IN QUEST OF THE WAY TO BE HEALTHY Underpinning the Onnuri medicine is the body of principles common to all philosophy, notably the Homo-Hetero theory, Triunit theory (Neutro, Hetero and Homo), Six-Origin theory (Six-Ki theory, emotion and reason theories), Eight-Origins theory, and H-particle theory. By virtue of the fact that the word ONNURI intrinsically carries the meaning of what can be described as the «whole world*, the notion of the Onnuri medicine would involve any number of therapies developed on the basis of the above mentioned theories. First of all, this is the Homo-system of the human body, developed to cover any correspondence system to be found in it. These are fingertoe correspondence systems and their therapy (acupuncture); hand and foot correspondence systems and their re-flexotherapy and acupuncture (Su Jok Acupuncture). Besides, there are auricular correspondence systems and their therapy (acupuncture), head correspondence systems and their therapy (acupuncture), limbs correspondence systems and their therapy (acupuncture), trunk correspondence systems, their therapy (acupuncture). All of them stand as the Homo-system embodiment. Second, the conceptual interpretation of the bodily energy system — as viewed by the Onnuri medicine — will rest on the theory of the Diamond energy system that embraces the fundamental laws governing all creation. This Diamond energy system has the capacity to link all dimensions of energy systems together to form a single, unified framework incorporating the core meridians, chakras, border meridians, energy gateways (external chakras), 12 meridians of the body and their energy gateways (points). On the strength of this integrated energy system it has become possible to deal with a diverse range of conditions using the body acupuncture (therapy) along with chakra acupuncture (therapy). Moreover, the said energy system has given rise to the energy-flow therapy, and profound therapeutic effects have become achievable through the use of each correspondence acupuncture (therapy). Third, constituting a separate subdivision of the Onnuri medicine will be other types of treatment, including that with herbs, homeopathy, pharmacological therapy, and naturopathy. In an effort to achieve the greatest efficacy of treatment in a most natural way we should — while applying the therapies of choice to certain diseases — follow the order of nature, which is the main governing force in any unit of existence. Ever since the basic theoretical concepts of the Onnuri medicine were built up, the scope of the relevant data has been showing a rapid and steady growth. In this context, it is essential that the practitioners consistently keep abreast in the ever-advancing knowledge and a wealth of information being accumulated. I am most happy to know that the «Onnuri medicine* magazine will come out on a regular basis for the benefit of the sick patients, and that it will find its faithful readers among medical practitioners and healers elsewhere and everywhere. I am bringing my heartfelt thanks to the Moscow-based Su Jok Academy that spares no efforts for the development of the Onnuri-medicine and Su Jok acupuncture, to the Academy where the publication of this new magazine is underway. Let the Spirit of Onnuri be always reigning in this magazine, and let the magazine stand as a useful guide to all people, sustaining them in their drive for a serene and insured harmony of life.
Prof. Park, Jae Woo March, 1999, Moscow
EDITORIAL NOTE
Dear readers! We are most happy that now you can pick up and hold in your arms the first issue of the new magazine «Onnuri Medicine*. It has just been launched — only to set out on a journey of its own. As a matter of fact, it was intended to become a specialized science edition of practical value. Along with the materials expected to be published specifically for medical practitioners involved either in the main stream or alternative medicine — one can find here the reviews and research papers of original nature, as well as the dedicated theoretical articles. The magazine will also concentrate on the most recent events taking place in the realm of Onnuri medicine, on the seminars, conferences and congresses of interest. In our columns it will be possible to go in for discussions and exchanges between scientists, to share the unique experience from the clinical setting gained by many doctors who follow the method of Su Jok therapy. We set out to inform you on the Onnuri Therapy centers located in different countries and cities of the world. You will come to know about the new subject-oriented books to be published, and the way the treatment based on the use of ingenious instruments and devices should be. And we do hope that the readership will also take interest in our topical series under the heading of «Into the Remote Past». We are going to bend every effort for the «Onnuri Medicine* magazine to be further developed and refined. Yet much will depend on your attitude as its readers and contributors. In other words, your remarks and recommendations about the contents and design of the magazine — and above all your articles and clinical observations — will be warmly welcome. We earnestly hope that rather than become chance companions, our cooperation would make us good friends, always willing to share both the joys of most heartening discoveries and the relentless quest for truth!
