BIOPHYSICS: WEEK 12





I know I'm a living system because I interact with my environment through information and energy exchanges.  I can also define myself as a system based on autopoiesis, meaning that I am capable of maintaining and reproducing myself.  Living systems are organisms made of multi-cellular systems that carry out life out diversified processes within the whole.  Each system is interdependent on one another for integrated function.  I am an open system that is constantly seeking homeostasis within my internal and external environment.  This equilibrium represents an ideal state that my body seeks, even though it is constantly in a state of motion or change.  I also exhibit a living system's tendency to evolve into a higher order through daily decision making.






An example of the relationship between acupuncture and biophysics is the nature of the bodily meridians and acupuncture points.  Both exhibit biophysical properties that are can be characterized as electrical, acoustic, thermal, optical, magnetic, isotropic and myoelectric.  Studies compared acupuncture points with non-acupuncture points based on the previously listed characteristics and showed that non-acupuncture points did not exhibit the same biophysical attributes of the acupuncture points.  Therefore, the existence of bodily meridians and acupuncture points is scientifically supported through its biophysical attributes.























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  1. SarahJuly 24, 2018 at 9:47 PM

    Yes! I'm so glad that western science finally has the tools to catch up to traditional medicines - such smug laughter went through the TCM communities this year when western science 'discovered' the interstitium: a gigantic, widespread structure which runs between and within the body's tissues to ferry fluid and other materials throughout the body. Also known as the San Jiao for the last century or five.

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