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The remaining eight meridians are designated [by whom?] as "extraordinary", and are also bilateral except for three, one that encircles the body near the waist, and two that run along the midline of the body. Only those two extraordinary meridians that run along the midline contain their own points, the remaining six comprise points from the ...
The meridian system ( simplified Chinese: 经络; traditional Chinese: 經絡; pinyin: jīngluò, also called channel network) is a pseudoscientific concept from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that alleges meridians are paths through which the life-energy known as "qi" ( ch'i) flows. [ 1]
Figure 1. This BLM map depicts the principal meridians and baselines used for surveying states (colored) in the PLSS.. The following are the principal and guide meridians and base lines of the United States, with the year established and a brief summary of what areas' land surveys are based on each.
Hour angle. The hour angle is indicated by an orange arrow on the celestial equator plane. The arrow ends at the hour circle of an orange dot indicating the apparent place of an astronomical object on the celestial sphere. In astronomy and celestial navigation, the hour angle is the dihedral angle between the meridian plane (containing Earth's ...
Acupuncture[ b] is a form of alternative medicine [ 2] and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body. [ 3] Acupuncture is a pseudoscience; [ 4][ 5] the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientific knowledge, [ 6] and it has been characterized as quackery.
Longitude by chronometer is a method, in navigation, of determining longitude using a marine chronometer, which was developed by John Harrison during the first half of the eighteenth century. It is an astronomical method of calculating the longitude at which a position line, drawn from a sight by sextant of any celestial body, crosses the ...
Shiatsu (/ ʃ i ˈ æ t s-,-ˈ ɑː t s uː / shee-AT-, - AHT-soo; [1] 指圧) is a form of Japanese bodywork based on concepts in traditional Chinese medicine such as qi meridians. Having been popularized in the twentieth century by Tokujiro Namikoshi (1905–2000), [ 2 ] shiatsu derives from the older Japanese massage modality called anma .
The Lung is a zang organ meaning it is a yin organ. Situated in the thorax, it communicates with the throat and opens into the nose. It occupies the uppermost position among the zang-fu organs, and is known as the "canopy" of the zang-fu organs. Due to the lung's position in the body, toward the back of the chest and in the upper half of the ...