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Hi my name is Moshe Heller and I’m from Moshen Herbs. And I want to thank the American Acupuncture Council for giving me the opportunity to present this little talk about treating children with seasonal allergies. I think we can start going to the slides. Today we’ll be talking about treating children with seasonal allergies and I.
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Of course I wanted to. We’re all noticing that spring is here and we are feeling these fluctuating temperatures and the blooming, we’re seeing the blooming of the plants and trees. Also bloom also blooming. And we are starting to see sneezing and sniffles in little children and their nose are irritated and eyes are also.
And so today I would like to discuss how we can help with acupuncture and herbs children who are suffering from these symptoms. So when we talk about seasonal allergies is actually an umbrella of quite a few signs and disease patterns. The main one being allergic rhinitis. Although we can always see other things like adenoid hyperplasia and sleep apnea and.
Food allergies being part of that pattern. And as we can what we’re seeing a lot of times is that once there’s these allergies are happening, it creates an enlargement of the adenoids, which creates an obstruction. Obstruction in the breathing process and therefore can create things like sleep apnea and then it actually can impair cognitive function.
Children becomes have more difficulty in focusing and concentration their moods become very unstable and also they can become very irritable. And so this, as we, as I’m presenting here it is we see that there’s a wide variety of symptoms that can develop if these seasonal allergies are.
Being unchecked. What I want to as I mentioned, food allergies being part of that. There’s always this food allergies being at the background of a seasonal allergies and a lot of times they come together and a child can be, become. Very reactive or over reactive where the all resulting in allergies and.
These start at a young age, right? So children may be born or when they’re newborns, they can become, they have this kind of protective energy is very weak and wind, cold, wind, heat, dryness, damp. Dampness or summer heat can all affect and penetrate and cause and invade young babies because their spleen, as we can see here, their spleen is, and lung and kidneys are immature.
Their ying and their way is also imbalanced. And therefore we get these it agitates the qi and creates dampness. And then we can have upper. Orifices being very irritated and pH flam being produced. This whole basic concept is that when the spleen and is immature and weak, it cannot tolerate it, tolerate the challenge, and therefore allergies hypersensitivities and intolerance.
Intolerance can develop. So I just wanted to point out this kind of etiology where it’s all coming from. I also always want to remember when to remind everybody that always when we think about allergies, we eat this, we need to look at diet. So when we suspect that there is any allergy at the root of your patient’s disorder.
Always discuss diet because that’s where everything can stem from. First ask what they eat on a regular basis and how they how they eat it and how include how regular, what’s their schedule of eating. Because I think one of the things we don’t pay attention is the regularity of eating.
Making sure that we’re eating regular meals at regular times that helps strengthen the spleen and. I always consider or give my patients that are suffering from allergies a journal or ask them to keep a three week food journal to see how they’re eating and what they’re eating so I can help them navigate this process.
When we look at pattern differentiation there are three main patterns that we usually look at. Whether it’s a lung and spleen she deficiency, or in younger kids, it can also be what we call hyperactive spleen sheet efficiency, where there’s. Signs of spleen, she deficiency. But the child actually has hyper or be is very hyperactive.
A lot of times we see that they’re just running around. They’re very difficult to stay still. And when they come to the office, they’re usually touching everywhere, moving around, but. At the core, we see these kind of spleen deficiency signs and symptoms. Lingering pathogenic factor is also huge factor in with allergies.
I see that frequently. So that originally the patient had an invasion. I. Of a pathogenic factor and it became lingering. And the later manifestation of that is allergies. At a certain stage after these kind of reoccurring attacks, eventually it develops into this kind of chronic allergic state, which is very much related to, to the fact that there’s a pathogenic factor lingering in the system. Also wanted to remind at this point that there is. In terms of Chinese medicine, there’s a link between immunizations and lingering pathogenic factors. So there’s a possibility that immunizations are the cause of the lingering pathogenic factor, and that’s something we need to address when we’re addressing allergies with children.
There’s also an involvement of the liver and we can see this kind of liver, young rising, or this kinda liver constraint that causes young to rise and therefore cause, cause these hyperactivity of the immune system. This is another pattern we need to always consider and I want to point out that in this in this kind of pattern, I also always look at two aspects of it.
One is more deficient and one is more excess depending on how the child might look. If you. Diagnose your, the child as being in excess. There is a tendency to have more of a liver young rising from excess. So cheek constraint leading to depressive heat and or from deficiency if the child is deficient.
There could be underlying kidney y deficiency that causes liver yang to rise. There’s no anchoring of the y. I al as a note I put here that it’s important to always remember that each of these pattern will. Coincide with bouts of either wind, cold or wind heat and or attacks of flame dampness.
So we need to be able to address the underlying pattern as well as the patterns that might be coinciding including underlying kidney involvement. So always look for the source of heat. There’s something that is causing the immune system to hyperact. React inappropriately. And so there’s always some source of heat that we need to be aware of.
Things like yin fire, cheese stagnation, leading to depressive heat, phlegm, congestion, as I mentioned, are all patterns that we need to look for in order to understand where or why is this child having these seasonal allergies. So once we identify, I want to just point out some important points that I use for most patterns.
So the first thing is, the main points I always consider are lung seven. Regulating the lung chi, which is no matter what pattern it is important to help with regulating the lung chi large intestine. Four of course, as a point for opening the nose and kind of fact affecting the face and bringing down heat from the face from the head.
This is very important. In adults we usually use large intestine 20, but in kids I usually prefer to use DE 23 as the point for opening the nasal pa path passages. I find that DE 23 can create very effective opening of the sinuses and nasal passages. D 23 is an amazing point for that, and you can use a needle of course, but also laser or or electro stim. Cutaneous electrostimulation, which is great for moving the chin, opening the nasal passages. Gallbladder 40 is also a very important point that I consider for, especially for allergic rhinitis that has this clear. Constant discharge. Gallbladder 40 is an amazing point for helping to clear that, especially when I see that the the discharge is clear and seems a little more cold than I definitely use MOA on Gallbladder 40 to do that.
And sometimes we need to address the liver involvement and so I either use liver two that will bring some heat down from the face or liver three, depending on what the manifestations will be. I. I always look at points around large intestine. 10 11 in that area is very an important Im for immune regulation.
If I see tenderness or I feel some congestion in that air area, when I palpate. That is an important area to consider needling to help with immune regulation. Also, lymph system regulation is really an important aspect in seasonal allergies. So I. Palpate a triple warmer 16 and I might use either a tiger warmer or a cutaneous electro stim or laser or some or needling if the child is open to that.
To help with lymph regulation. I like to always. With, when I see children with seasonal allergies to palpate along the spine, ’cause I think that always helps with regulating the yang, which is usually imbalanced. So I like to palpate. The areas around do 12 which help w which will help with lung tea regulation and there’s, it’s.
Sometimes considered a reflex for the thymus gland. And so either do 12 or sometimes I do kidney 23 and 24. I’ll palpate for that area to see if there needs to be any. Help with regulating of lung chi. I also palpate along, do two, do three. That’s do three is L four area and sometimes do six, which is T 11.
All these. Areas are I look for sensitivity or congestion. There is a sensation that there’s some accumulation in that area. So palpation and needling this area, these areas will, can be very helpful for seasonal allergies. Now I wanna move to a few herbal ideas. I want to present this the, there’s the, there was a a study that was was published in Nature in the Nature Magazine about this three herb formula for stabilizing that the the function of the mast cells.
So regulating mast cells. As we know, mast cells are very involved with allergies in histamine production. We, in order to create an antihistamine effect, they found these three herbs to be very helpful. So these three herbs are a formula called the. Swang Huang Leon, only three Herb Huang Chin and Leon Chao.
You can find these as three, you can combine those as three single herbs into a formula. And I think can, you can also add them to other formulas as this kind of base antihistamine combination for for seasonal allergies. Swang Huang Leon always remember this combination for regulating mast cells.
I also wanted to point out another research study that was published in the NCBI. You have the information here. This is Dr. Lee from from Mount Sinai. And she did herba, she developed this herbal treatment for food allergies. This is based on one. You have the herbs in, in, in the slide.
And what she found is that the use of this formula can help in regulating also the histamine or the have effect on both food allergies, but also seasonal allergies, and especially if the seasonal allergies are. From or because of those food allergies. So this is a very interesting formula to explore and in treatment of children with both, seasonal allergies and food allergies.
This is the actual formula that was used in the study. So you can take a look at that too. And finally, I also wanted to mention a supplement that I use a lot. This is dhis. It is a product and the ingredients are basically quercetin, which is a bioflavonoid that really helps with the regulating.
With regulating the histamine response in the body, so it downregulates the histamine response. So it’s almost like a natural antihistamine. And that’s combined with nettles and Brolin. So two other ingredients that help with regulating histamine response. And I like this product because it’s available in a chewable for children.
But if you can find any, there’s many other companies that make these same ingredients, which is Quercetin, vitamin C Brolin and Nettles. And you can use other companies too, but I like this one because it’s in a chewable so children can easily use it. I hope this gives you a little bit of an idea of how to support children who are right now suffering from these seasonal allergies.
A lot of times I like to try start treating these children if I know that they have it already before, at the end of the winter, before spring begins, but. If you haven’t, and you are, or encountering new patients that are coming because of this, I hope this gives you some help with providing treatment.