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HOMO-SYSTEM OF THE BODY Prof. Park Jae Woo (Seoul, Korea) President of International Su Jok Acupuncture Association With our Universe constantly expanding, the process of evolution carrying on, and the sciences always speeding up in their advancement — medicine will unavoidably keep pace with the overall progress. Thus, one of the novel medical approaches involves treatment through the body's Homo-system. Any phenomenon you may come across in the Universe would result from the interaction of two diametrically opposed forces called Homo and Hetero. The Homo-force will tend to unite everything, to make it unchangeable and fixed and to reduce it to its initial Oneness. This force would act with a view of limiting the wide range of different things, therefore everything to be found in the Universe will follow a single principle and will act in compliance with general laws of nature. Conversely, the Hetero-force causes the changes, variability, separation and disconnection. Since the Homo- and Hetero-forces are known to act simultaneously, this would ensure a harmonious development of the world we live in, and would manifest itself in the unnumerable examples of the similarity — the all-round principle underlying the organization of the Universe. The this world has come to be from the non-existence (or in association with the null state), or Homo; then something different emerged — Hetero — as a result of a change that took place. All the subsequent Hetero phenomena that have the common origin will be similar to each other in varying degrees. And it is due to the presence of the similarity factors — which are actually Homo-factors — the Hetero-phenomena would get involved in the process of Homo-correspondence. The more Homo-factors there are between things and phenomena, the more intimate is their cross-correspondence, the stronger their connection and interaction. In point of fact, the Homo-correspondence of individual elements of a system is a single dominating contributor of its integrity. It is the Homo-interaction which acts to guarantee the preservation, stability and further development of the system. It should also be noted that forming part of the processes that occur in the system of Homo-interactions of all existence will be the Homo energy system that exchanges and carries the information needed for further development. In this doing, the unified, harmonized and orderly Homo-system of the world will be formed. Correspondence does emerge as one of the phenomena essential to Homo-system, where by all the units of Homo-system would be more closely connected. This will result in the more sustainable conditions for their existence being improved. At the same time, the Homo-system would provide and sustain the Hetero-existence. Basically, all the phenomena do exist as an unfailing integrity due to the said system, thus contributing to the supreme control functions being fulfilled and the goal of any existence being achieved. Backed up in its potentiality by the Homo-origin, Hetero-force will have the ability to create things noted for all differences, yet containing similarities between them. Although always striving to oppose any changes, Homo-force would fail to avoid them because the world around us is already that of Hetero. It is due to the impact of Homo-force set to minimize the differences and the capacity to bring changes that there would emerge in our world the identity and similarity phenomena. This very mechanism is being organized by Homo-force and will result in the Homo-system of the Universe being established. Homo-force will tend to make all objects and phenomena most efficiently manageable. This is achieved by setting up the Homo-system. On the other hand, the Homo-system has proved quite indispenseble for the continuous and sustained existence of the world we live in. Basically, it is the correspondences involving the homo-factors shared by different units of existence which is another important factor in strengthening their unification and contributing to their stable existence. The prerequisite condition of the units of existence having adequate strength and capacity to withstand any hardship in order to survive will be their forward development, ability to provide for a wide range of varieties, multiplication of their numbers and the expansion of space to be occupied. This does seem to be one of the reasons behind the fact that the Homo-force has failed to preserve its original form and made it possible for the Hetero-force to create this Hetero-world. This world is permeated with the correspondences energy set to maintain the identity helpful in securing their unification. It is quite natural, therefore, that the Homo-system would play an important role in
the human body which benefits from it very much — while the availability of a great number of correspondence systems in it would guarantee good health and maintain our living. Indeed, the Homo system of our body has proved essential for all kinds of bodily activities and is by far conducive to keeping our body and mind viable. Without this system — as without the air — there can be no life whatsoever. The human organism forms an integral part with the environment and is in permanent Homo-correspondence with it, based on the processes involving the exchange between energies, information and substance. The organism represents the combination of functional systems noted for a variety of hierarchic dimensions, among which the Homo-system is of primary and most fundamental importance. This system, forming part of the Universal Homo-system, would combine spirit, thoughtful mind, emotions, the systems of organs, tissues, body parts, cells, etc. into a single whole, and would play an important role in the vital activity of the body by maintaining the processes of self-healing and the consistency of internal medium. The human Homo-system has been organized in line with a number of specific principles. Incorporated in the Homo-system of the body there are two dimensional categories designated physical and metaphysical homo-systems. As to the physical homo-system, it would include the chemical elements homo-system, substance homosystem, cell homo-system, organ homo-system, bodily-system homo-system, functional homo-system, embodiment homo-system, axis homo-system and physical energy homo-system. On the other hand, the metaphysical homo-system would embrace the metaphysical energy homo-system, interest homo-system, emotion homo-system, reason homo-system, and spiritual homo-system. The present article will be mainly focused on certain aspects of the embodiment homo-system — all against the physical background of the human body. The embodiment-related Homo-system, which forms part of the body Homo-system, will be organized
