UMHB: Chapter 2 - Human body hardware construction

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I hope you can still recall human body consists of hardware, software and network systems. Let's discuss more on hardware structure of human body.

All 11 Zang organs 脏 has a correspond network, including XinBao Jing. XinBao 心包 is between heart and the heart outer protecting layer, its correspond meridian is XinBao Jing. Adding in the Ren Mai 任脉 at front of human body, and Du Mai 督脉 at the back of body, there are in total 14 MCS (Meridian and Collaterals System) 经络.

Each Zang is then correspond to a Fu 腑, lung with colon, heart with intestine, liver with gallbladder, spleen with stomach, kidney with bladder, SanJiao 三焦 with XinBao.

These relationship seems illogical if we have no TCM knowledge. In TCM, Cold Qi 寒气 can goes into DaChang (Colon) Jing 大肠经, while from western medication, coldness is caused by lung, which is in respiratory system, should not have any relationship with digestive system of DaChang (Colon) Jing. In anatomy, these two organs are totally irrelevant. From MCS, we will find DaChang Jing and Fei (Lung) Jing 肺经 are closely related.

Beside these correspond relationship, there is also Interactively Produce and Restrain 相生相克 relationship. In TCM, it was categorize using Five Elements 五行. heart is Fire element, liver is Wood, spleen is Earth, lung is Metal, kidney is Water. [MK: Found this website] The Five Element relationship need to be at a balance point. If either Zang organ is too strong/weak, the balance point is broken. For example, the symptoms caused by Heart Fire Excessive 心火太旺, could be hot weather in summer; or insufficient of kidney Qi 肾气不足 in winter, where the Water cannot withstand the Fire element; or liver Qi 肝气 increased during spring, Wood produce Fire. These relationship and condition is very complicated. A good TCM practitioner will take few years or maybe few tenth years to govern it. If one govern it, he will be able to diagnose a disease quickly and thus the cure will be fast.

Let's take another example. For a common numb/pain of lateral of leg, western medication will usually say this is caused by spur. Well, if we look into it deeper, the pain/numb is located at Dan (bile/gallbladder) Jing 胆经, which is because there is too much Cold Qi inside human body, caused the lung to be Hot. Lung is Metal, gallbladder is Wood, Metal restraining Wood which means lung restraining gallbladder. To cure, just press ChiZe Xue 尺泽穴 for a minute, disclose the lung Hotness, the pain/numb will be gone too. But this is only curing the symptom. To cure the root cause, one should clear the lung Hotness, so that the gallbladder will no longer be impacted, then only the numb/pain will goes away forever.

Although it is hard to govern Five Element theory, but if we change to a healthy living style to increase Blood Qi 血气, human body repair system will work and eventually human body will be healthym, although this will take longer time, and we might need to suffer the pain for longer time. So no worries if you cannot understand Five Elements, we can still learn the correct way of using human body without that.

A lot of unknown root cause pain is probably pain of MCS. When Zang organ doesn't has enough energy, then only caused pain of MCS. If it is not severe, one will not feel it without pressing it. When it is severe, it will be painful without pressing. Thus if there is any pain on MCS, get a chart of MCS, find the location of MCS, and massage it. This will usually relief the painfulness.

Some people get hand/leg sprain easily, which we thought is usually collision or accident , where is not really true. It is usually is the correspond Zang organ is not healthy.

UMHB: Chapter 2 - What is Meridian and Collaterals System 经络 (2)

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[MK: There are few more research and explanation on the scientific proof of existence of Meridian and Collaterals System (MCS). Since a lot of technical terms are involved, I think my translation will not be accurate and I would like to skip those. In short, author is trying to illustrate on the existence of this system.]

Organism evolve from mono-cell, which doesn't has brain but tissue cells. Not all organism has brain. This means that it is not brain to control inter-organ functionality and operation but probably MCS.

In terms of computer system term, human body is not a single CPU system, but multiple of CPU system connected via high speed connection system. Brain is just one of those system. This could be one of the explanation in TCM brain is never included in the definition of Five Zang Six Fu.

