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THE LIMBIC SYSTEM AND THE EMOTIONAL CONCEPT OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
Thomas Ots
Graz, Austria
A new discipline of research evolved during the last two decades: affective neuroscience [Davidson 1995,
Panksepp 1998]. It has pointed out the central role of emotions for human life. Research on the role of emotions has
started 100 years ago, e.g., W. James and later W.B. Cannon, however, behaviorism pushed emotions out of the
realm of scientific endeavour for many decades.
Today, emotions are understood as the change-over of afferent sensory impulses into reactions that organize the
individual´s life at a given situation. This change-over mainly takes place in the limbic structures and shows strong
interactions with the prefrontal cortex. It evolves into and is also identical with somatic and visceral actions of the entire
body. As these physiological reactions serve specific purposes, e.g., to fight, or to run away, they incorporate fixed
patterns.
Modern affective neuroscience research supports Chinese assumptions about five basic, existential emotional
categories: Flow, fight, flight, conservation-withdrawal and grief.
It is only a mattter of time that a cooperation of affective neuroscience and traditional Chinese medicine with its
enormous knowledge of emotionally induced physiological changes integrate into a new and more somatically
oriented definition of psychosomatics.
ELECTRO-MAGNETIC CONSIDERATIONS ON MERIDIAN NETWORK
A. Szasz
Biotechnics Department, St. Istvan University, Budapest, Hungary
Introduction, objectives: The bio-systems are imperfect dielectrics. Their general properties however cannot be
described by simple electrodynamics; the system is more complex. Additional to the well known systemic networks
there are various debates on the existence, function and mechanism of the meridians. Our presentation deals with
the possible mechanism of the meridian forming and their signal-transmission, targeting the explanation of the
phenomena by electromagnetic considerations.
Method: Definitely the “machinery” of the living organisms is more chemical/electrical than thermal. There has to be
energy distribution system, transporting the energy in non-thermal form. One of such, we suppose, is the meridian
network, where energy-propagation goes along. To explain this phenomenon we examine non-linear effects making selffocusing
in a dielectric media and resulting to direct the energy-flow in such a highly polarized matter. The energy
transport is realized by energy-“bags” like solitons [1]. These interactions have a long-range coherence [2], and defined
on the dielectric matter [3]. If the energy would be transmitted by photon carrier, suitable boundary surfaces (waveguides)
have to exist; otherwise the energy diffuses, and will be absorbed. Hence, there we suppose the existence of schemes
in the advanced organisms like humans transmitting a part of the system-energy in the form of electromagnetic waves.
Results: Considering that the ionic conductivity of the human organism is relatively low and the frequencies of the
transmitted photons are high, [4], consequently, the boundary conditions have to be satisfied by high dielectric
constant. The wave conductors therefore have to be dielectric feeder lines of high polarizability, with extraordinary
dielectric properties [5]. This can be analogized from among the known effects with the self-focusing of the non-linear
optics, as we show in our present paper. Due to its relative simplicity the meridians could react quickly and effectively,
and even could functioned in the embryonic development as an overall distributor-controller till the development of
the other more robust systemic networks (like lymph-, blood- and nerve-systems) is not finished. By controlling the
cellular collectivity the measurement of meridians could have (and have indeed) role in the cancer-diagnostics. The
massive decrease of the number of gap-junctions between the cancerous cells, and the weakening of all the cellular
adherent connections could down-regulate or block the transports by meridian channels, and so it could be
measurable in the adequate acupunctural points also.
Conclusions: The meridian-network could be described by electromagnetic basis in complex living systems. Its
role is the energy-distribution and control, together with the mass transporting (blood- and lymph-systems) and electric
signal transporting (nerve-system) networks.
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