I have discovered another reason for swelling or firm nodules. It is not acute or chronic inflammation. It is not any kind of scar. And it is not due to calcium deposits. It is actually due to too much accumulation of structured water. And this seems to be due to too much negative charge accumulation. How do I come to this conclusion? From personal experience and experimentation. I had a second stroke as a result of an almost completely blocked left carotid artery! So, I had surgery to remove the blockage. As a result, I had about a 3-1/2 inch wound that was stitched up. he end that the stitches were knotted up wound up more swollen than the rest. And in particular where the muscle was put back together. So I tried FSM on it. First the wound healing protocol. That seemed to help with the other side of the stitches. But did not do anything for the lump on the other side. Then I tried acute and chronic inflammation and calcium deposition on the tissues involved. Again, no change. So, then I tried the scar frequencies. Again, no change. So finally I tried my AIEAC treatment. First with a ½ inch needle. But I had a tough time keeping the needle in. So I did it with a electrode instead. The first time I did it for 15 minutes at 15Hz. That seemed to help a little. Then I tried it again for 25 minutes. And that did it. The structured water mostly broke down into bulk water and leaked out of the wound. And the lump shrank proportionately. So, a firm lump can be due to an excessive buildup of structured water. It also proved two things I already knew would be true. And one thing I suspected was true. First, that you can use an electrode instead of a needle to do AIEAC. That is useful in cases of lateral epicondylitis for treating the inflamed tendon which is usually inflamed in 2 or 3 places. Now you can just use an electrode to cover the inflamed points. Just run it for 30 minutes or so.
Second, was the realization that removing electrons will break down structured water. That was obvious to me. And I was proved right. Now I have a condition that uses it. And it works! So, my engineering background pays dividends again! The last thing is something that is true in many areas, balance in everything. Here I am thinking of balance of charge. Here my thinking is that both regeneration and inflammation both are associated with negative charge. My thinking is that regeneration is associated with less negative charge than inflammation. And apparently proper function of structured water also depends on the amount of charge. So, proper balance of charge must also be paid attention to. Too few electrons leads to degeneration and desiccation of tissues. Since electrons are needed to make bonds, they are needed in regeneration. But too many electrons leads to inflammation and accumulation of water (both structured and unstructured).
As far as my stitches go, it seems that the stitches themselves may have played a role. Are they made of a hydrophilic substance? That I don’t know until I talk to the surgeon again. And he may not even know(He didn’t). That may play a role in the long period of inflammation most patients experience so I have been told. Another clue is it happened where the muscle was stitched back together. Muscle relaxation is also involved with the formation of structured water. My guess is that whatever the material the stitch is made of is what sets it off.
As I think about it ,it occurred to me that the EZ formation may even be responsible for the formation of the meridians themselves. Let me explain how this can be possible, even probable. You heard it first here. First, let us assume that cellular structure occurs at random. Unless some ordering process is at work, the boundaries between the cells would occur randomly. Now, no matter how the cell to cell boundaries are organized, they all are mostly made up of hydrophilic surfaces. Thus, they will build EZ layers and produce H3O+which will accumulate in the extra-cellular spaces. Being of like charge, they will repel from each other, producing a pressure pushing the cells apart. The electric charge potential of the whole body pulls the positive charged H3O molecules towards the center of the body. Those combined forces can possibly make the spaces between the cells to form into channels. Building EZ layers between the cells would further increase the process. And, Wala, acupuncture meridians. The lymphatic ducts may even form starting with this process.Alternately, as the cells are dividing, the repulsive forces and the attractive forces would combine to form the channels as the tissues are growing. The body naturally provides a way to circulate the extracellular fluid so the cells can get the nutrients they require and get rid of the wastes of metabolism. This just points to the genius of the self organizing principle of the body, and the role something as simple as water has to play in that process.
