I am soliciting feedback on the following two paragraphs describing the nature of acupoints. I will appreciate any thoughts and feedback. Be honest. Be brutal if it suits. Thank you.

"The acupoints and channels in Chinese medicine may correspond to structures and patterns that originate from embryonic development. During the embryonic stage, specific cell types and layers form the foundation of our body. As the body grows and unfolds, these layers and structures expand and relocate, akin to the petals of a flower. The acupoints and channels could be seen as remnants of these early developmental layers, now dispersed throughout the body but still maintaining their interconnectedness from the embryonic stage."

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“I have the secret theory (secret only in the sense that I have this idea but have yet to express it) that the embryo has structure--layers, if you will,-- that remain present as the body expands, unfolding like a flower, so that the layer can be found at the edge of a "petal" (to extend the metaphor) and then again at another place anatomically far away that had been once part of the same embryonic formation before the unfolding began. I consider that the channels and the points on the channels may be like this. Once part of the same physical "stuff" from which we grew, but through that growth and expansion, that unfolding process, we find these layers at disparate parts of the body."

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