Solving the Mystery of Shinpou and Sanshou and their roles in Prayer and Religious Service

Abstract

From the viewpoint of embryology, cell membranes invaginate the inside of a cell and also form membranes around the nucleus and various organelles, which function as primitive-instinctive brains. Similarly, the surface cell layer (the skin in a broad sense) invaginates the inside of the body, forming the gut (primitive gut) and other various internal organs, which function as primitive-instinctive, emotional and intuitive brains. The author has already reported that these cell membranes and the surface cell layer are equivalent to the Shinpou (sixth viscera) and Sanshou (sixth entrails) in traditional oriental medicine, which are said to “have their own names, but remain intangible”, and Sanshou is“lonely entrails” or “an oily membrane connecting the whole body” etc. In this study, the author reports the possibility of the important roles of Shinpou and Sanshou in prayer and religious service and also the path to Tenjingouitsu (an ideal in original traditional oriental medicine) through a considering of the meridians of Shinpou and Sanshou, which distribute from both hands and the upper limbs to the acupuncture point Danchu in the middle of the chest.