This Study is the first investigation of yoga's effect on the twelve main meridians of human body by the Electro Meridian Analysis System (EMAS). Through the three main elements of yoga's breathing, asanas sequence and relaxing process respectively, we investigated the dedicated excitation on the twelve meridians by measuring the change of meridian currents. Participants were categorized into two groups; one group of participants was practicing yoga for more than one year (yoga senior group, YSG) and the other group was less than two months (yoga junior group, YJG). All participants were asked to practice yoga and then their meridian current was measured at 24 Ryodoraku acupuncture points in the twelve main meridians by EMAS before and after yoga's lesson. Result of this study shows that in both of YSG and YJG, the average value of all of meridian currents (Amc) have increased, meanwhile, by pair samples t-test, there was statistically highly significant increase of Amc in YSG (p-value=0.0094). In addition, the significant increase (p-value <0.05) of meridian current for YSG was possibly in hand and foot meridians, but the significant increase (p-value <0.05) of meridian current was observed only in the hand meridians for YJG. The results show that yoga practice could stimulate the positive energy response for our body's meridian system.
Citation: Hsu CY, Lee CC, Chu CF, et al. Analysis of yoga's effect on health via electro meridian analysis system. MOJ Yoga Physical Ther. 2017;2(4):94-99. Citation: Hsu CY, Lee CC, Chu CF, et al. Analysis of yoga's effect on health via electro meridian analysis system. MOJ Yoga Physical Ther. 2017;2(4):94-99.