I can treat it easily. First I treat the inflammation in the large Intestines which is the cause oof the pain. Next, I treat the allergic reaction in the large intestines which is often the source of the inflammation. I can even do this remotely. All I need is a picture of your face. I have even treated a dog with Colitis remotely. Of course, if you come into the clinic I can also treat the intestines with acupuncture to help with the spasms of the intestines as well. The inflammation often leads to spasms. You will most likely feel better within two treatments. For a longer fix, we kneed to figure out what you re allergic to. That is the hardest part. But treating you in this way, I can help you feel better while we try to find the cause.
With Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) which is a needless form of electro-acupuncture there is a way to do treatments remotely. You heard right, you don’t even have to come in the clinic to get a treatment! How it works is explained by a phenomenon in quantum physics called “Entanglement”. When two particles are entangled, what happens to one happens to the other instantly, no matter the distance. Sounds crazy, right? But I have been doing it for about a month now and it does seem to be working. I have even been treating dogs and it seems to be working! One was diagnosed by the vet as having colitis. So I made a protocol to treat it and after running it twice I heard the dog was doing better. Another dog was having breathing problems. Again, after running the protocol I made twice the dog was doing better!
Now one human patient I treated was a runner and had pulled his quad moscle on one leg and also had an inflamed tendon at the attachment at the tibia. So I modified the Pulled Muscle protocol to deal with the inflamed tendon and ran it once in the clinic. I ran it again remotely the next day. The third day I got a phone call to schedule another appointment and was told that his quad was doing much better but he was now suffering from pain in his shins that they didn’t mention before. So we scheduled another appointment for two days later. Unbeknownst to him I ran the acute shin splints protocol that evening. I got a call the next day to reschedule since he was feeling much better. Another patient had one of her knee jounts replaced and still was having pain in it. It felt very warm around her kneecap but I was having little effect on it with acupuncture or electro-acupuncture. It was just too widespread. So I thought FSM might be a better option. So I made up a Protocol for it. Since she couldn’t come in for a couple of weeks, I ran it remotely instead. When she finally came intoo the clinic again, Her knee felt almost normal for the first time in months and didn’t hurt as much either! So not only does it work but I must know what I am doing writing my own protocols or modifying existing ones. All I need to do a remote treatment is a good picture of the patient’s face and a good understanding of what’s wrong. Enough to knowwhat tissue types are involved and what is wrong with it. For example an inflamed nerve or tendon. There are frequencies for most tissue types and most conditions they may be suffering from. So in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, FSM can treat many conditions. Even conditions I have never even heard of, I gust google it to learn what I need to know to write a protocol, and so far it has worked to at least help.
I charge $35 for a phone consult. I charge $30 for 2 remote treatments a wek and $30 to write a custom protocol. All the Protocols (At last count over 141 of them) that come with the Custom Care software can be found in my book “Electro-Acupuncture for Practitioners” which can be found on Amazon.
This is a good review of existing research on the meridians and acupuncture points. But it misses some important points that I cover elsewhere. None of it goes against my views and some of it supports my views. So let us go over each section and discuss where it fits in into the bigger picture.
The Primo Vascular Systems (Bonghan Corpuscles and Ducts)
These are very small structures that are found over most organs and some are located inside blood and lymph vessels. They were originally identified in rabbits by a Korean physician, Kim Bong-Han in 1963. In my opinion, they are too small to be the meridians but they may be the connection between the meridians and the organs. As such, they may play a role in acupuncture’s functioning. At this time, we really do not know what these structures are for.
Anatomical Structure of Acupoints
They do mention the nerves found at acupuncture points but do not associate that with the function of the points like I do. In particular, the fact that active sympathetic nerve endings just under the skin change the skins resistance at the point and make it more tender on palpation when there is a disruption of the function or part of the body it is associated with. And the para-sympathetic innervation in the muscle is the way needling a point affects the nervous system and causes the points TCM recognized effects. Understanding these points is obvious to me because I use this knowledge every day in my practice to confirm my diagnosis and ensure that my proposed treatment is correct. And if the traditional treatment points are not tender, I can palpate for points that will work. That is how I found the point that is key in treating menopause as I talk about in my book. Now a point you think should help a problem but is not that tender or not tender at all does not mean that that point will not give the effect it is known for when needled. It just means it is not the best point and if not tender at all it probably is not related to the problem. At least that is what their nervous system is telling you. The body will tell you what it wants if you know how to ask it. For example, for a liver excess condition, you might think you should needle LV3 but it is not tender as you might expect. But if you palpate LV2, it may be very tender. That is the body telling you it is a chronic problem and needling LV2 will be more effective. LV3 will be tender for acute liver problems. I agree that measuring the resistance at an acupuncture point is not as useful as you might think. You have to know the function of points according to TCM to know which points to palpate and possibly be useful to treat. Those points will show a lower initial resistance when measured. It is just the way the nervous system is wired. But as we all should know by now, sensation is required to get the effect. But of course, this applies to traditional points and micro-system points only.
