I have recently figured out a few things about making treatment remedies of FSM protocols . First I figured out a way to make individual bottles for FSM instead of a bunch at a time. It turns out that I can just put the treatment bottle on my Earthing plate that I also use for remote FSM treatments and run the protocol through the plate and it will imprint on the water/alcohol mix in the bottle. That way, I can make a custom protocol for someone and make a treatment bottle of it with no fuss. In addition, I have figured out how to get past the limitations on how long a protocol can be imprinted. I even know how to get past that limitation for Bach Remedies as well. All it took was to research structures water to understand it better and then use my training as an electrical engineer to understand how to get past the supposed limitations. And every indication is that it works! I have managed to make a remedy of a protocol that is 1-1/3 hours long. and I hope to get it up to 1-1/2 to 1-3/4 hours. We shall see. But since many of the protocols that have been developed are less than 1-1/3 hours long, this can be very useful to do. It can allow a patient to treat themselves at home which can help extend the time between visits. Saving them money. Remote visits can do the same thing.

And I have also discovered a way to make the remedies work even better! It turns out that if you put their picture on the plate when making the remedy, it makes it work faster and stronger. Who knew? I found out entirely by accident one day. A patient wanted another bottle of a customized Relax and Balance protocol she was using to help her get to sleep. So I ran it remotely instead of on her directly to kill two birds with one stone. To both of our surprise, it worked much better than usual. At first I thought it might be due to her field interacting with the process (a person’s field typically extends about three feet out from their body), but further experiments with another patient proved it was just the picture that made all the difference. My current thinking is that it must be like getting two different treatments at the same time. All I know for sure is that it really makes the treatment work much better.

Being an acupuncturist AND an electrical engineer has proven useful once again.

#FSM, #Frequency Specific Microcurrent, #FSM remedies

I was just doing some research on the subject and came upon a few realizations that are worth sharing. Structured water forms naturally off of hydrophilic surfaces (which are abundant in the body). So structured water exists everywhere in the body and we have no idea what it does! There is some evidence that it is partly responsible for the phase transitions that are involved in much of cellular functions. It is sensitive to light (especially the infrared wavelengths) which makes the region grow faster. So if you are trying to imprint information on it, the limit to the amount of information that can be stored depends on the size of the structured water with the information stored on the molecular bonds. The real limits are the size of the hydrophilic surface and amount of water adjacent to it that can be turned into H3O2. Past that is how long the frequencies are run and at what current. For a Bach Remedy, if you want to use 8 or more remedies in a treatment bottle, you just have to sucuss it longer to supply more energy and more time to get it to imprint. Do you understand? For FSM remedies, you are limited somewhat pairby the length of time a protocol is run. You just have to make sure each pair of frequencies is run for enough time depending on the current level the protocol is run at. I know so far you need 5 minutes per pair at 100uA works well. My guess is that 3 minutes at 200uA will probably work but I have not tried that combination yet. Basically, it takes time to lay down the layers of structured water down, but putting more energy into the system will speed up the process somewhat. That’s what I get from the research so far.

Now I am trying to use a protocol I made to treat polyps and skin tags that I know works on me. I made a treatment bottle with every frequency pair run for either 5 or 10 minutes. And for good measure I ran it at 200uA. I will take the drops instead of running it remotely until my next colonoscopy. Hopefully I will have no polyps. I will have it in March. Run directly, it got rid of 2 large polyps I could palpate, so I know that works because I could feel them get smaller and finally disappear.

I am close to releasing my second book “Scientific Acupuncture” which focuses on the many treatments I use in performing Scientific Acupuncture. This involves needling techniques to the many electro-acupuncture treatments, many of which I developed. Because it is so important for you to understand why/how they work, I explain that too. Because it is so focused, It is a shorter book so it is an easier read.This is the second installment of what I expect to be a four book series. The last two books will be one on Scalp acupuncture and one that describes how I treat or would treat a wide variety of conditions, and will include any new treatments I have developed since “Scientific Acupuncture”. I will be publishing “Scientific Acupuncture” myself and will be sold through my clinic’s website. I’ll let you know when it becomes available.