Current western medication is built upon anatomy findings. MCS cannot be discovered in anatomy due to technology limitation in the past. Recently, some research results revealed the existence of MCS. This is similar to a tree observation where only leaf is seen but trunk. Using another example, when we look at a computer system, we can see only the hardware but left out the software.

[MK: The author also shown some research result on the existence of MCS. Due to my limitation on those technical term translation, I do not plan to put it here. If you are interested to take a look, please read the mandarin book :p ]

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UMHB: Chapter 2 - What is Meridian and Collaterals 经络 (1)

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MC [MK: MCS is abbr. of meridian and Collaterals system, MC is abbr. of meridian and Collaterals] has been used in TCM since few thousands years ago. When human fall sick, there will be few red line appears on human body and massaging those line can help in curing the disease. Human with those red line are called 经络人 and very rare can be found in this world. MCS evolved slowly from TCM treatment cases.

In Han Dynasty, there was an experiment to put tiny bamboo leaf inside vascular of a live human body, and found out the flow direction didn't match MC drawing inside TCM book. Thus TCM was not verified to be exist and slowly it was abandoned.

Later when anatomy and western medication evolved, its scientific approach gained people confidence, and thus people slowly think TCM is not solid/valid.

In a year of decade 1960, a scientist in North Korea claimed he found the MC. This announcement quake the medication world. Then more researches on MS was started by Japan and China, to hope to be able to reveal the truth of MC before the rest. Nevertheless, the Korea scientist commited suicide after few years, because of able to provide the proof of MC.

The suicide case then ruin the rest of research work and confidence. Until year 1970, US president visited China, and China government demonstration heart operation with acupuncture but anesthetics. This surprised the American specialist witness the operation. This then split the TCM practitioners into two group, one believe that acupuncture point exist but MC. The other believe MC exist although it is yet to be proven.

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UMHB: Chapter 2 - Network system (2)

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Meridian and Collaterals system 经络系统

TCM discover this system few thousand years ago but this system is not scientifically proven until 1998 by a research group in China.

This research group discovered meridian and collaterals system [MK: I will abbr. this to MCS] has light fiber physical characteristics. Besides, blood capillary nearby MSC is always in parallel with MSC. From the perspective of current hydromechanics, this yield fluid flow field. This scientifically explain TCM concept where medicine flow in MSC direction. MSC convey not only message but more substance.

The rest of human body network system comprises of certain pipeline structure. MSC is different that it consist of different kind of substance. Hopefully there will be more research on this system.

Subsequent network system are commonly mentioned in current western medication or TCM, thus we will not go through in detail.

Vascular system 血管系统

This is a transportation system for energy supply system and cleansing system.

Nerve system 神经系统

This system convey signal message between brain and other organ.

Lymphatic system 淋巴系统

This system is mainly for defensing. It detects the intruders, and send white blood cells to different part of human body.

We have gone through few different kind of human body systems, comprises of hardware, software and network [MK: Imagine human body is a network of Internet :) ], which is a complete system.

UMHB: Chapter 2 - Network system

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Human body system is far more complex than a computer. Beside conveying signal/message, human body system has more functionality. For example, energy transportation and rubbish transportation.

In subsequent post, we will discuss more on human body network system :)

UMHB: Chapter 2 - Peripheral system

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This system consist of "Si(Four) Zhi(Limb) Wu（Five) Guan（Organ)" 四肢五官 (Si Zhi means 2 hands, 2 legs. Wu Guan means eye, nose, ear, mouth and eyebrow). From the perspective of TCM, Four Limb Five Organ reflects the status of respective internal organ condition. So when we see the symptoms of Four Limb Five Organ, the actual problem reside in the respective internal organ. [MK: For example， Tinnitus sometimes reflect problem inside kidney]. A lot of doctor will just focusing on curing the symptoms, which the disease usually reoccur after sometime, as the root cause is not fixed.

That is all for functional system for the moment. We will discuss more on Network system in coming post.