If you want to have more further information please log into the, either the Moshen herbs. Website, which gives you some herbal support or you can log on to the Moshen center.com which is my office. Thank you. I’d like to thank the American Acupuncture Council again for letting me speak today, and I hope to see you soon again.
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And today we’re going to talk about a topic that comes up all the time, and that is the use of smartphones and technology in children from a Chinese medicine perspective.
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Hi, my name is Stephen Cowan and I’m happy to be presenting here today thanks to the American Acupuncture Council, very thankful that they have this opportunity, this platform. And I’m joined today by my dear friend and colleague, Moshe Heller, who teaches with me around the country on pediatrics and Chinese medicine.
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Hi, Moshe. Hello, Stephen. Nice to be here. Nice to see you again. And today we’re going to talk about a topic that comes up all the time, and that is the use of smartphones and technology in children from a Chinese medicine perspective. So let’s go to the first slide. This is an interesting question, and I believe that Chinese medicine is more than needles.
It’s a way of life and being modern practitioners for Chinese medicine and carrying that perspective, the understanding of Smartphones and tech, this powerful technology raises an interesting dialogue that Moshe and I have been having and parents ask about it, particularly with their teenagers, but I think it’s even more important to talk about it with babies all the way up.
When is the right time to introduce a smartphone? What are the dangers, etc. Things like that. Yeah, that’s a, it’s a very big common questions. And I think one of the things that we have to understand as you mentioned here before is that we need to look at what, how can we translate what’s happening from a Chinese medicine perspective so we can help in balancing that and understand what we need to do in order to make it because Exactly.
Exactly. We can’t stop it from happening. No, the cat’s out of the bag, right? The Pandora’s box is open. You can’t make this go away. We all have smartphones. Parents are using smartphones. So it would be ridiculous to put your head in the sand and say I don’t believe in smartphones because they’re going to be here.
And there are all kinds of positives and negatives. It’s the obvious. Negatives that people know about are addiction, right? Exposure to dangerous things, pornography and violence and things that we don’t want. Bullying misinformation and, loneliness, right? These are the kind of five things that I think, We all fear when it comes to exposing young children.
Let’s go to the next slide and talk about a deeper level of Chinese medicine understanding our society. You can do the other one too. Yeah. So this idea of so much yang in our society at the expense of yin because the circle doesn’t change. If you got more yang, you got less yin. But in our case, we have both happening simultaneously.
Too much, too fast, and too little, too late. And one of the things, Moshe, you and I teach wherever we go, is the What we’ll call the sensitivity and openness of a child’s heart mind, right? This very a kind of gentle, open, innocent heart mind, body, way of consciousness that is absorbing the world.
And here we have this modern society. And I think that’s the first place we have to sensitize parents is understanding both the yin yang philosophy and understanding the nature of a child’s mind and body, right? That quality. They’re not, the classics say children are naturally more young. and more underdeveloped in their yin.
So if you add to that this sequence that we can, everybody can see here, so many things on this list of too much, too fast, that’s cumulative, that’s adding to the natural societal yang nature, right? And then couple it with too little connection, too little exercise, too little darkness, right?
You can leave lights on all night, right? Kids sleeping with lights on. Too little slow and quiet time, too little sleep, too little exposure to natural surroundings. That’s a kind of societal yin deficiency. And so it’s a lot of that stimulation. So it creates, supports that imbalance. Yeah. Yeah.
And I think your kids went to Waldorf school where they actually were very strong in holding off on screens and technology. And There’s one thing I want to just put out. There’s actually two things. One is that actually one of the things we need to think about is that looking at a screen, whether it’s an iPad or it’s a cell phone or it’s a TV, is, on one hand it really makes the feeling that the, or the parents have a feeling that it actually calms the child where the, suddenly there’s quiet, there’s nothing there’s no interaction.
They’re plugged in. But on the other hand, what is happening is all that energy goes inside and creates excessive or extreme stimulation. So it’s actually very similar to a stimulant. Oh, absolutely. And a hypnotic stimulant in that sense. But there’s another piece that’s a really good point you’re making.
As it’s going into the being, the child, there’s a natural feeding of the mind at the expense of body. So you’re creating a tension between the more yang head and the yin. body or lower part, right? So they’re not embodied. They’re so sucked into this technology because it’s so stimulating. that they’re transfixed, but it’s pulling them out of their embodiment, right?
So you’re getting this tension split of being disembodied and engaged, and it looks like he’s learning, or he loves it, or he’s, quiet for a chance, right? How many kids with ADD come to me And they say he has no problem paying attention when he’s on his video games or when he’s on his smartphone, right?
And that’s evidence of exactly what you’re saying. They’re being sucked into this very powerful technology that’s designed to capture your attention, right? There’s another component that when I mention ADD, I have seen over and over again what I call slow modem syndrome. The more you’re exposed to fast technology, The harder it is to go back to slower analog settings, like sitting in a classroom, because it’s like working on a slow modem.
You tear your hair out. You go crazy. It’s like, why isn’t this thing responding, right? And you’re being forced, after you’ve been playing for three hours on, Your screens on Roblox, on your phone, having to sit in the classroom becomes torturous, and there’s a lot of acting out behavior, distractibility, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and then they’re being medicated for that.
So yes, I think it, you’re absolutely right that if you were expecting the child to go back to the classroom after playing a video game, that seems, Extremely impossible. So one of the questions I will ask a kid when I play that out in front of the parents, I say, Let me ask you something.
Why would you want to make school more boring than it already is? And they look at me and they say, I don’t want to make it more boring than it already is. And I said the more you play Expose yourself to this technology. By default, it’s harder to go back and all of a sudden the light goes on with somebody in the family like, Oh my God, we’re actually contributing to the problem.
And so we’re opening up those ideas. Yeah, I have a question about that because I’ve been really struggling with this kind of problem that comes from exactly this point, is that I see that there’s a lot of bargaining with many of the kids that are, that the parents have an understanding that they cannot give them free use of screen time, that they will bargain and sometimes It’s almost like this kind of fighting between the parent and the child.
Oh, definitely. I see it. I earn more time, and and if you do this I see it all the time, and it’s being used as a reward or bribery, right? If you do your homework, you can do, two hours of this. I had one kid, the father was a techie, and really deep in, made a lot of money in the tech world.
And the kid He had set up these, rules, and it turned out the kid was cheating. He was a techie too and he had played nine hours of video games. And in one day and the father was like horrified, right? Nine hours where he was cheating, right? This particularly became a problem during the pandemic where kids were online for school and they were actually playing games or they were Look, I don’t want to demonize all of the screens.
They’re here to stay. It’s a way to make balance, which is what, That’s what Chinese medicine is about, finding that dynamic equilibrium of these two polar aspects of our engagement. The rule I use at home with people, with kids and families, is a one to one rule that I call the green to screen, ratio.
That for every minute that you’re on a screen in a day, You have to have equal number of minutes of time in an analog natural setting. That could be a walk in the park. It could be playing with blocks in your room, something that’s not plugged in to any electronics, right? And as long as you, because the time is limited in one day, you can’t bank the hours for later.
You It limits itself. And, so a kid who’s, I’ve had kids who said, all right, I just did two hours of exercise outside. Can I do some screens now? And I say, yeah, but there’s another rule, an hour before bed, because you don’t want to interfere with your melatonin levels. So an hour before bed, all screens are off in the house, including the parents.
They have to, Pretend to turn off their own addiction while the kids are going to sleep, because it’s not fair. And I’ll hear this over and over again if the parents don’t practice the same principle. The classic place where this is a problem is the dinner table. Screens at the dinner table, phones at the dinner table, and getting parents to break their own habits.
is critical, right? Yes, but there’s another thing that you mentioned in another talk We gave, Moshe, that is so dear to me and really important and that is when we’re asking the question of When is a good time to introduce a smartphone to a kid? Which is a big question I get asked. I think this idea that different kids have different Needs, different sensitivities, and you have to know the complexity of the temperament of a child.
For example, More fiery kids, where that phase, that element, is stronger in that kid, because we’re a complex of all of them. They’re more prone to addiction, because, I find a lot of fire kids just love scrolling through YouTubes and finding all kinds of wacky things that they can’t stop looking at, right?
Whereas, More of the woody kids are more prone to looking for pornography and violence and danger and, they’re just curious about it. I’m not blaming them. It’s part of their nature to be curious about those kind of things. Yes. Earth kids are more prone to the bullying that takes place in, in social media and to FOMO, fear of missing out, right?
They’re voyeuristic. They want to know, is anybody talking about me or are they including me? That’s a very earthy, spleeny way of thinking. So they’re vulnerable to that aspect. I think metal or gold kids are much more prone to misinformation because they’re collectors of information and data. And so they’re prone to get, coming up with the wackiest information, that we see that’s littered in the internet, some of it causing great fear and concern when it’s not even true. And then most, and probably most importantly, is the water temperament or the water within us all that is prone to alienation, aloneness, being cut off from the world because they’re so sucked in so deep.
So knowing the temperament of your child becomes a way of gauging age. When is that, knowing your kid and knowing how they’re developing and what are they prone to already helps guide you in terms of timing of introducing these things. Some people say There’s a movement in parents now called wait until 8th.
