(SANITIZED)JOURNAL OF THE D.P.R.K. ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES--ON THE KYUNGRAK SYSTEM(SANITIZED)

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ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES ON THE KYUNGRAK SYSTEM Report delivered by Prof. Kim Bong Han at a scientific symposium in Pyongyang, November 30, 1963 1963 N . 5 MEDICAL SCIENCE PRESS Pyongyang, Korea Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 "- - - STAT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 It JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA ON THE KYUNGRAK SYSTEM Report delivered by Prof. Kim Bong Han at a scientific symposium in Pyongyang, November 30, 1963 1 9 6 3 No. 5 MEDICAL SCIENCE PRESS Pyongyang, Korea Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 Editor's Note In modern biology the problem of the unity of the organism and the environment, problem of the regulating mechanism which ensures a complete co-ordination of the function and activ- ity of each component of the organism, and problem of the bio- chemical basis of the activity of living substance, constitute the most fundamental problems. Biologists and medical scientists of the world have set up a number of well-substantiated theories and attained valuable achievements in the course of their research into these problems. But the modern biology and medical science still have many problems to solve?the function and role of nucleic acids in metabolism, the essence of hereditary phenomena, the growth and development of such diseases as tumor and their cure, etc. This is connected with the fact that the modern biological theories still fail to give a full elucidation to the mechanism that ensures the unity of the activities of the organism. Such limitations of the existing theories have long since placed it on the order of the day for biology and medical science to probe further into the secrets of the living substance, to find out a new course of development for themselves. The Korean biologists and medical scientists found a clue to the solution of this problem in Kyungrak, which makes up the core of Dongeuihak, the traditional Korean medicine, one of the brilliant scientific heritages handed down by their ancestors. Professor Kim Bong Han and his associates discovered the substance of Kyungrak, a new anatomico-histological system in the living body. It is an integrated system entirely different either from the nervous system or blood and lymphatic vessels. The results of their research were made public in August 1961, which created a sensation in the world of biology and medicine as the discovery of another secret of the living body. Since then their research work made further progress, blaz- ing the trail along an untrodden track to divulge the secrets of the organism. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 , Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 The Kyungrak research collective clarified the histological microscopic composition of a structure (Bonghan corpuscle) found in the Kyunghyul position and a tubular structure (Bong- han duct) which connects the Bonghan corpuscles; they also disclosed their distribution and discovered new facts. The Bonghan corpuscles, according to the results of their researches, have their own specific histological structure, and are distributed not only in the superficial layer of the skin but in the profund subcutaneous tissues, in the blood and lymphatic vessels and around the internal organs as well. Bonghan ducts which link the Bonghan corpuscles are dis- tributed round the artery, vein and lymphatic vessel, and even within them in an isolated manner, as well as in the superficial layer of the body. The collective of Kyungrak researchers confirmed, through bioelectrical experiments, that the Kyungrak system has specific bioelectrical features. It was also proved that the Bonghan cor- puscle is an excitable tissue which reacts differently to various external and internal stimuli and is correlated with certain in- ternal organs. The researchers delved into the chemical composition of the substance of the Bonghan duct (Bonghan liquor) by biochemical and histo-chemical methods, and established the fact that there was liquor circulating along a definite course in the Bonghan duct, a liquor containing nucleic acids, especially a large amount of desoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). This has made it necessary to reconsider the accepted con- ception that DNA exists only in the nucleus and that ribonucleic acid only in the nucleus and cytoplasm. Today the