Chapter 664 - Acupuncture Points Discovered During Dissection of a Live Person! (1/2)
Chapter 664 Acupuncture Points Discovered During Dissection of a Live Person!
“We’ll speak directly about the acupuncture points themselves, setting aside their benefits and groupings for now.”
Fang Qiu looked at the entire audience beneath the stage and spoke, “Does everyone here believe that it’s already extremely hard to prove the existence of meridians, and that there is no way to show that acupuncture points – partial areas of meridians – exist?”
“Let me tell all of you the truth – meridians are things that cannot be spotted by the naked eye, which means to say that we can’t prove their existence by sight alone. However, we can see acupuncture points because they are not neurons!”
The moment he made his statement…
Every Chinese Medicine practitioner seated before the screen became astonished.
“We can see acupuncture points?”
“Why didn’t we know about this before?”
As practitioners of Chinese Medicine, they knew that acupuncture points existed in human bodies and had used them as thus. They had absolutely no idea that these points could be spotted by the naked eye, though.
“Furthermore, how are we going to actually see them?”
Modern medicine science had been developing over these few years, but no one was able to spot acupuncture points as yet.
The practitioners of modern medicine who were present looked very curiously at Fang Qiu as well.
Some of them also looked at Fang Qiu curiously.
They had already researched the human body to great detail and had thoroughly examined every inch of it, but none of them had discovered the existence of acupuncture points.
If that was the case, why did Fang Qiu dare to claim that the naked eye could actually see them?
On the stage.
Fang Qiu grinned upon noticing the curious and doubtful looks on all of his audience members, before continuing to speak. “In fact, all of you may not be very familiar with some bits of history; even the Huaxia people may not know these very well.”
“Around BC 1000, more than 3000 years ago, a certain King Zhou reigned in the great lands of the Huaxia people. According to history, he was extremely cruel and performed life dissections on human bodies. In reality, he did that to understand the acupuncture points in our bodies, as meridians could only be seen on live human bodies.”
As soon as he finished speaking.
A huge commotion rose among all the Chinese Medicine practitioners who were watching the livestream the moment he finished speaking.
“What?”
“Meridians can only be studied on live humans?”
“That can’t be right! The existence of meridians were also not proven during operations on live humans!”
“Is Fang Qiu’s claim really true? Are meridians truly noticeable only in live human bodies?”
Aside from the Chinese Medicine practitioners who were watching the livestream, all of the Western Medicine practitioners who were physically present were also stunned.
Surgery was the main mode of treating illnesses in Western Medicine.
Countless numbers of surgeries had been performed on live patients, but after so many of them, none of them had noticed any meridians in their patients till this date!
It had been so many years since the first ever surgery, but not one person had ever laid claim to noticing meridians.
“How could be explain that, then?”
On the stage.
Fang Qiu went on, “Speaking from this point of view, modern medicine does not practice studies of live dissections, but rather dissection of dead subjects.”
“As recorded in the annals of history…”
“King Zhou was known to have even split a pregnant woman’s stomach apart to understand clearly what happened to a baby while it lay within its mother’s womb. Eventually, he even caused those below him to be unable to continue, as they felt that it was too cruel.”
“At that time, medical science had understood about 100 or more acupuncture points in the human body.”
At the event.
Fang Qiu’s narration had enticed everyone.
Due to the fact that they were Westerners, they were already very curious about the mysterious history of the East; they just had no time to put in the research. It was only now, upon hearing Fang Qiu, that they came to know about this part of Huaxia history.
“Then.”
*After that, a millennia later…”
Fang Qiu continued narrating, “An emperor called Wang Mang came into existence in Huaxia. He experimented on live subjects like King Zhou, and he discovered another 100 or so acupuncture points in the human body from his experiments.”
“After that, during the Yuan Dynasty, in the time of Yelü Chucai, he was known to person dissections on soldiers who returned from the battlefield close to death. He discovered more than 100 acupuncture points as well.”
“By that time, the acupuncture points taught in the studies of acupuncture in Chinese Medicine could be considered as much more comprehensive.”
After everyone heard what he said.
After hearing him, everyone was shocked.
“So, that’s how the acupuncture points in human bodies were discovered?”
“I used to always feel doubtful as well – all acupuncture points were hidden in the flesh beneath the skin, so how did humans come to discover which spots were actually acupuncture points? So, that’s how they were found out.”
“There really is such history?”
“Damn… I didn’t know about this even after studying medicine for so many years. How did Fang Qiu come to know about it?”
“How many books did Fang Qiu read to obtain such historical information?”
“This is really amazing; how did he manage to uncover historical information of this kind?”
The audience in the studio kept making exclamations in surprise.
In the home of Jiang Miaoyu.
“Do you know if such historical events really happened, Miaoyu?”
Mrs. Jiang asked as she stared directly at the television, engrossed in the program.
“I don’t.”
Jiang Miaoyu immediately shook her head.
“Hehe,” Mr. Jiang chuckled softly.
“Looks like he’s pretty well-learned,” he remarked while looking at the television.
In the Northeast.
“Are you aware about such things, Father?”
Xu Miaolin asked as she looked at Holy Doctor Chu.
“Humph. Of course, I know a little about those things.”
The doctor replied with a grunt, looking unemotional.
Hearing this.
Upon hearing him, Xu Miaolin’s lips twitched. “Looks like he understands a little about those things, but he does not really know much about them,” she muttered absentmindedly while turning her head back.
In Jiangjing.
In a factory building at the foot of a secluded mountain.
“The kid really does know his stuff,” he said.
He had paused to speak after picking out a portion of beef with his chopsticks. He placed the food in his mouth and began chewing on it only after making the comment.
At the event.
“It has been a few millennia since then; he kept saying that they happened a few thousand years ago.”
“So, the people of Huaxia had begun developing medicine at such an early stage.”
“We are not merely talking about the development of medical science here; they have even begun doing dissection 3000 years ago. I have to admit that Huaxia is a country that is really extremely mysterious and amazing!”
“That seems to be the only possible answer – otherwise, the Chinese Medicine practitioners of Huaxia could not have such great detail about acupuncture points. However, why have we not noticed these so-called meridians and acupuncture points while performing surgeries in the past? Why don’t we take a peek during operations in future when we get back?”
“No way, that’s too sadistic. Also, wouldn’t that cause the wound to gape even bigger?”
All of the Western Medicine practitioners who were present began to discuss with the people around them.