Wait until 8th, meaning 8th grade. Because waiting till puberty begins for a smartphone in particular, which is a full on computer that’s in your pocket, as opposed to what we’ll call a dumb phone, which you can use to call mom to pick you up from a basketball game or whatever. But smartphones are a very powerful computer that has access to the whole world.
So that’s one kind of global guideline. I don’t like global guidelines. I think it has to be fit to the needs of the family and the child specifically, but it’s something to think about. Yeah. And as you mentioned before, my daughter went to a Waldorf school where there’s a very strong anti media screen phone exposure till and they also talk about how to expose and the But their concern is mostly about The information that’s being you can be exposed to.
And that’s another, probably totally different talk. I find it interesting that your daughter, who’s a whiz at at IT now was someone who was not exposed early. So it doesn’t delay you in that, but in some kids, particularly in some kids, it makes it even more. enticing by restricting it.
So you have to know your child to know how you can go about doing this. Let’s go to the other, the next slide and talk about that. An important thing, I think to just also talk about that from Chinese medicine perspective, this kind of Excess energy that you mentioned that goes up to the mind being the heart shen can actually imbalance and create less fire in the lower part of the body, in the minstrel fire, and create what we might call now, in fire, right?
As we yeah, it literally, kids where their feet are cold, and their head is hot after playing these, being online for a long time, there’s a physical effect and the poor spleen gets caught in the middle, right? Which is already dealing with absorbing information in the form of food, in the form of exposure to information online.
And gets overwhelmed, right? And so it’s a setup for this quality that, Dongyuan Li Dongyuan talked about this Yin Fire mixed pattern which I think is contributing to a lot of the disorders I see both physically and mentally in children today. Yes, that that plays to another aspect, which is very interesting, I think, is that, A lot of times when we are thinking of balancing that, we should think of the Shaoyang level and Sanjiao gallbladder kind of level where it enables to shift back some of that excess top fire back down to the minstrel fire and create a Better balance with the spleen in the center.
Yeah, I you know, I talk a lot about san jiao as the Relationship organ of the body so that everybody’s relating to each other one big happy family and these the screen addiction of our society is a breakdown in those relationships. So always think of Sanjiao. Both Sanjiao points and Sanjiao concepts as part of the Xiaoyang as integral to the kind of integration of heart, mind, kidney, pericardium, this primary, uh, yin yang relationship.
And in terms of any kid that comes into your office who’s having trouble relating, whether they’re relating to friends, relating to family, relating to the school work, relating to food, whatever, anytime you think relationship, think Sanjiao. And of course, gallbladder being one of the kind of special organs.
this unique, powerful organ that, is kind of part of the extraordinary organs related to mind. So I do, you’re right. It’s really important that we have this concept in our mind when we see the effect of early exposure to powerful technological advances will hit this complex and cause a kind of upside down pattern of yin and yang.
Correct. And, I also have been noticing that one of the a lot of, one, one symptom that I see that comes up more frequently in my practice I don’t know, I know that probably you too, is that I see much more ticks. Yeah, and particularly tics of the neck, shoulders, head, face, eyes, right?
It’s all the yang aspect that’s ticking, right? Occasionally, you’ll get a hand or a foot, but usually it starts with the head. So this is a great example of that and important to approach it with this model. And one of the things, interestingly, one of the herb formulas I’ve been using for tic disorders in general, no accident, is Buchong Ichitan, right?
Believe it or not, even though you’d think, wow, isn’t that potentiating the Qi? Yes, but we’re trying, this is one of the principles of yin fire treatment is not suppressing, right? The yang, but actually improving the relationship of yang. Yeah. The idea is that the pericardium is not necessarily it’s, That deficiency is manifesting in a excess and somewhat correlates to what we sometimes in the course that when we teach, we talk about this kind of hyperactive spleen chief acuity.
That concept also comes from this idea and the importance of strengthening the spleen more so than dispersing that kind of what may seem excess. Exactly. And so the spleen, stomach, middle, burner is what BuChong means, right? Health, unhealthy. Exactly. And I think that was the brilliance of Li Dongyuan’s idea.
It’s so applicable to pediatrics. And we get into a lot of that discussion of both Sanjiao dynamics and hyperactive spleen qi, acuity. in the course. So I think this is a great example of how to see smartphone technology from a Chinese medicine perspective. So I think at this point we can And this discussion.
We’re interested in more about treating kids. And we really encourage all practitioners to be kid friendly because kids respond so quickly. It was very rewarding in your practice. And we’re doing come visit us at the Jing Shen pediatrics site where we’re doing teachings. We have online teachings.
We’re planning some in person teachings and we welcome you guys to be there. And I also want to just point out one more very important thing that I was thinking about is that I think one of the things that when we learn go back and look at the theories and how they manifest in children It actually enables you to even treat adults in a little different way.
Absolutely. Good point that we all have a child inside us and tapping into that. This is old trauma. This is the child activating the child nature, right? Longevity. All of these things, the virtues of a child, when we can tap into that and treat that in adults, it’s very beneficial. I a hundred percent agree.
Thanks, Moshe. This is why I like teaching with you because we always play off each other and remind each other of ideas. So let’s thank the American Acupuncture Council again for hosting us and we look forward to seeing you guys again. Yes. Thank you. See you soon.
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Hi, my name is Moshe Heller, and I’m from Moshen Herbs, and also Jingshen Pediatrics I’m going to be, this is going to be part two of YinFire, and I want to thank the American Acupuncture Council for hosting me. And so let’s go right into the slides. Okay, so the first herb of of this formula, or, and the emperor herb, is Huang Qi radix astragali, and it really works on supporting the, helping the spleen raise the clear qi up, and so it is it actually addresses the main mechanism, and Lidongyuan really like this herb to be included because it also helps support the lung qi and and the exterior and regulate the the opening and closing of the pores, meaning that it helps to close and prevent spontaneous sweating because of this relationship between the spleen and the lung.
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Li Dongyuan said that when the spleen is when the earth is deficient, then the suffering next phase will be the metal or lung. Therefore by support, by choosing Huang Chi, not only are you supporting the main mechanism that’s failing in the spleen, but you are also supporting the lung.
It’s also very interesting that I remember learning with Ted Kaptchuk this learning about Huang Chi, and he said and stressed the idea that if you want. Something. You wanna take something to help you do something? Take one Q. If you try to take RenQian for that thing, it won’t make you do anything, it’ll make you stop and think.
So RenQian actually works more on this kind of ability to process thought, whereas HuangQi actually activates and make you, helps you, give you energy to do things. So that’s like at the core of this formula Baichu again is another minister that helps in the transformation of dampness and for, and the transport, transportation and transformation process of the spleen Zhegansao supports that too and helps in harmonizing.
It’s very interesting that DongWei is included in this formula because DongWei actually provides a balance for RenShen and FengQi and allows them to be more balanced by supporting the ying qi aspect of the, um, the process. And as we know, dang gui is the herb that supports the qi of the blood.
So it’s the more yang aspect of the blood. And that’s why dang gui is really important in supporting balancing qi and blood. And and harmonizing the functions of formula. ChenP is included also to support the transfer, moving the qi and supporting the transformation and transportation.
Meaning that the tonifying, cloying nature of the above herbs are mitigated by ChenP. And then the most interesting part of Buzongi Chitang is the last two envoys, the Shengma and Chaihu, which together are, they’re both in the warm acrid section and of herbs. So you might think, oh, this is not a great formula or combination for fevers, but Actually, Buzhou Nishitang is a very important herb for combination for fevers, as that’s what Li Dongyuan made it for.
And the idea is that the warm, acrid nature of Shengmai and Chaihu, other than lifting the yang and supporting that kind of uplifting effect it also helps in warming and helping with the issues of the spleen vacuity. So this is an amazing formula. It has a lot of variations and can be used for a wide variety of symptoms.
As when we read about it in Bensky, there are three main symptoms. Patterns that yeah, that it addresses, one of them, the collapse of the central gene, meaning we know it for collapse of organs like hemorrhoids and stuff like that. But originally that was that was an expansion of this formula, but it’s an amazing formula, as I said, and has a lot of application, a lot of variations.
I invite you to check it out. explore it and use it. And it’s it’s quite an interesting combination. Thank you for listening. And please visit first of all, Moshen Herbs. This is my herb, the herb company, which I Buzong Mi Qi Tang is not there, but there are many herbs that you can use and also Jingxuan Pediatrics is where we might present some of those lectures.
So this is the end of part two of the concept of yin Fire in Pediatrics. I would like to thank the American Acupuncture Council for hosting this talk. And I hope to see you soon. Thank you.
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I would like to talk about seasonal allergies and some of you may have heard me talk about it, but I think it is because of this time of year, it is the time to talk about it and see how we can help people with this condition.
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Hello, my name is Moshe Heller, and I would first like to think the American Acupuncture Council for having this, having me on this show. So great privilege and it’s a great show and helping us acupuncturists talk about different stuff. And I’m the first today I would like to talk about seasonal allergies and some of you may have heard me talk about it, but I think it is because of this time of year, it is the time to talk about it and see how we can help people with this condition.
So I will start with.
The weather’s getting warmer. The trees are starting to bloom and we are starting to feel that. Or our patients are starting to feel the effect of of this season. And I don’t know about you, but I’ve been getting a lot of calls to my office to try to help with these seasonal allergies.