substance of Kyungrak in all its aspects has been brought to light as a system covering the whole body, regulating and coordinating the biological processes that lie at the bottom of the vital activity. This is indeed an epoch-making discovery and a big step forward in the development of biology and medical science. It is a product of bold scientific research free from existing formulas and theories, a fruit of enormous scientific stamina coupled with a high level of technique, and an embodiment of correct methods of analysis and synthesis applied from the viewpoint of unity between forms and functions. In the long years of research work by Professor Kim Bong Han and his associates, there cropped up many difficulties and II Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 they had to grapple with countless complex problems. But they never yielded. Comrade Kim II Sung and the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea always showed deep concern for their research work, inspiring them with courage all the time. This enabled them boldly to explore an untrodden path of scientific investigation and bear the brilliant fruits of today. With the great achievements of the research in the Kyungrak system, it has now become necessary to re-examine the prevailing theories that give one-sided explanation to the fundamental problems of the phenomena of life including the regulating me- chanism of the living body, not knowing that the Kyungrak system is an objective being. The new achievements have opened up broad prospects of solution of such fundamental problems arising in modern biology and medical science as differentiation of the cells, metabolism, heredity, the reactivity of the organism, growth and development of diseases, etc., thus paving the ?way for the solution of prob- lems of better health and longer life of man. This great discovery by the scientists of our country signifies a revolutionary event ushering in a new stage in the develop- ment of modern biology and medical science. We are convinced that the discovery will go down in history as a monument of science. December 10, 1963 III Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ? 1 Part I MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE KYUNGRAK SYSTEM . 2 Chapter I. MORPHOLOGY OF THE BONGHAN CORPUSCLE 2 1. ANATOMICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE BONGHAN CORPUS- CLE2 . . . ..... . . . . A. Anatomical Observations on the Superficial Bonghan Corpuscle 3 B. Anatomical Observations on the Profund Bonghan Corpuscle 3 2. HISTOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE BONGHAN CORPUSCLE 4 A. Histological Structure of the Superficial Bonghan Corpuscle . 4 B. Histological Structure of the Prcfund Bonghan Corpuscle . . Chapter II. -M01:431.40i.OdY OF THE BONGHAN DUCT. . 8 ? 1. ANATOMICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE BONGHAN DUCT.. 8 2. HISTOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE BONGHAN DUCT. . 9 Part II EXPERIMENTAL-PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE KYUNGRAK SYSTEM 13 Chapter I. STUDY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BONGHAN LIQUOR 13 1. CIRCULATION OF THE BONGHAN LIQUOR IN THE SUPER- FICIAL BONGHAN DUCT 14 A. Experiments by Dosimetry of Radioactivity 14 B. Radioautographical Experiments . ? ? . ? 19 ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 2. CIRCULATION OF THE BONGHAN LIQUOR IN THE PROFUND BONGHAN DUCT 21 Chapter II. BIOELECTRICAL STUDY OF THE KYUNGRAK SYSTEM 26 1. BIOELECTRICAL; CHANGES IN THE BONGHAN CORPUSCLE 26 2. EXCITABILITY OF THE BONGHAN CORPUSCLE AND ITS REACTION TO VARIOUS KINDS OF STIMULI 28 3. CHARACTERISTIC FBATURES OF CONDUCTION? IN THE KYUNGRAK SYSTEM ? ? . ? ..... ? ? 32 Part III ? ? BIOCHEMICAL AND HISTO-CHEMICAL STUDY OF THE KYUNGRAK SYSTEM 34 1. BIOCHEMICAL STUDY OF THE BONGHAN CORPUSCLE AND BONGHAN DUCT 34 2. HISTO-CHEMICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE BONGHAN COR- PUSCLE AND BONGHAN DUCT 36 3. OBSERVATIONS OF THE BONGHAN CORPUSCLE AND BONGHAN DUCT UNDER LUMINESCENT MICROSCOPE. . . 36 GENERAL CONCLUSION 38 I. THE KYUNGRAK SYSTEM CONSISTS OF THE BONGHAN CORPUSCLES AND THE BONGHAN DUCTS LINKING THEM 38 II. THE BONGHAN DUCT HAS TWO FORMS OF EXISTENCE. . 39 III. BONGHAN LIQUOR CIRCULATES IN THE KYUNGRAK SYSTEM 39 IV. THE BONGHAN CORPUSCLE HAS UNIQUE BIOELECTRICAL ACTIVITY 40 V. A LARGE QUANTITY OF NUCLEIC ACIDS, DNA IN PARTIC- ULAR, IS CONTAINED IN THE BONGHAN CORPUSCLE AND BONGHAN DUCT ? ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 41 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 Kim Bong Han, D, So, .