Imaging Studies
Their assessment of the French work is not very thorough. They do not recognize that the meridians are related to the circulation of extra cellular fluid. And that recognition is the whole ballgame. And they miss it entirely. And I have proved it is correct by coming up with treatments based on this knowledge that proved to work clinically! Besides, it makes perfect sense. And makes up for the imperfect understanding of Western Medicine that only the lymphatics are involved and ignore the fact that they are not working when you are inactive. So how do all the cells of the body exchange nutrients and waste products when you are sleeping? Western Medicine has no answer and chooses to just ignore the question. Pathetic. Most imaging studies fail because they don’t know what they are looking for. For example, most fluorescent dyes will not work because they are too big to flow in the extracellular spaces which are only 5x15um in size.
Then there is the question of the flow itself. Here they say it is involved with the venous system. That is not what the French research says at all. They purposely compare it to blood and lymph flow and find that they all behave differently! Here are two images from a published article I have.
From these pictures, you can see the channel clearly and it is quite wide. (My guess is ½-3/4”). So, it cannot be the Primo Vascular Systems (Bonghan Corpuscles and Ducts). And this is what you might expect if the channels are indeed responsible for providing a baseline amount of extra cellular fluid circulation for the cells. This also brings up the fact that there are more channels than you were taught (The Germans even give them names). And there are probably even more than that which are more shallow and deeper than the traditional channels.
Now my being an acupuncturist as well as having learned Therapeutic Touch, I bring certain experiences to the discussion that are worth mentioning. First of all, on several occasions when I was assessing someone with Therapeutic Touch who had a cold/flu or a sinus infection, I could “feel” the large intestine channel from the shoulder to the elbow and hand. And if it was a sinus infection, I could “feel”some disturbance in the nose area. I’m sure some ancient practitioners could do the same thing and those experiences could have also contributed to the development of the idea of channels.
Now when I was a student, our teacher was showing us how to needle SP6 and the channel all of a sudden “lit op” as if someone drew the channel with a res magic marker halfway up her lower leg. Our teacher was beside herself saying how rare that effect was. It was 1/8” or a little wider and not ¼”. Now I saw this again in China during a Qi Gong demonstration by a “master”. He was trying to move his Qi from his Dan Tien to his mouth and the Ren channel “lit up” red just like before. The only thing I can think of to explain this phenomenon is moving Qi can sometimes apparently dilate the capillaries or blood vessels (which we know acupuncture does in general) but to trace the channel like that is something else. Both times they look the same size and color.
Now another phenomenon that shows the existence of meridians involves a technique we were taught to treat angina. It involved using moxa on the HT5-7 area an when you did, the patient could feel the warmth go up their arm along the heart channel and you would keep going until the sensation reached their heart. So, you can use moxa to find out where channels go too if you know what you are doing.
A thing they do mention is shining light on an acupuncture point and detecting it at another point on the same channel. That would make some sense since the meridian are essentially the spaces between the cells lined up to make a channel (thus making use of existing structure) filled with water and would act like a poorly designed fiber optic cable. But the light would generally be seen around the point you shined it at. The light bounces off the cell walls and goes everywhere. Not that much would be carried along the channel. Resistance measurements between points on the same channel can show how much tissue in tn the current path. You can even use this method to objectively show there is a “blockage” in a channel by comparing the reading with the same points on the other side. I’m surprised no one has thought of this before. Probably because no one figured out what the meridians really were before me. I believe the meridians were formed during development and follow the electric lines of force put out by the body (See Dr. Beckers work). From Dr. Nordenstrom’s work we know that structure can form in the presence of an electric field. I have used this fact to use electro-acupuncture to re-line-up meridians that were misaligned by trauma and even the surgery to repair the damage. Just one more thing I have figured out that no one else has.