So I wa I thought the best way to discuss how to help people with it is to bring a case. I’m going to talk about this young boy has, he was nine years old when he came to see me. And he’s been, he has been suffering from allergies for the past, about five years. So since he was about four and it’s interesting cause I’ve been seeing more and more children with allergies because I think it is actually a condition that is growing in numbers and we see more and more children and.
And adults would that matter who are suffering from allergies and we can see the numbers are growing. Even the CDC has published information about that too. So you are going to see more and more of these cases in your office to them. Sure. So he’s a nine year old. He is a chief complaint is nasal congestion, sneezing.
These are all and watery, itchy eyes. These are all very common symptoms of the seasonal allergies. Occasionally you will experience a lung congestion. So it goes down to his lung and he’ll have cough with a clear. And sometimes yellow sputum and this user does sputum is difficult for him to expect rate.
So it sounded it’s a sign of some congestion. The patient mother says that he’s more susceptible to catching colds than his peers. And family members. And she’s also reports that he’s allergy testing a reveal that he’s allergic to soy and tree nuts, which indicated to me, so other than the environmental allergies, he also has some food allergies.
He had a difficulty falling asleep and it was very hard for him to wake up because he would go to sleep late. And then only have six hours of sleep for a nine-year-old. As far as I’m concerned, this is not really a sufficient amount of hours. He also suffered from nasal clear nasal congestion.
He would have headaches when he was tired. And interestingly enough, he also had called sores one or two times per year. That cold sores for me are signs that there’s some kind of immune disorder. And also there’s a lingering pathogenic factor as involved with. He’s very sensitive to smells and his tends to have eczema behind the knees and elbows or in the elbow bends.
And the rash is usually red and itchy and raised in bumpy, but not Uzi. Eczema as usually another common disease that is Como co coincide with children who are very allergic. And also we see that with adults. He would have chest tightness and shortness of breath, especially when he’s exposed to cold.
So cold will make it the condition worse.
So his tongue is pale and puffy, which points towards some deficiency and slight center crack, and a red tip with particular in the upper jaw. And the coding is slightly thick and white meaning that there’s some More on the cold side and that the particular showing some underlying heat.
As we can see, it’s already pulling, pointing towards a complex. Condition, the pulse was slippery in the turn, but otherwise weak and his lymph LAN glands were congested and positive. This is something I do on a regular basis when I see children I palpated for the lymph glands under the jaw.
And along the anterior aspect of the SCM. So if they feel that if I feel that there are marble sized protrusions, then definitely that’s a positive lift Glen and a, usually those are the, when the lymph glands are positive, it points to. Maybe the condition involves a lingering pathogenic factors.
They have to see other factors also, but it’s a, quite a a strong, positive although he was nine, I was still looking at the finger vein and finger vein observation is something that we do a lot in pediatrics. It’s mostly done for children around to. Two years old, from from newborns to, to two or three afterwards traditionally it wasn’t used so much, but I’ve found it very helpful to look at that to look at the finger vein, even at older kids, because they’re radically.
At that age, it should not be president if it is it’s indicative of something. The finger Bain was very dark usually indicates heat. That was another indication that there was some underlying heat disorder in his case we, I observed his face and his cheeks seemed to be a bit red.
And the mother reports that they are a lot of times are red. And she said always red and there were also dark circles under the eyes and they were puffy. I have actually included a picture. You, it’s hard to see the redness in the cheeks and with the lighting. Case, but believe me, this area, this whole area, you could see it’s a little discard colored.
And you, and in real life, this was red. You could definitely see the dark area under his eye and you can absolutely see the puffiness of.
So I diagnose this, a guy with lingering passion, pathogenic factors and LPF with phlegm accumulation and underlying lung chief acuity. So there is definitely some lung T vacuity in the sense that that the tendency to get sick. And the lung congestion that happens as a result of that are all indicating that the lingering pathogenic factor included the large lymph gloat and the lymph gland and the history of having frequent colds and the phlegm accumulation could be seen in his tongue.
And and post. And the symptoms. I chose to use a combination of points, large intestine, 11 to help clear the heat, the underlying heat lung seven, to regulate the lung and strengthened the lung. Gallbladder 40 as a point to help clear the sinuses. It’s a point. Frequently when I see rhinitis or allergic rhinitis, a lot of times I would use that with moxa, especially if there’s pure cold in this case I didn’t, but frequently I will use marks on go about at 40, I use spleen nine to.
To the spleen transform dampness and and so screen nine is a point I use a lot when I see that the spleen needs to trends to help in the evacuation of damp and phlegm. And then I also have added liver five is I know that some of you may have not don’t remember, but Oliver five is the master point of plump.
It for me, that trans translation of that, or understanding of that is that liver five helps to work. The liver work through phlegm. No. We know that Fleming damp does hinder the flow of Liberty. And therefore I look at liver five as a point that helps deliver, move through phlegm and help the transformation and movement to a phlegm and resolution.
So I used that a lot of times when phlegm is involved live. I sent the, I sent him home with magnets and I do that frequently with children to support the treatment or continue the treatment to have a more significant effect. And so magnets are an amazing tool. Both were adults and kids.
I find them very helpful if you understand how they work. Then it’s really easy to use. And I’ve used it for, I use it a lot with children and also adults, as I said before, the advantage of the magnets is that you have. Of the polarity. You have the ability to either disperse or tonify. So depending on what magnets you use the magnets I use come with a dispersing aspects.
Facing the skin. So if I use, if I stick the magnet to buy lab, as I received it, then this would be a dispersing function on by Lao. If I flip it over, it will be tonifying therefore you be 13 and you be 20. I flip them over and help to To tonify both the lung and the spleen. And then I use this point below stomach 44.
It’s on the other side, on the the sole side of the foot behind opposite to stomach 44. That’s a point that’s used by Kiko Matsumoto for Allergies in general and specifically allergic rhinitis. The use of below stomach 44 the opposite side of stomach 44 with a magnet and dispersion is a great take home for kids and also adults as a.
I recommended them to avoid dairy and wheat. And the reason is of course we I do believe that they are very allergy forming foods. But also they are if you remember, they are the major phlegm producing foods in, in Chinese medicine dietary theory. Avoiding dairy and wheat will help with resolving damp and phlegm, as well as avoiding soy and nuts.
Those, we also see that he’s allergic to, and it will be good to avoid them until the body is able to ex you know we clear some of the heat and the phlegm, and there’ll be an improved. And we also talked a lot about trying to increase the sleep to at least seven hours so that he starts going back to trying to sleep early.
We talked about different things like either yoga moves or chicken moves to help him move into. Sleep. And I taught him some of those and that also helped him to fall asleep a little faster in. I gave him some herbs as part of the treatment. I combined shout child who tongue with a variation of Wu may one.
You may ask yourself why why did he use womanly one? We’ll talk about that in a few minutes, but I use that frequently for patients who are trying to address allergic or atopic tendencies the treatment was continued once a week. The acupuncture treatment for six treatments. And at that time, the patient reported.
He felt less congested and the skin rash was almost completely gone in general. His, he had quite a significant improvement. The treatment continued for another six treatment, but every two weeks and after which the patient skin has cleared completely. And at the time the patient was, I gave another formula.
I changed the formula. We took him off of the shell child who tongue and gave him every Haitian of Jade windscreen for continued treatment and every changing of the season, he comes for our a tune up to prevent the recurrence of the allergies. And this has been very successful.
I put here the formulas in ingredients. So you have it, I’m going to send or post the PDF version of these slides. So you can have. But this is a variation of G of a jar. The will, may one. And this is the shower chow Yukon tongue, the classical shower champ, shallow child who tongue I use in his case.
And this is the variation of the Jade windscreen. I added some Jean one and a Jaguar to the combo to support his condition. I wanted to just Talk a few minutes, a few seconds about why I chose we’ll may one as my formula. This comes from the studies that Dr. Lee did for the treatment of food allergies and also allergies in general.
And she based her and you can actually see, read this article if you have a moment. I think it’s very interesting. The reason she chose the idea behind it, it comes from diet. The concept that actually. The exposure to per Siddiq two parasites in patients who have allergies will reduce their allergies or in air in areas where parasites are very common allergies are much.
Present. She thought that an antiparasitic formula will create similar effects. And indeed she did some studies that were very favorable and therefore I decided to this formula and right here you’ll have the exact base formula, which he star, she based her. Her research on, she called this formula F a H F one.
And it is basically the classical rule may wand. And one, one more second about this in her original formula, he she. The form of the, she took she food, the foods and the shisha were eliminated in her test form nine. And I guess they had some issues with both of these herbs and as a, as part of the formula, I later on created a similar format and I’ll talk to her about that in a few minutes.
I added it back. I also wanted to mention that allergies always equals diets for me. I have never treated an allergy person without discussing whether it’s food, whatever, the allergic reaction where it’s allergic asthma or allergic eczema or any atopic disorder. When we suspect there’s an allergy at the root of your patient’s disorder always discussed die.
It’s really important to eliminate phlegm producing foods. It’s a live and just look at the diet and see if it is a contributing factor. I want to remind you that there is at day two logical factors for allergy there’s. One of them is actually. Pesticide and GMO foods that irritate the gut and cause what we call a leaky gut syndrome.
