First and foremost it should be stated that Acupuncture does NOT solely come under the auspices of the medical fraternity, in fact at one point a factual statement made by many medical practitioners to the uninformed public, was that the needles utilised where placed into nerves on a persons body?
Having a needle inserted into a nerve would cause extreme pain and discomfort, that would subsequently carry on because of the nerve damage caused, so clearly the statement of needles being placed into nerves is NOT applicable and rhetorical nonsense.
Secondly, acupuncture is NOT regulated by any statutory English or Medical Law at this moment in time of December 2008, as a regulatory and registration organisation.
It is envisaged that it will become necessary to register in and around the year 2009, or sooner?
How do I know this, because I was part of this process, but resigned in November 2007, because of the problems with my mothers neglectful abysmal health care, this again is a documented fact, which if needed can be proven.
Regulation at this moment in time is via acupuncture organisations and Local Council PCT registration with the inspection of premises. Of which I am registered with Wigan PCT, and my premises are been inspected by "spot checks".
Overview of Acupuncture:
Acupuncture is understood by many as being solely of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) in origin, primarily because of this systems ease of application in treatment.
However, there are many different types of Acupuncture, with different applications and diagnostic protocols.
It is also documented as being within the Egyptian and Indian cultures at times quoted.
Below are the main types of Acupuncture, they are in no particular order of priority.
As with all TCM acupuncture training it is based upon utilising Eastern diagnostic indicators and Chinese terminology.
Formulae Acupuncture Eastern TCM:
The use of different types of known therapeutically acupuncture formulae with different types of applications.
5 elements Acupuncture Eastern TCM:
The diagnostic use of wrist pulses in determining which acupuncture meridians / points should be utilised.
Formulae Acupuncture Western Medical Systems:
Practiced by Doctors; Nurses; Physiotherapists; each have their own systems of formulae acupuncture utilising a Western Medical diagnosis; diagnostic indicators and terminology.
Auricular (Ear) Acupuncture Eastern TCM:
The use of known therapeutically acupuncture formulae with different applications.
Nose Acupuncture Japanese:
The use of known therapeutically acupuncture formulae with different applications.
Hand Acupuncture Japanese:
The use of known therapeutically acupuncture formulae with different applications.
Voll EAV or Electro Dermal Screening, European based system of Acupuncture utilising measurements:
Measures individual acupuncture points numerically in determining what is happening and which acupuncture points are going to be effective with treatment, utilising Western Medical diagnostic indicators and terminology.
This system has more measurable and different points than TCM.
Nogier Auricular (Ear) acupuncture, a European based system of auricular acupuncture utilising numerical measurements:
Measures individual acupuncture points numerically in determining what is happening and which acupuncture points are going to be effective with treatment, utilising Western Medical diagnostic indicators and terminology.
This system has more measurable and different points than TCM Auricular (Ear) acupuncture.
Diagnostic equipment:
There are many types of diagnostic equipment that can be utilised in assessing the acupuncture needs of a patient. Diagnosis being the FOUNDATION of ANY treatment. Without reasonable access to replicable diagnostic procedures then at best the practitioner is making hopefully a good guess, before treating ANY patient. Which then becomes reliant on their Anatomy & Physiology knowledge etc, even with this ability .... How will the practitioner document and record what type of |
BEEP or BEEP's they have found for future case history reference, referrals or evidenced based Scientific Research? How will they know which point or points were the most effective?
Kirlian Photography, which is a well documented application in the profiling of acupuncture.
It is also utilised scientifically for taking energy photographs of other forms, such as a tree leaf when first taken from a tree and later as it dies off, this can be demonstrated by taking photographs of its "energy", before and after.
As a final statement on this subject area, all life forms have an electrical energy profile, one example being the utilisation in Hospitals of ECG's etc, in helping with the diagnosis and profiling of patients conditions.
During my mothers convalescence in Astley Hospital we brought her home as her condition improved.
This gave me the opportunity to take Kirlian photographs of my mothers energy profile and the further ability to observe her progress or no progress as the Kirlian photography would have revealed, in treating her daily whilst in Hospital.
You cannot force or hold a patients hands or feet when Kirlian photo's are being taken.
This would result in a discharge shock to the person trying to do this, which would definitely make them let go!
However, the person whose Kirlian photograph is being taken feels nothing at all, this is a well documented process with Class 2 EEC certification in being safe.