Skin Resistance
Nowhere do they look at the electrical properties of skin other than saying the skin has a voltage of between 20-90mV between the surface and underside. They say nothing about the capacitance of the skin which makes a modern multimeter not have a consistent resistance reading. Neither do they mention the excess negative charge (electrons) on the surface of the skin. Or what happens when you put a needle in. And apparently, they are not aware of Dr. Nordenstrom’s work and electroosmosis. And that failure is huge, because that explains the bio-electric effects of acupuncture, which they don’t consider at all. And nowhere do they investigate the resistance between points on the same channel which you can use to prove objectively there is a blockage in a channel and what that even represents. Now the only technique to measure the resistance of acupuncture points for diagnosis is based on what a Romanian doctor did. He built a Kirlian photography table to take a picture of the whole back to diagnose organ problems before any Western test could find anything. Basically, the back shu points would light up if there was a problem with it’s associated organ. I do the same thing with a normal point finder with a roller electrode. With the sensitivity set pretty low and rolling up and down the bladder channel, I can find the shu points that react. And they will usually correspond with the patient’s symptomology. You are finding autonomic disturbances before there is any pathology. So, they might not even have symptoms yet. For example, I did this on my stepson and the lungs and kidneys showed up. The lungs were because of his allergies. But he couldn’t understand the kidneys. That too could be due to his allergies but I thought it was probably due to him being sexually active (he was in his 20’s). I explained sex weakens the kidneys and that is why it showed up. We had a good laugh.
The Neural Hypothesis
This I generally agree with but it is nowhere near complete. The Gate Control Theory is not mentioned. The work of the Japanese and Ryodoraku is barely covered. So, they just agree that the nervous system is involved but don’t really explain how like I do. And they don’t even talk about the difference between Ah Shi points and Classical points and how that can influence how you should needle them. So, again, right conclusion but hardly complete like my explanations are.
So let me again explain it to you. “Classical points” are the ones that owe their effects to the nervous system. Each point is associated with some part or function of the body. When that part or function is “disturbed” what can best described as “a stress response” is sent out to the associated point through the sympathetic part of the nervous system to the sympathetic innervation at the point which is just under the skin. This changes the skin resistance at the point and makes it more tender on palpation. When you needle a point, De Qi is usually obtained by stimulating the parasympathetic nerve endings at the point which lies deeper in the muscle. That stimulation produces the effects the point is known for. And the stronger the stimulation, the stronger the effect, up to a point. Causing pain stimulates a sympathetic response which we don’t want. Also, the patient’s relative balance of their nervous system also makes it more or less sensitive to stimulation or needle shock. In general, people who are very sensitive require much less stimulation to get the effect and those who have a high pain threshold generally require more stimulation to get an effect. Around. Ah Shi points are best thought of as being due to some sort of trauma to the body and just locates where the damage is. Most of the effects from needling these points are bioelectric and do not require sensation to work. For problems such as broken or cracked bones or partially torn tendons, you don’t want to needle the Ah Shi point itself, but rather needle either side of it and do the appropriate electro-acupuncture or use FSM instead. Both will speed up healing but from my experience, FSM takes longer to do and usually requires more treatments but doesn’t use needles at all. Their mechanism of action are completely different.
Ah Shi points have no relationship to the nervous system although some effects happen no matter where you put the needle. So, in that sense, there is no such thing as “sham acupuncture”. In particular, you will always get certain bioelectric effects. Mostly by moving electrons.
