Traditional Chinese medicine has the concept of meridian, why does western medicine have no concept of meridian?

Human meridians are the basis of traditional Chinese medicine and its treatment. Chinese medicine believes that there is a criss-crossing and continuously extending meridian system in the human body. Chinese medicine has the concept of meridians, but why not western medicine?

The fundamental reason is that the meridian is a subjective concept in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, which is used to describe the way of running the whole body's qi and blood, connecting the zang-fu organs and communicating up and down, but it is an objective substance in western medicine.

Modern medicine is based on human anatomy, but anatomy cannot explain the meridian phenomenon of human body. After more than 500 thousand experiments all over the world, the objective existence of meridian phenomenon has been proved.

Meridian is the general name of meridian. The thick and longitudinal main trunk line in the body is called "Jing" or "Jing"; Collaterals, also known as "collaterals", are a branch of meridians, which run through the whole body and interweave with meridians into a network. Meridians connect the five zang-fu organs, limbs, five senses and nine orifices, and flesh and blood meridians into an organic whole.

Meridian consists of twelve main meridians, eight odd meridians and their subsidiary twelve meridians, twelve tendons and twelve skins, which play a leading role in dominating the whole body. Collateral is composed of fifteen different types of collateral, floating collateral and sun collateral. The latter branches from collaterals and spreads all over the body, which is difficult to count.

China discovered human meridians 2,500 years ago. The famous doctor Wang in Song Dynasty painted 14 meridians and 354 acupoints in Neijing on a bronze statue, which became the first model of acupuncture, meridian teaching and clinical treatment in the world. Neijing Meridian holds that meridians can control human body functions and have the function of "deciding life and death and treating all diseases". In other words, the existence of life, the occurrence and treatment of diseases are all determined by meridians. Professor Zhu Zongxiang's book "One Hundred Years of Exercise and Meridian Health Care" holds that: "All kinds of medical care methods, such as acupuncture, massage, qigong, folk therapy, martial arts, sports and every move in life, have the function of medical care, and they are all produced by stimulating and exercising people's meridian system, so it can be said that the meridian system is the master control system of human health, or that the meridian system is the key system of human body."

Chinese medicine also believes that meridians are channels that run the whole body's qi and blood, communicate inside and outside, and regulate all parts of the body. However, the qi and blood flowing through the meridians are not obvious blood-red liquid and the oxygen it carries, but obvious blood flowing through blood vessels. The movement of qi and blood in the meridians of traditional Chinese medicine refers to the latent, invisible and intangible internal qi. The regulation of meridians in human body is also realized by the operation of potential internal qi.

Meridian, like the internal qi running in it, is also potential, invisible, intangible and anatomizable. It is precisely for this reason that western medicine has never discovered meridians, and it did not recognize the existence of meridians before 1989. It was not until the Institute of Biophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Meridian Research Group of Beijing Meridian Center, led by Professor Zhu Zongxiang, confirmed the objective existence of meridians with three experimental methods that the western medical community recognized meridians.