The author thinks that acupuncture-and-moxibustion is a form of information therapy (or informotherapy), which heals by means of feeding negative feedback information into disordered meridians at optimum information entry points (loci or acupoints). There is an essential difference among information threapy, physical therspy and chemical therapy. Informotherapy is a communication or dialogue between doctor (or informotherapy machine) and autonomic nervous system. Acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, applying plaster and massotherapy etc. all are general acupuncture, special informotherapy. The article also gives a brief explanation on general informotherapy including Qigong (a system of deep breathing exercise), biofeedback, hypnotism and suggestion therapy ect.
The article discusses the deficiency and excess of meridian states, reinforcing and reducing of information, and the fundamental laws of information processing in meridians, as such the relationship of YIN (negative) and YANG (positive) meridians, exterior and interior meridians, left and right side of a meridian, hand and foot meridians, Fron-Mu and Back-Shu loci, the Five Elements and interpromoting and interacting relations, the isohypse loci, and the bio-holographic law. It introduces five Juci-puncture, the opposite side puncturing methods, and one quasi-Juci-puncture method.
The author treats acupuncture from the view point of cybernetics. He deems that the research of informotherapy may be developed to form a completely new discipline of technical science--Meridian Cybernetics. It will produce important impact to artificial intelligence and computer science.