If so, are they working as claimed? You can run into problems if you don’t follow my instructions exactly. I have to assume you are not having any problems understanding what I have written because I am not getting any questions or objections to anything I have written. That is except for some of you who don’t have any background in the sciences at all. I assume you have taken some biology and chemistry as a part of your training in acupuncture. At least you should have. What I explain in my books should not be hard to understand, even for an acupuncturist. It is the charge-related phenomena that is most important for you to understand since it can influence everything else. That includes chemistry and autonomic phenomena in particular. Even the flow of extracellular fluid in the meridians is caused by charge! And you can influence that flow with acupuncture. Again, a charge related phenomena.The sensitivity of nerve endings is influenced by charge. I could go on, but I think you get my point. And were you taught any of this in school? Of course not because it is not a part of TCM theory. But my knowledge has allowed me to come up with new ways to treat things. Treatments that have proven to work clinically. From new needling techniques to new electro-acupuncture techniques. Further validating my concepts. Some of the things I have come up with are so obvious to me that it blows my mind that nobody thought of it before. Like my treatment for degenerative eye conditions such as Cataracts and Macular Degeneration. It is so easy to slow or stop the progression of Cataracts. With the right equipment, it can even be done at home while you are sleeping! Macular Degeneration is a little trickier because there are two kinds: wet and dry. But even then the treatment is pretty straight forward.
Some Comments on TENS
Many of you seem to be interested in TENS.Tens is not as useful as you might think. I started using it myself when I graduated. But I quickly discovered it’s limitations. For example, many of the machines at that time worked at 10 Hz. And that didn’t work as well as expected. But no one knew why. But I quickly found out thanks to one of my patients. 10 Hz caused an increase in muscle tightness or spasminess.That then irritated the muscle attachments which then caused inflammation and pain. Cancelling out the effect of the increased release of endorphins. It is a simple resonance with the firing rate of muscle nerve fibers. So, the device makers went to different frequencies that didn’t have that effect. But even here, they are nowhere near the effectiveness of my electro-acupuncture anti-inflammation treatment. That is because I am taking their treatment a step further by using a polarized waveform to treat the inflammation directly while still using frequencies that release endorphins. This works better than cortisone for two reasons. You are not injecting anything, so there will be less potential for pain. Second, I can do it as many times as is needed and am not limited to three shots like cortisone. So it won’t matter if I am having trouble finding the right spot to treat. And if I am, I can always use Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) instead and just treat the whole nerve instead. Now I have used a continuous a.c. signal to increase muscle tone, but that is not that common since pain increases muscle tone and spasminess. So I am usually dealing with pain with inflammation and muscle tension/spasminess.Simply put, I just have better ways to treat pain than TENS. But you still have to be aware of possible problems you can run into with my method. So, you need to know how to do it correctly as I explain in my books.
Moxa for Breech Baby
I was taught this in school and it does usually work. But Why? I found myself asking this question when I had a new patient asking for this treatment to avoid a cesarean. Now one answer could be that it is the autonomic nervous system’s response to putting heat as UB67. But I know of other effects that might be playing a role also. For example, heat will cause structured water to grow. That will cause the flow of extracellular water in the meridian to increase.Heat will also cause the increase in negative charge to make surrounding nerves to fire more often making the autonomic effects even stronger. Can you think of even more effects? Of course we know that the UB channel goes through the lower abdomen so it could affect the baby simply by tonifying that channel have seen a mother who had a restless baby when she came in and after the treatment the baby quit moving around so much. So maby the first treatment calms the baby down and followup treatments will get it to turn and then stay turned. A red LED or laser could probably do the same thing since they cause the same effects as near infrared light.
Taking the Mystery out of Acupuncture
Most acupuncturists use TCM language to explain how acupuncture works, using terms such as Qi, Elements, meridians, etc. Since most patients don’t know what those terms mean, they’re just as guilty as doctors in using Latin to confuse their patients. What’s worse is the acupuncturists themselves don’t really know how acupuncture works either. They are only taught TCM theory and if they are lucky will be taught some of the autonomic mechanisms. |But there is much more going on than autonomic effects. And those effects can also influence the autonomic effects. And there is even much more to the autonomic effects than they are taught. Such as how/why it influences the usefulness of palpation. There are bio-electric effects that are just as important as the autonomic effects if not more important. There are the many charge related effects that play an important role in acupuncture and chemistry. Even Structured Water plays an important role in the working of acupuncture. And all these things interact with each other.
