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Meridian (Chinese medicine)

This article is about the concept in traditional Chinese medicine. For other uses, see meridian (disambiguation).
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The meridian system (simplified Chinese: 经络; traditional Chinese: 經絡; pinyin: jīngluò, also called channel network) is a pseudoscientific concept from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that alleges meridians are paths through which the life-energy known as "qi" (ch'i) flows.[1]

Meridians are not real anatomical structures: scientists have found no evidence that supports their existence.[2] One historian of medicine in China says that the term is "completely unsuitable and misguided, but nonetheless it has become a standard translation."[3] Major proponents of their existence have not come to any consensus as to how they might work or be tested in a scientific context.

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  3. ^ Unschuld, Paul U. (2018). Traditional Chinese medicine : heritage and adaptation. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 125. ISBN 9780231175005.

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