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Review and analysis on the meridian research of China over the past sixty years

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The meridian research situation and various meridian hypotheses of China in the past sixty years between 1950 and 2013 are summarized in the paper; possible existed problems in the process of current meridian research are analyzed. Based on previous research results, we proposed that the essence of meridian can not be explained by the reductive analysis method, meridian research should be carried out under the guidance of overall concept of Chinese medicine theory. In this paper, combined with coherence theory of biophoton, we put forward the quantum interference hypothesis of meridian, which provides a possible research idea for meridian study.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shandong University of Medicine, Jinan, 250012, China

    Mei-na Yang  (杨美娜)

  2. Shandong Medicinal Biotechnology Center, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, 250062, China

    Mei-na Yang  (杨美娜) & Jin-xiang Han  (韩金祥)

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Supported by the Grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81273997 and 81173208) and Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No.2014DFA30380)

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Yang, Mn., Han, Jx. Review and analysis on the meridian research of China over the past sixty years. Chin. J. Integr. Med. 21, 394–400 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-015-2168-4

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