Wien Med Wochenschr. 1998 ; 148(19): 439-42.

[Acupuncture: an information therapy?]

Nissel H.

II. Medizinischen Abteilung, Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spitals der Stadt Wien.

Even though modern medicine continues to be governed by the morphological point of view, cybernetics and systems theory are beginning to gain in importance. The concept of "Infomedicine" serves as the basis for a discussion of regulation and the information mechanisms necessary for this to occur. Some of the new insights being made in physics, such as the theory of relativity, quantum physics, and chaos theory provide many valuable explanations. Acupuncture represents a regulation and information therapy, and many parallels can be drawn between traditional Chinese medicine and the discoveries being made in today's physics.