Meridian (Chinese medicine)
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meridian-chinese-medicine-189-902325
title:
Meridian (Chinese medicine)
text:
The meridian system is a pseudoscientific concept from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that alleges meridians are paths through which the life-energy known as "qi" (ch'i) flows. Meridians are not real anatomical structures: scientists have found no evidence that supports their existence. One historian of medicine in China says that the term is "completely unsuitable and misguided, but nonetheless it has become a standard translation." Major proponents of their existence have not come to any c
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Life-energy path in Chinese medicine
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_(Chinese_medicine)
date created:
2004-11-25T10:12:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T06:46:21Z
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