So that’s also something that we need to look at and And so it’s really important to make a real important discussion, to have a really important discussion about food. So I always start by asking them, what do they eat? How’s their schedule and what’s happening. And I asked them to keep a three week journal food, John journal of what they’re eating and how it is affecting them in here.
You have. The chart that I have them fill out for each day. So that keeps me, keeps the record and helps me see if there’s any patterns or any foods that are being consumed that could be contributing to the factor. And as I said here, pesticides and GMO can be irritating to the gut and cause me one of the causes for the allergy allergic reaction.
I also strongly believe that vaccinations can definitely contribute to To the allergic reaction and because of their effect on or how we see the effect on the body and the FA the fact that the pathogen that is being injected can actually become a latent and cause hyper activity in the immune system.
So I actually developed a formula called guard in my company that’s called motion herbs. And you’ll see the link at the end of the slideshow a formula that’s called guard, and it is a formula that you will Give to your patients before and about two weeks before and keep it on two weeks after each vaccination.
So it helps to eliminate that causative factor. I also, as I mentioned before, leaky gut syndrome is another theory that we have about why a children have or adults also in that case have allergies. As you can see here, there’s an irritation of the gut and the relationship of.
The gut to the immune system will or could create allergies. I one of the Part of another syndrome that we should probably discuss, just because we are talking about allergies is mass cell activation syndrome. I have a few slides in here that are, that talk a little bit about what is mass cell activation and also.
What are the diagnostic criteria is here? There’s a, an article because this is a really important factor when we talk about allergies. Here’s the definition of mass cell activation disorders and And one of the sentence I wanted to point out is dermatographic ism, which means that when you scratch the skin, it leaves a mark, a stronger than most people.
And that’s a really good sign to an indicator for muscle activation disorder. I am going to leave you. To read the signs and symptoms and this really going all over many Systems in our body affecting many systems around a body, but I wanted to also talk to you, just point you to this three herbs Chinese Arbel three Chinese herbs that are, that there were some lists research done on how they can affect.
The the reduce mass cell activation. So it’s called the three or formula Shuang one Leons and it stabilizes mass cells through the activation of the ma mitochondrial calcium on a uni. These are really, this is, I thought very interesting. And you’ll have, this is the summary of the Arctic of the, this article.
And and so it will, I think it’s really helpful to read about that and know that this syndrome actually exists and we can help it a lot with Chinese herbs and acupuncture Points that I consider to to work on when I when I see that there’s mass cell or for that matter allergic or a topic disorder.
So I always look at this kind of area of between large intestine, 10 and 11, and even towards the the triple burner channel this whole area is an area that regulates the immune system. And if it’s tender, I usually will need it needle it We also think of triple warmer, 16 is our lymph regulator because a lot of times we will have liver congestion as part of the syndrome.
So that’s really important to think about it. Do 12. Is helps with lung T regulation and we call it the thymus Glen reflex. And we know that the thymus gland is something is an, a Glen that deteriorates as we age, but is takes an important part in regulating the immune system at younger ages. So do 12 is a point.
I always pop it to see if there’s any sensitivity. I already mentioned behind stomach 44, which I used with case studies that we discussed and that I will. Popping along the spine to look for tight spots around, do two or three around L four L five L three and also around T 11, which is two six.
I also want to quickly mention this formula called Santiam 12. I used. Formula a lot for it’s a formula that is that is you can order it. It’s a patent and it is great for allergic rhinitis. And I look at these herbs as herbs that are very help with allergy symptoms.
So I always look at this formula and take herbs that pertain to the patient I’m working with to to reduce allergic reaction. I also created my own version of the of the variation of well may one. And I called it react with motion at motion herbs and react is a great support for children and adults who are having either food or environmental allergies.
And you have all the ingredients here. To to look at, and also I added this kind of idea of what are the indications and some of the specific dosage suggestion and cautions of this form. And a little bit of how I formed it. And finally additional support, like what I would do to help support it.
I just want to mention that core sit-in is an amazing supplement that you can Dispense to your patients to support to your treatment with seasonal allergies and allergies in general, it’s a natural bioflavonoid that downgrades, the histamine response. So it’s a sort of like a natural anti-histamine and it works really great.
Yeah. Strongly recommend that you explore that. And I use usually a product called de hissed by so the highest is a combination, of course, certain nettles. And I think bromelain is there too. It is fantastic. And if you suspect any gut Irritation or leaky gut. I always think of glutathione as a supplement to, to support my treat.
Thank you very much for listening. I hope that what I’ve talk to you about today, you can actually take to your clinic and use it to help many children or even adults in this transition time so that they can also enjoy the spring. And so thank you very much.
I also would, again, to thank the American Acupuncture Council for doing this show. It’s a, it’s really great. And hopefully you’ll join the continuing sessions of this this program. Thank you very much.
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Hi, welcome to this week’s American Acupuncture Council’s Live Facebook podcast show I’m your host for today. Poney Chiang of neuro-meridian.net coming to you from Toronto Canada. The topic of my presentation for to you today is window to the soul. My personal MRI research application of gallbladder 16 in Chinese name is I window and its application for oculomotor dysfunctions.
Let’s jump to the slides.
So I want to preface by give me a little bit of information about what we do know currently about the indications of points on the scalp. They’re the most common indications of points on the scalp. And I’m talking about your co your common traditional acupuncture points from the gallbladder gardening vessel, bladder Meridian, as such, I’m not talking about microsystem line style of scalp acupuncture.
If you look at some of the indication of the points on the scale, they all seem to have some application to headaches, dizziness, perhaps convulsion, perhaps something indicative of epilepsy. But if you look at these points a little bit more kosher detail, we’ll start, begin to notice that the points that say over the occipital region benefit vision, for example, points, governors versus 18 butter, nine gallbladder 19, for example, have visual reads.
Functions and it’s long been thought that one possible mechanism for this is that there must be some kind of transcranial effect of stimulation. The points on the scalp that is able to send a message to the visual cortex that happens to also be located hospital area of the head. And perhaps that is the mechanism by which these points such as due 18 bladder nine and so forth are able to have a visual related effect.
Certainly if we were to look at points in the temporary region, it’s been said to benefit deafness, for example, points like all about our 10 GABA, 11 Sandra 18 and 19 and so forth. These points are very close to around the year area, but the resolve of the temporal region. And that’s also precisely where the auditory cortex corresponds to.
So another example that perhaps the mechanism has a transcranial effect. If you want to take this concept before. And apply that the the knowledge of the homonculus among this is the representation proportional representation. Of of the surface of brain and as a corresponds to the body.
So you might be familiar of the, these lit there’s little figures. I call them California reason type of cartoon characters, where they have very big hands and very big mouth. And that’s because the hands and feet have the most densest nerve endings. And therefore they receive proportionally greater representation on our, on the cortex or surface of our brain.
And that’s the idea of a homonculus. So if you apply that to the way that the functions of do 20 has been passed down, which is one of them has many functions. The ability to treat Energen are the problems in Chinese medicine. We always say that it’s the idea of treating opposites of do 20 country problems and do one or rent one.
But if you think about the homonculus it’s represented It’s a way such that the midline is exactly what the foot and genitals are located, then followed by Sally laterally, Diablo shrimp, and even more Laddy the face. So by stealing the midline, you are stimulating the anal genital portion of the homonculus.
And so that’s another way we can understand how a point like do 20 said to have the effect, the tree enter general problems on the other end of the pole might actually be again, functioning, fine transcranial effect, but specifically to the somatosensory cortex region of the energetic whole representation of homonculus.
Now the other points that suggest that might have points that we able to treat conscious. Such as the gallbladder 15, there are some points that able to treat persistent vomiting, such as gallbladder eight. Now, could that be because of some kind of vestibulocochlear problems so that if your sense of balance is off, then you feel basically emotions stationary, and also want to always want to vomit all the time.
And so the list goes on. And so there’s definitely a lot of traditional indication that suggest that the results are getting must be a result that can be explained to the central nervous system. For example, if your eyes are staring upwards, okay. Or for example, you have hemiplegia such that say, for example, you have a stroke, for example, and there are certain number of points.
So I should do 21 do 24 and so forth that treat these kinds of problems. So th the fact that we can put needles on the scalp and be able to treat paralysis of parathas is on the bottom. Below the neck. We mean that somehow we’re able to obviously not put any needles in the extremities. The fact that we can have that effect must be through some kind of central effect on the peripheral nervous system, central nervous system effect on the peripheral nervous system.
So there’s a lot of these indications to be passed on to us. And it’s always me implied that the mechanism must be some kind of transcranial effect. And and so what I decided to do as part of the research I’ve done in the last two and a half years is to take a very systematic MRI based approach to look at which points on the scalp corresponds to which part of the surface of the cortex of the brain, so that we can add more insight as to what some of these points are doing, but also perhaps add more information that has yet to be passed down, to look at what other application we have of these.
So in order to do this we designed a MRI’s research project using six males, six female, they’re all right-handed. They all happened to be acupuncturists, and then we scan them all. And then we use a software to then image analysis software to label the acupuncture points on the scalp.
And the name of the software is called brain site. The report at 40 IQ points on the scalp. There’s 34, regular points, six extra points. And it’s because system’s home is is symmetrical left and right. So it’s actually only just three unique points. The front end boxes are unique, left, and right.
