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The Treatment of Anxiety and Depression with Acupuncture – Yair Maimon

Hello and welcome. I would like first of all, to thank the American Acupuncture Council to put up this lecture. And today I will focus on what I think is one of the most emerging problems we see. And we also very clearly see it in the clinic is actually the suffering on the mind level, the strength of Chinese medicine that we see a three dimensional picture of body, mind, and spirit.

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So obviously this challenging time presents challenges to the body, but the real one, which will also stay very long time with us is the challenges to the mind and to the spirit. And from my clinical experience, Chinese medicine is one of the best medicine on earth to make change on this level and to bring back this connection of mind and spirit. So this lecture will be focused on it and we’ll focus on the diagnosis and the treatment on that level.

So let’s start with the slides. First, if we look both anxiety and depression are Western medical terms, not Chinese medicine. And I would like to start and kind of dive into the Chinese medicine dynamic, maybe by a quote of professor Yuval, Harari who say that the best defense human have against pathogen is that isolation is information. And it’s an interesting quote because more and more people around the globe are going into a solution. And there is more and more lack of communication and trust with the people who should provide us the dynamics and the, the safe safety and the safe instructions. And I think this quote more than anything else, kind of points to, uh, something very important about human life, because when we are talking about information and it is true, when you are informed with something, you can take it much more easy.

You know, even to jump from a certain place, if somebody explains you how safe it is, gives you all the safety measurements, he will jump. You know, if it’s not very high, if not, you will be afraid that something will happen. And the reason that we can explain in Chinese medicine, why it is so important, because thinking comes from the IE from the earth, it’s another forms of digestion. So if we look at thinking and earth, we can understand the same way as we, they just food with they just ideas and earth and the is, um, controlling the water, the fears. So when you understand something, you can control your fears and you can control your inner understanding. An inner wisdom brings you to the place where you can cope with everything. If the water is not control, if the fears aren’t getting to be, then there is an excit.

Then there is this fear that something will happen or something not good will happen. So this is just one part of the information part. So the more we are informed, the more we can understand deeper something, the more we can control the fear and anxiety, but isolation is actually the deepest problem because as humans, we should be in touch with other humans, we should communicate with other humans. For us. The fire is the most important part of human life and the ability to communicate, to love, to share and to have inner joy is the core essence of being a human. And this is, we know also the fire element is connected to the Shen, and this is where we house the Shannon. This is how we connect to something higher or bigger, which guides us. So their relationship of fire and water, if there is like too much fear.

And if there is isolation, you can see that there is also some disconnections from one inner self and treatment. Eventually we’ll go to that level. And it’s not just, uh, the mind, the mind and the body is connected. And the immune system is also very much related on the mind and already in PSU and 72 it’s clearly says, and it’s amazing quote, I mean, the more we go to the classic, the more we can appreciate the depth of Chinese medicine, the same zinc, cheat, the upright cheat, the immune system remains strong. Then she actually bad that she cannot invade the body is then cheat must be weak when invasion of shadier takes place. And we now today, by the way, we say almost 70% of people who will be infected by a virus, they will not be sick. And if there is a, an inner invasion of something, it means that something in the sanctuary in that privacy of the body was not working properly.

And when we go deeper into immunity and I gave another talk here about the immunity, or if you want to hear more, this lecture that they give about immunity, immune system is actually made of three layers of Cenci, which we are discussing now. And we are seeing the relationship between the health of the mind and our immune health. Also in Western medicine, there is a clear relationship between the emotions and between the psychological state and immunological state. There is psycho immunological relationship, which is clearly also seen even in biomarkers. But when we look at the immune system, we look at Cenci, we look at G and Gingy and when we wanted a good immunity, we want to have all of them connected, but definitely the Shen. She is the strongest. And this is what Sue in 72 actually tells us in an interesting way. When I was kind of diving into explaining how anxiety and depression works in the body, I called it clearing the cloud series, and this cloud is a kind of imaginary cloud, but I think it kind of help us to understand the location of the problem if somebody has anxiety or depression.

And if we do a proper acupuncture treatment, and that’s sometimes what I had from patient, you know, it’s like, you clear the cloud for me. I came in a rainy day where everything was great and I came out and it feels Sammy and I see everything and then present. So this cloud is to me, a kind of, um, metaphor to something that separates men from heaven. And when we want to understand clearly what it means, depression and anxiety in Chinese medical terms is talking about this communication of men in heaven. Communication on this level is distracted because when you feel connected, doesn’t matter, whatever happens around it, you can express and feel joy when there is a disconnection on that level. That’s when a mental state is set in like depression, anxiety, or any other, um, mental disease. So this kind of helps to show the location of heaven and heaven and Shen are located in the same territory.

And there is different points in the body, which I will talk about some of them. But if you look like the windows of heaven points or points that have the name, Shannon them, we will use two of them in this presentation. They explain why this point, why they have the name and why they’re so effective to connect again, men in heaven. And once this connection happened, then there is inner healing because eventually we allow the person to heal themselves. I mean, that acupuncture needles is just a miracle to allow this inner healing. So after treatment, this should be the situation when men and heaven are connected. When the heart is connected to something which is greater than us, it’s not on a conscious level. It’s just, we feel we are at the right places, human. And when we are disconnected, we feel alone and separated. And this is like the key questions and words that we see when there is a mental disease or when we even look at the patient.

And can we talk about anxiety is depression. As I say, it’s a very Western medical terms. And we have to understand that especially psychiatry is, is an observational medicine. I mean, you can take the blood. And so it say to somebody, you have a depression. So it’s more a list of symptoms. And there’s this five, like a list of symptoms. And it’s updated every time. If you have a number of symptoms from this list, going over two weeks, you have depression. If you have this and this symptoms, you have anxiety. So Western medicine and especially psychiatry is more looking at the behavioral disorders. And it’s quite difficult to define in Chinese medicine. To me, we are much closer to the human experience because we are looking at this three-dimensional model and we put the Shan and mind and emotion, and we define differently, uh, what will be called anxiety and depression.

Uh, by Western medicine, I gave a whole course just on taking the DSM five and breaking it up in Chinese medicine and called it the five types of depression, because you can really see all the symptoms, how they’re feeding the Chinese medicine model, because we are coming from an observational model. We observe the patient our way. We try to understand the world and the patient is immediately three dimensional. In his observation, it takes a minute to look at the patient and to know his inner state. And in psychiatry, obviously it’s close, but it’s more going into a whole list of symptoms, list me the symptoms you have, and then we can compare it to the list we have. And then we define, uh, your condition. So Chinese medicine is much more, I think, accurate in the way it understands and can treat deeper, um, probably in create even a deep healing.

So after a treatment, there is back this connection between heaven and earth. Sorry, I just went the wrong way. Here we go. Um, so just a little look, a little bit about, uh, the reason we’ll have anxiety and depression from Chinese medicine. It’s when there is a good relationship of men in heaven, the is awake and aware and present and human feel comfortable between heaven and earth. This is the human position. So when you are connected, you just feel comfortable. You just feel alive, you just feel not alone, and you feel that you are present. So when there is anxiety or depression, something in this physiological state is disrupted. As I showed, there is some disconnection on that level overall, um, briefly presenting the three models. When we look at depression, to me, it’s very easy to look at five types of depression. We won’t go into all of them.

When we look at things, [inaudible], we’re more looking at the relationship of fire and water, which has disrupted. And as you remember, we talked about the earth about thinking and also about centering. We talk about fire, about communication and join and about water of fear and gene. And this axis. This is actually the Saturday axis is the most important. When we talking about anxiety, something is distracted in this axis. When we’ll talk about stress and conflict, we can bleed the model of seven emotion and the whole movement of change the body. And then we’ll use a different set of pain points. Also looking at their psychiatric definition for depression. If you look at it from a Chinese point of view, it says depression causes a feeling of sadness and a loss of interest in activities. One enjoyed when we we’ve talking about once in joy, once the Shen was connected to the heart and you can have joy.

And then if we go on, we can see the same. If it can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems, and it can decrease the person, the ability to function at work and at home. And then if you’ll look slowly, slowly, the list, you’re welcome to open this and five, you will see how they are connected to the five types of shame and this non presence of shame that you can’t any more, be engaged in things that you were engaged before. So this is like a key idea behind it. So when you look at it, TCM reflection of this depression, eh, definition, we see this interest in activity. Once in joy, again, you will see that the heart is not connected, so you can’t enjoy life. If you look at the anxiety, it’s actually more interesting and much easier to explain. Anxiety is not the same as fear.

And this is again, we’re looking at Western medicine, but because we are using the term anxiety, I think it will help us to understand it better. So anxiety is not the same as fear, which is the response to real and immediate threat in anxiety. It’s some, it involves an expression of like a future threat. There is all the time, the fear that something will happen or may happen. So yeah, I feel this uneasiness constantly, and there is no threat at the moment. The threat is a future threat and a mode of time, imaginary threat. And then even if it’s real, it’s nothing that is happening here. And now it’s, I’m afraid that something will happen in the future. Sure. If I look at it from a, about this way, a definition from a Chinese point of view, you can see that there is a very interesting relationship between the Heartland, the kidney, and the very interest relationship.

If you look at it from a personal perspective, when the heart is connected in the relationship of how that these are good, then there is trust. The heart provides trust and the kidney provides lack of fear or feeling comfortable. And there is with your own gene, your own personality. So if you have no fear, you have trust. And when you have fear, you lose something in this basic trust in being alive, in trust in the world. So this is the local perspective. If we go two a is, if we go to a higher perspective, we see that we look at the three dimensional picture. That man is between heaven and earth, so that we have a greater trust in everything around us. We have a greater trust that even if I leave it challenging time, there is maybe some reason for it. We can trust it.

We can wait and see how nature resolve itself. It’s not all about men. It’s about men living between heaven and earth. So this trust is in a bigger and universal perspective, not just a personal one. And that’s actually, when we are balanced, we have a sense of something bigger than us and I want, so give me a case to illustrate how we are treating anxiety. And this is a manager just came recently, although is a very kind of being patient of mine years ago. He just returned back. And especially because he had the suddenly dispersed fast heart rate palpitations and of in the last few weeks, very severe insomnia. And this palpitation brought him to, it’s like a panic attack. You know, he’s afraid his heart attack. He went to the hospital to the ER few times, and this is a classic panic attack and anxiety in many patients like this.

And this number of them is a growing growing, especially now. So when I try to explain in a deeper way, what’s going on in him when your heart is not well connected, then you use this trust. So yours is setting in constant fear. I have a heart attack. My heart is failing on me. Something is wrong with my heart. So there is all the time. This fear from there’s no real dangers. You know, he had his heart checked in the ER, is this the is direct line, you know, to this company that can check even over the phone, everybody’s telling you how it is. Okay. Don’t have heart problem, but inside there’s a constant fear from a future threat. My heart will fail on me. A beautiful description was of the heart. The heritage ones is the heart beats is like a drum beating, telling all the other organs, everything is safe.

There is a constant beat, which gives you this kind of feeling of trust and safety. When the heart goes off beat, or it’s too fast, there is the sense of anxiety, by the way, it’s also the physical effects. The mind people after heart attacks also have anxiety or people who have problems in heart rhythm will develop like anxiety is the body affects the mind in his case, it was the mind affecting the body. So, uh, it was very clear that the gain is this lack of trust in, in his health. And if you look at the healing and that’s what I expect, you know, that suddenly there is no fear. Suddenly there is no danger and the points they use the team in order to achieve this deep healing were actually very simple, but the point and we’ll go and discuss them. So you’re going back to this personal experience.

So we use heart seven, which is a Firepoint, but it’s also an eras point. So remember if we look at fire earth water so hard, seven ozone, we use it very often. If you’ve gone understand the dynamic of this point, you can see how effective it is. And then keep me 25, which is called spirit storehouse or shanshan. And let’s go deeper into this point, by the way, this is a beautiful picture. Uh, there is a project I’m doing with two colleagues of mine. Butter’s coming needs, give from Poland and Ronnie yell from Israel. It’s called, uh, uh, Gates of life. And we have a painter from Poland, eh, Martina, Yankee, who is painting all the meridians. This is the painting of a Meridian of the kidney Meridian. And I’m highlighting the points. If you see the, the highest of this mountain, which is the chest area.