UMHB: Chapter 2 - Cleansing system

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Metabolism activities is going on inside human body every single second. Similarly, 'rubbish' [MK: Hmm I cannot recall the appropriate scientific term, it means unwanted item] is being generated every moment. When human body energy supply system not working well, organ functionality goes down, the meridian system will be impacted too. Weak organ will caused blockage in its respective meridian system, while the blockage will then have negative impact on the organ functionality, which is a vicious cycle.

When one is young, there is enough Blood Qi, the cleansing system is able to work fine, thus no dark spot, wrinkle and obesity. When one grow with the age, very commonly Blood Qi will dropped, and thus fatter, more dark spot.

A lot of TCM treatment via meridian system is to help human body to do cleansing job. As long as the cleansing system is working well with enough Blood Qi supply, one will stay young and healthy.

Cleansing system consists of few operation e.g. blood cleansing in liver and kidney, lung cleaning breath-in air, motion, sweat and etc. Heart, spleen and meridian system is playing role in transporting the rubbish to be clear from human body. Most of the organs are involved in cleansing operation.

UMHB: Chapter 2 - Diagnosis and maintenance system

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When we cut our hand or leg, the doctor will apply spirit and antiseptic gel/liquid. These are just to prevent inflammation. All other recovery work and cell regeneration are done by human body itself. This applies to external cut and also internal healing. These recovery and regeneration operations come with human body in nature, which we will then not paying attention to. But if we think about it in more details, these are complicated operations!

First, human body need to diagnose the wound location and its severity, then take appropriate operation, compose the the dead cells become wound to cover the cut, to protect human body. Then new cell will grown and the wound will disappear. The whole operation will consume a lot of energy like Blood Qi.

When human body has enough energy supply, these maintenance and recovery work will goes on daily. But if there is not enough of energy, it will be selective to perform critical repair work only. TCM focus on human body self recover ability, and most treatment are meant to increase human body energy level, to enable recovery and maintenance work.

During wound recovery, maybe the wound will swollen or has other sign of inflammation. Similarly, during organ recovery, there will be symptom e.g. cough, phlegm, tired and etc. In TCM, human body is very intelligent, and these symptoms are caused by recovery work, thus its treatment is usually helping out the recovery function. Whereas in western medication, it treat symptoms as human body fault and try to stop all the symptoms.

UMHB: Chapter 2 - Resource management system (3)

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Due to changes in human living habit and the way we treat disease, it makes human body energy supply reduced for long term, which stem the chronic diseases.

For example, Hyperthyroidism in TCM is a symptom of "Yin Xu (insufficient) Huo (Fire) Zhong (Heavy) "阴虚火重, which caused by long period withdrawing stored energy. Diabetics in TCM is a symptom of "Yin Yang Both Xu (insufficient)" 阴阳两虚, both daily produced energy and stored energy are depleting, human body getting muscle as energy sources. A lot of chronic diseases can be explained using energy supply system, thus a better way to improve the disease condition.

A good TCM practitioner will be able to diagnose a patient energy level using his symptom, where this is considered most important in TCM treatment. Although the term energy supply system was not specifically mentioned in TCM books, but this is practical in TCM concepts.

After some treatment, a patient Blood Qi will increased, and thus organ has more ability to improve its condition, and thus more treatment will be reflected at human body at this stage.

For example, when more new blood flow into muscle which does not has enough blood, there will be some muscle pain; when new blood go to lungh to clear the Cold Qi 寒气, there will be flu symptom; when new blood go to liver, urine will be more yellowish, there will be more garbage e.g. cholesterol inside blood also. when new blood go into kidney, the urine will maybe not so clear which looks like has more protein in it.

These symptoms are very similar to those of human body energy falling stage. Only good TCM practitioner is able to differentiate, while western medication treat all those symptoms as diseases. Since those symptoms is actually a sign of human body working to improve health condition, appropriate treatment should be use on human body to speed up the process. But in western medication, most treatment method is to correct those symptoms, which is stopping human body recovering action. Oh yes then the symptoms are gone, but human body recovery action will be stopped, although all kind of western test e.g. blood test result looks good. These treatment are actually harmful, if you think about it in deep.