Are not unique because they just mirror images of each other. And how to income tie on Diana, et cetera. So in total tally 40 acupoints per person, whereas product subsequent to the scanning process. And then we’ll use this, the Mr. And the analytical software to tell us which part of the surface corresponds at the scalp correspond to which part of the surface of the brain.
Then we average this cordon is in all 12 subjects. And then we can then use existing research about what we know about these areas on the surface of the brain. And these areas of the brain are called Bryman areas, named Abby neurologist by the name of Broadman. And then from that information, we can then go on to interpret.
The functions of these points, and that allows us to compare to existing scale acupuncture systems. It allows us to look into the names of these points, a traditional nature of the points. If the points give us a hint of what these points are supposed to doing and how that match the modern research, that’s already been established from the Brahma air research.
We can compare to traditional functions at these points. And most importantly, can we broaden the application? Because as I said, initially, a lot of these point just say they treat headaches and convulsion and dizziness that there’s gotta be more to it than that. So hopefully this research will help us ha add more ammunition to our tool belt.
This is a example of a research subject that we were preparing prior to the scanning process. We put these little sticky pads on the hairline. These are actually vitamin E oil capsules. And the reason why we do that on the hairline is that as a lot of acupoints actually, in fact, all the acupuncture points on this job are located by using the hairline and either interior, lateral, posterior hairline, as a reference point.
So it’s important that we define the hairline because what happens in the MRI, the hair actually doesn’t show up so we can not go back and reconstruct the hair if we didn’t prepare this in advance. But fortunately these vitamin E capsules do show up in MRI so that we can figure out what the hairline once was.
And from there, it’s just as good as having the actual hairline and with the software go in and actually plot the points on the scalp. This is an example of a MRI software I’m RS facility at the York university, where I’m an adjunct professor where the research was conducted. And yet. As the subject is being Stan, we get this little blister bumps things.
That’s the vitamin E capsules that are, that is defining hairline. And you can see, you don’t see any hair in the MRI. Okay. But instantaneously, we get a read out and we start able to take section on images of the brain prior to actually defining which part is service or brand correspond, to which points on the scalp.
We have to let the Mr software know the XYZ boundaries of the brain. So that when we did, we used, when you talk about, which part of the surface of brain, which coordinate XYZ so that we can cross references for do they exist in prime, in research. For example, before we do that, we have to define what, how wide and tall and deep as XYZ these are.
So this is there’s a software. We can see here where we’re defining that with these green boxes and to ask they pursue aspect, latter aspect, for example, and it should appear in a few aspects, so on and so forth. Okay. And then once we do find that information and we tell this image Mr. Software, where is the space that they are permitted to work within, then we label, I keep on your points on the scalp, as you can see over here, but we didn’t have enable any points that are below the skull.
Okay. So for example, do 16 or do a gallbladder 12 is actually below the mastery process. So that’s technically off the scalp off the skull. Points points a submersible line like gallbladder 20 and bladder 10. For example, if you feel that they’re below the occipital bone. So again, if you’re off the bone, that means you’re too far away from the brain.
And so the assumption is that then is far less likely that a needle can have an effect on the brain if the needle is not actually even on the region of the cranium or the skull. So this is for that reason, these points are excluded. Okay. And then as you can see, once we plot that down, the computer, the Mr and ethical software can start immediately giving us information.
And so this is a bit too small for you to see, but you can start to see some of the points have been labeled and that we can correspond to different regions of the brain. And and then we can. Very cool image like this, where if you imagine that the scalp and the cranium is no longer there, then all you have is just the needle as the vis directory penetrating into the servers that are brain.
So these are the exact same points you saw earlier labeled on the scalp, but the software allows us to determine where that is in a coordinate system. It’s called stereotactic coordinate. That was the XYZ I mentioned on the SCUP. And this process is called registration. When you correspond the location on the scalp to the surface of brain there’s process in neuroscience on your imaging studies is called registration.
So essentially we registered 40 points, combination of regular and extra points on the scalp. For 12 individuals. And then from there we retained the coordinates and we averaged the coordinates of all 12 people to arrive at the average coordinate on the scalp or on the surface of the brain corresponding to the 40 points as being passed down.
So the reason we’re doing this is so that we can confidently say that I say the point bladder nine, for example, on the average human being is effecting coordinates XYZ, and therefore affecting this specificity functional. This is an example of a pretty little picture that we can get from the MRI analysis software.
In this case, we’re only showing you the bladder points on the scalp and these different colorful areas that are brain correspond to different Brotman areas that I mentioned. So there’s already been over 50 years probably like over 60 years of research on the ramen areas and what they do and that knowledge is always being updated as we speak.
So once we figured out what the coordinates are on the scalp, not only are we able to learn what functions they have as we are today, as more research are being added to these functional areas we will be able to add to the indication that we’ve learned for these traditional 40 points on the scalp.
So for the purpose of today’s. Presentation. I’m going to only focus on one or two points. Obviously this is a work that took me more than three and a half years to conduct. I wanted to focus on just two points. And as you saw on the title of the presentation to today, I’m gonna focus on a points gallbladder 16, and how we can apply that for ocular motor dysfunctions.
Before I go there, I need to give you a little bit of brief introduction about the surface anatomy in the brain. Okay. So while you’re looking at here is the interior, the frontal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe, and parietal lobe, and the frontal lobe is further divided into different gyrus. This one here is a superior frontal gyrus.
This one here is called the middle frontal gyrus, but they can further divide that into rostrum, his head or Caro tail portion. So that’s where they put different color. And finally are. If there’s a superior and the middle funder gyrus, then there must be an inferior frontal gyrus, but that is further divided in three different regions.
They’re called pars or
and so forth. Don’t worry about so much. I just want to help you appreciate which part gobbler 16 falls into. So it’s going to be falling into this superior frontal gyrus portion. So it’s an F so it’s in the frontal lobe. Here’s a central sulcus, so that have the motor and premotor regions. And as a matter of sensory regions on either side, but even more interior to that, we have what’s called the prefrontal cortex, which is divided into three different viruses.
Okay. So what we’re going to be focusing our attention to is specifically in a superior frontal gyrus region or the prefrontal cortex. And if you now overlay the prominent information on top of that, This line division here between one prime area, 1, 2, 3, and four. How there’s different colors, that’s the demarcation of those central sulcus.
That’s the motor in, and there’s a matter of century you’re there. And if you go forward, we have brought from area four, which is the motor cortex. Six is the premotor 8, 9, 10, so on and so forth. And so as far as prime and correspondence goes, if you remember the image from before the superior frontal gyrus is processing over here, then we’re looking at maybe GABA, prominent area, six province, area eight.
That’s going to be approximately where the point GABA is 16 is located. This is just a quick, low reference a slide for everyone, because I know that unless people are using traditional points system to do the points, scalp acupuncture head, it’s been a while since they learned these tune measurement and we’re testing on these in school.
Sometimes we don’t remember exactly where they are. If you look at the, to measure over here, this black line here is supposed to represent the hairline. And then so gallbladder 16 is if you look at this two measurement here, right here is 0.5. Green is a 1.1 0.5. So that means that in total God, our 16 green gobbler 16 would be to turn from the interior and tear hairline.
Approximately I want to just mention that the the point location. And air land and not to scale. Okay. It there, they’re only, the color is only meant to tell you the relative measurements that the arrows themselves are not to scale to one another. Okay. So the make any case, gallbladder 16 is over here and later on, you’ll find me mentioning the point bladder six, notice that they’re quite close to each other.
And and they were roughly fall on that. Definitely call out, fall on the front of the frontal lobe, for sure. Cause there’s a front half of the head, but because they’re on either side of the midline, they’re going to be corresponding to superior frontal gyrus, and then the middle of front of the gyrus, we’ll be here and then finding inferior, energize to be even more lateral as we come from a middle center out.
Okay. So that’s talk a little bit about part of the scalp functional area. That’s really that critical is functioning area. Something called a frontal eye field frontal. I feel a previous FEF for short in non-human primates is in progress area number eight and but when I was conducting this research in the beginning I was a little bit disappointed because the point gallbladder is 16 which had a Chinese name for the point.
You can see here, the point is I window mood, trunk. Okay. It suggests that there may be some kind of, I really to function to this point. So I thought, oh, wouldn’t it be pretty cool if this is a point to do with irony function correspondent to the frontal eye field, because it’s not the first time it’s never it’s.
We have seen a lot of examples in the past where the name of the point doing this project is function. So wouldn’t it be cool if the point name I window matched frontal eye field, but unfortunately I was a little bit disappointed because all the research literature showed on a nonhuman primates that the frontal eye field was located in area.
We’re in fact that point gallbladder 16, I window, was actually located in Bravo six. So it was, close they’re right beside each other, but wasn’t really reading on. So I thought, oh, maybe there is had to do with the way that the needles angle a direction maybe, or maybe just coincidence.
There’s actually no correlation whatsoever between name, the function and the point. But fortunately as more research came out about the front of IPO in humans, as opposed to non human primates, it turned out that in humans, the front that I feel was indeed I’m prime and . So I was very excited when I found out about that, because that means that gallbladder 16 falling up brother area six is a perfect match.