So we have kidney 23, 24, 25, all relating to the Shen, by the way to most interesting kidneys, all the meridians, but the kidney can easily explain this dynamic of fire and water is the only Meridian that starts on earth on the bottom of the foot. And then up in the heart it’s to do with our deepest transformation of gene, into shame. So again, fire and water is the essence of our life. And if you look at the kidney 25, especially, uh, this is like the drawing of the point itself. So, you know, you can see the storehouse and the shame we are trying to illustrate, uh, the book we are working as deep into the dynamic of the points, but the picture is a loss of bringing beauty and allowing to remember better, the points and points action. So Shane, you now it’s there with the spirit is Chang is a storage and the storage is both a place that you keep it safe, but it’s also treasury a place where you keep something vital.

So it’s where you store the spirits. So it refers to a place where you can take out of storage, but also, uh, it’s a place where when you need, you take from it, but if it’s empty, you have no storage. So both aspect of storage are relevant when we treat this point. So this is like, uh, I’m saying when there is fear stored inside, we can use this point to unlock this fear, especially actually even fear from early childhood and any patient to experiencing anxiety. Now it’s already deep in their early childhood, or it’s a place where you can take from storage when the person is very deficient after a long illness, very weak and has anxiety because of the gene deficiency. So this point works in both aspect. So again, it connects to this regional salts, uh, that can help you to sustain you through difficult time.

This is where you’re calling on the spirit after you’re exhausted and weak. And this is one of the points that has a very strong relationship between the gene exhaustion and Shan exhaustion. So again, it’s a showering treating the kidney in heart. So, um, it treats anxiety from unknown reason, like in this case and supports this gene and heart connection. I also treat acupuncture in a positive way. Remember once I treated the patient, who again, in the past that a lot of anxieties and now he’s coming after a while, but he’s already fine. So it’s more sorry. So it’s more, uh, uh, like a prevention treatment. So I use this point and he asked me, what, what do you treat me for? And I say that you live in the world and you move in the world without fears. So he looked at me and he says, this is my inner dream. And for patients with fear and anxiety, they are in a dream is to live in the world without interfere. And this point is, again, one of the Shen points that can exactly touch that level.

I’m just moving. And this is the patient, sorry, game. This is the patient. Uh, you can see his tongue, you can see the in deficiency. This is probably also one of the reasons why you have this prenatal already anxiety. And, uh, you can see in his eyes, even the fear, you know, and that’s like a normal picture taken. And here is the point skinny 25. I took a picture when he was with the points. And the other point that I use was hard seven, which you know, and here again you have from our future book, the heart Meridian and the heart seven is one of the points on it. Save all the heart channel traveling. Uh, and again, hard one. And the one is the two points, which are hidden if you think about it’s very deep. So again, we have the connection of fire and water.

So this is to do with the eh, picture and all the things you can see on the picture. And that can explain, uh, the point and the, the heart seven it’s Kunshan men and men is a door, but the door is like a passage. So you can pass from inside the outside and from outside to influence. It’s one of the places we can influence the shin in condition. It’s a Yuan point and an era’s point being in earth point, it balances again, fire and water. It’s just in the middle. Being in Yuan pointed, connects to your original cheat toward deep authenticity adult tenting art that we have. That’s why this point is so special. And we can use it both in, uh, again, in many problem with, especially in sleeping problem, memory, anxiety, exactly all the problems, uh, that he was suffering from. And another option is to go in a different way.

Um, again, especially for a sleeping problem, we can use the young child like extra Meridian, you know, in Sharon Young child meets in bladder one in the eye and that to do with opening and closing die. But interestingly enough, if we do the young child, we use bladder 62 and small intestine three. So again, we’re using bladder instead of kidney and small intestine instead of heart. So we’re using the young co-partners of the water and fire, and this is another reason why young chow can be so effective for sleep disturbances, especially this kind of sleep. So eventually we are using the, uh, fire and water to balance the in and the, the, the, uh, the earth and heaven in men and in a deep way to bring back the trust and to bring back this feeling of calmness and safety as human on earth and Chinese medicine goes far more beyond treating the mind in my understanding, and in my clinical experience, it helps people to, well, it helps people for, to grow inside, not just to fulfill their inner path in life, not to just to treat the pathologies.

And that’s the idea of treatment, not just to treat the anxiety and insomnia, but makes a person more on his path and more fulfilled in his life. So, as a final note, I would say the most magical part of acupuncture is the ability to transform, to touch heaven in a patient, alleviate the suffering and clearing the clouds and allowing healing and change. So when we use acupuncture in this respect, in this type of points, magical things are happening. And to me, this is the deep nature of Chinese medicine. So I hope you enjoyed this lecture and got some idea about how to treat and how the best way to treat, eh, and both anxiety and depression, but even beyond this, uh, to help inner healing and health. So be well, keep safe and help as many people as you can. Thank you very much for being with me. And again, thanks to the American Acupuncture Council to putting it up. So thanks and all the best.

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Lyme disease, AKA the “Great Imitator” Virginia Doran & Greg Lee

Today’s edition of To The Point, very generously produced by the American Acupuncture Council today. My guest is Greg Lee and, uh, Greg has extensive background and experience in treating Lyme disease and the various co-infections the other tick-borne illnesses. Um, he is, um, going to tell you more about himself and, um, we’re going to talk specifically about using essential oils to treat these infections or, uh, various tick-borne illnesses. Um, and he’s going to explain why he used them, what the advantages are.

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You know, in talking about things like biofilms, which if you’re not familiar with is really very vital for treating them and the different ways that you can use to deliver essential oils in, in these patients. And, um, he has some very innovative ways in which he does this and, uh, you know, he was going to talk about the kind of oils he uses and, um, a lot of other things. So Greg, I wanted turn it over to you since, um, I’m sure people are really eager to hear what you have to think. Um, maybe you could tell us how you got into this first.

Oh, thank you, Virginia. And also want to thank the American Acupuncture Council for graciously, allowing me to come on and talk with you today. So, uh, today I’m wondering to talk about basically, what are some of the main blocks that I see, uh, in Lyme disease patients that are underneath their relapsing symptoms and how essential oils can help practitioners to overcome them. So, uh, basically this presentation, uh, is for two types of practitioners. Uh, one if you’re just getting started and you’ll learn about some essential oils that may be helpful for these patients that have chronic illnesses, chronic infections, and also for more advanced practitioners that have, you know, seen perhaps a larger number of chronic Lyme patients. And these are some remedies that can really help you get these patients beyond where they’re stuck or plateaued. Okay. All righty. So a little bit, uh, the agenda for me is like, why should you listen to me?

Who am I anyway? And then also what are the five main blocks? And then what are some essential oils that, uh, can help you overcome those blocks? And then also, uh, we’ll be talking about, uh, some delivery methods that are very helpful in treating Lyme patients a little bit about my background. Um, I, I’m an engineer by training and used to work on NASA projects. Um, robotics, Hubble space telescope used to work with our astronauts and doing experiments on them using robotics. I’m also was a partner in a leadership training corporation called Lionheart and also have a master’s of acupuncture from the Tai, which is now Maryland university of integrative health, and also, uh, Chinese herbs and liberal golf. My center we’re located in Frederick, Maryland, and in biotech research facility. I have lots of MDs PhDs, and I have fun conversations in the hallway with, and in our center, we’ve treated over a thousand patients with Lyme tick-borne infections, chronic illnesses over the past 20 years.

And one of the things that’s really helped is making custom engineered essential oils that are tailored to each person’s underlying issues. Uh, one of the tools that helps us as an experimental electrical frequencies frequency scanning system, where we can look at over a thousand different infections, toxins, inflammatory cytokine, uh, frequencies, uh, through that, uh, scanning system. So it really helps us to narrow in on what are the main issues that most are in need of treatment in the beginning. Uh, so why Lyme may be a hidden issue in your relapse relapsing, uh, symptom patients, because obviously we’re in the middle of a pandemic Lyme disease is a hidden epidemic within an estimator, a 2 million case, new new cases in the U S alone this year, according to a Brown university study. And unfortunately it kicks can carry over 80 different infections that are called coinfections besides Lyme disease.

And the testing that most primary care practitioners use is something called the L they still use something called the Eliza and also the Western blot. And according to one study, Western blot blood tests, the ones that are available from the standard labs are about 50% accurate. So basically half of the people flip the coin, flip a coin. Exactly. And according to the CDC, 90% of cases are misdiagnosed. I think they reported, you know, what is it, 300 something thousand, but there are now they’re saying these, this is probably approximately 10% of the actual number of cases out there. So, uh, and the presentation of these patients can vary depending on, you know, what lot of different factors in terms of their genetics, their ability to detox pre-existing conditions and other infections that may be present. So it can, a lot of patients, I started off treating a lot of fibromyalgia patients and behold, a lot of them actually had Lyme disease, uh, chronic fatigue, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, ms.

Dementia, Parkinson’s depression, anxiety. Those are all diagnoses. I’ve seen hundreds and hundreds of times in patients that have an underlying tick-borne infection, Lyme disease, or co-infection. Okay. So what I want to talk about is really diving into what are the main blocks that I’m seeing in these patients, and then how can I help you give you some tools and insights into these blocks and then some essential oils that are helping my patients to overcome them. So, first one basically is, uh, biotoxins where the I’ll talk more detail about these, but basically infections produce toxins. And then you have inflammation that they are immune system produces to try to say, Hey, we got an infection or we got toxins. We need to go and deal with it. And it produces different kinds of inflammatory compounds. And also these infections, uh, have evolved. They create something called biofilms, which are basically slime as a protection.

Uh, and then also, as I mentioned earlier, ticks can carry over 80 different infections besides Lyme. So the co-infections, if they can carry, uh, they’re not just, uh, it, it can be, it can range from all different kinds of pathogens. And, and also one of the major things that I’m seeing a lot of is environmental mold, uh, toxic exposure in patients. Alrighty. So, uh, we’ll move on here. It’s good. Dive into biotoxins. So Lyme co-infections other infections, parasites produce biotoxins that disrupt the host immune system often, uh, you may hear of the th one th two immune response. Uh, one of them is more for fighting infections like Lyme and others, more for fighting infections like parasites. Well, the biotoxins and say, Hey, go fight, go produce more inflammatory immune, uh, compounds and go fight parasites and leave, you know, reduce the ones that are gonna affect, you know, bacteria like mine or spiral keeps light lime.

And then also these biotoxins are small. They’re about the size of a water molecule. So since they’re so small, they can travel from cell to cell. They’re not just, they’re also in the blood too, but also their ability to create symptoms deeper into tissues that change and migrate, uh, and relapse because they’re so small and can go through, wander into muscles, joints, the brain, uh, go inside cells. And as, uh, patients are given anti-microbial treatments or remedies, or just do their own immune activation, they often report a toxic die off reaction, uh, of their infections, which has been labeled a Herxheimer reaction where you have a sudden influx of toxins, which drives up inflammation, which then drives up symptoms. And those symptoms can be like, what I described before could be, you know, brain fog, fatigue, pain, inflammation, swelling, gut issues, bloating, diarrhea, you know, uh, a wide range of the symptoms.

And they can change over time depending on, you know, the person and what they’re, what’s being, what kind of toxins are being released. And then this is a phenomena that was described, you know, in Chinese medicine texts over a thousand years ago. And the goose syndrome methodology, uh, was very fortunate to have time to spend time with dr. Heiner through off, uh, at his great, amazing, uh, home out in Oregon and, uh, learn, you know, wow, this, these Chinese medicine docs who just had the goose center totally are describing what I’m seeing in Lyme disease patients, you know, 1500 years later. So, you know, there’s this great history that we can draw upon a strategy for treating not only the biotoxins, but the other issues I’ll be talking about right away,

Always amaze you, how they figure this stuff out thousands of years ago, it’s just, yeah.

All could be Chinese, or we could probably solve half the world’s problems, you know,

A hundred years ago.

Are you still looking, trying to research that? So, yeah, but you know, there’s, uh, there’s something about, you know, inventing something that you think is new and getting credit for that, that, you know, it’s very entrepreneurial in the U S so, um, but, uh, let’s, let’s jump back into inflammation next here. So inflammation can, Purdue is often produced, uh, in response to infections, toxins, heavy metals. Many of my patients, uh, become metal toxic because for whatever reason it could be aluminum mercury or from dental amalgams, it could be a lead. It could be a cadmium that I’m seeing in these patients, in their scans, and this can increase inflammation and other symptoms, which can mimic a lot of Lyme disease symptoms. And as a result, it can affect, you know, all different systems and different combinations that can fluctuate that can change, uh, and over time, and is very hard to say, okay, here’s this one symptom that’s it’s signature of this.

