Dr Stefano Marcelli, MD, Acupuncturist, Mesotherapist and Clinical Psychologist in Italy, wrote to NYCTCM about her project to show the path of the female Kidney Acupuncture Channel in the foot and ankle should not be shaped like a coil, but rather like an open bend or a gulf, because the ovum path has exactly this shape and is totally internal. "In my opinion, the path of the Kidney Acupuncture Channel in the foot as it is described in Traditional Chinese Medicine classics is wrongly considered identical both in males and females. Basing my statement on anatomical correlations, which I presume nobody has found before now, the Kidney Acupuncture Channel path in the foot (and ankle) should have the shape of a coil only in males."
"Despite my western medical knowledge, since my first studies of TCM I have strongly felt that Acupuncture Channels must be real and not abstract entities. For many years I have supposed that the ancient doctors and also the common people, not only in old China but everywhere, could see the acupuncture channels. They perceived the Qi, the times and the shapes of its distribution and organization in all natural kingdoms. I mean that they actually saw the internal organs and the internal paths of the channels.
If not, could they have described how the Governor Vessel Dumai penetrated the heart, and the Kidney Channel terminated at the root of the tongue? We know these are only two among many possible examples. I cannot date the time when ancient humans saw these things, which today are invisible, maybe it was in the time that some religions call "Eden", "Heaven" or "Paradise", when people could see the causes (among them the Qi) together with the effects (among them the bodies).
At a certain point, when our more distant ancestors could see the pericardium and its connected finger, the liver and its connected toe, the yin-yang and the five elements in animals, herbs and metals, something happened: something which made everyone blind enough not to see the causes, but still able to see matter as an effect of the Qi.
My project's aim is to succeed in seeing again the acupuncture channels in a scientific, technological and repeatable way.
If anyone finds this idea interesting and wants to give his/her opinion, he/she is invited to contact me."
Dr. Stefano Marcelli's website with anatomical diagrams and contact information.
