Why can acupuncture treat diseases? This has been a subject of research both in ancient and modern times, and there are many opinions, but there is still no consensus. The main reason for this is that current research on adjusting human body functions is often limited to the aspects of neural reflex, biochemical reactions, and the role of biological molecular physical movement. Both domestic and foreign research on acupuncture has therefore been limited to these areas and has not delved into the role of the human body's potential functions. After extensive research on acupuncture treatment and its mechanisms, the author has found that the nerve impulses caused by acupuncture points can activate the human body's potential functions, exerting a powerful regulatory effect on the various systems, organs, and tissues of the body that are primarily controlled by the nervous system, preventing and treating various diseases and aging. This is the fundamental function of acupuncture.
It is well known that the human body has many functions. The ancient Chinese philosopher Laozi said: "Man has the functions between heaven and earth"; and Xunzi also said: "Man can overcome nature." Modern science has also confirmed that the human body indeed has many functions, but only 10% of them are explicit and commonly used, while 90% are latent and have not been activated and utilized. How did the human body acquire so many functions? This is because in the long process of evolution, humans have gone through countless difficulties, dangers, and sufferings from the three major activities of defending against harm, seeking things, and prolonging life. They have developed certain abilities to survive in the environment, which gradually evolved into innate abilities. Some functions have become explicit because they have been continually used, while some functions, although inherited, gradually became latent due to changes in the environment. Each function has a set of functioning apparatus that is organically, closely, and intricately combined within the human body, mainly including the central nervous system, internal organs, and the body. The functional apparatus in the human body is intricately connected, and can also be called the segmental functional apparatus of the nervous system. When a person is ill, the central nervous system can establish pathological reflexes to communicate with many functional apparatuses, enhancing measures to prevent and treat diseases. This is also the response formed by the organism during the process of evolution to adapt to the environment and survive.
Research results show that acupuncture only needs to be applied on the meridians, based on the information of "cutting the meridian" to select acupuncture points, and then perform needling according to the information of needle sensation. This can activate the human body's latent functions, activate its functional apparatus, and exert a powerful regulatory effect. This not only improves the effectiveness of disease treatment, but also can treat a large number of intractable diseases and terminal illnesses, such as male and female sexual dysfunction, infertility, small testicles, infantile uterus, breast hyperplasia, hydrocephalus (or accompanied by cerebral atrophy), vascular headaches, neurosensory hearing loss, and dwarfism. Therefore, the functional apparatus of the human body is not only a local unit of the body's morphological function, but also a local unit of acupuncture's "cutting the meridian" and acupuncture treatment. This is the mystery of meridian diagnosis and treatment.
Various qigong therapies, massage therapies, psychological therapies, and behavioral therapies are actually methods of activating the human body's latent functions for disease treatment. However, the effect of acupuncture in activating latent functions is much faster, more effective, simpler to perform, has no side effects, and is very cost-effective compared to the above-mentioned qigong therapies. Therefore, it is worth exploring and researching how to further use acupuncture methods or improved methods similar to acupuncture that are easily accepted by patients to safely, fully, and flexibly activate the human body's latent functions for disease prevention, treatment, and anti-aging based on clinical needs. This principle may create a new medical field with Chinese characteristics for the benefit of humanity.