Then the patients often come in with eight or nine different primary issues or symptoms. So it’s, you know, how do you begin to tease apart all this, you know, often one of the main new suspects is inflammation. And then given that this inflammation baby produced and greater quantities that they’re, uh, doing, they may not be able to eliminate or deal with effectively that they can get backed up, which in itself creates this relapsing symptoms. A lot of my patients actually have inflammation in the nervous system, especially the, the midbrain, uh, also, and that creates a lot of neurological issues, brain fog, memory, recall cognitive issues. So, you know, these inflammatory cytokines can go through the blood brain barrier and affect, you know, the mental functioning. And then number three, biofilms. You know, when I learned, I actually gave a talk at this, uh, Southeastern PA Lyme group, uh, biofilms about 10 and years ago. And I got up and I was really depressed because of reading about how, how difficult they are and how they’re going to do everything all in resistant and all that stuff. I got them from the crowd and it was about like 60 people in the audience. And I said, I’ve been researching biofilms. And, uh, basically we’re all screwed. And everyone started laughing.

I was like,

I didn’t expect this flux. I was like really depressed. And Bob having, can we overcome these things? And there’s so many of the front row goes, we already do that. So anyway, why don’t phones are basically slime? We’ve been slime, everything goes busters. You know, these are like the tiny little ghosts that come in and slime you and they hide from your immune system. They hide from antibiotics. They hide from herbal remedies, uh, under the slime. And basically there can be multiple pathogens in a biofilm that could be bacteria. It could be parasites, it could be fun guy. And they communicate with each other. They don’t fight against each other. They collaborate using something called quorum sensing, which is literally communication molecules. They swap back and forth. And through that, they can also swap drug resistant genes. And they’ve shown that under biofilms pathogens can acquire drug resistance from species. And then also when they’ve analyzed biofilms that they find that they may be become more difficult to penetrate because in the biofilm, which is basically getting a polysaccharide slimy stuff, uh, that it also had can with some patients or some samples, I, uh, extracted calcium, magnesium, iron, and other minerals and metals make it more difficult, more, uh, less harder to penetrate.

Do you advise your patients to stop taking minerals while they’re being treated for this? Or

I, there, there are. If there can get it more through natural food sources, that’s what I have them do. Uh, I mean, a lot of patients will do magnesium, whether it be oral or through Epsom salt bath, iron tends to be an issue in a lot of patients because it’s pro-inflammatory, but yeah, a lot of patients are actually, demineralize just because, you know, because there are a lot of patients that I see have something called crypto pile urea, where they’re actually peeing out their minerals. So they need to supplement with zinc and other minerals to help replace what they’re losing. So, yeah, I mean, it’s really a kind of a like, okay, we want them to have proper mineralization and vitamins. And we also know that some of those may be used to make the biofilms a little more impenetrable, but we’ll, we’ll get to some, we’ll get to some powerful remedies, essential oils that can help you with those things.

So it’s, you know, it’s more a concern, minor concern as opposed to a major concern. So, uh, biofilms are also where they can withdraw, hide out, you know, a person’s on a drug regimen and then get off of it. And then they can, re-emerge later to in flare up symptoms. All right, shall we move on to number four co-infections as I said, over 80 different ones can be tremendous transmitted by a tick bite. It doesn’t mean every tick has it, but when they’ve analyzed ticks and seeing what infections and that these are often, I would say, this is the norm. The patients that I see, they have four or more different infections, including line, but also co-infections viruses, fungi, uh, parasites, uh, bacteria. And they may have got from a tech they may have got from other sources. However, this is the norm that I’m seeing in patients. You know, maybe like 15 years ago, I would see a patient with just Lyme as the main issue, but now it’s, it’s multiple infections making it, uh, a much more complex symptom and treatment, uh, picture, uh, to help a person with, and

The area in the Northeast where I live the, when they test the ticks. Um, I would say close to two thirds are carrying multiple co-infections.

Yeah. So you may, if you’ve been around the tick world and Lyme world are the two most common ones that I’m seeing are one called Bartonella, which is a rod-shaped bacteria and a protozoa called Babesia, which is like malaria. So in Chinese medicine, we have a huge history cause malaria was, you know, throughout China and different, especially in the Southern regions, uh, the warmer and more humid regions. We have obviously mosquitoes and there’s a lot of more verbals and treatments for treating malaria, which can’t be helpful for patients that have the BZA. So, uh, these co-infections also produce toxins and that can also create relapsing symptoms. And as I mentioned, you know, they’re actually even finding like nematodes in ticks that supposedly have been able to be transmitted in different lights, you know, studies that they do from the tick into a host. So the theory is, okay, we’re getting not just Lyme.

We’re not just getting co-infections, but we’re getting all these other things that they are, you know, having their guts. So, um, and there was one study that, uh, uh, dr. Ellen McDonald did of, uh, brains from the Harvard brain bank of patients that had like glioblastoma. And I think it was, uh, one kind of dementia with Lewy body dementia that they, he found parasitic worms. And within the parasitic worms in these brain samples, there was Borrelia, there was Lyme disease. So lion can hide in bigger things. And so when you kill off the bigger parasites you’re offering, we’re then releasing maybe viruses and bacteria that are within those parasites into the patient. So it’s kind of a general, you need to be aware of that if you’re treating these larger, uh, infections and then environmental mold is one of the bigger issues that I’m seeing more and more of, because we have, you know, a roof leak in a home or someone’s car leaks or at work, and they have a place where, you know, it’s not, well, you know, there’s what are water damage?

That’s creating mold to be able to grow in those environments. And so one aspect of the toxic environmental molds is that they produce airborne spores to propagate through an environment. And the spores are actually food for bacteria. So what a mold does it a toxin to it. And so that prevents bacteria try to eat it, then toxin kills them. And so that’s why you have, uh, the airborne concerns of what are damaged like behind walls. And you don’t see any mold, but the, the, uh, airborne spores, the airborne toxins can come through and get people more sick. You know, I’ve heard it, you know, dozens and dozens of times when patients, I’m just not getting better, I’ve taken all these variants during those treatments. And, Oh, I found mold in my house, or I found mold at work and, you know, boom, Oh, when I get out of that environment, I feel so much better.

So it’s like this, you know, this continual, uh, inundation of toxins that’s really slowing down their progress and maybe actually making them worse. Because unfortunately, according to dr. Ritchie Shoemaker who did a lot of pirating work around mold and biotoxin illnesses, he found about 25% of his patients lack the genes. These are human leukocyte, energy genes, or HLA genes, uh, to be able to tag the mycotoxins with an antibody and eliminate it. So these people that are like just continual toxic, you know, are unable to dump these effectively and they become more, more toxic and more and more symptomatic.

And do you find that there are some people that are just more prone to reacting to mold? Because I think a lot of us are exposed to it, but maybe if somebody has a damp type constitution, or is there any other correlates that you’ve seen of people who are very sensitive to mold?

There are some people who, you know, Oh, they now have an allergic history, you know, of reacting to, uh, these kind of like allergens or toxins. Uh, they often seeing patients also diagnosed with something called mass cell activation, where your mass also like here first-line or defense against pathogens, allergens, toxins, and they can release histamine and hundreds of other compounds. And in some patients it’s like, there’s, these muscles are so activated that they’re just cranking out all these inflammatory compounds. And the person just had becomes a, you know, an inflamed, uh, soup that needs to be dealt with first, like calming that down, cleaning out you, the whatever’s triggering the muscles to over activate. Uh, so that’s one of the groups of patients that I’m seeing also, you know, I, you know, I kinda like with some patients, we will ask them to do their HLA genetics with our lime doc and some of the morning you’ve done it.

And then we can see with those patients, they have difficulty getting rid of toxins and they may be not only with mold toxins, it could be also with other bacterial biotoxins like Babesia and Lyme. They have difficulty with also. So, you know, it’s a matter of what are the ways we can get to these toxins, either neutralize them or draw them out of the patients. So I’ll be talking about some essential oils to help with that. All right. Yay. Let’s go. So four biotoxins that are produced by Lyme, and co-infections one of the main essential oils we use is tumeric now tumeric and different studies. It lowers endotoxins and also mycotoxins, which are from fungal mold. It’s great as an anti-inflammatory and also has some anti protozoal properties and different labs studies. And another one is federal, uh, federal it’s great, uh, for the gut. It’s also wonderful for neutralizing several different kinds of toxins. So it’s another a go-to for, especially if a patient has like a gut issues, leaky gut, or bloating, or other things that are going on due to some sort of gut toxin, uh, that’s that’s creating the relapsing symptoms.

Are you going to talk about how these are utilized later or topically and in which internally?

Well, we’re going to talk about two main, two, two of the main ones that I have, but, you know, we have, you know, I’ll run through and I’ll get as much to do as much as I can. Okay. So the next one is inflammation. One of our main go tos is eucalyptus globulin and a different, uh, lab, uh, studies. It reduces multiple inflammatory compounds that are often elevated in Lyme patients and coinfection patients. Another great one. This is probably the most research, essential oil is lavender, and it also lowers multiple inflammatory compounds. So

You’re using 11 doula and gusta folia there. Yep.

[inaudible] and the biofilms there’s research out of Hopkins that shows a cinnamon bark will inhibit the line biofilms, uh, uh, totally. You know, there’s no regrowth, I think after 14 or 21 days after the biofilms and other drug resistant, are they called persisters of Lyme disease are treated with cinnamon bark. And so in other studies that also is in fact against candida because a lot of my patients who’ve received months or years of antibiotics may have a candida overgrowth due to the antibiotic only off of their healthy gut flora and then candy to be able to then grow and also staphylococcus. Uh, and, uh, dr. Ritchie shoemaker’s work, he found it in two weeks of his patients getting antibiotics. He found drug Wars and the staff in their sinuses. So one of the great things about cinnamon bark is it can cut through the staff biofilms. And also one of the ones, uh, that is this very powerful, essential oil to be used in very small quantities is garlic, because basically you give this to a patient then around the world, they like,

Wow, you really are

Going to keep the Dracula away. Aren’t

You?

One guy said to me, it’s just like, okay. And his studies inhibits lime and candida biofilms. So it’s really a very powerful, in many ways, you know, so you may have a different, uh, but now with social distancing, it’ll help you to maintain social distancing

Even when the pandemic summer,

And then co-infections, uh, and one of the two oils we use are cinnamon bark. Again, if it’s Bartonella, brucellosis and mycoplasma those a three bacterias that can be found in Kix and that they can transmit, and also oregano, which inhibits Bartonella brucella, and also a different species of malaria, which is very similar to the protozoa, the Vizio and number five is how do we deal with environmental mold? Because a lot of people don’t even know it until they get out of the environment, or they do some sort of testing urine testing for metabolites. Uh, Rosemary is effective against candida aspergillus fusarium, and it also reduces mycotoxins in different experiments. So these oils have multiple properties that can be helpful for these patients, not only to reduce toxicity, but also, you know, some patients are colonized and their sinuses on their skin or in their gut. And so depending on where we find it or we suspect it is, and we can start to deliver these oils more directly into those areas and also clove bud clove buds, a great any microbial and has, um, against these other, uh, fungi mold species, and also do some microtoxins.

So one of the main ways that we work with patients when they come in for treatment, yes, we are seeing patients, uh, have, is that we give it to them sublingual. And what we’ll do is we’ll use a Kerry oral, uh, 90% carrier oil, and then 10% of an essential oil, uh, of the different ones. Uh, usually if a person’s inflamed or toxic that won’t go to those anti-inflammatory or any toxin essential oils, I mentioned earlier, like lavender or tumeric and put that under their tongue. And that can then begin to diffuse, especially if they have neurological symptoms through the glymphatic system, into the nervous system. And also there are a lot of capillaries around the mouth, so it will diffuse into the blood and through that, into the nervous system also, and I’ve had patients come in and they’re like, their mind just can’t shut off and I can’t sleep.

And using things like lavender, uh, under sublingual, I can just see their, their mind calming down their anxiety, reducing their inflammation, just, you know, getting more, uh, less, you know, activated, uh, within as short as like 15 minutes. And, you know, sometimes I’ll do multiple sublingual oils on a patient first, I’ll do testing on them, see which ones are optimal for them, and then give them to them sublingual. And while I’m getting like Chinese medicine treatments and microcurrent and, you know, hydrogen therapy and other things that we do. And then also one of the great things I learned about, uh, from a dr Klinghardt was how due to the value of making things into microparticles or what he called liposomes. And so what we’ll do with patients is we’ll custom formulate their essential oils. And when they’re ready, we’ll formulate them into a microparticle microparticles, go deeper into the cells and different studies into the brain and to organs and under and into biofilms more effectively.