These are examples of our clinics Kirlian photographs taken of my mother at the time of her convalescence.
Which with her permission were also utilised in teaching acupuncture students, and are documented in student manuals, as to the beneficial effects of using European systems acupuncture.
Which also reinforces my mothers informed consent, both for treatment and the teaching of acupuncture students.
Kirlian photographs are taken on A4 black and white negative paper, as with any photographs they cannot be forged. Notice the differences between the photographs, on the first Kirlian Photograph my mothers left hand is "dragging". Progressively she has the ability not to drag her left hand on the negative of these other Kirlian Photographs. |
These Kirlian Photographs as with others were utilised in training acupuncture students, with my mothers full knowledge and permission.
This is an example of Electro Dermal Screening "Primum non nocere" No needles are utilised, only a blunt probe tip. Nothing is felt by the patient except a slight amount of pressure. This type of assessment is utilised before ANY treatment is considered or administered. This is only one way of assessing patients via European based systems of acupuncture via numerical "electrical" readings. The areas flashing in red are systems/organs needing further investigative readings taking in assessing what is happening with the person, in being a causal chain of symptoms. |
Treatment Applications:
Some of the most common types of treatment and as with acupuncture diagnosis, there are many ways of applying acupuncture treatments, some of which the patient does not "feel" anything:
1) The use of needles
2) The use of lasers
3) The use of LED's (light emitting diodes)
4) The use of frequencies with contact electrodes
5) The use of colour applications.
Acupuncture Critiques?
It seems that acupuncture is still trying to be "held" in the dark ages.
This is a reply that I sent back to recently to a circulated e-mail on European Voll Acupuncture.
-----Original Message-----
From: Name witheld
Sent: 13 December 2008 14:04
To: Name witheld
Subject: Help please
Name witheld
I trust you are well. I wonder if you could offer some help please. I have recently been appointed Chair of the ********* Acupuncture Regulatory Working Group which is working towards self regulation with the Federation for Integrated Health. One of the observers who attended the meeting last Friday was from the Association of Nutritionists.
Although they do not use electroacupuncture in their field of work they do use electroacupuncture "Vol" machines as a diagnostic tool for diagnosing organ/ meridian deficiency or excess.
The chair of the group is name witheld and she would like some help in identifying electroacupuncture standards and guidelines for the group as they are about to become self regulated.
I felt you were the best person to advise this lady in any way to ensure that they have all the necessary standards in place.
Many thanks in anticipation of your help. Here is her contact number witheld.
Kind regards
Name witheld.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 8:34 AM
Subject: Re; Voll, Fwd: *************/Help please
Dear all,
Please see below in regards to EAV Voll, as was discussed by name witheld at the last meeting.
Kind regards
Name witheld.
Begin forwarded message:
From: name witheld
Date: 14 December 2008 09:19:49 GMT
To: Name witheld
Subject: Re: *************/Help please
You are a star thank you so much for this valuable information. Kind regards
Dear Name witheld,
Good to hear from you.
For Electroacupuncture according to Voll (EAV), search 'Voll' on the CD to the book title witheld I edited (Churchill LIvingstone 2007). You will see that I am fairly sceptical about using conventional science to provide support for this approach. To my mind it has a lot in common with systems such as radionics, which involve mind and intention as much as objective electrical measurement. The same goes for the VEGATest.
There is a huge difference between EA for stimulation and EA for 'diagnosis' (even Voll did not recommend using EAV on its own for diagnosis). It will not be possible to carry over guidelines from the former to the latter, except for the electrical stimulation aspects of EAV. (It does not sound as if the Association Name witheld is using these.)
So how can name witheld proceed?
1. Contact George Lewith and Julian Kenyon (address witheld), probably the most experienced users of systems such as EAV and the VEGATest in the country.
2. Try to find out what guidelines are being developed by the Radionic Association and the British Society of Dowsers.
3. Contact the parent organisations of EAV in Germany, such as the Institute for Electroacupuncture and Electrodiagnostics and the Internationale medizinische Gesellschaft fur Elektroakupunktur nach Voll.
I hope this information is helpful, and look forward to hearing how name witheld gets on.
Kind regards
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Overview of the differences between TCM and EAV/EDS Diagnosis
The pulse diagnosis above Left and EDS diagnosis below were not included in the e-mail.