Neural Pathways Activated by Acupuncture
See above. Much work has been done using EA (See work done by Han et al for example) that shows different frequencies affect different nerve fibers. No one I have read talks about the effect of certain ranges of frequencies affecting muscle tone. An important thing to know clinically. I had a patient whose nervous system was quite sensitive and showed me those effects quite readily. This knowledge dictates what frequency I use in a treatment. Something else I have discovered that no one else talks about. Also, if you try to do the Han combination of 2/100Hz in Dense-Disperse mode, you will find that your patient will only feel 100Hz and the 2Hz not at all. So you will not get the effect at all (requires that they feel it to work).Has to do with the design of the machine. You typically cannot adjust the intensity of each frequency separately. Otherwise, the information here can explain why some points are better to use than others under certain conditions.
Microsystems
They donot really talk about microsystems, more or less pose a theory why we have them in the first place. But I do. Enough said. Points on the microsystems behave like the classical points so should be treated the same way.
I have created the website “scienntific-acupuncture.com” That how everything I do as an acupuncturist works in an easy to understand and sensible way. I have yet to receive any arguments against anything. I have also formed the Facebook group “Scientific Acupuncture” where I can answer questions and foster discussion.
The style of acupuncture I do I call Scientific Acupuncture because it is based on my knowledge of how acupuncture works scientifically. It is beyond the Western views and the TCM view of how acupuncture works. Because of my background in electrical engineering and my over 30 years in practice and my other interests, I was exposed to research others know nothing about and knew how to put the pieces together into a logical and sensible whole. I did this, know one else. And I have developed treatments based on this knowledge that have proven to work clinically. I have put the how it works in the website “scientific-acupuncture.com”. But if you are an acupuncturist and want to know how to do my treatments, you will have to buy my book “Electro-Acupuncture for Practitioners” available on Amazon.
I have a way to get rid of it rather quickly. I haven’t had a chance to try it myself so I am willing to treat my first patient for free.And I don’t even have to use needles!
I have been working on a treatment for bone-on-bone joints. I think I have figured out how to regrow a meniscus (knee) and avoid an expensive joint replacement surgery. I know all the science on how it can be done. It is not that complicated. You just have to know what I know.
Well, my bone-on-bone knee joint patient is still doing well. No pain at all unless she stands a long time or rides her exercise bike. Even then she recovers fast. It looks like we are re-growing the meniscus and providing cushion to the joint. She tried it on her other knee (replaced) and did not get any relief, so it is not causing a release of endorphins or it would have helped the other knee. And we grew enough cushion in 90 minutes (the first treatment) to get significant pain relief. Now it is the knee she had replaced that causes her the most pain. It appears there is inflammation around the kneecap. So I am starting to treat that too. It is very rewarding to see another of my treatments work even better than expected. I am just applying my engineering training to induce a phenomena that occurs naturally in the body under the right circumstances. And coming up with a better solution to an expensive problem. And do it at 40 times less money. And doctors think this is impossible, hogwash! They would rather have you undergo a $20,000 surgery! I can regrow the cushion in weeks! And you can do it at home while watching TV! Isn’t that a better solution? And it took an acupuncturist/engineer to figure it out.
She is still improving. I’ve had to make some adjustments to the treatment but they are helping. She is able to do more that she couldn’t do before. I anticipated I would have to make adjustments to the treatment and I was right. Just fine tuning the technique. After all, I am doing the impossible according to doctors. But they don’t know what I know. They are not as smart as they think they are.
I have developed a treatment for bone-on-bone joints such as a knee or hip. It will avoid joint replacement surgery. the patient can do it themselves at home even while watching TV or sleeping. You don’t even feel it. So far I have only been able to try it on one patient so far but results are very positive so far. She has had a reduction of pain and improved quality of life by being able to do more. Now she has more pain in her other knee which she did have replacement surgery on. Goo figure. The treatment should regrow the meniscus but we have not gotten far enough to tell yet. I know EXACTLY how and why it should work. Doctors think it is impossible. Hogwash! Even if I just get pain relief, the amount of relief I have gotten so far still can avoid the need for surgery! That is a big deal. And it wasn’t a doctor or scientist who came up with it. Just an acupuncturist who is also an electrical engineer! Me. With my interests and background, I was able to put the pieces together to make it work. And so far it has exceeded expectations.
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