And so these are the hiding places, the reservoirs, where we are wanting to deliver that any toxin and inflammatory, any microbial essential oils. And this has been a game changer for so many patients in terms of getting past their plateau, where they can’t don’t feel like they’re improving, or they’re keep hitting that as relapsing symptoms. It really seems to take the medicine deeper into where it’s needed and create that improvement in their symptoms. So those are the two game-changing ones, the sublingual one that practitioners who are listening to this can, you know, look at right away. And, you know, obviously you want to see it, what’s safe, internal dosing. Cause a lot of people out there have said, Hey, don’t use essential oils internally, but fortunately, uh, there’s research, uh, publication, uh, essential oil safety, second edition by Robert Tisserand that shows, Hey, these are safe, dermal topical, and also internal dosing levels for different essential oils. And that’s been

Meaning just, um, certain ones or in general,

There’s probably, I don’t know, over 900 or I dunno, there, there, there’s a hundreds of oils in this publication and not all of them have internal dosing guidelines because I’ll be somewhere maybe toxic graph, toxic compounds, but he goes over the research that’s existing for different oils. And then what dosages can be a recommended as a maximum dose we take taken internally. So that’s been a godsend for us, uh, in terms of delivering these oils safely and effectively, internally in patients. And then also, uh, we’re offering a free report for listeners and the top five essential oils that reuse for Lyme disease. And you can get that at our website, goodbyelyme.com/aac. And again, thank you AC uh, for generously allowing us to come on and provide this information to help, uh, our colleagues, because I think this has been a game changer for so many patients with Lyme disease. So, all right. So at this point, I’ll turn it back to you, Virginia.

And if you want to reach me, it’s luminous beauty.com. And again, thank you to the American acupuncture council. And I believe that we have, Yair Maimon as a guest next week. So until then, goodbye.

Bye. Thank you.

New Virtual Speaking Strategies to Get You Through the Holiday Dip

Are you experiencing a dip in your practice right now? And even in the best of times, you have a dip around the holidays while you’re definitely not alone. And this is Chen Yen, 6 and 7 figure practice make-over mentor@interpretedvisionary.com and your host for our AAC show today.

So, um, I want to just acknowledge you for taking the time to be here, because as an acupuncturist, you have the opportunity to help a lot of people, even during these times that people may not be making, seeing you a priority right now.

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And so how can you get the word out about your practice during these times that are working, especially when, when you might be more limited by in-person marketing? So one reason why many people aren’t coming in yet is because that they don’t know about you yet, and they don’t understand how you can help.

So if you have a way to educate them about what you have to offer, then you’re more likely to, to help them. And one great way to do that is by, is especially during these times, reaching people at once, reaching more than just one person at a time at once, and you could be doing that virtually, for example, you could be actually speaking and you might think well, but I can’t really go out and speak as, as conveniently these days. What can I do? So we’re going to be talking about some new strategies that you can be using virtually right now to be, bring more patients in the door. So we’re going to look at what are some new strategies virtually that you could be using to educate and reach more people at once, for example, what are overlooked avenues of speaking online and where to find these opportunities?

What to think about in choosing a topic you might’ve thought about that, how you like educating and teaching people, but you can’t think of what to say. So we’re getting into that. And then finally, what are also some ways to make another stream of income they’re speaking, even in an automated way. So as far as the, just to let you know a little bit about we are learning from, so I, uh, start out as a pharmacist on native American reservations and went, ended up going to different tribes and, and love the culture and getting to know the different reservations. But after a while, I started feeling really jaded and going in the pharmacy, giving people medications, when I didn’t feel like they should be taking them, because I felt like there were better options. And so at the time I didn’t know really what to do, except I felt like I had to get out of there.

So, uh, after a while I decided, okay, why don’t I help other pharmacists get jobs that they enjoy more because many of them were counting down towards retirement. And so fast forward five years I had started and grown a successful recruiting business to seven figures and in less than five years. But I used to think that if I made more money than I would just be really, you know, I can do it when I cared about outside of work, but it didn’t happen that way for me. So, um, after doing a lot of soul searching, I realized that there’s a part of me that still felt like I wanted to see our healthcare system change and, um, and really be more integrated, but it’s not going to be the drug companies, insurance companies, the government changing things is really starts with you as acupuncturists and being able to get the word out about what you do and when people are asking for it, that’s when things will change.

So that’s, since then we’ve helped many acupuncturists, where were their practices? And in a short timeframe, you know, growing up to six figures, multi six and seven speakers, and a third of the time it typically takes. So as it comes to, to speaking, you might wonder, well, what, what does that have to do with you being, you know, me being able to, to help you with some strategies that are actually working right now for this. So, um, this is an area that, you know, many acupuncturists come to us for. And if you’re feeling also, if you’re feeling like you have, because how many do you ever feel like you get nervous when you, when you speak. So even though you liked the idea of it, but you just feel like, Oh, I don’t know if I want to do that because I just freeze up.

And so if, if that’s ever happened to you before, um, you’re not alone. And I, for example, when I was little, my dad would, um, I was around eight years old and I would often think on Sunday mornings, I would think, gosh, I’m, I wish life were like, uh, how it was for other kids. So I felt so, um, I had so much performance anxiety. I dreaded it and I cried a lot because my dad would always could take me. And I vowed to myself. I would never speak in front of any audience ever I could. So, but then why did I end up seeking? And because I love teaching. Um, and so that’s what led me and, you know, the reason I bring that led me to do that. And so the reason I bring this up is that even if you feel dreadful, you know, the idea of, of speaking, even if you feel nervous, you could totally do it because when you have more of a structure of what to say, and also be able to inspire, people know, learn how to inspire people beyond just, just, uh, educating with facts and then you’re going to enjoy it.

And people are going to enjoy what you have to say as well and find it helpful. So as far as, as different possibilities of speaking wise, very available for you right now, virtually. So you could either look at speaking to bring in patients into your practice, or it could actually bring in another stream of income. So as far as, as, um, speaking opportunities, they range from, in terms of getting to potential new patients, what are some possibilities of, of those? So you could either be speaking in front of different organizations and groups. Now you might be thinking, but most people aren’t doing things in person right now. And you’re absolutely right. But the cool thing is that because these organizations, they have, whether they’re business organizations or women’s organizations, entrepreneur, moms, associations, or holistic moms, associates groups, they are still looking for how can they provide value to their members?

And so when, if you can approach them and suggest that that, that, um, you can speak in front of them, then that can be a great opportunity for you to, to do something from the comfort of your own home. You could be getting hopping on and doing a zoom video, or not even be on video at all, if you don’t want to be on video. So that’s, for example, as one opportunity. And, um, Oh, and by the way, I didn’t mention this, but because some of you might think, okay, so, but, um, I liked the idea of seeing, but what’s the possibility of getting new patients from this, right? So, you know, in terms of, we have clients who, who do talks or webinars in front of even small audiences and end up getting a handful of patients from it, whether it’s 20 people, person, audience, and then walking away with like five new patients from our webinars and that pretty cool.

And, um, or if you have larger audiences, if you have a hundred people in your audience, and even if you had, even if you had even 20 or 10 people, let’s just say you had 10 patients come from it. That’s pretty awesome. So, um, so organizations are one possibility. Corporations are another possibility too. And especially because it, especially there are corporations and different health initiatives that have happened in corporations over the years, so recent years. So you can approach them and ask them who is in charge of corporate wellness and, and then get in touch that way to speak for a company. What are some other opportunities you could look at? How can you cause how many of you would love to have more referrals? You’ve noticed that the referrals who come to you, they tend to stay more, or they just tend to actually come in and they tend to actually follow through with care.

How do you get more of those? One way to do that is by speaking in front of other practitioners, uh, patients and, or just even here’s one, one hot tip I will, I will share with you about that is this is something that, that an acupuncturist client of ours did. And when she did this, she ended up, she had this one medical doctor she knew, and she’s thought he was referring people to this other acupuncturist more. And, and so we, we talked about, okay, how can, how can we, um, have you developed that relationship further? So you start getting more referrals and guess what happens? So she ended up interviewing this medical doctor. So she ended up doing this interview and friend, uh, that, I mean, to, with an MD interviewing this MD, I guess what happened? She got seven new referrals from a new patients, referrals from this medical doctor, because she had the ability to, um, help that medical doctor gets to see how she actually knew something.

And then they got a chance to chat before and after they interview too. So that’s another strategy, a virtual strategy that each one of you can, can actually do to, um, pretty quickly to be bringing in new patients in this climate. As a matter of fact, can we make sure to include a resource for you with the exact script that, um, you can use to interview and a medical doctor or other practitioner to be able to do that? So it’ll be in, in the comments below, or just look below for it. So, um, as far as the other possibilities of where you can be speaking. So aside from organizations, aside from corporations, aside from, you know, different interest group organizations, as an aside from other practitioners in front of other practitioners who could be referring you patients, you could also be speaking on different platforms like podcast.

So podcasts or telesummits are great ways to get the word out and educate people about what you have to offer and about acupuncture and Chinese medicine. So you might be thinking, but aren’t the podcasts or these telesummit kinds of things, aren’t they more like not local, they’re more national. So what I would highly encourage you to do is to, to go national, why not go national? You know, there are people who still can, um, either for one, it helps you get seen more as a go-to acupuncturists. So then even people locally will see you see you in the limelight of an expert when you are more on the national scene or even international scene. And then I, the other possibility too, which we’ll talk about a little bit here too, is that there are other opportunities for you to be, um, you know, helping people, not just by getting new patients from opportunities of speaking.

So for example, have you ever thought about how could I bring in another stream of income in this climate so that it’s not, that’s not so dependent on seeing more patients one-on-one in person because it, I just never know what can happen. And besides you have so much knowledge and expertise to share, what if you could, because those things that you say over and over down to your, your patients, have you ever thought of putting that together in such a way where you can educate people and even make money from it and even passive or automated income from it? So what does that look like? It could look like educating a group of people online in a more of like an online workshop. For example, we have an acupuncturist client of ours who is very good with helping people during, um, post in terms of postpartum.

And so then, and also also leading up to pregnancy to help them have a natural birth without it being so like this dread of, of it being painful. And so there are different kinds of things, including breath work, and other kinds of things. She could be teaching her, um, her just, not even patients, but even beyond her patients as well. So she could charge for a workshop like that. And each one of you can charge for something like that too. And then, um, other possibilities are putting all the knowledge you have in your head into something like an automated course. So this could be either to educate the public about a particular health issue or about a particular health challenge, because have you figured out something clinically that could be beneficial for other practitioners that you get really good results for your patients? And it could be great instead of it just being something limited to way how you know how to treat, but you’re able to educate other practitioners on that.

Or maybe it’s the workflow in your practice you’ve figured out, or maybe some of you are doing tele-health and you have even things like intake forms or, or how you’re doing the intake process. Those things could be taught to other practitioners, maybe some part of aspect that you worked at figured out in your practice or business that’s working well. So those are things that you could start educating other practitioners on through either a live setting by doing it through zoom or, um, online and group way or in automated way. So those are some in terms of an automated course, and you could charge for something like that. So for example, in front of, um, people who are the late public, you could charge anywhere. It just really ranges. It could be anywhere between $97 to four 97 to nine 97 for something that’s like that, or an automated or in group setting.

And then for something that you offer in front of practitioners, it could typically at least be $297 and more, you know, nine 97 or more just think about what, what you pay to go and, and learn different clinical trainings from people. So those are some different possibilities of, of opportunities for you. One of the thoughts that I just had to share with you about, um, developing relationships with, with, for example, medical doctors, cause imagine if you had even three medical doctors sending you one or two referrals a week, what would that do for your practice? So one way of developing those relationships right now further is see, cause the thing is, if they just knew about you, they may not truly understand the scope of how acupuncture Chinese medicine can help their patients. So they either don’t really refer or they might refer a little bit, but it’s not quite to the extent that you would really like it to be.

And part of the issue is because they, they might be concerned about safety or efficacy and or how it could truly benefit their patients. So if you’ve educated them on it, then they’re more likely to refer, but how do you do that right now, if the medical doctors are busy and you don’t really want to want to go and, and, um, to their practice and see them there or anything like that, you could do a short video and educate the medical doctors. I have clients who are doing that right now or reaching out to them by LinkedIn and the meeting on zoom. So there’s just some, some virtual strategies that I just shared with you. So let’s also talk about, cause I promise you as far as what, um, Oh, by the way, let me just make sure that to let you know the, um, I decided to give you a template of, uh, you know, what to say, if you did want to interview other practitioners, as well as the top 10 best places to speak and get patients quick-start guide and especially helpful in this climate.

