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Bulletin of Clinical Acupuncture & Natural Healing (cid:143) Volume VII Issue 114 (cid:143) May 2012 1
DR. HOLMES KEIKOBAD (cid:143) MBBS, DPH, Dip Ac NCCAOM, LAc (cid:143) Editor in Chief
CAROL ANDRADE PHD LAC (cid:143) Editor & Creative Director
Anatomy of
Heart &
Acupuncture
Listen to actual blood
pressure sounds p 13
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Anatomy of Human Heart & Acupuncture
Heart and lungs seen
through ribcage
Heart in TCM is not only the organ but also its spiritual, abstract connotation.
Heart [HT for short] Deficiency can mean a deficient HT yin, HT Qi, and this can present
clinically in a syndrome, but all the time the actual anatomical HT may be unaffected.
On the other hand, and this is important to grasp, one may find HT valve murmurs, or
other signs of a physical nature, but all the while the patient shows no clinical problems.
HT also houses the Shen, the consciousness, awareness, higher thought, concept of past
and future, search for the Essence so to say.
In this Issue however we will concentrate of the physical heart and give you insight of
how it works.
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Heart & Lungs
HT and LU are intimately connected, anatomically and elementally.
LU form a canopy, and HT works underneath it. Let us study some structures:
Trachea
Carotid artery which supplies
blood to neck and head
Superior vena cava which
drains blood from the head and
neck and upper chest
Aorta, biggest artery in the
body
Pulmonary artery which takes
impure blood from HT to LU
The auricle or atrium, a smaller
chamber in the heart
The ventricle, a larger and
stronger chamber in the HT
LU left and right
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Heart & Lungs
Try out your hand if you can label structures yourself. Its OK to refer to
previous page.
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Heart - structure and functions
Think of HT as a 4 chambered box-like structure. 4 smaller boxes go to make it up, 2
above and 2 below.
Ones above are called the atriums or auricles. Ones below are called the ventricles. All
together the 4 are also called the chambers of the HT.
Each chamber has an opening which pumps out blood and one which brings in blood. Each
such opening has a valve which lets out blood but prevents re entry. After blood
has pumped out, valve for return shuts with a snap, that is the HT sound,
Blood circulation
1. Venous [used up] blood drains into 2 right atrium. From there through the valve at 3 it
enters 4 the right ventricle. From there it goes to the pulmonary artery 5 into the lung 6.
Purified there by breathing, it goes on to pulmonary vein 7 to 8 left atrium. From there it
goes via a valve 9 to left ventricle 10 and via a valve to 11 aorta, biggest artery in
body, to supply 12 whole body. This uses up the oxygen, and the used blood returns via
veins 1 back to right atrium.
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Heart - blood circulation
Can you remember the pathway? Its OK to see previous page.
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Heart - blood circulation
Now lets try the circuit on an actual heart:
1. Venous [used up] blood drains into 2 right atrium. From there through the valve at 3 it
enters 4 the right ventricle. From there it goes to the pulmonary artery 5 into the lung 6.
Purified there by breathing, it goes on to pulmonary vein 7 to 8 left atrium. From there it
goes via a valve 9 to left ventricle 10 and via a valve 11 to 12 aorta, biggest artery in
body, to supply 13 whole body. This uses up the oxygen, and the used blood returns via
veins 1 back to right atrium.
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Heart - blood circulation
Now try to follow the circulation without the guiding numbers. Check back to previous
pages if you need to. Start with Superior and Inferior vena cava and proceed to right
atrium etc. If you follow the path well you will end up at the 3 branches of the aorta.
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Heart - blood circulation
Now visualize that half the heart deals with impure de oxygenated blood and the
other half with pure and oxygenated.
Start with the superior and inferior vena cava and proceed till you reach the aorta.
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