傳統中醫的經絡能量研究回顧與禪定用於解毒的經絡能量分析

Abstract

本研究回顧了近年來有關針灸與經絡研究的研究發表並報告了我們團隊在兩個實驗中量測了經絡能量，分別是對參與了應用禪定於解毒計畫的藥物濫用者與不同心理壓力狀態下的一般年輕自願者。本研究回顧了十五篇刊載於中醫藥研究期刊或神經科學期刊的論文，並且於兩個實驗中量測受測者的經絡能量並觀察經過了禪定練習後的能量變化。由中華民國解毒解癮協會所主持的解毒課程中我們採集了六十三個受測者的數據，而一般的年輕自願者則是有十五名大學院校學生。

文獻回顧包含了多篇關於針灸技術用於治療缺血性中風患者並以功能式磁振造影的技術觀察患者腦部活躍區域變化。本研究也探討針灸研究中的多樣化主題，比方說神經機制或是得氣的研究。傳統中醫所強調兩個對立概念的平衡，例如上下平衡、左右平衡或陰陽平衡，被視為人體健康的良好狀態。本研究量測並計算了七種經絡平衡狀態參數。參與了解讀計劃的受測者們被計算出有三種平衡參數在參與了禪定練習後有良好的平衡趨向。然而於一般年輕受測的呼吸控制實驗中，除了左右平衡參數之外皆沒有明顯的變化趨向。進一步地探討了經絡能量與心率變異分析中的自律神經參數，兩者呈現了偏低的Pearson係數相關程度。

This research was aimed to review recent studies on acupuncture and meridian and report our study on measuring the meridian energy of drug addicts under the rehab program of Zen meditation as well as the normal young volunteers under various mental-stress levels. This study reviewed 15 papers published on journals in the areas of Traditional Chinese Medicine or Neuroscience issues. Further, this study included two experiments to measure meridian energy data of participants and to investigate energy changing after the Zen meditation practice. The first experiment involved sixty-three addicts taking the rehab lesson held by ROC Holistic Detox Association. The second experiment involved fifteen college volunteers.

The review includes several papers which adopted acupuncture as a therapy for ischemia stroke. Most of them adopted functional magnetic resonance imaging to observe brain activated area. Diverse topis such as neural mechanism and Deqi research were investigated in these studies.

Balanced conditions are emphasized in Traditional Chinese Medicine with respect to, for example, upper-to-lower, left-to-right, and Yin-to-Yang. Fair-balanced condition indicates that the paired parameters match equally. Meridian energies were measured to compute seven aspects of balance condition in this study. Three out of seven balance parameters exhibit an improvement after Zen meditation practice in addict rehab program. Yet no obvious improvement, except left-to-right balance, was found in the group of college volunteers. Furthermore, the investigation for correlation between ANS parameters of meridian energy and HRV analysis shows poor correlation.