So you can get it at the Lincoln in, um, down below. So make sure you click on it and download it so you can use it right away to help you with, with getting more and more patients referrals in the door. So I promised to talk about the, um, what is a right? Like what are, how do you decide what to talk about? Do you ever feel like I know so much I don’t, or maybe sometimes I feel like I don’t, I feel like a fraud. I don’t really not too much. So either way, what do you say that would actually help and help? And that would actually engage your audience because you don’t want your audience to get bored. Cause then they’ll click off right. In terms of, so if it, especially if it’s something virtual, so, uh, one common mistake, a lot of acupuncturists make when deciding what to speak about is really getting caught up in, in the modality itself, as far as acupuncture and how it can help an acupuncture.

One-on-one, you know, that kind of a mindset when, when thinking about what to talk about, but the challenge is that most people are not going about their day thinking, Oh, I want, I’m curious how acupuncture could be amazing for me, especially those people who have never really tried it or hurt her even cross their mind. So it’s more helpful though, because most people are going about their day thinking, Oh, I want this issue to go away. So if you can center your topic around a particular health issue or challenge people are having, then it’ll be more likely to be attended and oppressing kind of a challenge, not just a general pain kind of challenge that, but be able to describe it in such a way that, that, um, how it’s a, an urgent pressing kind of, uh, of a health issue to, to look into the other hot tip related to that is, um, also be thinking about how can you tie that topic into why now is a, an important time to be thinking about that particular topic, for example, based on different seasons, there could be a need to pay attention to certain aspects of, of, um, you know, balancing your health, especially as you look at the Chinese medicine perspective.

And so, or, but then, you know, practicality speaking. So how can you bring up the different seasons and why now, because of this season, it’s important to pay attention to this particular thing, or if it’s the holidays, why is it important to pay attention to this, this particular thing? When you can think in that way, then, then, uh, angle your topic that way it’ll be more relevant to people in that moment in time. So they’re more likely to actually listen to what you have to say. So remember, you could do either webinars, you could do interviews, you could do, um, podcasts as some of those ways. And, and then all different kinds of venues as I had had shared with you earlier. And, and then, um, feel free to download that top 10 best places to speak and get patients Quickstart guide, as well as the exact script you can use to interview other practitioners, such as MDs, who could be giving you referrals and, um, when you’re featuring them and they could, you know, they could feature your, you could be in, or you might actually, some of you might think, well, I don’t really have much of a, of a patient base.

I don’t really have much of a community or an email list. How’s that going to work? So don’t worry. You could feature that medical doctor or, or, um, practitioner on something like a Facebook live or YouTube video. And, and then you could also suggest that that provider share that video with, with their patient base too, which is why, what we’ve had, we’ve seen our claims have experienced when they’ve done that. Also sometimes they’ve gotten referrals from, I mean, they’ve gotten actual patients, who’ve, who’ve contacted them directly because, um, whoever was seeing that video decide to reach out directly to them. So download the, the, uh, template there, um, below. And I look forward to in the website, it’s www dot get booked, speaking.com forward slash AAC. And then I look forward to hearing how this goes for you. And if you would like to, uh, if you’re at a, at a dip in your practice and you would like to, um, it to be busier, and you see this as an Avenue of getting the word out, but you’re not really sure how to get started with it. Or you would just like another Avenue to grow your practice in a way that feels comfortable for you. Then feel free to book a free six figure speaking breakthrough strategy session with us, which is also in that link too. So look forward to hearing how it goes, then download the, your free templates. And I get started with this right away. So you can be out there and waking up the planet because people need you and go out there and wake up the planet.

Yuan Qi Acupuncture – Poney Chiang & Suzanne Robidoux

Hi, good afternoon. My name is Poney Chiang. I’m one of your hosts for American Acupuncture’s live Facebook podcast show today. My special guest is Suzanne Robidoux, who is joining us all the way from Nanjing China. Dr. Susan Robidoux has spent over 20 years in China sharing when, after completing her master’s degree in us and, uh, went to China to learn Chinese language and martial arts, but ended up there until today.

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And, uh, she was holding a five different distinct lineages of Chinese medicine and martial arts. We should continues to teach and practice. Do you have a PhD in nine gene? She practiced at the neurological hospital treating diseases such as major depressive disorders and post-stroke paralysis after completing her PhD. She spent the following year. So the classical medical systems from various Chinese medical masters to learn their techniques. She combines classical acupuncture, classical moxibustion gene Fong, which is the type of classical herbal system with diet, lifestyle and internal arts and teaching. She’s also the author of three different textbooks on acupuncture, Costco, hers, and Bhagwan thank you for joining us today, Suzanne.

Thank you for having me pony.

I would like to, uh, think you have brains today about, uh, a form of, uh, acupuncture to call it UN she acupuncture that I’d been hearing here in ravey views on, um, could you tell us a little about, about it? What is it, um, how is different from our standard TCM type of acupuncture?

Hmm. Yeah, it’d be my pleasure. Um, UNC acupuncture is a, it’s a classical type of acupuncture. Uh it’s based on the teachings of [inaudible] and the teachings of [inaudible] and from these teachings and from the information of [inaudible] and send you a gig, uh, masters simply, um, and other masters in Taiwan build a system, uh, based on using the cheesy that we have the essence T that we have in our dantian and use that she, in order to balance, um, the channels in our bodies in order to remove obstacles, to increase the flow, uh, but also to increase the general, uh, health care of our body. Um, the main goal of, of the system is using 60 points, 60 very specific points. Uh, we have a very specific needling technique as well, that, um, is used on all the points and using this technique, using these very specific points, we’re able to use the essence T to balance the body now by balancing the body, we increase healthcare. Uh, we improve vision improved memory, but most importantly, of course, it’s, it’s mainly used for quick pain relief. So pain relief relief on numbness, um, blockages, and sometimes I’ve used it also for, um, lack of motility of, of limbs, like a trip for trigger finger or frozen shoulder.

Interesting. Um, are there specific type of patient demographic that would best benefit from this or, or certain types of conditions you in your mind you go, Oh, this is something that you mentioned is absolutely going to be a great for or is broadly approvable.

Yes. The, the, the best patients for this technique is patients that are suffering from chronic pain. Uh, it’s good for many things. We also use it for internal organ, um, disorders, but it’s really best to use when people are suffering from chronic pain. Uh, the best is with when people are suffering from chronic pain, that is result of either a surgery or trauma, then you do think the dantian, she will be a lot more effective, a lot quicker. And within one to three treatments, we can get a great hold on that level of pain.

Okay. Um, so I’m understanding that the system has 60 different points and I’m imagining that it’s a complete different than your quote unquote standard acupuncture points, or are they, they overlaps, okay. They’re different. Okay.

Points that overlap, uh, in terms of location. But interestingly enough is that these points are on different channels. Then what the, the classical points that we learn in TCM. So, um, they are completely different than, than our TCM points location.

Yeah. So they’re not, it’s not, uh, you have the 12 Meridian base. These are extra, like extra, extra ordinary points. They’re outside the channel system.

No, actually they are on the channel. So the, our, our system is based, uh, the, it combines the channel theory combines, um, the tendon or muscular system. And, um, the points are on the channels on the same line, but different, um, locations.

Okay. And, um, um, would you be able to share with us like a clinical story or something that’s memorable, maybe perhaps with something that wowed you when you’re first learning this, how did you first hear about this? Something that will help us, uh, appreciate from your personal experience? Um, that was really, really memorable for you?

Um, sure. Um, I think we all learn acupuncture because we like helping people and release their suffering. And, um, what’s great about the system is we’re able to, uh, get a feedback from our patient. And that’s part of the treatment protocol with the system. You, you put one needle and then you wait for the feedback of the patient and that’s what guides you actually to, uh, know how to continue the treatment protocol. And so, um, I can share maybe one, one of the, uh, first case when I first started teaching the system, I was in Denmark and, uh, one of the participants, one of the acupuncturist was there and she volunteered, uh, to receive a treatment. And she had actually gone to learn acupuncture because of her chronic pain and what had happened to her. She went hiking when she was in her teens and her friend.

Uh, she was a very small lady and her friend had fallen on her and her and her backpack crushed her upper back. And since that moment, she had been suffering from a chronic, upper back pain and tension. It, it affected everything. It affected migraines, dizziness, uh, it caused her posture to be, uh, very stiff and abnormal. And through all the treatments she got through all acupuncture school, nothing released this pain. And by, by needling her according to UN she and needling the corresponding channels that were blocked, um, we were, I was able to needle her arm and follow the pain through, and the pain really left, uh, chronologically backwards, according to how the pain evolved in her body. And after five needles on her, um, arm on her lower arm, uh, her pain was completely gone. And so I saw her the day, the next day, and two days later, and her pain was still gone. Um, and when I came back to Denmark to teach the next year, the pain was still gone. So it is always a pleasure to be able to, to practice you. And she, um, patients that are suffering so much for so many years and just release their pain just by their, their energies, balancing the channels, and also engaging that, that lower dantian that we have.

That’s a great story.

It’s a great pleasure.

Um, so I’m hearing that you’re needling, uh, uh, on the arm is UN Xi acupuncture a form of, uh, more of a distal style acupuncture. The, these points are, uh, in the extremities.

That’s right. So the 60 points are on the extremities. However, what we’re using is that she in a low, lower dantian, and so we’re by using this, the Sochi, so a need, um, points below the elbows and the knees, um, is activating the chin, the lower dantian. And if it isn’t, then we have another technique in the lower dantian to, to fortify and activate.

Hmm. Sounds like it’s kind of a very, um, uh, uh, uh, deep rooted system that draws on like the venture level to, to, uh, to enable healing, I guess usually when we need a, would probably just, um, maybe working on the year in a way, not as deep as, uh, as, uh, as the name of the system implies. Um, I think it’s great that it’s a, uh, distal based system. There are obviously certain limitations or some, um, certain patients, um, you know, may or may not be, um, may have access to the torso, right. Uh, bedridden patients or wheelchair patients, you know, and also even like people that practice more and maybe perhaps communities that acupuncture where, um, you know, uh, they are more of a seated. And so, um, access to below the elbows and knees are more practical. So I think this might, might be, uh, um, very palatable to a lot of practitioners out there that, um, that this is consistent with their style of practice. Um, I know this is a very complicated system, uh, when us coming, but it’s a sophisticated system. And, um, um, but do you think it’s possible, there’s some sort of simple things that you might be able to share with us? Uh, like maybe a simple diagnostic or simple palpation, single needling thing, if it’s possible, if it’s not let me know, um, just to maybe let our viewers, uh, experiment with it themselves or try on a patient that’s, they’re having some clinical challenges with, is that something that’s possible to share?

Well, okay. So first I agree completely with you. It’s a system, first of all, that’s very easy to use if you’re using a community acupuncture or if you’re treating, um, paralyzed patients, you’re, you have access to the Bo the limbs of the body, a lot easier than the trunk or the back of the, so it’s very easy to use, and it’s fairly easy to learn since it only takes a few hours, you know, the 60 points. Um, and, and then you’re able to, to practice, once you learn the location, you’re able to practice the depth of the points, um, what I would be able to share. Um, it’s, it’s not that I don’t want to share is just that it’s, it’s really a complete system within itself. And, um, after learning the location, you have to learn the needling technique. And then, then the treatment protocol, which is very important that if you don’t follow the steps, then you might, um, cause further blockage within the patient’s body.

And so, um, what I could learn, what I could speak about is maybe the palpation technique, um, within the system we, for, for the earth points, uh, as we use a lot of the five element points, um, the earth points are always in between, um, the wrists and elbows. And so, and there are a long, uh, the channels. However, the locations of the channel in the classical texts, uh, are really, really close to the bone. And so this needling approach will be a lot about palpating along the area of the bone and developing that sensation or that sensitivity that, that we can develop as acupuncturist, not on the chin level, but also at a, as a channel level and really feel the condition of the channel. And once we can feel the channel on the side of the bone, then we’re able to really power pate where the blockage is. And once that happens, then we know exactly the location of the point. One of the things that my, my teacher always says is if, if we’re not feeling the entrance of the needle before we need, or we can’t needle the point. So basically it, what he meant by that is he, we really need to feel the entrance, uh, within the channel. So the, the fine, um, entry point before we actually use our needles.

Okay. Um, can you talk about, um, like, just give us an example of one point and then describe how describe the technique that would be used for that point. Are there different techniques for different points or, um, or is it a similar technique applied to the 60 points?