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UMHB: Chapter 2 - Resource management system (2)

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In TCM, terms like Yin阴, Yang阳, Xu虚 (insufficient), Shi实 (excessive) are used to describe human body energy level. For example, Yin represents stored energy, Yang means Blood Qi produced daily, Yang Xu (insufficient of Yang)阳虚 indicates insufficient of daily energy supply, which means insufficient of Blood Qi, Yin Xu 阴虚means insufficient of stored energy.

Blood Qi 血气 is energy produced daily, while withdrawn energy is called Huo (Fire)火. Yin Xu (insufficient) Huo (Fire) Zhong (Heavy)阴虚火重 mean we are withdrawing a lot of energy from the body stored energy. Yin Yang Both Xu (insufficient) 阴阳两虚 means insufficient of daily produced energy and also the same for stored energy, our body will need to find 3rd way to get energy. Depletion of Blood Qi气血枯竭 means the depletion of both Blood Qi and stored energy. I hope these term explanation clear some of your doubts about TCM.

Energy supply adjustment is similar to a company financial adjustment. When a company financial status is good, its exterior renovation design always looks good. Every department operating in good condition as well. But if the company is running out of money, there will be budget control, down sizing some department. At the worst case, the company might need to sell off some asset.

Analogously, when human body is lack of Blood Qi, less important functionality will get less energy supply. At this stage, there will be few changes on human body. For example, when cleaning system doesn't get enough energy supply, human skin will get darker and darker, or more dark spot， or fatter. This is similar to the case where a company looks older.

If energy supplied to spleen is reduced, human body maintenane system will reduce its work, it will only response to critical illness. For people whose energy are exhausted for long run, they will not get sick when they are busy. These people will usually fall sick when they relax. This is because when body is relax, the Blood Qi usually will increased as well, and thus the energy supplied to spleen, thus spleen will response to all kind of illness. There is a Chinese ancient idiom, "Continuous small illness, critical illness will never come; If one never ill, one will at danger when fall sick 小病不断，大病不患；从来不生病，一病就要命"

If for liver, the blood cleansing frequency will be reduced, thus the blood will be getting more and more dirty. Gingival and lip color will become darker, blood volume inside liver will decreased, and thus cirrhosis.

If for kidney, urine color will become lighter in gradual, finally looks like water, became uremia. For most of the uremia patient, their kidney could be still functioning, the problem is there is not enough blood supplied to kidney.

If for lung, human organ water supply will be impacted, so skin color will be darker. Human body will become more dry as well, and thinner.

When the situation getting worsen, where the human body cannot reduce energy supply to organs, it will convert muscle to became energy source for human body consumption. This is then called diabetics. Re-use the company example just now, imagine a company is selling its asset to get more cash flow.

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UMHB: Chapter 2 - Resource management system (1)

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Nowadays, a lot of people used to have experience of 'exhausted', because of lack of sleep, or insufficient nutrient input and etc. During the exhausted period, some people might feel their condition is good, some may feel getting worsen, but they can still live their living without any disease symptom.

Inside human body, there could be a resource management system similar to that of calculator software, although we are not sure which organ does it talk to. When human body is lack of energy, the system will get the stored energy, convert it for consumption. If human body continue to be exhausted for long, the system will still try to get energy from other part of human body for living, for even few tenth of years.

When the energy conversion is going on, there will be certain chemical operation going on inside human body. In this time, human body substance e.g. blood protein and glucose level will vary. In this time of point, the blood test result might looks bad. In we can understand how the system works, then maybe we can interpret the blood test result to reflect human body actual health status.

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UMHB: Chapter 2 - Energy supply system

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Every system need energy supply. This apply to computer, car and needless to say human body. Human body energy supply system is not as simple that of computer and car. Electricity and petrol is easy to be consume by those hardware, but when food goes into human body, it need to be digested to become energy consumable by human body. When human body asleep, these energy will goes into blood. Thus, human body energy supply system involved at least digestive system and blood production system, and other organ, to produce energy for human body.

