Background: Previous work summarized the discovery, development technique, and theory of Omura's bi-digital O-ring phenomenon, which provides a sensitive diagnostic screening method that is now applied widely in conventional and Oriental medicine. Omura theorized this is an electromagnetic phenomenon and provided experiments to support this.
Objectives: To provide an independent analysis of the )-ring as it is applied to the traditional Chinese main meridian system, and to examine this technique’s application in clinical medicine.
Design, setting and patients: Clinical application was made to 400 cases, with 30 unusual cases, over 4 years. These cases showed meridian patterns connection the abdomen to the hip area with an organ tissue match for the colon, small interesting, gallbladder, pancreas, bladder, and ovary.
Intervention: A toxic organ pathway using a triple-blinded technique with a sample of a toxic substance to that organ, and normal organ tissues as the control reference, and achieving a reversal of the Yin and Yang positions for the Lung and Colon. In addition, the 3 starting positions for the Lung, Toxic Lung, Colon, and Toxic Colon on the hand were compared with modern and older (Ming) meridian systems.
Main outcome measures: To determine how bi-digital O-ring imaging corresponded to traditional Chinese meridian pathways, and how effective the newer technique is for clinical diagnostic use.
Results: Selected case reports are presented. A spherical hollow shape was imaged at the posterior hip area of the pathway in all but 1 case. In all extra pathways, the flow went toward the organ (using a diode). In the cases of the colon, testis, and ovary, pathways extended down the iliotebial band to the medial calf with the pathway extended down, then, up, on another branch toward the organ. Pathways were imaged randomly for the diaphragm, ileum, jejunum, duodenum, thyroid, anus, Pukinje fiber, prostate, and heart. The diaphragm and heart were imaged in multiple phases after acupuncture.
Conclusions: Patients with particular conditions such as asthma or hypertension are lodged in certain phases. Scars along the pathway or internal pathology to an organ can cause a pathway to deviate. The largest association with these abnormal pathways is scoliosis, or asymmetry.
