The Biophysics Basis for Acupuncture and Health [Paperback]

Shui Yin Lo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2, 2004

Dr. Lo brings together massive scientific evidence from Japan, US, China, UK, Sweden and Germany about meridians and acupuncture. He puts it together with quantum field theory to present a unified molecular biological and quantum physical view. Lo proposes that meridians are made of a polarized media, which is likely to be water clusters. When they fall out of alignment, qi is blocked, and the body is in pain or becomes sick. Acupuncture, moxibustion and qigong can help align these water clusters. And when they do, qi flows and the body heals.

Product Details

• Paperback: 162 pages
• Publisher: Dragon Eye Press (December 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974826103
• ISBN-13: 978-0974826103
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,880 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Shui-yin Lo PhD - Dr. Lo received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1962 with highest honors and his PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1966 under the theory group lead by (2008) Physics Nobel recipient Yoichiro Nambu. (Dr. Nambu is considered as one of the leading figures in the development of modern particle physics.) Dr. Lo s academic career spans the globe as a visiting faculty member and lecturer at leading institutions throughout the world including: California Institute of Technology; Academy of Science, Beijing, China; Stanford Accelerated Center, California; Institute of Theoretical Physics, and State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York. Dr. Lo was Senior Lecturer (1977-1986), Tenured Lecturer (1975-1977), and Fixed Term Lecturer(1972-1975), at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Dr. Lo has published over 75 scientific papers in internationally recognized physics journals during his 40-year distinguished career as well as authored over 60 US and world patents in the field of atomic and subatomic particles. In conjunction with Caltech Pasadena and UCLA, Dr. Lo was the Senior Scientist that led a team of world renown colleagues, including the holder of the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, UCLA Professor Alfred Wong, and world-renowned Field Medalist in Mathematics, Professor S.T. Yau, of Harvard University, in the proof of concept of a revolutionary high-energy beam with multiple communications and energy applications. This beam, the Baser , of which Dr. Lo is the inventor and patent holder, produces a high-energy beam of enlarged particle clusters thousands of times more powerful than the world s most powerful laser. The US Department of Energy, Office of Technology Development, as well as Los Alamos National Laboratory collaborated with this research. In 2005 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Roy Glauber at Harvard for the theoretical calculations of optical coherence which was the basis for Dr. Lo s invention of the Base

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5.0 out of 5 stars the biophysics basis for acupuncture and health, October 26, 2004

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Eldon K. Van Vliet (Glendora, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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REVIEW OF "THE BIOPHYSICS BASIS FOR ACUPUNCTURE AND HEALTH," by Dr. Shin Yin Lo.

As a layman am not qualified to report on portions of this book, as it contains countless formulas and lab reports to back up the text, which will be helpful for technical readers. The other portions were most readable, and made it a great discovery for me.

I found this book to be a most comprehensive and informative revelation. It tackles subjects such as quantum mechanics, holistic health, Oriental medicine, energy medicine, and meditation, any of which had previously caused me to buy a book on that one subject alone, and thus have consumed much of my prior reading time. Here is a book that brought these concepts together in a clear and understandable process but still left room for my imagination to find things to wonder about.

This is essentially a book about what the Chinese describe as the meridian system in the human body, how it probably works, why it is fundamental to all our other systems, thus our health, and how quantum mechanics probably fits in its function. Told in the most reasonable of ways, with clear examples to explain the concepts. References to numerous experiments are given throughout, lending a concrete scientific basis for the explanations.

Dr. Shin Yin Lo is a former Professor of Physics, having lectured at leading universities. He is also an inventor with numerous patents to his credit, an international lecturer, and an accomplished Doctor of Chinese Medicine.

Keith Van Vliet

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Multifaceted Perspective on Health, Energy and the Physical Environment, March 18, 2010

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Theodore Micceri "Themistocles" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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My Ph.D is in Research Design and Statistics, and I have been using both Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurvedic Practices for many years. I have had severe brittle juvenile diabetes for 56 years and thus have studied numerous alternative methods to enhance my health. Now, at 62, I remain quite healthy, despite the deadly illness.

This book provides a very well documented basis for understanding the what, why and how of Chi (Qi, Prana, etc) energy and its relationship with living systems. Lo, a physicist, was studying Chi Kung (Qi Gong) when his master said: "Your a physicist, explain this."

So, he began studying the scientific research conducted in many countries over the previous 15-20 years in an attempt to understand the underlying properties of Chi flow. He elegantly summarizes a plethora of documented studies in this work. For me, as a research design expert, perhaps the strongest evidence involved studies using plants. Both humans and animals can be influenced by emotional factors, but plants are a comparatively clean medium for study. The idea of meridians being extremely thin, transparent and charged helps explain why they have been so difficult for Western methods to find.

In addition to providing a structured environment within which to understand how the research verifies acupuncture/acupressure's effects, this is also one of the clearest treatises on Physics I have ever read (and I have studied from Feinman through Hawkings and Greene).

One very interesting phenomenon is the reduced resistance to electricity that characterizes acupuncture points.

Note that the same meridian flow and chakras are recognized in many widely separated locales ranging from East Asia, to India (Prana, Marma Therapy) to the Sioux Nations of the Pains indians.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in Health, Energy or Physics.