I have always been curious how things work. That is why I studied electrical engineering first. Mechanical engineering came easy, So I focused on electrical and all the calculus that came with it. I liked physics which is the foundation of all engineering but liked the practical aspects of engineering more. So I took my inborn curiosity to my new profession. It took me about 25 years, But I finally came up with a comprehensive view how acupuncture works. It took me about four years to put it in writing in my first book “Electro-Acupuncture for Practitioners”. Since then, I have learned even more (such as the role of Structured Water). And have developed even more treatments (My latest is a relatively easy and simple treatment for cataracts). Some of my ideas I have trouble implementing because of my disability (strokes – have you ever tried soldering with one hand?). But I can do acupuncture with one hand. And I can write to share my knowledge. Thus this website and my books. And I still have gotten no objections to any of my views. Not one. The closest I have come was being asked “where is your research?” My answer: the research was done by others. I just saw usefulness to using their research to explain how acupuncture works. That is my gift – seeing relationships others don’t. In other words, putting the pieces together into a sensible whole.
Here are the treatments I’ve Come Up With so far:
- Treating Degeneration (Slowing or stopping it).
a. with just a needle.
b. With an Ion Pumping Chord (stronger).
c. With an electro-acupuncture machine (strongest). - Treating Inflammation.
a. With just a needle.
b. With an electro-acupuncture machine (the best way, works better than cortisone). - Treating inflammation and Degeneration at the same time (such as an inflamed nerve root and a degenerating disk).
- Influencing the flow of extracellular fluid with just a needle or two. Can be used to treat edemas and neuropathies.
- How to move extra cellular fluid where you want it to go with an electro-acupuncture machine.
- How to make a remedy out of an FSM protocol.
- How to make an FSM remedy work faster and stronger.
- How to heal a partially torn tendon ligament, labrum or meniscus or a cracked or broken bone (after the bone has been set).
- A better(more effective) way to needle the scalp when doing scalp acupuncture.
- Another sensory line in scalp acupuncture.
- Two additional lines for vision in scalp acupuncture.
- You can find points to needle in the scalp in scalp acupuncture- using palpation or a point locater.
- A way to detect autonomic disturbances of organs.
- The frequency range that increases muscle tone or spasminess.
- The frequency range that decreases muscle tone or spasminess.
- How you should needle “classical” acupuncture points and why.
- How you should needle “ah shi” acupuncture points and why.
An eeasy treatment for Cataracts.
An easy wat to treat the dry form of Macular Degeneration.
How to treat the wet form of Macular Degeneration.
- And that doesn’t include the many Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) protocols I have developed or modified for my patients.
An Exception When Needling Ah Shi Points
Normally, you needle Ah Shi points different than Classical points. But I forgot to mention when that is not the case. In particular, when the tenderness at the point is not from damage but due to autonomic relationships to know how it should be needled. Maybe you were palpating for points on on one of the “extra” channels not mentioned in TCM. Maybe you were looking for a tender point along a known channel pathway but not a classical point and not a point of known or suspected trauma. Here you should assume the point does have some relationship to a part of the body or a function of the body. So it must be treated like a classical point. Palpation is very useful but you must always think what kind of point it is.
Making FSM Remedies Stronger
I found this out quite by accident. I had a patient who came in for a treatment who wanted a bottle of the Relax & Balance protocol to help her with her sleep. Since I usually ran it in person when she came in, I thought I could kill two birds with one stone by running the treatment remotely and making the remedy at the same time. It turned out that to both of our surprise the remedy worked faster and stronger than usual! Now when I ran the treatment on her, she sat in the chair right over the metal plate I was doing the remote treatment and making the remedy with. I happen to have another patient who uses the same custom protocol, so when she came in, I made two bottles for her. One I did the same way as my other patient. The other I did with her picture on the plate as well as the bottle. Just she was home when I made it. Now a person’s magnetic field typically extends several feet out (I know this with my experiences with Therapeutic Touch), so sitting above the plate, her field encompasses the plate. So, I wanted to find out if their presence was the main cause of the effect or if the picture was itself was enough to cause this phenomenon. I did get the same effect with the bottled I made with them present. I’m waiting to hear back on the results of the other bottle. I also want to see if running the current at a higher level makes any difference. It should make the imprinting of the frequencies work better. I think it could allow a longer protocol to be successfully imprinted. One of my patient’s modified R&B protocol is 1hour and 17 minutes long and I’m only running it at 100uAmps and it is working fine. But I know that long protocols don’t work that well. Maybe running them at higher current levels might help. That would take extensive testing to find out what the limits really are. I used to think that the limit was about 1 hour at 100 uA. Now I have proof that it is at least 1 hour and 17 minutes at 100 uA. I use a questionnaire to customize the R&B protocol. And I have found that they are also somewhat time dependent also depending on how severe the emotional upset is. You can find my questionnaire on my clinic’s website “vackent.com” on the “forms” page.
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Why do you see a degenerating disk near a history of an inflamed nerve root?