Car cannot move without petrol. If electrical supply is insufficient, a computer might not function well, in addition, it could have harmful effect if we continue to use the computer for long. Similarly, it is the same for human body. Long term insufficient energy supply will result in different kind of chronic diseases.

If we can understand this system, find a way to measure the energy level at anytime, like that of computer and car energy supply system, will definitely useful to increase human healthiness.

UMHB: Chapter 2 - Commander System

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This system contains brain, which responsible for thinking and give command to other part of human body, but each organ functionality is not controlled by this system. Commander system receives messages and send command using nerve system, so human body can react spontaneously to external stimulus.

A lot of low level bio-organism has no brain. These living creature has no ability to getaway or attack, but it can still live and move, mostly very slow motion. These creature has organ-like functionality e.g. breathe, absorb nutrient, digest, and etc. These means that brain is produced when organism evolve, to be able to adapt and react to environment promptly.

Analogically to a computer system, organ is like different type of server, which is operated by server terminal, the brain.

UMHB: Chapter 2 - Human body system (3)

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Comparing TCM with western medication, it is noticeable that western medication is based on anatomy. The theories built upon hardware structure that our eye can see, and each system is independent. While TCM explain human body comprises of both hardware and software, which build a complicated system.

In TCM ancient reference book, it seldom mentioned brain. This is a big different between TCM and western medication too. In TCM, human body is as a whole, there are close interaction between Zang and Fu, and other system which we will discuss later. In the past, technology is not well developed and lack of scientific measurement. With these limitation, special terms were used to described TCM. For example, in energy system能量系统, we use words like Yin 阴, Yang 阳, five elements 五行, Insufficient 虚, Excessive 实, [MK: If using direct word translation, 虚 & 实 means something else, but I think Insufficient and Excessive can explain the term better.] Blood Qi 血气, and Fire 火. In resource management system, terms like balance 平衡, interactively produce and restrain 相生相克 are commonly used. These terms are hard to be scientifically understandable and proven, thus make TCM sounds hard to be understand.

From the perspective of current engineering science, if we use western medication theory to describe human system, there are still a lot of gap especially the lack of energy supply system. For example, energy supply must be there for all system, for example computer requires electrical power supply, car requires petrol and electricity.

In TCM, there is another important area which is meridian and Collaterals system. These idea are not proven in western medication. Until year 1998, a small research group found some scientific proof of the existence of meridian and Collaterals system after 8 years of research. It was found that there is some bio-liquid crystal material will has similar fiber light response to certain frequency length of infrared. These findings can be easily related to current network hardware system. Human body could consist of a networking system!

From the evolution of an organism, early organism has no brain, the meridian and Collaterals system inside it control each organ functionality. If to explain this using current terminology, these meridian system has some communication ability. One organism might have more than one computer inside it, which means it could have more than one brain inside it to build up the whole network system. This idea is differs from current western medication of brain is the only computer inside human body. Total of 6 human body functional system and four network system will be described in details later.

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UMHB: Chapter 2 - Human body system (2)

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In TCM, organs inside human body are categorized into two categories: Zang and Fu. Zang means organ with structure, which are heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney. Whereas Fu means organ of empty container, which are intestine, gallbladder, stomach, colon, and bladder. Combining chest and mouth will be the sixth Fu. It is very a very common term to say five Zang six Fu. [MK: I will probably use shortcut 5 Zang 6 Fu in coming passage.]

Zang and Fu are different in terms of functionality and its meridian location. All Zang's meridian located at medial of hand and leg, and front of body. Fu's meridian usually located at lateral of hand and leg, and back of body. When a human is in danger, the basic instinct is to bend the body inward, thus all Zang's meridian are protected, although exposing Fu's meridian. Comparatively, Zang is more important than Fu.

In TCM, there is also finding each Zang's meridian and each Fu's meridian are connected. For example, lung's meridian and colon's meridian are located at medial and lateral of the hand. If we use acupuncture and can get the point accurately, lung and colon's could be just few centimeter apart.

