On the bidirectional regulation effect of acupuncture

The wisdom of Chinese medicine in maintaining health is “Yin Ping Yang Mi” (balance between yin and yang). Obviously, the maintenance of “homeostasis” contains dual factors of “excessiveness” and “falling short”. The life process must be protected by the stability-maintaining mechanism of the “bidirectional regulation” system. Therefore, the two-way regulation of the “homeostasis” maintaining involves the relatively independent potential energyof the “spear” and “shield”, and also depends on two sets of relatively independent regulatory systems to complete. Acupuncture is an excellent performer of the “bidirectional regulation effect” of living organisms, but can this effect becaused by a single acupoint stimulation? This issue, which was not a problem, has become a big problem inacupuncture-moxibustion discipline. The concept of “two-way regulation” of acupuncture is over-expanded, which isdifficult for the theory of Chinese medicine to take into account. It is only a broad expansion of the boundary oftheoretical extension arbitrarily. From the perspective of life science, the present paper expounds that the “bidirectionalregulation effect” of acupuncture is obtained from the activation of the “integration center” (not necessarily limited to thebrain) by the stimulated acupoints at different somatic parts of the body, and through two sets of relatively independentregulation systems, so as to maintain the life’s “homeostasis”.