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Title: The essence of meridians, mechanism of acupuncture and its challenges to the basic tenets in neuroscience (經絡實質、針刺機制及其對神經科學基本信念的挑戰) Abstract There are two basic tenets in Western neuroscience. One is the theory of inhibition and the other is the neuron doctrine. These two are in fact intertwined. The first tenet of inhibition began with the tetanic excitation of vagus nerve by the Weber’s brothers in 1845 that caused a standstill of the frog’s heart. In the same vein, the volitional elbow flexion was also believed to display reciprocal innervations of antagonisti