I have come up with a treatment to fill in wrinkles . For smaller wrinkles the effects will be fairly lasting. I am using electricity to attract water (your own body’s fluids) to fill in the wrinkle. And maybe the water will be replaced with collagen over time. For various technical reasons, some of the effects will be long lasting. Now I have only done this on myself so far and I want to do it on more people with different size wrinkles and in different places So, I am willing to do these treatments for free in order to gain more experience. So, if you want to participate, call me at 206-850-7999 to set up an appointment and to answer any questions you may have.

Ithought you might be interested in the things I am working on. First, I am working on a few more books. The next one I expect to come out will be on all the treatment techniques I use in my clinic that make up scientific acupuncture in practice. Since a lot of acupuncturists don’t care about how something works, they just want to know how to do it, I thought this type of book would be more appealing. Even so, I do include how everything works. It also contains techniques I use or developed since my first book. They include FSM remote treatments and making treatment bottles of protocols with the frequencies imprinted in a water/alcohol mixture. Also my bone-on-bone treatment, which does work. Also a treatment I am developing at this writing to temporarily get rid of wrinkles. This appears to be working too.

My third book will be on how I have treated successfully all kinds of conditions or how I would treat a condition I haven’t had the opportunity to treat yet. For example, there is a good treatment for Goiters that I haven’t had a chance to use yet. Basically, it will tell you how to use scientific acupuncture to treat a wide variety of conditions.

I am also working on a research proposal for acupuncture. This Fall and Winter I will be getting back to building my designs for various devices. This will probably be slow and frustrating because of my disability. Have you ever tried soldering with one hand? So I will be working on the simplest ones first to further improve my technique. One will be for the bone-on-bone treatment to provide a battery powered device you can put in your pocket. Next is a device to do d.c. treatments. Then there’s one for d.c. treatments that has a display to sow you the current you are running which is important when using various size electrodes. From there I will try to make these all production models to sell. Then I will start on the more complicated devices. First one for point detection and diagnosis. Then the most complicated one which will be able to do almost all of my treatments. It will not do d.c. which is covered by another device. But my machine will be able to do much more than any other machine on the market, even hemisync®. Then there’s devices I have thought of that have nothing to do with acupuncture such as a long distance communications device for communication in space. That came to me while doing remote FSM treatments. And then there’s my continuing recovery from my stroke. Which I wouldn’t have to do if the doctor at my first rehab center would have let me treat myself with scalp acupuncture. I lost 6 weeks of therapy when it would have done the most good. But I have managed to get more use of my bicep muscle 6 years post stroke. So my book on treating stroke will be the last book. At least on acupuncture.

I have just come across “The Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies”. It has many research articles, some of which are of particular interest so far and deserve discussion here. The first one is “Defining Meridians:A Modern Basis of Understanding”. The second one is “Possible Applications for Fascial Anatomy and Fasciaaology in Traditional Chinese Medicine”. Let’s look at the first one first.

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. 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 the 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 phenomena is moving Qi can sometimes apparently dilate the capillaries or blood vessels (which wee 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 generaly 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 bio-electric 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 bio-electric 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 do not 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.

How you were taught to needle points in school was not scientific! You still do not really know what you are doing! you may be getting OK results but do you understand Why? Do you know anything about the bio-electric effects? And if you do, do you know how to use them? I seriously doubt it since it is not a part of TCM. You need to read the page “Point Needling Techniques” and educate yourself. After 30 years in practice, I am acutely aware of the shortcomings in our schools curriculum. Just like you, they think teaching TCM is enough. It is only a firm foundation for the rest of your training. It is necessary but not really enough. Because you still have not been taught the science of how it works. Only then can you really know what you are doing. Or how to do it safely and effectively.

Thank you for coming to my website. For taking interest in what I have to say. I think you will find my explanations easy to understand and make sense. I am happy to answer any questions you may have. In fact I have made a Facebook group for just that. It is”Scientific Acupuncture”. But you can e-mail me at mark@vackent.com. Or text me at 206-850-7999. If you want to learn how to do my treatments you will have to buy my book. It is “Electro-Acupuncture for Practitioners” and is available on Amazon in either paperback or e-book form. But you will find most of the how acupuncture works on these pages.

I make corrections on these posts and pages as I find them. Mostly punctuation and spelling errors but I do add extra text on occasion too. I am currently writing a research proposal that I will add to the research section when I am done with it. It is my first one so bear with me. They are a lot of work. And I have lots else to keep up with.