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Lecture Meeting with Dr. Charles Shang, MD,
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
March 24, 2009.
( Lecture
Meeting Agenda)
Dr. Charles Shang, MD, Harvard Medical School, visited CIHS
on March 24th and gave a talk titled
"Basic Acupuncture Research has met the Gold Standard of
Science.
(Dr.Shang's
sample presentation PPT slides)
Dr. Shang did his undergraduate studies in biology at Peking
University, completed master’s degree in biochemistry &
molecular biology at Harvard University, and MD at Boston
University Medical School. He did extensive research at
Massachusetts General Hospital and at the Institute for
Advanced Research in Asian Science and Medicine, worked as
Director of Hospital Service at Cambridge Health Alliance.
Currently he is Clinical Instructor and Researcher at
Harvard Medical School and is a member of editorial board of
Medical Acupuncture and Journal of Alternative &
Complementary Medicine. With research and practice
experience in integrative medicine he is keenly interested
in Acupuncture, Qigong, Meditation and Developmental Biology
and Physiology. He published important papers proposing
“Growth Control Model” which gives biological basis to the
existence, electrical characteristics and therapeutic
effects of acupuncture points and meridians. It potentially
integrates existing Connective Tissue model and
Neurophysiology Model, offering predictive powers which may
be experimentally verified.
We took this opportunity with an eminent scholar to organize an academic Lecture Meeting. We
invited interdisciplinary professionals from outside our
institute
including biochemist, molecular biologist, acupuncturist, vibrational medicine specialist, physicist, etc, resulting
in total 10 participants including Dr. Shang himself.
He explained his model by means of “singularities” and “
separatrices” consisting of special morphogenic cells called
“organizers” having higher electrical conductance and
current density. He claims that generally confirmed facts
such as non-specific stimuli at acupuncture points
generating therapeutically similar effects, higher
electrical conductance at acupuncture points, acupuncture
points coinciding with the points of extreme curvature on
body surface, etc can be explained by his model.
His talk stimulated active questions and discussions from
the audience regarding the possible inclusion in his model
of subtle energies working through the “organizers” rather
than “organizers” being the ultimate driver of the
morphogenesis. Dr. Shang did not deny such possibility
although his model is purely biological at the present
stage.
After a coffee break, Dr. Koji Tsuchiya, Sr. Researcher &
Project Director, CIHS, gave a presentation titled
“AMI - Ki-Energy
Research”. He described recent experiments at CIHS performed
with the Continuous AMI and the Standard (“snap-shot”) AMI.
He highlighted some results including Pranic Healing on
breast cancer patient, in which healing effects were clearly
demonstrated by significant changes in three AMI parameters
(BP, AP, IQ) through the healing sessions. Upper/Lower
imbalance in BP kept increasing throughout the sessions.
This curious effect was puzzling to him as he would have
expected to see the imbalance to decrease rather than keep
increasing. Later on the healer confirmed that it was indeed
what his protocol was intended to do for cancer patient;
namely, deplete the energy of the lower chakra shifting the
pranic energy more to the upper body.
Dr. Tsuchiya further presented test results of acupuncture
needle stimulation effect, pellet magnet placement effect,
and transformational breathing effect, each showing
significant changes in BP through the control and test
sessions as monitored by the Continuous AMI device.
He concluded his talk by emphasizing the unique capability
of the Continuous AMI device and brief mention of near
future plans based upon the combined use of the Continuous
AMI and conventional bioelectrical measurements.
Dr. Shang thanked for the presentation and commented that
he has now better understanding of the AMI and recognizes
its relevance to experimental verification of his model.
With success of this event we CIHS intend to organize more
of similar sessions inviting professionals from outside
academia.
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