A Curious Oversight in Acupuncture Research

Abstract

Common phenomena central to acupuncture have been overlooked by previous hypotheses on how acupuncture works, with the result that the hypotheses are unable to account for acupuncture's effects. This article describes the main features overlooked and suggests how these might be investigated in future acupuncture research.

Keywords

• acupuncture
• electrical wave
• semiconduction
• signal propagation