(Biology ) Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 STAT STAT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 a INTRODUCTION It is one of the most fundamental questions in biology to fully clarify the material basis of the unity of the organism and the environment. Modern biology considers that the unity of the activities of the or- ganism is regulated by the functions of the nervous system and many hu- moral factors including hormone. Such theories have solved many questions in modern biology, but they have failed to encompass all the mechanism providing the unity of the activities of the organism. Our discovery of the substance of the Kyungrak system was of great significance in overcoming such shortcomings in modern biology. In this connection we made public the result of our research in August 1961. We have carried on our research into the Kyungrak system in two main directions. One has been the deeper study of the anatomico-histological features and the functional features of the Kyungrak system as a specific, new connective system of the organism and the other has been the exposition of mechanism regulating the biochemical processes of the Kyungrak system. In the course of our research we have been further :convinced that a certain new system is playing a part in the mechanism regulating the ma- terial metabolism, the basis of the vital activities ensuring the unity of activities of the organism. In our view, this new system is one specifically linking and re- gulating the processes occurring in all positions of the organism. In the course of our research into the Kyungrak system we have re- ? ceived boundless solicitude by Comrade- Kim Il Sung personally and the Central Committee of the -Korean Workers' Party. We have also been given warm support and encouragement by the scientific world and the people at home and abroad. This has been the source of immense inspiration in our research Work: - 1 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 Part I MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE KYUNGRAK SYSTEM Our discovery of the substance of Kyungrak has raised a new ques- tion of principle before modern biology. Having discovered the Kyungrak system as a new anatomico-histolo- gical system distinct from the vascular and nervous systems, our research staff set it as the first and foremost task in its further research systema- tically to elucidate the general morphological features of the Kyungrak system. We have conducted morphological study of the Kyungrak system through experiments on human bodies and animals applying various anatomico-histological research methods. As a result, we have discovered a number of new structures. Chapter I MORPHOLOGY OF THE BOIGHAN CORPUSCLE I. ANATOMICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE BONGHAN CORPUSCLE After discovering the Bonghan corpuscles (Corpusculum Bonghan, structures found in the Kyunghyul positions) distributed in the skin, we have found them also deep in the organism. This confirmed that the Bong- han corpuscles are classified into the superficial Bonghan corpuscles and the profund Bonghan corpuscles according to their location, forms and structure. ? 2 ? 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Anatomical Observations on the Superficial Bonghan Corpuscle By the vivi-staining method and by the unique external appearance of the Kyunghyul position we could unmistakably single out the Bong- han corpuscles and basically clarify their morphological features, The surface of the Kyunghyul position in the living body is more lustrous than in the non-Kyunghyul position and has a light yellowish colour and the appearance of softness (Fig. I). The Bonghan corpuscle located in the reticular layer of the skin in the Kyunghyul position is an oval structure with a long diameter of 1.0-3.0 mm and a short diameter of 0.5-1.0 mm, and its long axis stands vertical to the surface of the skin (Fig. 2). The bottom-most part of the Bonghan corpuscle is connected with the bundle of blood vessels and Bonghan ducts. Comparatively large blood vessels run around the Bonghan corpus- cle, their branches touching it. The Bonghan corpuscle and tissues around it are loosely linked with each other, and there is comparatively much tissue fluid in the con- nective tissues. The exposed Bonghan corpuscle is more transparent than the tissues around it and is of light yellow colour. When it is dissected, semi-trans- parent, semi-fluid, tacky Bonghan liquor flows out of it. B. Anatomical Observations on the Profund Bonghan Corpuscle It has