I was introduced to these techniques by the eminent Spanish heart surgeon, Dr. J.M. Sanchez-Perez, author of Our Sixth Sense: An Organic Theory of the Unknown, 1979.

The arteriovenous anastamoses in your nail beds are known by acupuncturists as Jing-Well points (also called Sei points or Akabane points).

Jing-Well points double as both (1) acupuncture points and (2) reflexology points.

J.K. Patel (Clinical Acupuncture, 1981, 1996) wrote …

“The end or starting points of meridians located in the fingers or toes, having properties to treat acute emergencies like, shock, coma, cardiac arrest, are called jing-well points.”

“Vitamin E or selenium content is of importance to swine and deficiencies can lead to cardiac and hepatic pathology.”

“Xenotransplantation — the transplant of animal organs into human beings — is a multi-billion dollar business venture built on the anticipated sale of patented techniques and organs, as well as drugs to overcome organ-rejection. It has received strong criticism and opposition from scientists warning of the risks of new viruses crossing from animal organs to human subjects and from there to infect the population at large. But regulators are adopting a permissive attitude for clinical trials to go ahead. Scientific reports of virus crossing from pig to human cells and of viral infections in humans subjects transplanted with baboon livers are being ignored or dismissed, while inconclusive, widely faulted papers are taken as evidence that no viruses are found in xenotransplant patients.”