Um, the needling technique that we applied to the points is very similar. Um, we must reach the needle tip within the channel, feel the channel cheat, and then, uh, we lift the needle very slightly, give it space. And after that, we turn counter clockwise and counterclockwise, we’ll the flow of the cheek balancing the body, um, in terms of points. Sure. Um, what, what I thought of when you asked that question, as I thought about my brother-in-law, uh, that was suffering from very chronic elbow pain. So the, uh, entrance, so the heart channel, um, at the elbow was, was hurting him so severely that nobody could even palpated. It woke him up at night. It was very severe. And this occurred after a very severe disappointment and separation in his relationship. And, uh, he tried everything to get rid of it, but nothing was, was useful.

And so if we look, um, at this channel for us, the elbow, uh, the map that I have behind me separates the body in the five elements. So our whole body is not only separated in channels. It’s also separated in, in elements. And so as, uh, the elbow is the element of water I needed to reach, uh, on the corresponding channel. Uh, so the heart channel being shalion, uh, the corresponding channel being, um, shall young. So I needed the water point of shall yang on, um, on the opposite side. Uh, and as soon as I needled this pain, he felt a shooting pain down his arm, and I just stimulated the needle. So, um, it’s very close to gallbladder 34 area, but it, it isn’t. So once we learned the location of the points, uh, you’ll know exactly where they are. And as soon as the pain was gone, then that blockage had left through, uh, the heart channel. And, uh, the pain was completely gone. Now, this was about five years ago and the pain hasn’t returned since

Hmm. That’s really useful. Um, and then it’s a great success story. And also for me, I think, I think for the other viewers too, uh, gives us a sense of how you, um, are attempting to balance the energy and the thought process does involve, uh, so that that’s, uh, I think, uh, uh, thirsty people are starting to have a better understanding of, um, the, um, the, the, the process, um, of, uh, of the strategies that acupuncture. Can you tell us, um, how will learning, does wrenches of acupuncture compliment, uh, TCM staff acupuncture, or compliment people that do more to be used to stash score, stab acupuncture would do, is it something that they can super impose? Something they, uh, um, I don’t know, like, uh, sequences, uh, how do you have any thoughts on that?

Yes. Um, this, again, she acupuncture is used, it takes about 10 to 15 minutes, uh, in terms of using these points, we only use about one to five of these points, and afterwards, of course, we can integrate any kind of TCM acupuncture treatment that we would normally do with our patients. And so this, this treatment, we usually do it in the beginning to release that, that acute type of pain or the acute excessive blockage in the body. And afterward, it just makes the TCM treatment more successful or more acceptable and peaceful for the patient. Or we could use it at the end of our treatment when, when we’ve completed our treatment, but there’s still a nagging pain somewhere in the back or, uh, in, in the neck. And then we can use one or two points release that pressure release that blockage, and then the patient goes home without any nagging pain or residual pain. So this system is very well combined with any other acupuncture techniques that, that somebody might do. I always use it with TCM points. I use it with, um, scalp acupuncture and, and even with moxa, it integrates very well. It’s a, it’s a very successful tool to have as an acupuncturist.

Yeah. Sounds, sounds like it’s very versatile. Uh, um, obviously the fact that it’s, uh, in the extremities, um, it wouldn’t, it wouldn’t interfere with, uh, you know, Microsystems on the scalp or on a year and things like that. Um, thank you very much for giving us a little bit of a introduction. Are you, and shacupuncture puncher today. Um, if we want to learn more about your end sheet, are there some resources that you can recommend, Suzanne?

Um, yes. So unfortunately there isn’t any English publication right now, but we do teach the course online regularly. Um, it’s a one weekend course, uh, uh, accredited by, um, NCC, wham. I used to teach it all over the world, but now with COVID, uh, it’s, it’s better taught online that easier for everyone. And of course, there’s these maps that you can get with the locations we spent over a year, really working hard on getting all the specifics, um, for the point location to help people really, um, cause without the point of location, then no one would get results with this system. So these maps are very useful to have in clinic. Um, and then once you, you know, the points and you’ve taken the course, it’s all about practice.

Yes. Can you give us the, uh, the, the web, the name of your website or the name of, um, some online? Um, yes. Yeah,

Yeah. Um, so my website is a Chinesemedicinetraveller.com, a traveler with two L’s and.com. And you can find everything, uh, about the courses online, about the courses in various location that we have done in the past. And of course the charts are available for you. Great. Thank you very much for spending your time with us. And, uh, we definitely look forward to learning more about your entry criteria in the future. It was very nice seeing you again, Poney and thank you for this, uh, this chat. It was very fun. And, uh, looking forward to see you again,

Chondromalacia and Patellofemoral Syndrome: A Jingjin Perspective

Hello, everyone. Welcome to the American Acupuncture Council podcast. My name is Matt Callison. I’m with my colleague and dear friend, Brian Lau. Hello, welcome. We’re here to talk about Chondromalacia and Patellofemoral Syndrome. A Jingjin Perspective, because this is only 30 minutes. We’re not going to have a lot of time to be extremely thorough, but hopefully the, what we’re going to be talking about in this short presentation will hope to provide content that can be used to enhance the practitioners current treatments for these conditions, and also possibly excite the practitioner to learn more.

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So why don’t we jump right into the information I want to introduce you to Brian is going to get started with, uh, with, uh, a video that we’ve been working very hard on, right? Yeah. Well, first of all, as you can see, there’s a warning screen up. Uh, this video coming up is from a recent dissection. Uh, Matt and I did a

As preparation for the Sports Medicine Acupuncture certification, uh, module three, uh, anatomy, palpation and cadaver lab is the first two days of module three. When we do the program, we usually, well, we always prepare the cadaver specimen beforehand as part of that whole two day experience. Students come in and they’re able to, um, work with the cadaver during the cadaver lab portion of that class. And then that evening we stay after prepare the cadaver for the next day, a different view, different depth, maybe from prone to supine. They come in they’re there. They’re able to see that, uh, prepared specimen the second day as part of the experience for the two day lab. So now with COVID, we’re having a transition to some of the classes being online and webinar-based based. We have an upcoming one in October. So this is one of the videos that we produced for the anatomy palpation cadaver lab coming up in October.

Uh, the experience is a little bit different in some ways I think it’s potentially better because the students get a chance to see some of the dissection, some of the process that we’re doing, but at the same time, they’re not there for the experience live, but there’s, there’s pluses and minuses. So this is a video from the upcoming class. We’re not going to be able to play the entire video, but, um, it’ll supplement the discussion of what we’re doing today, which is on Chondromalacia and Patellofemoral Syndrome. I’m going to go in and play the first part of the video. So there’s a little bit of a, uh, animation to set the stage about how the patella tracks. So you’ll see that coming up in just a moment.

Let me see. Sorry. I didn’t have the video started. It should start in just a second. Now, here it goes. So what’s, you’re seeing there’s patella is not on the bone is set up with a supine position and this is going to highlight the trochlear groove. That’s where the patella tracks, the patella should come in and just a moment, and you’ll see how it sits over this patellar groove of the femur. So the patella tracks during flection and extension along that patellar or trochlear groove, and that’s partly held in place, or at least, um, that movement is, is controlled by the guy wires of the spleen and the stomachs and new channels. And if there’s balance in those channels, well then of course, that’s going to allow the patella to track along that trochlear groove. So a common situation very frequently in clinic when people are having problems with patellar tracking, leading to pain, is the stomach send new channel, especially the lateral quadriceps, the vastus lateralis pulls accessibly and the spleen send you a channel is weak and not doing quite the, the amount of work

Or the load that’s necessary. So what happens is then the spleen fails to lift the patella. Paul’s lateral. We’ll talk more about that as we go through the presentation, I’m going to go back to that place. Let me get back to that moment. And now we’ll see that on the cadaver specimen.

There we go.

This video is showing the quadriceps three of the quadriceps. We’ll be showing the vastest intermediate in a separate video for this video. You see the rectus femoris muscle, the rectus femoris attaches to the patella blends in all the way down to the tibial tuberosity. You’ve got the vastus lateralis attaches to the lateral lip of the femur, attaches to the lateral aspect of the femur blends in with the fibers of the rectus femoris and attaches to the tibial tuberosity. Then you have the vastus medialis, here’s the longitudinal fibers of the vastus medialis and the vastus medialis has oblique fibers. As it comes down, attaches to the medial aspect of the patella blends in with the other quadriceps to attach to the two tuberosity. As we learned in the previous lectures, you have the spleen channel affecting the vastus medialis. You have the stomach channel affecting the vastus lateralis.

We need to have an even pool between these two muscles so that the patella can evenly run evenly, go through the entire trochlear groove, a common imbalance between these muscles between these channels will pull the patella lateral and superior causing condor, Malaysia and patellofemoral syndrome. In other videos, you’ll see lateral retina curriculum needling for that also surround the dragon needle technique around the patella that can help with that condition. The rectus femoris you can see as a bipartite muscle. That means it has a linear Alba. So this Linea Alba runs down the center of the patella with all right, little summary of what we’re looking at, Matt. Yeah. I just want to say something really quick. I’m not quite sure we’re having technical difficulties because on my view, it looks really, really blurred that videos is crystal clear with the resolution that we normally have that was really blurry.

Um, Brian, are you seeing the same thing as a blur on your end to look fine on my end, but it might be that I’m looking at the screen that it’s playing on. Well, maybe it’s my glasses. Let me take a look. Sorry about that. You guys, um, patellofemoral syndrome will frequently present with a lateral glide and or lateral tilting of the patella. This is what we were discussing, how the stomach send you channel that vastus lateralis pulling up on that lateral aspect of the patella and the spleen channel weekends is unable to guide that of the patella. So it starts to tilt as you can see to the lateral side. So this malposition can lead to increased pain and also deterioration of the patellar cartilage, which would be also another name for chondromalacia patella and what’s next or Brian.

So the patellar tracking injuries causing pain can lead to positive valuations, such as with using Clark’s sign. Clark sign is a very good test. It’s a test that causes pain. So you have to make sure that you’re doing it very gently. What you’re doing is you’re forcing the patella actually into that trochlear groove. And if there’s chondral Malaysia, if there’s that sand underneath that patella, then you can only imagine for those people that don’t have it, what that’s going to feel like when you’re actually trying to get that patella to grind against the bone. And that’s what Clark’s sign is. So it’s, it’s a very good test, but you have to use a lot of sensitivity with it, cause it can really hurt the patient quite a bit of that gross feeling. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. It’s your purpose, Brian. My take on Eli’s test toss test, uh, Eli’s test and Thomas test will utilize test specifically.

Uh, the, the patient is prone and you’re bringing their heel to their behind and you’re seeing Morris is able to fully lengthen. And if it’s shortened, then what it does is as they get into the extreme of me, flection that shortened rec fem starts to Paul acceptance excessively on the phenomena bone and it drives the nominate bone up. So it’s really simply a test to see if the rec fem is able to folly lengthen. If it’s not, then that indicates an overactive and block short rec fem part of the stomach’s in your channel. And that would be really good information that that would lead you to, um, wanting to reduce tension along the rec fem and along the stomachs and new channel Thomas test test for multiple things. Um, in this context for this lecture, it’s another test that will test for a quadricep length.

So it’s a, it gives you another way of looking at if the quadriceps is a group or overactive, uh, it does also test for so as shortness Elio. So as shortness, another channel send you another lecture, uh, potentially, um, Sartorious shortening part of the spleen sinew channel also kind of less related to the patellar tracking in this case, but it does test for other things, but in our context for today, it’s really about the quadriceps. So these are two excellent tests to test for overactivity in the quadriceps. Eli’s more specifically on the rec fem, um, places suit by patients. So I’ll take this next bullet. Um, as we know, when the leg is extended, it’s easy for the practitioner to move the patella cause it’s mobile. So in this particular test, if we go into knee flection of about 20 or 30 degrees, that adds a little bit of tension that Battelle announced a little bit tighter into that trickle your groove.