It’s the frontal eye field, which I’ll explain it as functions for matches the Chinese name of the point for I window. That’s pretty pretty cool. And it’s in of itself. So what does the front. I find the I field is involved in movement of the eyes, but specifically horizontal darting, quick glancing movements, not slow tracking movement at a cold pursuit.
These quick lateral or inferior superior starting movements are costs the cards. Okay. And and so the front door, I feel plays a role in this quick psychotic movements of the eyes. If you had lesions on your, I’d say frontal eye field on the right side, then what’s going to happen is that both eyes are going to deviate towards the side of the lesion.
So it may say her lesion on the right front, the, I feel both eyes are going to deviate. Towards the right to the right. If you have lesions in the left frontal eye field, both eyes are going to deviate to the left. And what that means is that they are unable to track to the opposite side.
So in other words, you’ve had lesions on the right from the infield IDV to the right then I’m unable to do psychotic mood. To the left. Okay. So there are a lot of quick neurological tests that that you can learn that to be able to assess. And you’re not neurological patients as to if they have any ocular motor dysfunctions, you need a psychotic test.
The ocular motor functions belong to the midbrain. So cranial Creo nurse three and four primarily are located or have their nucleus in the midbrain cranial nerves. Cranial nerve six is also involved in in the eye movement. But that’s more located in the Pines, but for the most part, a frontal eye field test gives us an appreciation of the integrity of the midbrain, because if the migraine was compromised in some way, perhaps by degeneration, there is nucleus, which includes the nucleus of.
Three and four, you said ocular motor and and and trochlear nerves then you’re going to have eye motor movement issues. So these are called ocular motor dysfunctions. So here’s a graphical representation of what I just mentioned, suppose that you have a damage on your right motor cortex.
So in this case it would damage your right frontal ICU as well. Then what’s going to happen is that your eyes are only are going to deviate towards the silent region. So if say delusional deviation, and that is because the the right brain controls as, movements on the left. If there does the dementia, the right brain, then the dotted line.
That control movements to the left are not functioning. Therefore they are unable to oppose to the move of movements to the right. Therefore that’s why all your movements are going to end up to the right. Okay. So don’t worry so much if this is a more deeper neurology that you’re ready to dive into, but it’s very powerful tool because acupuncture is able to treat central nervous system problem.
It’s great. It’s been proven to be able to treat great peripheral nervous system problems. Now what’s next. Now we need to actually show the acupuncture had benefits well beyond just the peripheral nervous system working as you use as a treat central and peripheral nervous system problems. So here’s the image acquired for the goblin Meridian region.
And as you can see, I’ve labeled GABA point 16, 17, 18. And this is the lateral view, and this is the bird’s-eye view. And what I’ve done is I’ve drawn in yellow dotted lines, to the extent you, the Sockeye in that region, because it’s a bit, this is because zig-zaggy, it takes a bit of training to visualize this.
What we’re seeing here. This, the superior inferior Sockeye here is called the superior frontal circus. So the superior funder soccer separates a superior from the Gera and the middle front of the jaw, right? And this thought, and over here is the precentral. Soccer’s this darker more notice?
My here is the central sulcus. Therefore the line that’s in front of it is the precentral circus. And it’s been reasonably established that the frontal IPO in humans are located. It’s located at the cross section of these two soccer. Where did this line meets? This line is where the P where we’re the frontal I feel is thought to be located in this general region over here and now look at where the point GABA R 16 is located.
GABA 16 is very close to this intersection area. And if you were to follow them, varied direction and Meridian and needle from 16 to 17 or intuitive, posterior, why as indicative as air dashing over here, that needle is covered this entire frontal IFL region. And gallbladder 16, as I mentioned is Chinese name is I window.
So perhaps it’s not a coincidence that the ancient acupuncturist named this point I window, because they realized, find empirical observation experience. These points have something to do with eyes and vision. Similarly, at another point that’s located very nearby to this area. And a prostitute over here on the bladder Meridian called bladder six it’s Chinese thing is called light guard, meaning it guards or protects light and light to suggest that optics when the eye light enters your eyes, how you pee, you’re able to see it may not be a coincidence either.
That another point that is very close to the frontal IFU approximately over here also has in its name, something suggest stiff a vision or site.
Okay. So this is a side-by-side comparison, butter six over here. . Over here and there. So if I were to supra, bring gallbladder 16 over to help you visualize go by 16 would be where my cursor is pointed. See how those two points are very close to each other. So if you were trying to in intersect that area, you would need on call bar 16 posteriorly and viruses laterally, and in a intersection kind of way here.
And that will allow you to cover the frontal eye field as much as possible.
Now I’m going to segue a little bit to talk about something else that’s in this area. We’ve been talking about Brahmin numbers, area six. What is, what else do we know about ? Other than that as free dated frontal eye field, as you can see from this bird side, We have probably here four and six, probably the air force actually motor cortex.
So corresponds to movement at execution, but problem area six is in a premotor cortex. And the difference between six and four is that four has more to do with the planning of the movement. Whereas, sorry, six, as much as the planning, because as you get closer to the frontal loads, more reasoning decision-making so six is the coaches that are fun to look.
It has some more to do the thinking aspect and movement. Whereas for itself, the motor itself is the actual movement portion. Now, if you looked at this picture more closely, you’ll see that number six actually has two colors. The darker one is the central portion. And the light, the lighter ones are flanking it.
So the lighter ones is actually the true premotor cortex that’s involved in preparation, the movement. That’s more medial portion as. As a different name, it’s called a supplemental motor area. It’s still a , it’s a supplemental motor area and it is important in initiating complex sequence of movement. So it’s very specific for initiates it is.
So it’s the middle part over here. Brought me a six, the supplement area initiates it. And then the regions flanking it, prepares it. And then finally the motor area itself executes the movement. Okay. This is important because these points are mentioned GABA 16 and I’m better butter six. They fall in the, in addition to being part of the funder, I feel they also fall in this supplement and more area that initiates complex sequence of movements.
Okay. In addition to the funding, I feel being known to be important for control eye movement. We actually know the reason that it does it is bad. There’s direct connection between the cortex where these Fanta IFA regions are located to the ocular motor system in the midbrain, the track technology, or the study of the connections between different regions that are bringing it has asked me to be established.
That is a direct correlation to the mid-brain area. So even though maybe areas of what’s called subcortical structures are too deep for us to affect funds of scalp acupuncture, we might be able to indirectly reach it by stimulating the surface of the cortex. If we know which part of the more deeper structures it connects to.
Now, just as a interesting little trivia if. Not only do we think that is how to do the movement, you remember how it had in the supplement Moria motor area. It has to do with initiation something. And I mentioned how it was closer to the frontal lobe. So I had to move to do a thinking.
There’s actually a lot of interesting research that shows that the frontal I feel is involved in thinking as well. If you ask somebody a question and they don’t have the answer right away, watch the way they think a lot of times people will point their eyes upwards or point their eye to the left, or right.
As they’re thinking as if the answer is somewhere in space to the left or to the right or to the above, really people are not looking down when they thinking, but that’s actually engagement of your front frontal. I feel you’re fun to, I feel part of the brain is helping you to retrieve memory information.
So the eye movement control. My ashy be indicative of memory, recall functions as well. Very interesting. So just because, oh, I’m not interested in neurological eye movement problems as the bit to neurological for me, don’t think of it that way. It’s actually a way for you to assess somebody’s memory and, or or a memory degeneration.
And as these movements improve, it’s actually indirect way for you to to assess whether the patient’s memory and pay and information recall. And the speed and accuracy of that recall is improving or not now. So that’s a little bit, that’s a lot of background, but now I’m going to jump into how I applied these points for two very interesting cases that are very different.
The first case is a case of what’s called Havana syndrome. Have you ever syndrome is something that made the cover of time magazine in the year approximately in the year 2017. And it was happening to diplomats of Canadian, us diplomats, R B station in Havana and and the SIM, for some reason, there was a concerted presentation of neurological symptoms, very similar to concussion symptoms that was happening all across Havana, but only in the embassies of the committee Canadian and the U S diplomat star station there.
So there is, there was white speculation that perhaps there’s, this is some kind of political. Motivated attack some kind of weapon that is unknown, that is perhaps some kind of energy, pulse, electromagnetic energy of some store. Nobody could explain it, but it was undeniable that there was this was happening to not just Americans, but the Canadians and only seeing, not seeing the tourists are visiting there, but only seeing this in the staff that was working there.
So this is being recognized as a real thing and so much so that the journal of American acupuncture association, Gemma actually published a report of the symptoms and the title of the paper is neurological manifestations among us government personnel reporting, direct directional, audible, and sensory phenomenon.
Yeah. Cuba. The the symptoms for these patients are very much like concussion symptoms. They might have dizziness or nausea, headaches, sensitivity to light. They have balancing problems. They have some eye movement disorders. Some of them find that they have the sight difficulty or language, memory loss.
And so these, this, these symptoms are symptoms that the patient never had before. So it was considered a type of acquired injury, but it just that in this case, there was no known trauma physical trauma to the head that could explain this concussion. And there’s suspected that this was perhaps some kind of secret weapon, energy propo projection that was affecting those people.
But these people get tested and Realogy cause second opinions and undeniably have these symptoms. For some reason, I got an American who his mom is the Canadian and they were visiting Canada and and for six or eight weeks or so. And so the mom did the research for the son and mom listen, Canada.
