The creative spiral in the (male) Kidney Acupuncture Channel

© 2008-2009 Stefano Marcelli

 

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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 spiral only in males.
 

The Qi path in the inner tract of the Kidney Channel should come out of the combination of the seminal (ascending) path and urinary (descending) path. In males, the urinary path and the seminal path share the final segment of the penis urethra (see pictures below).
 

The urinary path is almost identical both in males and females, being different only in regard to the urethral length.
 		 The seminal path (penis erection is required).
 

Consequently, the path of the female Kidney Acupuncture Channel in the foot and ankle should not be shaped like a spiral, but rather like an open bend or a gulf, because the ovum path has exactly this shape and is totally internal (see picture on right). Moreover, unlike the seminal path, the final segments of the ovum path and the urinary path are separated from each other by the anterior vaginal wall.

 

 The ovum path with fecundation and implantation or, if they fail, menstruation. See urinary and ovum paths on sagittal plane.
 

Conclusion

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.
I have a hypothesis, far from being demonstrated, too raw and incomplete to be exposed and discussed in scientific rooms. I imagine that what happened was a physical change related to light. An inexorable but neither drastic nor definitive blindness. I suspect it was a specific blindness which came from the continual use of fire, so important for survival and progress, and for these reasons held closer and closer to the eyes. Thus, the light of the fire illuminated the surface of the bodies and at the same time obscured the Qi.
However, I’m now cultivating the idea that it is still possible to rescue that primordial vision, which is nevertheless an ocular, physiological vision (like a cat's infrared vision), and not a spiritual vision, as some TCM practitioners believe.

That is all for the moment. 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.
Sincerely,

Dr Stefano Marcelli, MD
Acupuncturist, Mesotherapist and Clinical Psychologist
Independent researcher in acupuncture
Via Caravaggio, 7
25047 DARFO BOARIO TERME (Brescia)
Italy

stefanomarcelli@tiscali.it

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