Can you imagine our body being a music instrument? Yes, we have skull and trunk as the sound bodies and our meridians are the strings!

In the Late Shang Dynasty (1600-1046BC), King Ji Chang’s (1) medical team discovered that a set of tones played on the classical Chinese Gu Qin resonate with the human meridians: when the individual tones are properly sounded, the given meridian’s microcirculation is opened, and the right accords can intensify the Qi-activity. This possibility was in principle already recorded in the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine (Huangdi Neijing).

Unfortunately, these sets of standard tones and accords were lost over time with changing dynasties and a more secular development of music performances.

It literally took until the 90ies of the last century, that a contemporary Chinese doctor, GUO Yuan (2)  conducted extensive experiments according to the principles recorded in the Huangdi Neijing and indeed managed to identify the lost tones and thus was able to recover the Music Therapy.

A young scientist from the Technical University of Munich, LI Yang (3), who became a student and collaborator of Guo’s continued the project with him, which over a decade led to the development of a complete set of Tunning Forks for Meridians.  Ever since, TCM practitioners all over the world are doing case studies with amazing results while the exploration of specific applications of the Tuning Forks is being ever extended…

After having taken systematic courses under LI Yang I am integrating the Tuning Forks in my own treatment, which you are welcome to try!