week#13

CELL BIOLOGY AND TCM STUDIES

Alas, you asked the question just when I decided that this weeks material would suit me for my final paper. I guess I'll give away some hints to what I was thinking about. What is this energy medicine? Perhaps it is linked to what is happening in each one of our cells. They are focused on producing energy for the entire body. Like Qi, this energy is not visible through a microscope, but it is accepted that the cells are making ATP to provide a usable energy. TCM shows this energy to flow in a more direct pathway (the meridians) much like biology shows the blood to travel through certain pathways. I believe that our needles and our herbs work with the ATP, boost the production of ATP and help guide it to the place in most need of healing.

HOW CELLS DIVIDE: Mitosis vs. Meiosis

I suppose in a battle of mitosis vs. meiosis, mitosis would win as it is producing a fully formed new cell while meiosis is making a zygote which requires another sex cell to reproduce with it. But I know this is not what you were getting at. For some reason, I really liked biology in high school and remember many things from it. I think I mentioned this in other blogs, but it was in this class (in a religious high school no less) that I first started thinking about my spiritual path. I was so amazed by the tiny details that made up living things and started to believe that this was all too genius just by chance. But that is not what you were asking about as well. In short, I am amazed by cell division. I am amazed that with each level of meiosis we come closer to the chance to form something totally unique when that cell finds its match. I am thankful for mitosis as my cells replacing themselves with new, healthy ones..... what could be better?