so that each body part notable for functional or structural integrity would — owing to the processes of Homocorrespondence — contain the information on the status of the whole body or some of its parts. This information is represented in the form of specific metaphysical copies, or correspondence systems, capable of reflecting not only the anatomical organization of the body but its functional state as well. The cited
information would be available throughout the body, including the limbs, head and trunk. It is to be found in the skin, muscles, bony structures, and internal organs (fig. 1). The body or its individual part correspondence will occupy the whole individual structure of the body, mimicking the size and outline of that structure. Indeed, any correspondence system would preserve the proportions of the body, organ or body part being represented (fig. 2, 3). The existence of similarity between certain parts of the body or its organs and the whole body, between minor parts of the body and its major parts (take, for instance, a finger bearing resemblance to the arm and trunk by the number of constituent parts running into three) — has led to the formation of the process of vertical Homo-correspondence. Illustrating the case are the correspondence systems in which the entire body would be represented on its certain areas,
Eg. 4. The auricle-of-ear correspondences to the body «head-up»
or the systems in which individual organs (body parts) would be projected onto the whole body (fig. 4). On the other hand, the similarity characteristic of certain constituent components of the body (head resembles the fist, foot resembles the kidney, etc.) will provide a basis for the existence of horizontal Homocorrespondences. In this context, all the elements of the body Homo-system would have their correspondence not only with regard to the entire body, but also to its parts, internal organs, parts of organs, and so on (fig. 5). The concurrent presence in the Homo-system of vertical connections (existing between the structures of different hierarchical dimensions) and horizontal connections (existing between the structures of one dimension) would give rise to the microsystems, mac-rosystems and isosystems of correspondence. As to the microsystems, the body or its parts projections would appear scaled down, in the macrosystems of correspondence the object to be represented will be of larger size, while in the isosystems the object to be represented and the object's projection are quite similar in size. For instance, the tongue correspondence to heart is a microsystem, the kidney correspondence to heart will demonstrate an isosystem, while the heart correspondence on the trunk would form a correspondence macrosystem. Thus, the current recognition of the correspondence systems as solely representative of the microsystems does appear to be inadequate in terms
Fig. 5. The auricles-of-ear correspondences to the cerebral cortex base and sagittal section of the brain
of the processes going on in the Homo-system of the human body (fig. 6). On the strength of the hierarchical organization of the organism, any part of the body would form a cluster of similar structures related by the commonness of functions and the oneness of their origination. With the correspondence system of its own, a body part would form a constituent part of a larger bodily structure, which is the seat of a larger correspondence system. The said structure is, in turn, broken down into integral individual parts having the correspondence systems of their own — but of a lesser scale. Accordingly, the Homo-system of correspondences will be noted for superposition of correspondence systems of different levels (fig. 7). Another characteristic of the Homo-system structure will be evident in the fact that each individual structure of the body can boast not a single, but a great number of projections from the body or its part being represented. In relation to the three major axes, these are the vertical type (upper-lower), sagittal type (frontback), and frontal type (left-right) correspondence systems along with a number of intermediate systems. Incidentally, they are best presented in those body parts which are rounded in shape, or in what is described as the round correspondence systems (fig. 8). The same phenomenon is responsible for a great number of the correspondences to be found in the body or its organ which would correspond to the body or its organ proper (designated the internal correspondence systems). The existence of internal correspondences will represent those processes of active
Homo-correspondence that are always taking place between the areas, zones and points inside every in dividual structure. The human body is known to have eight reflecting axes (fig. 9). What we call the «axial» correspondence systems will be formed as a result of their influence. The «axial» systems are notable for the fact that the basis for correspondence will be formed by means of the relevant reflecting axes. The said basis would facilitate and intensify the interaction, or correspondence, between internal organs and body parts even in those cases when the signs of similarity are but slightly pronounced. From among the axial correspondence systems the symmetrical (left-right) correspondences share the most identical property together with the most similar structure between them; they are responsible for
providing a close communication between the paired organs and bodily symmetrical structures. Thus, available to the left kidney is the correspondence to the right kidney, and the right-eye area has its correspond-
ence to the left eye. The left parietal bone has the right parietal bone projected to it (fig. 10). Commonly found in the body there are also the diagonal correspondence systems. To name but few is the left foot correspondence to the right hand, the right kidney correspondence to the left lung, the left ovary correspondence to the right kidney, the left mammary gland correspondence to the right ovary, and so on. Apart from the symmetrical and diagonal correspondence systems, the bodily Homo-system can also boast the front-back, upper-lower, in-out and other types of axial correspondences. So we can see from the above that the activities performed by the reflecting axes would appreciably add to the number of correspondence systems in the body, thereby providing the basis for the wholesome and stable way of life.
