Frameworks compete
Zang-Fu, qi-blood-fluid, Six Conformations and Sanjiao models may each reveal something different. Choosing one too early can erase useful information.
FOR ACUPUNCTURISTS, KAMPO PRACTITIONERS, EDUCATORS AND RESEARCHERS
Make the reasoning behind East Asian medicine visible.
MLMN—the Multi-Layer Meta-Network—is a proposed research framework for recording a patient encounter across ten interacting layers. It is designed to preserve observations, competing interpretations, treatment rationale and change over time instead of compressing them into a single pattern label.
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THE PROBLEM
A diagnosis may be concise. Clinical reasoning rarely is.
Pulse, tongue, abdomen, acupoint response, life context, causation and temporal change can all matter in one encounter. When the record ends with one pattern label, the path from observation to action—and the alternatives that were rejected—can disappear.
Texts and practice separate
A classical passage can be read accurately yet remain disconnected from bodily findings, treatment operations and observed response.
Experience stays tacit
If expert judgment remains only in the practitioner's head, it is difficult to teach, compare, challenge or update.
WHAT MLMN DOES
Keep ten questions open before forcing one answer.
ObservePulse, tongue, abdomen, acupoint response and history
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Map ten layersPreserve different theoretical coordinates
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Compare hypothesesRecord support, conflict and missing evidence
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Update by responseReturn observed change to the next decision
MLMN is not an automated diagnosis or treatment generator. It is a research proposition for making practitioner reasoning reviewable while preserving uncertainty and change over time.
START HERE
Three useful entrances to the project.
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MLMN starter guide
A ten-layer quick reference, a four-step case-reading method and a route into the source projects.
Get immediate access →APPLICATIONModel cases
See how one-label pattern identification differs from a layered, revisable record.
View the cases →SOURCESClassical-text laboratory
Separate source image, OCR, transcription, translation, commentary and research inference.
Explore the method →
CLASSICS, NOT DECORATION
Return every claim to a source that can be inspected.
Wisdom Terra is building research materials that distinguish the original image, OCR output, edited transcription, modern-language rendering, historical commentary and MLMN interpretation. The aim is not to make classical authority unquestionable, but to make the route from source to clinical hypothesis visible.
FOUNDER
Developed from more than thirty years of clinical practice.
Koichi Ishihara opened his acupuncture practice at the age of twenty-two and has continued clinical work and the study of East Asian medical classics for more than three decades. MLMN grew from a practical question: how can different traditions of reasoning be compared without pretending that one label contains the whole patient?
Theory should not imprison practice. It should help us return to the question we failed to ask.— Wisdom Terra / MLMN
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Begin with the ten-layer map.
Register for immediate access to the English MLMN starter guide and occasional notices about new model cases, classical-source work and research participation.
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