Are the Bonghan Ducts real aatomical structures?

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Hi All, & Attilio

 

> ... the discovery of the meridians by ... a North Korean ... was

> later considered a hoax. Do you have any more information on this

> hoax?

 

Attilio, do not write if off completely as a hoax yet! There may be

some truth in the theory! It is hot science in Seoul just now!

See: http://tinyurl.com/4xx7r

 

Prof. Dr KIM Bong-han, Pyongyang, NORTH Korea, discovered a

previously unknown microsystem system of ducts and corpuscles

that he claimed were the anatomical basis for the Jing-Luo and

points. He claimed that injected radioactive material and due

travelled more quickly along the ducts than when injected into

random points. He published a slim thesis on the topic, which he

called the Kyungrak System. [Kim, B. On the Kyungrak System.

Medical Science Press, Pongyang, Korea, (1963)].

 

It was later renamed the " Bonghan System " , or " Bonghan

Corpuscular and Duct System " after him. I saw a copy of that

thesis in the early 1970s.

 

Until very recently, I heard that no other laboratory, even in North

Korea, could replicate that work. Therefore it was claimed that the

work was an artefact, or worse, a hoax.

 

All that changed very recently. In a dramatic development, because

Korean scientists in Seoul Univ (SOUTH Korea) have new evidence

of a previously unknown thread-like structure (a new anatomical

structure, with ducts circa 10 microns in diameter) in blood

vessels, the SOUTH Korean Government is funding new research

in the area NOW.

 

Dr. SOH Kwang-Sup (Biomedical Physics Lab., School of Physics,

Seoul National University) gave a paper on this in Oostende just

some weeks ago,

 

http://kmc.snu.ac.kr/proceeding3.pdf says: Threadlike bundle of

tubules running inside blood vessels: New anatomical structure

Xiaowen Jiang, * Byung-Cheon Lee, Chunho Choi, Ku-Youn Baik,

and Kwang-Sup Soh † Biomedical Physics Lab., School of

Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-747, Korea Hee-

Kyeong Kim School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National

University Hak-Soo Shin Department of Physics Education, Seoul

National University Kyung-Soon Soh College of Oriental Medicine,

Sae Myong University, Chungbook Korea Byeung-Soo Cheun

School of Biochemistry, Inha University, Inchon, Korea (Dated: July

21, 2003) According to current anatomy, the arteries and veins do

not have threadlike structures running inside the vessels. Despite

such prevailing knowledge here we report on observation of a novel

structure inside the blood vessels of rats and rabbits, which is a

semi-transparent elastic bundle of tubules whose diameters are of

10µm order. This is a rediscovery of the Bong Han ducts1,2 which

have not been confirmed because the observing method was not

known. We found a new procedure of observing the intra blood

vessel ducts (IBVD) which are too thin, fragile, and semi-

transparent to be detected in ordinary surgical operation. The

method we contrived is to let blood be coagulated around the IBVD

so that they become thick and strong by intravenous injection of 10

per cent dextrose solution at the vena femoralis. A piece of

thickened IBVD sample is treated with urokinase to remove blood

clots and the thin thread of IBVD is embedded inside of a string of

fibrin.

 

http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0211086 says: Method for Observing

Intravascular BongHan Duct Xiaowen Jiang, * Byung-Cheon Lee,

Chunho Choi, Ku-Youn Baik, and Kwang-Sup Soh † Biomedical

Physics Lab., School of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul,

151-747, Korea Hee-Kyeong Kim School of Chemical Engineering,

Seoul National University Hak-Soo Shin Department of Physics

Education, Seoul National University Kyung-Soon Soh College of

Oriental Medicine, Sae Myong University, Chungbook Korea

Byeung-Soo Cheun School of Biochemistry, Inha University,

Inchon, Korea (Dated: August 2, 2004) A method for observing intra

blood vessel ducts which are threadlike bundle of tubules which

form a part of the BongHan duct system. By injecting 10%

dextrose solution at a vena femoralis one makes the intravascular

BongHan duct thicker and stronger to be easily detectable after

incision of vessels. The duct is semi-transparent, soft and elastic,

and composed of smaller tubules whose diameters are of 10µm

order, which is in agreement with BongHan theory.

 

However, even if international independent science were to confirm

the reality of a previously unknown duct system within the blood

vessels, it very improbable that these ducts will be shown to be the

anatomical infrastructure of the Jing-Luo, UNLESS they can be

demonstrated in serial tissue sections along the superficial and

deep pathways of at least ALL 14 of the main meridians.

 

Watch this space, but do not hold your breath for full confirmation

of the reality of Jing-Luo-Mai as anatomical ducts, and Xue as

corpuscles off those ducts. Such confirmation would take many

years of painstaking research.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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