In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), acupuncture has been used to heal various diseases
and physiologic malfunctions in clinical practice for more than 2500 years. Due to its …

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), pain is never merely a sign of discomfort. It is usually
an integral part of a particular disease or physiological malfunction. Thus pain should not be …

The human body is a hierarchical organism containing many levels of mutually interacting
oscillatory systems. From the viewpoint of traditional Chinese medicine, health is a state of …

Physiological rhythms are ubiquitous and essential to our life. They usually interact with one
another and also with the outside environment. Disappearance of normal rhythms and …

In reflex and volitional actions, co-activations of agonist and antagonist muscles are
believed to be present. Recent studies indicate that such co-activations can be either …

In Mandarin, the English word 'nature'translates as 'ziran'(自然 zìrán) in science, biomedicine
and everyday life. At the same time, ziran indexes a second older set of meanings that make …

Fractional Brownian motion (FBM) is an important tool in biomedical signal processing.
Recently, it has been used to explain the synergic/cooperative co-activations of …

Recently, a reticular model based on classical Chinese meridian systems was proposed to
explain the mechanism of acupuncture. In this paper, the rationale behind this model is …

Hypertension is defined as the condition that the mean arterial pressure is greater than the
upper range of accepted normality. It has a few sub-classifications including for instance …

Recently, a temporal “coherent” fractal structure and synchronization of rhythms were
proposed as two essential indicators for efficient voiding during micturition in female rats …