Chinese traditional medicine considers that the meridian lines and the collateral branches represent the way by which the vital energy circulates;
They form a network connecting the various internal and external parts of the body and regularize the body functions.
Acupuncture has demonstrated that there is an interaction between the meridians and the organs with which they are associated, i.e. that some organic disorders can be identified by a perturbation of the energy flow in the corresponding meridian, or conversely, that perturbations in a meridian can have an adverse effect on the corresponding organ