Now we can push on the patella from side to side motion. This is a kinder, gentler test and Clark sign. So you may want to use this one test first to see if that’s positive, then you won’t have to use Clark sign. Um, this, this test is actually really reliable, at least for me, uh, next assess the tightness of ladder retina and live in the knee. So place the suit by a patient in a straight leg position with a quadriceps, relax, the practitioner lifts the lateral edge of the patella away from the lateral, from Macondo, a tightness or inability to raise the lateral edge. Approximately 15 degrees indicates a tight lateral retina macula, but of course, you’re going to compare it to that, to the opposite side. So you’re going to palpate the patella and get your thumbs to start working up underneath that lateral edge of the patella, soften the tissue a little bit, take maybe 20, 30 seconds to do it, and then lift that patella. If that patella on that lateral side, doesn’t lift more than 15 degrees. That’s a positive side for that, that stomach send you channel tightening down that lateral retina macula just is a, usually a cold stagnation in that region pulling down on that area. So this is the reason why we have a needle technique going into that region, which also is a moxibustion is also applicable with that. Brian want to say anything or move to the next slide?

I’ll just add a little quick something. Uh, so these are all of course Western orthopedic tests, but since we’re looking at it from the perspective of the sinew channels, all of these to some extent are channel tests also. So, um, this test testing for the lateral retina curriculum in the video coming up, you’ll see how that lateral retina baculum is part of and continuous with the deep fascia of the thigh and how the stomach’s in new channel polling excessively through, especially the vastus lateralis can add extra tension into that lateral reticulum. So it’s part of a continuous chain from the thigh into the knee. So when you’re testing that you’re testing the stomach, as Matt mentioned, you’re testing the stomach’s in your channel. So you’re getting a little bit of a window into the stomach GI. So depending on what other signs and symptoms you found from your evaluation in this case, your TCM evaluation, you can put that information, uh, along with what you’re finding with this more palpation and the assessment of the knee. You know, maybe the person has acid reflux or some other, you know, rebellious stomach GI signs. And you’re feeling that excessive tightness on the vastus lateralis you’re lifting the Batalla, the Batalla doesn’t pull and doesn’t move away from that lateral surface. So well, so it’s pulled lateral. So that would all start to paint a picture both from a local orthopedic standpoint, but also from the whole body holistic approach from TCM. Good to put them two together.

Yeah, totally agree that that’s the lesson. I think we learned in first year of acupuncture school, how the meridians, the channels are connected to the organs and when you’re really looking for that, you can find that you’re absolutely right. Brian, a lot of that with the gallbladder channel as well. Sure. Cool. All right, well let’s keep moving. All right. So this is the needle technique using two, three inch needles going through the retina baculum, um, this is a needle technique that you want to make sure that it travels just underneath the subcutaneous fascia, the subcutaneous adipose layer, and just scraping along that lateral [inaudible] for many patients, if you start to angle oblique with this needle technique, it’s going to hurt very bad. So this is a needle technique that you want to practice on somebody that can handle needle stimulation. Don’t try this on a patient for the first time.

If you practice this needle technique, first, if you go too deep, it’s going to cause a lot of pain. If you, if you have that needle ride between the superficial fascia and the deep fascia, just underneath the adipose and before the muscle layer and the retina and that joint capsule just slide it right along that practice. At first two needle side by side work really well and moxibustion, or electricity can work that blue.is stomach 36. So what you’re doing is you’re aiming those needles towards, so at 36, yeah. And the, uh, the two needles. Now you might’ve said this, but I didn’t hear it myself. Uh, those are three inch needles that are better, um, shown there. And you’ll see that actually in the next cadaver video. So right now you can kind of look through the skin and picture it, but pretty soon you want to have the picture and you’ll be able to see it a little bit more clearly in terms of what the target tissue is.

Right. I don’t know if you wanted to mention anything or maybe it’s just simply saying that that surgical techniques are to, to release this lateral retina macula, which is kind of an extreme version, but this is the same tissue that, uh, the needles are working with the soften and release that ladder. [inaudible] in a way that doesn’t, uh, what’s better to not have to go under the knife if you can. So this is a, uh, a really an excellent technique that would, um, kind of parallel, I guess, some of the more aggressive surgical techniques. And it’d be part of a comprehensive picture of the other needles being used in this whole treatment and myofascial work and exercises and stretching. And even guash is, it’s a tissue that is pliable. You can get it to stretch. Um, it just takes some time to be able to do it, but absolutely you can get really good results with this and the myofascial techniques and yet everything else that we do.

Alright, so surround the dragon needle technique. We’re going to be seeing this in the video, coming up on a cadaver specimen, usually seven needles. You’re just going around the patella itself. Your goal is trying to get underneath that Battelle. It’s a way of getting the retina macular tissue, that tissue all around that patella to actually communicate and loosen up as much as possible, but you can use Eastham on those needles, or you can also use moxa with it. These needles will be in addition to other spleen and stomach CGU channel dysfunction. And of course we’re treating the foot and the hip, anytime that there’s a deep problem buts that’s for a conversation for another day. Yeah, yeah. Those are one and a half inch needles. So you’re not trying to drive the needle as far as you can, under the Batalla. You’re just trying to get, uh, get the needle in the space between the patella and that the trochlear groove basically to also, you know, work on some of that fixed pain side of, of where there’s a degeneration of that, the patella cartilage, right? So we are ready to look back at the cadaver image. I’m going to cue it up to the point that we’ll take it from there. So we’ll see those needle techniques on a cadaver prepared cadaver specimen. So that’ll give us a little better view, especially the red Nakheel and you’ll be able to directly see that tissue. So again, if you’re sensitive to cadaver images, then maybe you look away for this portion. But, um, I think it’s, uh, all of us being medical professionals, it should be fine.

So let me queue it up. Give me just a moment. There we go. The lateral and medial retina baculum of the knee are part of the stomach and spleen sinew channels. Respectively here, we see an acupuncture needle inserted into the lateral retina curriculum. We teach a technique and assessment and treatment to address this target tissue. This is a surround the dragon needle technique for the patella uses for condor Malaysia, patella, we’ll be using seven needles going around the patella. The first two needles will be on the lateral side would be the first one. The second one will be on the medial side, located halfway between the superior pole and the inferior pole. The goal is to get the needle underneath the patella, as far as possible.

Each one of these needles is directed toward the underside of the patella. This needle technique is performed when the leg is, has knee extension, not a pillow underneath it all, but knee extension flat on the table, you can also apply electrical stimulation on this, or you can also do direct from ox or right onto the patella. Brian, can you freeze that for a second? Here? We can get a better before the MFR. Yeah, yeah, that’s good. Is it on the, uh, surround the dragon? Uh, I’ll get it back there. Alright. Okay guys. Um, so let me just discuss this. So the needles that you have going from, uh, the two inferior needles, I think you probably have already figured that out one is going into the medial. She on the other one is going into the lateral Sheehan or stomach 35, the needles that are on the medial and lateral side, those are inserted halfway between the superior border and the inferior border of the patella, lifting that patella up to the side and inserting the needle under you do that on medial lateral sides. The remaining three needles, two of them will be on the superior medial border. I’m sorry. One will be on the superior medial border and the other one will be on a superior lateral border. Again, the intention to go underneath the patella, the last needle at extra point, Hadeen going underneath or going through the tendon and underneath the patella there. Hopefully that was helpful.

All right. So we’ll play then and look at the myofascial techniques that can be used afterwards. These are working also directly with retina curriculum.

Okay.

Oops. Sorry about that. Hold that back. Ah, why is that? There it goes.

Alright. So we’re going to be seeing now manufacturer release technique, moving there

Better look at these fibers tissue structures with stabilize the patella, the hands are mobilizing the retina macula on each side to show their influence on the position of the patella.

So you can see how that lateral superior allowed a border. The patella is now straighter.

Now with the superficial fascia removed, we can see how these tissues connect to the deep fascia of the thigh and the respect of channels in use.

Can you see doing this myofascia release technique after you’ve done the needling because the needling is changing the tissue density and the force changing the perception, and then you physically use your fingers to move that tissue re encourage them.

Marshall will give a better view of the underlying muscles of these channels and use and their relationship to patellar balance. All right. I shot, right? Yeah. So you got to also see two different depths with the superficial fascia removed. You get a little better view of how continuous that retina macular tissue is on the medial and lateral side with the deep fascia and how the pole from the stomach and spleen channel would also, um, have something to do with, in terms of too much Paul, on the stomach’s in your channel with Paul excessively on that lateral retina baculum so reducing at the, especially the motor point of the vastus lateralis would be helpful along the stomach’s in your channel. And then if there was weakness and an inability at sort of a lessening of Paul on the spleen side, then you could use this, the vastus medialis motor point to help bring cheetah, bring a little bit of tone to that, uh, vastus medialis to compliment the treatment. So those two are working in coordination with each other when they’re imbalanced.

I brought you want to go over that short exercise?

Uh, I think, go ahead, Matt. Matt, why don’t you take that one?

All right. So here we have the, uh, just, uh, you can use a small foam roll or you can use a towel. That’s gonna be rolled up about four inches or so sometimes five or six. And it just depends on the density of that towel. Go ahead and put it underneath the knee. You want to have the patient go ahead and place their fingers over spleen 10 or extra point by Chong, low two or three fingers would be great. You have the person seated just like this and then have them focus on contracting the vastus medialis oblique fibers when they are, when they’re trying to press their knee into the pillow or into the towel. So with knee injuries and patellofemoral syndrome and lots of different knee injuries, the vastus lateralis is going to fire before the vastest media out. So bleak and that’s backward.

Let me say that again. The vastus lateralis will fire before the vastest media, so bleak and in the muscle firing sequence that’s backward. So again, it really supports that stomach gene gen Xs, spleen T deficiency here. So let’s have that have that patient do this exercise after you’ve just treated the stomach and spleen gene gin, and also did your myofascia release. And you’re giving this one exercise just that small protocol can help a lot of patients about all, obviously it depends on how the severity of the injury, but this is really giving you a good little package to be able to start working with these kinds of conditions. Again, emphasize that the patient is getting that bass as media. So bleak fibers to fire before the vastus lateralis, when they’re going into knee extension, right?

Yeah. Just for those who maybe haven’t looked at the anatomy as closely, the vastus medialis, the medial quadriceps, that kind of tear shaped muscle on the medial side of the thigh, um, is a muscle, but the, a VMO, the vastus medialis oblique are the fibers that start as there as the more inferior fibers that, that take more of an oblique direction as they sort of angle towards the patella. So when you get higher up in the muscle, the fibers are a little bit more straight up and down a little bit more longitudinal, but the lower fibers then start to angle and they’re more oblique. So that’s what the, the abbreviation BMO vastus medialis oblique is same muscle, just the oblique fibers.

Well, Brian, I think that’s our last slide on this conversation, but, um, is there anything else that you want to cover as a closing for this Brian?

Uh, no, no. I can look through some of the, uh, chats. I know there’ll be some questions. I just, again, like distress, I’ve already said it. Matt said it, but, um, you know, a lot of folks who haven’t had a lot of orthopedic, uh, experience as they start to transition more into orthopedic work, uh, for TCM practitioners, it’s very easy to sorta see it as sort of a different world. You know what I mean? It’s, it’s, uh, all of a sudden Western orthopedic tasks, we’re doing Clark sign, we’re doing, uh, Eli’s, we’re doing,

We’re talking about patellar tracking. We’re talking about a lot of very Western type concepts, but the goal, one of, one of our goals, at least in sports medicine acupuncture, is to really bridge those two, those two worlds. So when you’re looking at the, especially this Indian channel relationship, it all is very specific work that we were showing more local work, but it’s part of the big picture. Again, looking at the song, food, looking at the, if we had more time, we could talk about how the hip and the foot position relate to it. And there’s other channel relationships that’ll go with that that are better part of the big picture. So, um, it’s really just taking information you have and applying it in a, in a slightly different context, but don’t lose sight of the information you do have, cause it’s such a powerful medicine to really put together with this more orthopedic approach.

Yeah. Excuse me. I agree. So for the TCM practitioner, all of those different syndromes that have knee pain as a sign and a symptom, that’s something to look at kidney cheat efficiency, kidney inefficiency, liver, cheese stagnation, especially with peasants Ryan problems and medial, knee pain, all of those things apply. So we treat the patient with our TCM diagnosis and then we add this sports medicine on top of it. Yeah. And we’ve been doing this for a while now, so we’re getting pretty good at it. So hopefully you guys can be able to come check out our webinars. We want to thank the American Acupuncture. Do you have something else to add Matt real quick? Okay. I’ll think those guys afterwards, um, the, the surround the patellar needle technique, Matt showed the two, uh, Sean points. Um, so that’s a little bit more of a angling under the patella.

