Fascia: The Rosetta Stone Linking East to West

Dr Daniel KeownMBChB MCEM Lic Ac

Con-man

CHARLATAN

QUACK

TODAY

Explain, define, and even… PROVE … Qi exists.

Show you the Channels in 2-D; 3-D; and show you how to see them in every anatomical textbook ever made.

Give you the basics to start understanding all of Chinese medicine with science.

fundamentalism

a form of a religion, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.

Problems

• Incompatibility between East and West

• Qi 'never been found'

• Channels ‘don't exist’

• Language 'airy-fairy'

Energy generally invisible

anyway

‘Meridians’

• Imaginary lines on the earth… Imaginary in the body?

• Terrible translation: 'channels' much better

Language

• Imprecise

• Inaccurate

• Just plain wrong?

Truth and Reconciliation

Either one wrong...

...or misunderstanding?

Embryology(the study of ‘little ones’)

Embryology(the study of ‘little ones’)

is

The

Science of

Chinese Medicine*

*Don’t worry its not understood by most anyone…but not for much longer!

Lets talk about sex…

Lets talk about sex…

Yin and Yang

Sperm… and Egg

Morula

Compaction(the money shot)

Flat Disc

Neural Tube(Du Channel)

What organises this?

Noble prize in medicine

1996

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

Noble prize acceptance speech

‘I did a one-month course as a nurse... ...this experience greatly supported my conviction not to become a doctor.’

Albert Lasker

Award for Basic Medical Research

1991

How is this Organised?

10 000 000 000 000cells

100 000 000 000 000000 000 000 000possible connections

The body is smart…

Systems

NodesandChannels

Systems

NodesandChannels

Systems

NodesandChannels

Qi can be seen!

source: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/07/time-

lapse-tuesday-a-frogs-electric-face.html

Qi(definition)

The energy by which matter crystalizes into form.

The organisational energy of the body best seen in the embryo

Jing Luo

Chinese Words are Characters!

‘silk’

Jing

‘Fascial’ ‘Rivers’

Jing Luo

Fascial Rivers and Fascial Net

or;

Connective Tissue Network

Channels Can Be Seen!

Channels Can Be Seen!

Microscopic Channels - Luo

Microscopic Channels - Luo

Liver Channel

Liver Channel

Liver Channel

Liver Channel

© Dr Dan Keown

Liver Channel

Phlegm in Liver Channel

Summary

• Don’t tolerate fundamentalism – marked by inflexible adherance to ‘scripture’ and incoherence. Acupuncture (Chen-chiu) is simple.

• Chinese medicine has a science and it is called embryology. We owe it to ourselves and our art to learn it!

Summary

• Qi is real, definable and even visible

• Jing Luo is best translated as channels or connective tissue network: and are real, easily visible and anatomically defined.