From anatomy, lung and colon are at totally different location, and doesn't reveal any relationship at all. But from the perspective of meridian, these two organs are tightly related. These two meridians are closely impact to each other also, e.g. temperature, conductivity and liquidity. In TCM, these two organs are treated in the same system, this close relationship is called "Hu Wei Biao Li" 互为表里 [MK: I will use Close Interact Relationship to represent Hu Wei Biao Li]

In TCM development in the past of few thousand years, these two organs changes are verified to be 'synchronized'. For example, when there is flu selsema, in TCM it is normally treated as lung is Hot. (In TCM, Hot and Cold are two common symptom term.), this will usually follow by constipation symptom as well. In TCM, this kind of constipation is called 大肠燥热症, which direct translation will be "Colon Dry Hot Syndrome".

There are few pairs of Close Interact Relationship; lung and colon, heart and intestine, liver and gallbladder, spleen and stomach, kidney and bladder. These 5 pairs relationship is then related to the 5 elements, to describe the complicated relationship between Zang and Fu.

Besides five Zang and Fu meridian, there are four more main meridians. The first is at center medial of hand, called Xin Bao Jing 心包经[MK: Xin is heart, I will use pericardium meridian]. This meridian determined the blood circulation condition. The second is at center lateral of hand, called San Jiao Jing 三焦经. [MK: San is three, Jiao means focal. I will call it SanJiao meridian]. This meridian usually reflect chest and mouth conditions, and also Qi flowing conditions. The third is called Ren Mai 任脉[MK: I will use conception vessel], located in the center at the front of the body. The last one is at the center of the back of body, which is called Du Mai 督脉[I will use governor vessel]. Conception vessel and governor vessel related to all organs, is a prime meridian of human body. Pericardium meridian and SanJiao meridian is another pair of Close Interact relationship.

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UMHB: Chapter 2 - Human body system (1)

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TCM theory differs from Western medicine. TCM stands for human body is a complete system. Ancient Chinese came out with theory of Yin Yang, and 5 elements. 5 elements are using few natural elements to represent human body 5 major organ: lung, liver, kidney, heart and spleen. Each organ correspond to one element: lung with gold, liver with wood, kidney with water, heart with fire, spleen with soil.

In ancient time, there is no anatomy. The idea of internal organ is very abstract, which it is based only on imagination. Ancient TCM have no idea on the internal organ outlook and functionality. Thus they were using 5 elements characteristics to relate to the organ functionality.

In TCM, no organ is an isolated organ. Each organ live within a system, which includes the organ, correspond meridian and Collaterals , and acupuncture point. Let's use current electricity system to explain this. Organ is like a light bulb. Meridian is the wiring system connecting the power supply to the light bulb. Acupuncture point is the switch. These 3 components make up an electrical lighting system. When a light bulb cannot be turn on, it could be no power supply, or the switch is broken, or the wiring problem, or the light bulb itself. Analogically, when an organ does not function well, it could be the energy level is insufficient, or the acupuncture point is blocked, or the meridian is stuck with lots of garbage, or the organ itself.

There is a traditional Chinese saying: Try to cure the head if there is headache, try to cure the leg is the leg is painful 头痛医头，脚痛医脚, this is used to describe doctor whose medical skill is very poor. When there is a symptom on the patient, a good doctor will first observes the patient, use TCM knowledge and his experience to find the root cause of the disease. For example, when we drink cold water, if we drink in rush, it will usually cause an area from cheek to forehead Sun acupuncture point 太阳穴 to be very painful. From TCM, that painful line is stomach meridian. Thus the painfulness represents that if we drink cold water in rush, it will hurt the stomach. The painfulness at the forehead is actually a symptom that there is something wrong with the stomach. Meridian stomach start from head till toe, at both left and right symmetrical side of the body. Any painfulness at these line indicates there is stomach related disease. TCM practitioner usually treat it using acupuncture at the stomach meridian near leg. In this case, headache is treated by acupuncture near the leg. Headache doesn't means it must be treatment must be at the head. If a doctor only treat the organ which is having painfulness, people will normally doubt on his medical skills.

