What is Nutripuncture ?
RESEARCH HISTORY
In the 1980s, a group of French researchers, inspired Georges Lakovsky's work on body-environment interactions (especially on cellular oscillation) and that of Barbara McClintock (Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1983) on spontaneous genetic mutations, began to observe and evaluate the impact of the environment (natural, relational, and cultural) on the vitality and self-regulation of the body. Thus, they started to conduct their first studies at the Faculté d’Orsay (Paris) on the emerging properties presented by trace metals when combined according to specific protocols, and their impact on the circulation of vital currents.
Barbara McClintock's work, which discovered the mechanisms for genetic mutations, started a debate about the vision of genes as "immutable" units of heredity and built the basis for a vision in which life is the fruit of an ongoing dialog between genes and environment. According to B. McClintock, genes are not the immutable cause of hereditary characteristics, but a dynamic system regulated by cells, the body as a whole, and the environment.
Gradually, researchers developed a method for interpreting clinical observations and evaluating the various parameters that affect individual psycho-physical vitality. This is how nutripuncture was started.
An approach based on the assumption that the body is covered by a network of currents that ensure both real-time body-psyche communication and the body-environment relationship. This is a hyper-complex network that develops very early-on in embryonic development (before the hormonal and nervous system) to circulate the (electromagnetic) pulses necessary to ensure the cooperation, cellular coordination, and coherence of the body-psyche system.
Numerous disciplines have contributed, along with Asian traditions, to the development of nutripuncture (PNEI, quantum medicine, neuroscience, psychology, microbiology, etc.).
A long road has been traveled, starting with the thousand-year-old principles of Asian medicine, to integrate them into the psycho-physical dynamic of modern humans, immersed in an environment saturated with information and many stimuli, much different from the one that, several thousands of years ago, enabled the understanding of relationships between environment and background, certainly simpler, and less contaminated.
Today humans are faced with a highly articulate, hyper-stimulating environment; they must process a large volume of information in real time, interact with a hyper-complex global society, and manage the relationships and conflicts that stem from it by calling upon their internal resources, often sorely tested by stress.
In nutripuncture, the individual is always observed in his or her context, from which he or she is inseparable, as it is the source of essential information on the development of his or her faculties. Thus, the environment plays a definitive role in the creation of cognitive, sensory, and individual vocal potential.
It is clear that without qualitatively and quantitatively adequate stimuli, the vital currents (or meridians) that regulate body-psyche communication, as well as individual-environment interaction, will circulate more slowly, leaving part of the potential that everyone could express inactive.
WHAT ARE VITAL CURRENTS?
The term "vital currents" indicates the non-molecular information that enables various bodily systems to communicate in real time. It is likely that the meridians described in Chinese tradition correspond to the cutaneous paths of these currents.Concerning their nature, according to work by Popp and Sclebush, these are biophotons, electromagnetic waves, or at least there is an important correlation with these physical phenomena.Concerning their possible origin, we cite the revolutionary research by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, Luc Montagnier, who showed that DNA produces electromagnetic signals.Faced with a field still remaining to be explored, we have chosen to use the generic, and certainly not scientifically recognized, term of "vital currents."
The correlation between an imbalance in meridians and negative emotions has already been explored by the Chinese, guided by a holistic vision of the body that does not conceive of it as an assembly of organs but as a unit in which complex systems interact.
Nutripuncture can offer us even more:
1) Meridians can be stimulated by trace element complexes,
2) A behavior can be aligned by activating specific vital currents,
3) By stimulating the circulation of vital currents, we can promote an optimal psychosomatic dynamic
The research on nutripuncture has not been limited to health (considered as the absence of illness), but extends to the possibility of improving well-being, of supporting overall psycho-physical vitality, by optimizing the individual's capacity to interact with his or her context. For this reason, nutripuncture has gradually become a psychosomatic approach to the whole person.
In case of somatization following stress, a profound conflict, trauma, an accident, mourning, etc., nutripuncture can help:
- Activate the vitality of the weakest sectors,
- Support not only organic functions, but also cognitive, emotional, and vocal ones.
- Stimulate individual creative and communicative potential.
- Refine the perception of the 5 senses, the center of communication between every individual and the world surrounding it.
Nutripuncture, recognized by the University of Traditional Medicine in Beijing, is now practice by an ever growing number of health professionals in many countries around the world. | 