Along with the individual correspondence systems in which the whole body or its organ view would be found on an integral anatomical organization — the so-called united correspondence related to one half of the body or one half of a body part — whereas the other paired formation would be corresponding to another half of the body or its part. The united correspondences can also be categorized as the vertical type (upper-lower), sagittal type (front-back), frontal type (left-right), etc. (fig. 11, 12). Thus we can see that the human body is notable for the concurrent presence of a great number of energetically interconnected correspondence systems. In the long run, any point of the body would correspond to any other point in it. And this is how the existence
The right foot correspondence to the back half of the right kidney (or to the front half of the left kidney) The left foot correspondence to the front half of the right kidney (or to the back half of the left kidney)
Fig. 11. The feet unified standard correspondence to the kidneys
of the body as a self-acting single entity of integral nature is secured and its health is maintained. But how the knowledge concerning the essence of the cited functional system could be applied in clinical practice? And what are the guiding principles in trying to localize the most effective treatment points of the
greatest potential Homo-correspondence with a diseased area? Here the aid of paramount importance — which is most helpful in an effort to choose the adequate correspondence system and the relevant treatment points — will be a measure of similarity. The more pronounced is the similarity, the stronger is the Homo-connection and the more amenable appears an affected area to treatment underway. As a matter of fact, the said similarity could be expressed in terms of the identity of form and structure (hand correspondence to body, foot correspondence to kidney, ear correspondence to stomach, etc.), in terms of the commonness in functions (treatment of the lungs using the nose correspondence systems, of the intestines using the oral cavity correspondences, etc.). The above similarity could also be expressed in the Homo-disposition (the brain is likely to undergo efficient treatment through the ear correspondence systems, the heart and lungs may be provided treatment using the chest correspondences, the arm could be healed through the hand correspondence system, and so on). At the same time, the lesion area and that of the treatment application can bear similarity in terms of specific nature of the response (for example, in case of Coldness disease in the heart when the patient's hands are cold the therapy of choice would be one involving the hand correspondence to heart; (the sensation of heat in the head is associated with the feet toes hyperemia — the way of managing the condition will be the stimulation of correspondence points to be found on the toes, etc. A further aid in establishing the effectiveness of a correspondence system will be the area occupied, localization with respect to the body center, and the degree of functional activity of the body part which is the seat of the correspondence. Since the permanent cure of a patient is supposed to alter his status, and given that all the relevant alterations will be influenced by Hetero, the more preferable for treatment are correspondence systems of those body parts where the presence of Hetero-force would be most clearly manifest. These correspondences are in fact small in size, and notable for distal or superficial location to be found on the functionally active and protruding parts of the body. There is the compelling evidence to point out that the smaller correspondences are faster and more efficient to deal with disease than the big-
wig. 13. The diagram characterizing the body correspondence systems (the farther from the center of the body, the more manifest the presence of the Hetero-force which is the fastest and most influential force to generate changes leading to health restoration)
ger correspondence systems — localized deep inside, proximally to the center of the body and at those its parts which are far less active in their potentialities This is largely associated with the fact that the parts distal from the center of the body will be noted for Hetero-characteristics, whereas those close to the body center will demonstrate Homo-characteristics (fig. 13). Indeed, with the hands, feet and their digits being notable for the most vividly manifest similarity to the human body in as far as their anatomical organization is concerned, notable for a higher degree, of functional activity and smaller size, and also for their distal and superficial disposition — in theory their correspondence systems really do appear to be one of the most efficient in the Homo-system of the body. The high efficacy of the hands, feet and digits correspondence system have been amply confirmed following their practical application (fig. 14, 15). The correspondence system theory came in as a result of an effort to search for something integral and
fundamental showing itself in a living organism as an essential part of all being. Accordingly, a penetrating, persistent and systematic study of this theory is likely to become the most potent way to improve the outlook for patients suffering from a wide range of diseases and disorders. When the Homo-system becomes intimately involved in our medical practice — this would appear as one of the ways to follow the laws of nature our efforts will be rewarded by nature's assistance in our ability to provide the more effective treatment.
