Ulett G. A., Han J., Han S.Traditional and Evidence-Based Acupuncture: History, Mechanisms, and Present StatusАрхивная копия от 22 января 2015 на Wayback Machine (недоступная ссылка с 16-05-2013 [4211 дней] — история) // SOUTHERN MEDICAL JOURNAL, Vol 91, No. 12. December 1998. «In 1997, the NIH/OAM Consensus Meeting on Acupuncture came to essentially the same conclusions after focusing its attention primarily on clinical studies, based on TCA with its pseudoscientific theories of meridians and Qi».
Stenger V. J.Bioenergetic Fields (неопр.). // The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1999 / colorado.edu. Дата обращения: 8 декабря 2011. Архивировано из оригинала 8 февраля 2012 года.
NIH Consensus Development Program.Acupuncture — Consensus Development Conference Statement (неопр.). National Institutes of Health (November 3–5, 1997). Дата обращения: 17 июля 2007. Архивировано 22 августа 2011 года. «Despite considerable efforts to understand the anatomy and physiology of the „acupuncture points“, the definition and characterization of these points remain controversial. Even more elusive is the scientific basis of some of the key traditional Eastern medical concepts such as the circulation of Qi, the meridian system, and other related theories, which are difficult to reconcile with contemporary biomedical information but continue to play an important role in the evaluation of patients and the formulation of treatment in acupuncture».
Kavoussi B.The Acupuncture and Fasciae FallacyАрхивная копия от 29 апреля 2013 на Wayback Machine // Medical Academia «This is why the original designations of the principal meridians (e.g., tae yang, jue yin) represent the angular position (hour angle) of the Sun»
Kavoussi B.The Acupuncture and Fasciae FallacyАрхивная копия от 29 апреля 2013 на Wayback Machine // Medical Academia «If the current map of acupuncture points and meridians is distinct from the vasculature, it is because in the early 1930s the pediatrician Cheng Dan’an (承淡安, 1899—1957) resurrected and rehabilitated the vanishing street trade of therapeutic piercing by moving the treatment loci away from the blood vessels. He illustrated his revisions by painting the new pathways onto the skin of individuals and then photographing them. He also replaced the coarse medieval tools with the fine needles we associate with acupuncture today».
Kavoussi B.The Acupuncture and Fasciae FallacyАрхивная копия от 29 апреля 2013 на Wayback Machine // Medical Academia «This is why the original designations of the principal meridians (e.g., tae yang, jue yin) represent the angular position (hour angle) of the Sun»
Kavoussi B.The Acupuncture and Fasciae FallacyАрхивная копия от 29 апреля 2013 на Wayback Machine // Medical Academia «If the current map of acupuncture points and meridians is distinct from the vasculature, it is because in the early 1930s the pediatrician Cheng Dan’an (承淡安, 1899—1957) resurrected and rehabilitated the vanishing street trade of therapeutic piercing by moving the treatment loci away from the blood vessels. He illustrated his revisions by painting the new pathways onto the skin of individuals and then photographing them. He also replaced the coarse medieval tools with the fine needles we associate with acupuncture today».
Ulett G. A., Han J., Han S.Traditional and Evidence-Based Acupuncture: History, Mechanisms, and Present StatusАрхивная копия от 22 января 2015 на Wayback Machine (недоступная ссылка с 16-05-2013 [4211 дней] — история) // SOUTHERN MEDICAL JOURNAL, Vol 91, No. 12. December 1998. «In 1997, the NIH/OAM Consensus Meeting on Acupuncture came to essentially the same conclusions after focusing its attention primarily on clinical studies, based on TCA with its pseudoscientific theories of meridians and Qi».
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NIH Consensus Development Program.Acupuncture — Consensus Development Conference Statement (неопр.). National Institutes of Health (November 3–5, 1997). Дата обращения: 17 июля 2007. Архивировано 22 августа 2011 года. «Despite considerable efforts to understand the anatomy and physiology of the „acupuncture points“, the definition and characterization of these points remain controversial. Even more elusive is the scientific basis of some of the key traditional Eastern medical concepts such as the circulation of Qi, the meridian system, and other related theories, which are difficult to reconcile with contemporary biomedical information but continue to play an important role in the evaluation of patients and the formulation of treatment in acupuncture».
John P. Jackson.What is acupuncture? (неопр.) Дата обращения: 24 февраля 2011. Архивировано из оригинала 22 августа 2011 года.
Stenger V. J.Bioenergetic Fields (неопр.). // The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1999 / colorado.edu. Дата обращения: 8 декабря 2011. Архивировано из оригинала 8 февраля 2012 года.
NIH Consensus Development Program.Acupuncture — Consensus Development Conference Statement (неопр.). National Institutes of Health (November 3–5, 1997). Дата обращения: 17 июля 2007. Архивировано 22 августа 2011 года. «Despite considerable efforts to understand the anatomy and physiology of the „acupuncture points“, the definition and characterization of these points remain controversial. Even more elusive is the scientific basis of some of the key traditional Eastern medical concepts such as the circulation of Qi, the meridian system, and other related theories, which are difficult to reconcile with contemporary biomedical information but continue to play an important role in the evaluation of patients and the formulation of treatment in acupuncture».