EAV/EDS Diagnosis is Replicable in or with other forms of confirmatory diagnosis. |
Pulse diagnosis is utilised by some but not all TCM practitioners, other TCM acupuncture practitioners use formulae acupuncture, which is fine, except it makes a nonsense of the statement "conventional science" primarily because TCM pulse diagnosis has problems in being validated by conventional science?
However, EDS systems have been scientifically validated.
To add even more to the confusion TCM claim that their Anatomy & Physiology even though "different" is of the "same standard" as that of Western Anatomy & Physiology?
Previously I have asked for their references educationally in supporting this statement, so far I have not received ANY?
EAV/EDS; European based acupuncture systems practitioners are trained in Western Anatomy & Physiology.
My reply to the circulated e-mail on European Voll Acupuncture:
Hi All,
I need to be sceptical in return with name witheld, whom I do know personally as well.
Quote "There is a huge difference between EA for stimulation and EA for 'diagnosis'"
How do TCM "diagnose or define what type of stimulation, square, sine, pulsed etc, etc?"
What polarity positive or negative of alternating?
Which frequency and how is it diagnosed as being the correct frequency?
A lot of EA machines have these facilities, how does a pulse diagnosis determine which polarity, frequency and type of "electrical wave" name witheld?
Or even worse, in one sense without a pulse diagnosis?
We then come to "diagnosis", a very misleading remark from my perspective, does every TCM practitioner including name witheld get it right 100%, objectively I honestly don't think so.
What do TCM practitioners do when their treatment is not successful, the honest answer as name witheld knows is either utilise an alternative form of diagnosis, or refer to someone else.
Voll did what many practitioners did not do, checked his findings with others systems / types of diagnosis.
It is also well known that pulse diagnosis has major problems in being "replicated" with TCM practitioners, why?
There is nothing wrong in being sceptical, however ask yourself does every condition presented have the same type of formulae of acupuncture treatment?
Name witheld is actually being a bit naughty, a lot of EAV such as MORA does NOT use "electrical stimulation", in actuality as with "acupuncture it utilises the persons own "energy".
Many years ago a statement was also made with reference to auricular acupuncture NOT being able to utilise 5 elements, wrong again, I made a unit entitled the Balancer, which as a by the way the practitioner did not need needles for the auricular 5 elements, or you could utilise needles if you so desired.
George Lewith and Julian Kenyon were far more VEGA orientated than EAV, as evidenced by NOMA's VEGA courses which they used to teach on their seminars not EAV.
I would agree with name witheld with reference to VEGA, being more on the radionic side.
However, as a side note wasn't it Abram's who used to diagnose CA very effectively with his form of Radionics, there are many more pioneers whom name witheld does know about.
In name witheld book I did a double blind test / diagnosis, one part being the persons dental problems with parasitic involvement.
This was checked by a Dentist, who videoed the parasites dentally, in confirmation with other dental related problems highlighted. (I still have a copy of the video)
How would TCM find these problems name witheld, or even more so treat them, when TCM does not recognise that they exist diagnostically.
Finally, does TCM acupuncture not involve "mind and intension"?
Regards Ken Andrews.
Cc: Name witheld.
I have not received any answers to the questions I asked above?
TCM Acupuncture Critique from China
The above photo's raise issues of 'what are the TCM practitioners diagnosing and what is their rationale for the treatment, how do they know what is happening with so MANY needles inserted?'
The pulse diagnosis is also utilised for the use of Chinese Herbs, but again the question has to be asked about the accuracy of the pulse diagnosis?
These are NOT only my views but the views of others .....
Such as those posed in a Times Newspaper article from 'Western' medically trained Chinese Professionals:
Professor Zhang Gongyao
“TCM has no clear understanding of the human body, of the functions of medicines and their links to disease. It like a boat without a compass: It may reach the shore but its all up to luck." His online petition demands that Traditional Medicine be stripped of its mention in the Chinese Constitution and that such treatments should no longer be covered by medical insurance.
Fang Zhouzi a Bio-Chemist
“Acupuncture too, gives him concern. At what angle should the needles be inserted, and how deep ? Fang and his fellow doubters worry that the lack of scientific research in the Western manner is letting traditional practitioners get away with murder. Zhang scoffs: "What exactly is the pulse? Do they mean the flow of blood, or is it the heart beat, the breath and the softness of the blood vessels? Some Doctors boast that they can even tell if a woman is pregnant from reading her pulse. The biggest problem is that there is no standard.”
Also see: Dr. Foster Research Article
