In the West, it was a German, Dr. Reinhold Voll, who was the first to systematically record the electrical energy of the human body. Voll used an electrical probe to measure electrical resistance at points all over the body. He discovered that there were numerous locations which gave unusual readings, that is, which had lower electrical resistance, and that the distribution of these points delineated several fixed routes.
在西方，最早開始有系統記錄人體這種生物電特性的，是一九五○年代的德國醫師傅爾，他用通上小電壓的針，測量人體的各部位，發現人體表面有許多特定的測量點，電阻比較低，這些測量點的分佈可形成一些固定的傳導路徑。