotonics and Coherent Systems," in Proceedings of the 2nd Additional Contributions, Moscow Univ. Press, 2000, pp. 405-410

The American Journal of Chinese Medicine

• C. Shang, "Singular point, organizing center and acupuncture point," Am. J. Chin. Med., vol. 17, pp. 119-127, 1989 [CrossRef]

The American Journal of Chinese Medicine (AJCM)

• M. -W. Ho and D. P. Knight, "The acupuncture system and the liquid crystalline collagen fibers of the connective tissues," Am. J. Chin. Med., vol. 26, pp. 251-263, 1998 [CrossRef]

Other

• S. Kaznachiev and L. Mochanova, Light from living life and human, (Novosibirsk, Russia, 1998), pp. 101-105

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