When listening to oriental tales being children, we found it very amazing to hear that the physician was not allowed to see a member of the harem taken ill, he just had the permission to touch her pulse through on opening of the wall separating the harem from the outside. He came to a diagnosis by judging the pulsation, and thus, made his perscription.
In a similar way, occidental physician are still amazed at the art of acupun cture, and especially the diagnosis of the pulse.
Even though, in 1895, Durville managed to prove the“centres nerveux”, and their relationship to internal organs by electrical stimulation of the scalp, the attempts to explain the acupuncture mechanism were reduced to using electrical machines for searching points, and stimulation for therapy. The phenomenon of the diag nosis of the pulse and its origin could thus not be approached.
Since thousands of years, the existence of the meridians has been known in the Far East; the discovering of a method of measuring them was reserved to the Japanese Nakatani, who, unfortunately, deceased prematurely. He succeeded in it in 1950 at Kyoto University when making electrical researches on the resistance of the skin.
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