This is due to a charge related phenomena. The inflamed nerve root can cause the nearby disk to become polarized. This happens by the negative charge at the nerve root pushing away the electrons at the part of the disk nearest the inflammation (like charges repel). That makes that side of the disk nearest the inflammation to degenerate. The electrons that were pushed away held the disk material together. So, the missing electrons lead to degeneration. Now, there is an easy fix to this problem, where you can treat both problems at once. Just needle the jia ji point at the nerve root that is inflamed and the Du point at the degenerating disk. Then connect an Ion Pumping Chord to both needles in such a way so the excess electrons at the inflammation will go to the needle at the Du channel. Once there they will be attracted to the positive charge at the degeneration and neutralize it. That way you will treat both problems at once. Isn’t science fun?
What do you Think?
I’d like to know what you think of my website. So far I have not gotten any objections for any of my views. Do you have any? Or any comments at all? These are just my views on how acupuncture works from a scientific perspective. Is there anything I have not explained adequately? From my point of view, it all makes sense to me. Does it make sense to you? My views are supported by my education as an electrical engineer at Georgia Tech and my training as an acupuncturist and my being in practice since 1990. My interests brought me to German bio-electric diagnostic techniques (Vegatesting), Kirlian Photography, and the works of Dr. Bjorn Nordenstrom and Drs. Darras and De Vernejoul of France to name just a few. All of that gave me the understanding necessary to put the pieces together an come up with a sensible whole. Fortunately, I think it is not that hard to understand. At least for me. Is it for you? I hope so. This is my gift to the acupuncture community. To take the mystery out of acupuncture. To bring it into the 21st century. If you are a practitioner, you will find my needling techniques will make your own treatments work better and more consistently as they have for me. And you will find that my new treatments that I describe in my books also work quite well when done correctly. My books contain a lot of information that you were not taught in school. Maybe you like the low-tech appeal of acupuncture, and aren’t really interested in what I have written. I understand the appeal but that perceptive is a mistake. If you don’t know how it works, how can you know how to do it correctly? TCM is not the whole story. Far from it. Some of what you were taught in school is actually WRONG! Like the flow in the meridians. And the fact there are more meridians than the Chinese talk about. What the Chinese got right is the point functions. And basic diagnostic skills. But you need a good understanding of Western biomedical sciences as well. You have to know your anatomy, physiology and disease processes as well. Mainly since you cannot depend on a doctor’s diagnosis. You have to know enough to figure things out on your own. That is especially true if you plan to use Frequency Specific Micro-current (FSM). You can doubt me all you want, but if you do things the way I do, you will be able to get better results and will be able to treat many more things. Just like I have. And with FSM, I can do remote treatments. All I need is a selfie of the patient. And I can explain how that works too. And I can imprint the frequencies onto a water/alcohol mixture or onto holographic stickers. So, I have a wide variety of ways to treat someone. These days, it is rare that I cannot help someone. And if it is an inflamed nerve root or tendon, I can usually fix it in 1-3 treatments.
What really sets me apart from other acupuncturists is my understanding of how I can use charge in a treatment. You weren’t taught anything about that unless you learned how to use Japanese Ion Pumping Chords. And even that wasn’t adequate.
Sincerely, Mark Reinhard Valley Acupuncture Center http://www.vackent.com
How Charge Can Effect Nerve Function
When doing traditional electro-acupuncture the negative lead will typically be felt more than the positive lead. This is because negative charge stimulates firing on the nerve. You can change this by decreasing the current density at the negative lead. The easiest way to do this is by using an electrode pad instead of a needle at the negative lead. I used this method in my anti-inflammation electro-acupuncture (AIEAC) treatment to get the sensation to the inflamed area where the pain is. That way I would get additional pain releaf from the electrical sensation at the inflamed area. Also it turns out it also dumps the negative charge where it does the least harm (on the skin, especially at the lower arm or leg). The electrons come from two places.
Now when you stick a needle in past the skin, you will cause electrons to accumulate under the skin where the needle is placed. First, they come from the surface of the skin where they naturally reside due to the capacitance of the skin. Earthing will increase the charge accumulation. The ions will go through the needle (and even through the hole after the needle is removed). Second, the electrons also come from the formation of structured water around the needle that naturally occurs. From the charge separation that occurs with EZ formation. the needle will become negatively charged. All this negative charge will cause the nerve endings near where the needle is placed to increase its firing rate. So, here the autonomic effects of acupuncture join with the bioelectric effects.
Why are so many of you interested in TENS?
It is one of the least effective treatments I talk about. It doesn’t treat the inflammation at all that is often involved, and unless you can adjust the frequency, you can’t deal with the problem of muscle tension. My anti-inflammation electro-acupuncture technique is much more effective in most cases. It is much more effective than a chiropractic adjustment because it can deal with all of the problems at once. It deals with the root cause of the pain which is the inflamed nerve root. It deals with the pain by stimulating the release of endorphins (By using 100 Hz). It deals with the muscle tension (By using 100 Hz) witch pulls the vertebrae out of alignment and is caused due to the pain. If your patient is doing both, Doing acupuncture after an adjustment, you will help the adjustment last longer. If the patients muscles are so tight that it makes the adjustment difficult, doing acupuncture before the adjustment is advisable.