If you go to the YouTube channel for sports medicine acupuncture, there’s also a video that has the knee and much more flection and showing more of a needling more towards the [inaudible] direction to, to access the, um, uh, anterior cruciate ligament or a different direction to access the medial and lateral meniscus. So the reason I’m bringing that up, it’s not really part of this class, but just understand that these same point different needle directions are gonna specifically target different target tissues. So it might help, uh, start to bring it a little bit more into a full picture. If you wanted to check out it’s another cadaver video that you can see on our, uh, uh, YouTube channel. Yeah. And that will also be in our webinar coming up in October. Okay. Now, now you can think, yeah, we want to thank the American acupuncture council very much for having us in this sports acupuncture podcast. You guys thank you for listening. We appreciate you very, very much. Um, next week we have Laura or the American acupuncture council has Lauren Brown coming in to discuss things. So that’s going to be fantastic if you have not heard Lorne Brown speak, um, you should check it out. Lorne is a very incredible practitioner and an academic as well. It’s a really nice blend. Thanks very much. You guys. Thanks, Brian. Really appreciate you. Thank you. See everybody.

Jing and Cancer – The TCM insights – Yair Maimon

Hello. My name is Dr. Yair Maimon. Uh, and first of all, I would like to thank the American Acupuncture Council to put up this, uh, presentation and lecture. Uh, I’ve different areas of interest in Chinese medicine. I’ve been practicing for more than 30 years. And one of them is definitely cancer. I’ve been heading also a integrative oncology unit in the biggest hospital in Israel, in the research center.

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And I’ve published many publications on the effect of especially herbal medicine and cancer. So if you have interest, you are welcome to repeat that you can go to my website here. My mother had come or just to go on the internet and search for it. So I’ve been deeply involved in cancer and understanding the [inaudible] significant effect that we find when we do integrity oncology. And when we are using Chinese medicine and this lecture will focus on one of the deepest phenomenons of cancer, which is gene and the cancer, the way we understand and perceive cancer in Chinese medicine, because in Chinese medicine, um, I would put it in a different way.

Cancer is a Western medical diagnosis and disease. So we have to go back to the roots of Chinese medicine to understand cancer. As we know it today in Chinese medicine, and gene really is one of the best way to do it because when we talk about cancer in Western medicine, we talk about something on the side cellular level. We’re talking about a cancer cell. It’s a very specific understanding of mutation of DNA in a cell, and the way cell are growing. So when you look at the Western view, it’s a very cellular view, very DNA based view. And when we look at the Chinese medicine view, we are looking from a different dynamic, and this is what I will try to unfold, kind of to give the core unfolding as far as, uh, the understanding of Chinese medicine and maybe provide those some treatments that we can give example.

So cancer in Western medicine, isn’t uncontrolled growth of abdominus abnormal cells in the body. Normally cell will grow and receive nicely here. And when the cell will be damaged, it will, [inaudible] natural cell death and cell are growing and dying and multiplying in the normal growth rate. I think the cancer, we see this phenomenon of endless a multiplication. They multiply and multiply their ability. They have the normal self to stop growing is hindered. So when we take the larger view in Chinese medicine, we always have to say, I see men being between heaven and earth. Oh, we have to see the movement of cheesy between Shannon Jake. So we also know from the substances in the body, this is three substances that Shan will be the most, and Jean will be the most team. And there is all the time change of yin and yang. And that’s the normal also growth of things.

We have a meeting of two things and then growth. We have a meeting of [inaudible]. We have a meeting of Shannon Jean in order for life to begin, we have a sperm in an oven we have in any meeting and then multiplication of cells up to a human being or any creature starting. So we need the seam, the neon meeting Shen and Jean father, and mother. And we’ll see, because when it comes to cancer, we are, we see something very strange happening at this meeting or this very unique meeting of creation of life. Eh, I’ll give another example kind of slowly put you in, in a certain frame frame, frame of mind, and also in a cell, a liver, we see cells which are very kind of, uh, like STEM cells, which can change into any cell. And we see very differentiated cells. So the less cell is differentiated, like a STEM cell.

It can change into any cell. We can say, we see more Shannon it and less jingling. The more we going to differentiate cells, we see the opposite. We see more gene cells that has a specific role and less shame as humans. Now we are, we are very differentiated from each other when we will go higher. There is less differentiation when we go to the Shen level. But when we look at the, at the gene itself, the gene itself is all the time growing, growing, growing, and slowly declining. So with gene, with time, we had this natural curve of the gene growing and growing, or a person developing, and then going slowly to all the age and dying the same happens also in the cellar level. So when we look at creation, we have to look at Shannon, Jean Green and yang meeting. When we look at development of cells, we have to look at this changes in the gene, which are bounded to one very unique thing, which is time.

So the gene is bounded naturally into time, and then it goes through a natural cycle. So normally we see cell growth and cell death, which are in the same rate. So we see the gene growing and declining, growing and declining, and that’s the normal cell growth in the body. So cell growth and cell death that like in an equilibrium, in an yang is working well. The G having his own natural movement, right? It starts with the Shan, then go through a growth and decline. But when we look at the cancer cells, when we look at the basic idea of, of, uh, of carcinogenic, we see that cell growth is very big comparing to cell. This cell thump something on the gene level is going wrong. Like the cell is multiplying and multiplying and multiplying, and it doesn’t go through its natural cause was time of growing and dying.

And that’s an another thing it knows even to avoid death like normal cells, especially when it’s damaged. It goes into apoptosis, natural Dells and the cancer cells when no one knows how to avoid this process of ptosis. And then it goes into uncontrolled growth. So it avoids the natural cycle of gene. So you see gene here involved in all the level when we are talking about Western medicine, about the way cell multiplies, the way cell growing decline naturally. So in Chinese medicine, we can easily and, and we should be focused on, on the gene level. When we look at it, five substances of the body. So we know Shen is the most young. Then we achieved body fluids, blood, and gene is the most team and cancer in this respect is the most in disease. It’s under depth, also on the cell, it’s on the DMA.

And if we talking DMA deeply, when people are exposed to Western medicine, especially chemotherapy, but also biological medicine and others. And when we look at that, eh, Western medicine and we want to compare it to Chinese medicine, I think the easiest is to look at chemo and chemotherapy because chemotherapy really affects the gene and the mechanism of chemotherapy it’s works on this core DNA, the death of the cell. And it works on the DNA, eh, proliferation. So it really affects the cell, stops it from growing any cell and especially cells in the bone marrow multiplied fast. It affects therefore the book we use, the bone marrow, creating fatigue, early aging, all this sounds a bit like Jane, the longterm effect. Again, it’s chemo. We’ll look at the formation of marrow and you will understand why the facts and patient chemobrain is a phenomenon that patient sometimes for very long time will say that, you know, they can’t concentrate.

The mind is foggy. Their cognitive ability has been reduced. There’s hair loss. Again, especially head hair relates to the kidney fatigue, deep fatigue, affecting fertility and gain the gene and aging, as we said before, and there is a very deep relation to a constitution, okay, because it’s will affect people differently. According to their original gene. When I see different patient coming in, even before chemo, Western medicine, I can many times predict how deep will be the effect of the chemo. And well, we’ll be the recovery and taking into account this preexisting condition. And as we see on a settler lever, the chemotherapy works on the DNA on the very deepest, deepest, the most [inaudible] as we talk about gene of the cell. And we already said before that the chemotherapy reduces the DJing and mostly effect a lot of also biological and other drugs, which are using cancer will affect.

And we can the gene. And that’s why we see this reduction in white and red blood cells and all the other, um, things that we mentioned all will relate to this gene weakness. And, um, another deep aspect in cancer is that we see that cancer is coming up showing more at the times where the gene is changing. So again, it will be around ages, you know, 40 to 49, 50 or, or later. But if you look at the patient’s history, you will see that it relates to changes in Jake. And it has many ramifications, uh, but it’s very interesting to observe it and definitely hormonal changes and cancers that relates to hormones like breast cancer, prostate cancer, because they’re all home or monitor or biological clock relates to gene. And when, eh, and you can see also that a lot of the treatments relates to hormones and eventually will affect extra Marina, like Chong, my rent, which relates to the gym and later, and we want also to help people to recover from, from treatments.

Then we want to replenish life, replenish the gene, replenish the bone marrow. So as you see, the more we are going deeper into understanding the side effects and effects of cancer. The more the gene is, is the key things to discuss. When we look at the marrow in Chinese medicine, marrow suede is a very specific, uh, substance. It relates to the gene, it’s already his gene. It then now wishes and build the bone marrow, the spine and the brain. And, um, the bones are the Fu organ of the mirror that’s already in so and 17. So there is a close relationship between marrow in bones, and it’s quite amazing. The Chinese already more than 2000 years ago, see the relationship between kidney bone marrow production of blood things that actually in Western science, just our recent discovery. And, uh, as you know, the bone marrow produces a different type of STEM cells.

Uh, and while the bone marrow STEM cells will produce either white blood cells or red blood cells or platelets, but they’re all coming from a very deep understanding of STEM cell. So, so bone marrow in Chinese medicine relates very much to the kidney and kidney, gene and kidney gene is, as I said before, the root of our discussion here, when we are a going into understanding the gene, we will talk about extra meridians in Chinese medicine, the teaching by my, the teaching, by my, our, the root of, uh, the body and the body development. So, uh, looking at the level of the development of life, we are going to understanding and unfolding the extreme regions. And as we know, the three meridians that are starting in life are they do the rent and the Chong, they’re all starting in the kidney and the merging from the kidney and building the basic foundation of the body.

And also in Chinese medicine are very much related to do my will treat it many times in brain cancers. The ran my eye, many gynecological in recovery from the deep effect of cancer and the Chung by, and others will relate to replenishing bone marrow. This is by the way now, the way that we use extra Meridian and their function in a indifferent cancer condition, like for, uh, treating brain and, and, and, and brain problems, we’ll use the Dumas, the [inaudible] for the uterus. We can use more chunk rent or die for marrow Chung, buy and rent. And for bone and bone problems, we’ll use the Chong rain, or in way, it’s all unfolded the deeper we understand cancer and this extra Meridian. And later I’ll try to give an example of how I use it in the clinic. So some regions are very much related to a development of life and later to cancer that is related to embryological development and the changes of seven and eight years.

As I say that a lot of time can be when cancer will come up, they relate to fertility and growth. And that’s why, as I say before, a lot of time, we need to, when patients are recovering from chemo, we need to support the gene and aid the coming back of the old fertility and, uh, and the very basic vitality of the body. And they’re serving as a reservoir and in cancer and cancer treatments, this reservoir gets empty. So you want to go back to the deepest, vital places in the body and help recover. And they’re related to kidney and Ranchi, and this is how we treat and extra meridians overall are very much to do with creation, regulation, and protection. This is very deep three aspects that are important in the treatment and recovery of cancer. And I would like kind of to maybe end or, or go to the last part, then give a case from the clinic and see how it all applies in the clinic.

This is a patient of mine. She’s a 50 years old female. Uh, she married with two children. She has for many years with metastatic breast cancer. I’ve been following her up for about 15 years. Uh, she’s undergoing anti hormonal treatments. She has night sweats for just one minute. Somebody Israel is under lockdown and I’m, I’ve been, uh, doing this from another place. So I’ll try to finish up early cause I need to leave this place. So she is a anti hormonal treatment and she has night sweat, and therefore she’s treated, I treated her with the rabbi and the different points together with the rent, my in order to help her. And this gives you the idea of how we treat this patient, uh, and how we combine different points. And last point, I wanted to say something about logic this time 10 and large intestine 10 is a point I use a lot to tonify patient.

It’s the Susan, the point of the, so it can be utilized to strengthen the Angie and, uh, it’s on the young men Meridian. Very good there. A combination is the three lead points, the large intestine, 10 Ren 11, and stomach 36. Again, if you want to read more and understand more, uh, I had few lectures that the same Academy on that topic and there in order to learn about cancer in a, in a more kind of deeper way, I always say it’s combination of Western medicine, understanding Chinese medicine. And we have now a lot of research to support us. So to kind of finish up it’s to do with, uh, life generally and cancer, uh, to do with, uh, the combination of gene and Shen of fire and water gene more relates to the G and the wisdom and the transformation of prenatal life and growing and Shen more to the communication and inspiration.

And this is eventually how we also promote learning in Chinese medicine. So gene relates more to wisdom and personnel transformation. And when we talk about chin, we relates more to inspiration, healing, communication, and connection. So I think when we listen more to the gene, we hear the story of life and transformation. When we listen to the shame, we hear more, the love and inspiration that we need both to keep us on our true path of life. So in this very strange time, when everything is going around, not in the regular way, I wish you all the best of health from Shanta Shan. Thank you. And thank you for watching it all the very best and keep safe.