been established that profund Bonghan corpuscles are located deep in the subcutaneous tissues, in and around the blood and lymphatic vessels and around the internal organs and that they are connected with the superficial Bonghan corpuscles and internal organs by the Bonghan ducts. The profund Bonghan corpuscle ?is a long fusiform one (cucumber- shape) with blunt ends or an oval form. It measures 3.0-7.0 mm in long diameter and 0.5-1.0 mm in short diameter. Both ends of the Bonghan corpuscle are connected with the Bonghan duct. The profund Bonghan corpuscle looks more compact than the suf., rounding tissues and has a light yellow colour ,and a comparatively dis- tinctive features. Hosts of capillary nets are interwoven around the Bonghan corpuscle. ? 3 ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 2. HISTOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE BONGHAN CORPUSCLE The Bonghan corpuscle is not only an anatomical structure with a distinct boundary but has a very special histological structure hitherto unknown. The superficial and profund Bonghan corpuscles are similar to each other hi that both are linked with the Bonghan ducts and are formed of specific cells, but they have a number of different points in structure. A. Histological Structure of the Superficial Bonghan Corpuscle The superficial Bonghan corpuscle comprises the outer layer made up of smooth muscle and the inner substance made lip of special cellular elements and many capillary nets (Fig. 3). The outer layer made up of thick smooth muscle layer can be sub- divided into outer circulating layer and inner longitudinal layer accord- ing to the direction the muscle fibre runs (Fig. 4). At the top of the superficial Bonghan corpuscle, the smooth muscle fibres spread out in the connective tissues around them, towards the layer of the epidermis (Fig. 5). The outer circulating layer is a thin smooth muscle fibre layer sur- rounding the Bonghan corpuscle. It can be distinctly observed in the fresh specimen that exposes the Bonghan corpuscle (Fig. 2). The smooth muscle fibres in the outer circulating layer are loosely linked up with the connective tissues around them. The inner longitudinal layer is a thick smooth muscle layer, its fibres running parallel with the long axis of the Bonghan corpuscle. Of these fibres the muscle fibres abutting on the inner substance run obliquely up to the region bordering on the inner substance and there they all end together. Therefore their border is distinct. The thickness .of the inner longitudinal layer is not uniform; one part is thicker than the other (Fig. 6). We observed a peculiar phenomenon when we applied a needle to the centre of the superficial Bonghan corpuscle from the surface of the skin. The needle slowly makes a conical movement, subtly trembling, an.d at times it moves vertically to the surface of the skin. This serves to show the characteristic feature of the movement of the Bonghan corpuscle. This phenomenon is named "Kim Se Wook pheno- menon" (Phenomenon Kim Sc Uc) after its discoverer. The outer layer becomes gradually thinner as it reaches the bottom of the. Bonghan corpuscle; the space between the muscle fibres grows ? 4 ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 h ? le ' ? 4,???? ;1'4 kei t ? :10. '..."11 j?.kig?-f ,; !a...VV.( Ole: r c:Itetallano. ? 'AIR . ?, ??? is* . . .rsty: ?. ? ? ',?4 '`? 41???? ? 116.:14?6?' et. ?0;??? 3t;611 ? 'AA.,Xa ,V ?*a "V?1,7400. ',frst *". ??4 4 i'ei.1:1ABA: ? f , ; ???????' " . ' 44,0 ..? 4 el ? kir.A * .41. ? 4 tt'? ?? :17 ? ? 1.1)4 41% .? ,; .' , 1 ,,? ii? - ? 0- ..;-. u a -? q?P ? ke?0.-1116- , f.f".: 0ta.? - --y6 i,. ,,, : . ? 0,- . ? Cw . , r ..- i?. ? -6. \ ? - ? ? ** , ,* .' -):* lo64 - ? ? .: ? .,.., . ,'. 1.:. tlt t -t..? .r. . t . - ? k- ? s . ? .-.,.... ? or% ? -. ...?,..r. . e!....s? -1! . - -.: :. .. %,,??.?? 0 .4; 6 t? ??,..? v. 4 4 at S . . 1 .... ? ? V. ? N - . 0.. ? .4 ,361 ;? ? - 711 W 4', .76 ? 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Longitudinal section of superficial Bonghan corpuscle (16X6.3) Epidermis Radiating smooth muscle fibre Outer circulat- ing layer , Inner longitu- dinal layer Inner substance Bonghan duct- blood vessel bundle Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 S Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 - , STAT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/02/19: CIA-RDP80-00247A002200090001-6 Smooth muscle fibre of outer circulating layer ? Fig. 4. Outer. layer of superficial Bonghan corpuscle (longitudinal section) (16X16) Fig. 5. 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