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UMHB: Chapter 1 - 2 doubts on blood test (2)

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How to determine human body organ functionality is getting better or worst

We get clean water from tap, while used water goes in drain. It is very clear cut. We will never want to get dirty used water from tap. Human body blood circulation system differs from our life water drainage system in such a way of 'circulation'. Blood inside human body is being circulated and re-used a lot of time. Blood come from artery is clean, while that in vein is used. Used blood will then go to liver and kidney for cleansing, then lung to remove the carbon dioxide, becoming clean blood again.

If there are more garbage inside human blood, usually there are two possibilities. Firstly, related cleansing organ e.g. liver functionality reduce, detoxification ability dropped. Secondly, related cleaning organ functionality increased, detoxification ability increase, and thus more garbage inside the blood, this is analogue to yearly house cleaning where there will be more garbage than usual.

Let's take another example. In our house piping, most furring stick on the pipe wall, only very little will be found inside the water, and thus the water flow out from the pipe is clean. But when we clean the pipe, the stick furring will then goes into the water, and thus the water is not clean nor clear.

These scenarios happened inside human body. If someone always busy, his body functionality dropped, detoxification ability dropped, most of the garbage will stay and stay within a particular organ but not in the blood. Now, the blood test result will usually looks good. But when he got the chance to take rest, the Blood Qi level will increased, and thus organ functionality and detoxification ability. Blood will carry the garbage to cleansing organ, then outside of the body through phlegm, urine, sweat and etc. Now, the blood test result will usually looks bad, which then the current modern medication will categorize someone having symptom of sickness.In this example, the blood test result doesn't give any indication that if his body is working toward healthier way or the opposite direction. So it doesn't sounds logic to use these test figure to determine someone health situation is getting better or worst.

Current modern medication is to have all test figures to go back to 'normal' range value, and thus subsequent medication. Well, these medication sometimes could stop the body self-repairing functionality, which bring worsen effect to human body.

From these two doubts on blood test, in conclusion, most chronic diseases is not curable, mostly is because of the wrong direction of method of cure/medication.

Human body is a very complicated biological and chemical organization. It is a living chemical factory where its chemical formula will always changed according to the body situation. All medication test figures should be able to tell if a human body is becoming better or worst, and the necessary step to improve body health. There are still lots of room for improvement in current medication and test methods, or else current modern medication will continue to stuck in the bottleneck.

UMHB: Chapter 1 - 2 doubts on blood test (1)

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In-range red blood cell count meaning no anemia?

A lot of people went for blood test. Blood test is usually conducted by taking certain amount of blood from a human body, keep in a tube, then send it to lab for different kind of assay. Some common tests are red blood cell count (RBCC), white blood cell count and platelet count. If RBCC is less, doctor will usually say you have anemia. If excess in white blood cell count, the claim will maybe is inflammation, or even leukemia.

These scientific tests looks convinced, and seems fine for all these while. But if you think about it deeply, it might not be the actual story. Let's take the example of RBCC and anemia. Anemia means the total blood volume in someone body is not sufficient. Are you convinced that just a few tenth or hundred CC of blood that a blood test can measure your total blood volume? In brief, blood test assay is taking proportion of certain substance inside a certain volume of blood, which is quantitative measurement. It doesn't sounds logic that we can measure total blood volume inside a body using this kind of quantitative measurement. Let me describe using a real life example. Assume inside a mall there are 1 million people and we do not know. We would like to know the total number of people and we started the survey. If we sample using 100 people, 60 men and 40 women, we may be able to get the proportion of man to woman in the mall, but we will never able to know the total number of people inside the mall! Thus it doesn't sounds logic we can tell someone is having anemia simply from a few tenth/hundred cc blood test.

Total value of red blood cell count should be red blood cell concentration level multiply total volume of blood. If we assume red blood cell concentration level is RBCC, then it is assuming the total volume of blood is always a constant. But in real, there is no proof that total volume of blood is always a constant. Logically total volume of blood always changed. Let's discuss further. In blood, big portion is serum, where serum comprises of water mostly. So if RBCC is low, it could means that serum is high, and vice versa. But it doesn't means that the total volume of RBCC is at adequate level.

These type of tests usually has no big impact on normal people, it is not danger. But in emergency room, these readings sometimes decided a patient's chances of live or die. These blood figure are used to determine if blood transfusion is needed, but sometimes maybe the patient body cannot absorb water well which make the RBCC value is in-range. But in fact he need bloods but was fooled by the 'normal' RBCC reading. The risk is he lost his life of not getting adequate blood transfusion.

Blood test is the simplest test, if it itself is not convinced, how convinced we are with other type of test?

UMHB: Chapter 1 - Inspiration from a computer (2)

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Human body is perfect than Computer

Current computer come with self-diagnose and self-repair function. When God [MK: Or whoever The One that you believe in] design human body, it has even better functionality.

Computer requires certain condition of energy supply to function, e.g. supply voltage of 110V. Similarly, human body also requires certain energy supply level to function well. When the energy level drop to certain level, regeneration ability and organization ability will drop. When it drop to even lower level, self-repair ability will not in place. If it drop further, then cleansing ability, immune ability and other ability will missed it functionality gradually.

Technology evolved, and thus human living habit changed. These changes directly/indirectly cause shallow/deep impact to human health. For example, changes in sleeping habit might impact our body self-repair cycle time. Moreover, we are using those symptom-curing medication to fight the disease, these might also have negative impact on our body health. These problems could reduce human body energy level, and thus loosing health gradually.

If we use a computer rationally according to its user's manual, the computer will function well for the period that it should. Similarly, if we 'use' our human body rationally, human body will work by itself. Even though a person fall sick, the repair function will work and then recover, provided there is sufficient energy.

We believe human body is designed much more better than that of a computer. [MK: I agree, God (or The One) design is always better than human design ;) ] In order to stay healthy, we just need to follow the user's manual of human body, it is that simple. I hope this user's manual for human body will help all of you.

UMHB: Chapter 1 - Inspiration from a computer (1)

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What is the Voltage of a human body?

You should what is a Computer [MK: Especially you know how to surf net to read my blog ;) ]. From the perspective of a system, human body is very similar to a computer system. Thus I will use computer as an example to explain root cause of human body disease.

Computer power supply is electricity. Referring to computer user manual, there will usually allowable range for power supply voltage of about 35%. For example, if a computer accepted voltage is 110V, the computer can still works if the voltage supplied is only 70V, which is within the functional range. Oh of course maybe the computer will not perform so well in that case. When the voltage supplied drop to 60V, below the accepted bar, the system will malfunction. For example the hard disc will not spin well. The root cause of low voltage power supply is measurable only using instrument measurement but human eye. If the user only see the hard disc malfunction, will the engineer fix the hard disc or the supplied voltage? The answer is pretty straight forward ;)

In the eye of an electrical engineer, this seems to be very simple problem. A well trained engineer or technician will usually first check the power supply, and will discover that is the actual root cause. When the power supply is adjusted, usually the hard disc will function well.

If the same scenario happen on human body, it is no longer a simple problem. The hard disc is analogue to a human body organ. Let say it is a kidney. Relating to the computer example, here come the question. The first question is: What is the voltage level for a human body? There is no way for us to get that voltage reading. And thus it has no way to proof that there were problem in the energy supply. So if the symptom is the hard disc (kidney) is malfunction, then we will try to fix the hard disc (kidney). So we apply lots of kidney medication, even transplant the kidney although most cases it will not help. In fact, maybe the kidney which get take away could be still functioning well, just it has a symptom it is malfunction.

Because there is no way to measure human body voltage level, which means the development of human body system medication has not even get started. Western medication requires data and scientific proof. Since there is no proof on human body voltage level yet, so current medical fix for the example just now is Fix the kidney but not the human body energy supply. Unfortunately this kind of cure symptom medication is the beliefs by the community now. Then it is not surprising that uremia is a not-curable disease too.