So found me and sent his son here to see if I could help him. And so it was, it’s pretty interesting never in a million years, but I think that I get to treat like the Havana syndrome up in Canada. And so these are the symptoms that the patient presented with 35 year old male civil servant had an acquired brain injury in April, 2017.
Imaging results show that they’re scattered white matter of the brain and S as a focus in the cerebellum area. So it doesn’t make sense. The Serbian has to do the movement, coordination of movement. So if the patient presented with some kind of movements of balance, where it’s about has a balance as well, problems, that would make sense because there’s some kind of scattered white matter.
That’s visible for imagings person who has SIBO, headaches who have tinnitus, but that tends to abate after two weeks later. But the subro headache continued. There’s some challenges, balance issues, patients that reports that there some difficulty retaining information. And also they’re very easy to have ice strains and one of the triggers, bright lights, and also when he was rotating head while tracking with his eyes.
So that’s a, you’re looking at something, but you had to rotate your head, fix your gaze on that, something that kind of eye fixation combined with neck movement. We’re bringing line headaches or sense of dizziness, imbalance and so forth. And also he found that he’s not as precise with his use of language.
And that for example, he would say things like I put the feet on top of the stairs, what he meant was he put the slippers or shoot on top of the stairs, but, footage slip an issue I’ve raised similar ideas, but just to represent what, one of the represent that my part of the body or pods represents something that you wear, but in his brain, they, you could see his brain.
Wasn’t able to retrieve that information as effectively. So given the limited amount of time who was going to be in Canada, we were only able to do eight sessions. And so at first it’s, his headaches would be averaged every two average twice a week, but you started having about two hours and this is much, much better than, when when this order just started.
And then the tongue is thick white coat from root to tip or suggested. There’s not a damn a system that he does. He are redness in the root of the town. There’s hate in a liberal region and heart, mild heat in the heart region. Definitely. More suggested lower jaw heat and liver fire, and a lot of dampness.
Okay. And he had this injury in about June, so April, 2017, but didn’t come and see me until December of 2018. And and so it’s closest to six months after the incident. So I treated points. As it relates to the LA dentist, I see on the tongue, but points high stakes PCs, six, these are points that are known to have the ability to calm the autonomic nervous system.
So I was using that to help them reduce some of that stress and anxiety from dealing with an unknown ETL disease and disorders uncertain as to, whether am I ever going to get better, especially when this solar information know about this kind of problems. So it was necessary to calm and relax the patient.
And I also did the F the scalp for sensory motor area. And so if those of you have studies, scalp acupuncture, there’s these two lines around the vertex or the brain, and these points also have a global because it’s shadow, there’s the Corpus callosum, either hemispheres, they have a global level, right hemisphere, so a balancing effect.
So I tend to just start more conservative and more general without focusing in too much. I did do a speech area too, because it has on war retrieval issues. And then in terms of your acupuncture, I did points in the vestibular point because he had some business issues that will occur when he has fixing his diaper, moving his head and hypothalamus because there’s a point that also regulates oughta nervous system.
The next session I continued to treat the scalp acupuncture areas. Now I added the balance area, which is located in the hospital region. Still have the speech area and for the. I still have thalamus then now at a singular gyrus, which is a point that is just about the course proper skill OPSM.
And so there’s a little bit deeper down at the surface of the brain. And then I added some points in the body at different points in the body. Gallbladder 39, as is a point of if there’s a point of marrow, which should release the idea of brain and Chinese medicine. I thought it too. Now, Ching now changes the point.
That’s relative to the horizontal crease of the ankle is what is two, two up and once in lateral from from a stomach 41, it’s now changed, literally means clarity to the brain. So it has some kind of neurological symptoms as well. So I. Cognitive significance. So I thread it all by three 19 arching.
So I’m at 40, as you know is for phlegm. And Sandra has five, there’s some studies that shows that it helps communication between left brain, right brain. So I had this kind of idea. I’m starting, I’m putting on to treat this patient. And then it wasn’t until the third treatment that I decided to add GABA R 16 I window.
Because at that point I was learning to make sense of the research that was presented to you earlier. I thought, I wouldn’t have to ocular motor movement. It can’t hurt if I try to add that point as well to see what happens. By the beginning of the fourth treatment, a patient hasn’t had any headache for three weeks.
Whereas previously he was ha he would have headaches at least twice a week. So I, what I suspect is that some of that headache is actually due to the brain, trying to. Makes sense of balance. And I related information between the eye movement and the cerebellum areas of the head. And when I cannot make sense of that information, your your point of reference, your point of balance is off and makes you feel dizzy.
And that can then, bring out a sense of nausea or may bring a sense of headache and so forth. Even though I wasn’t directly treating headache by calming down the sympathetic nervous system by working on the balance and ocular motor area, or the fungi, a few areas that made him have better balance and in, so doing may his brain able to not have to divert his resources to other types of problems.
And so unfortunately men, he has no disease. He has no disease. Okay. And then and then the, one of the main thing that you constantly need new will be what are the kinds of things that you’re constantly new were given business problems is that when he was driving, he would have to shift this case between his eyes and the GPS, and was driving, looking at the row, looking at the GPS and that change of eye movement and depth movement will cause them to become busy.
And that was coming that habit every single time. So that was a very good tool for us to use, to gauge our progress. If he was able to have, if that is the getting better, then we know our team is working. So the fifth treatment, he no longer would get cheap headaches or dizziness. When he, when you was doing the GPS looking at GPS, looking on the road.
Okay. And so we continue to do the similar type of thing. Continue to come the cemetery nurses using points as is Vegas point, the reticular formation points a year, shaman points in a year. And and and he, on his last visit, he came back he was starting to have a little bit of headache, but it didn’t cause nausea like I normally would do, but that, that dizziness or headache that brings some for changing eye movement was still not there.
So it seemed like that was very stable improvement. So I like to think that the GABA are 16 point that I use in combination with cerebellum points or vertical points played a big role in helping him be able to have more confidence in both independence to be able to drive on his own and go about on his own.
The next case is a pediatric cerebral palsy case. The child was born in 2020. And and has history of taking prednisone to limit seizures that has only seen on EEG is not seen clinically like by the parents or, day to day. And then the the patient is Delvin, developmentally delayed.
He’s born on may 20, 20, but only began rolling more than a year later in June, 2021. Normally you expect that, maybe like seven, eight months maybe. And so there was definitely some delay And there’s a child has tendency to lower the head and gaze to the bottom, right?
So the head is lower case the bottom, and there’s an inability to control the eye movement. And and there’s also some spasticity of the fingers at difficulty opened them to grasp objects.
And there’s a tendency for the eyes to want to, rest towards the bottom. So the I is better to, as able to there’s more awareness spatial awareness of the things that are alive and less awareness of space on the right side. At almost 22 months, almost two years old was still unable to crawl.
So this is a child who was very delayed and neurologist believed that what he, mostly, I, he has his say we were policy was maybe some kind of brain damage or something to show that in happening in utero. And he was born this way and had difficulty lifting his body up from the stomach.
Usually you should be able to crawl and go on all fours, there’s Encore and I’m moving. There’s no precision grassing object brain to the mouth to chew or, to bite on that the kids are supposed to have. And and then. And so does the general tissue, we gave him this child.
So patient didn’t want to see what we can do at scalp without scalp acupuncture or with with acupuncture. And I mentioned the best thing to do would actually be scalp acupuncture because because this is undeniably a central nervous system problems. Scalp acupuncture is a system that was designed for this.
And I explained to the risk and possible risks and so forth. And because of the concern that the fontanelle might not be closed, this child is too, they are developmentally delayed. So we cannot confidently say that if fontanelle is fully closed, right? So for that reason, they didn’t feel comfortable doing active scalp acupuncture point closer to the vertex of the head.
But I explained to them that, hospital region, those fundamentals those bony plates would have fuse already. And so it would be safe to near that area. And I, we might be able to do the balance minds for, to help with balance related issues. So we, for the fourth three sessions, We did the balance point and the scalp and all we just did with just plain six pericardium six and sand gel five, Sandra five.
I mentioned I’m insured for using, I mentioned before research shows that it helps to stimulate left-brain right-brain communication , and its main states are specific points to affect the tibial nerve in the median nerve to help create sensation into the fingers. And oftentimes that’s been helpful to help open up spasticity of clenched fingers and toes.
And so after three sessions, parents report that the right hand that was previously the most close is now able to open a much more. And then both hands are now open about 75% of the time. Whereas before there were closed a hundred percent of the time and I’m there and requested if I could do something about this passage in your bicep, which I basically just do a local Twitch response, muscle twitching cabins.
And I said very forth. This is now the fifth treatment, hands up, fully open, and now is able to actually grab toys to this mouth, but it’s not doing it with any type of purpose or desire to read something and grab it and bring it themselves. If they happen to swing their hand and grab something, then I’ll bring it to them out to divide it.
Okay. And then we also did some nutrition recommendations such as Alliance, Maine. It was just been shown to help re regeneration of nervous system tissue. And then we continued to help them with treating spasticity in the calf and by surgery. This is just local muscle needling is very similar to.
A technique that a surgical intervention that that they have created in Western medicine is called social surgical myofascial, lengthening where basically they are making tiny decisions in the ligament to help the extension. So they have less contraction of muscles. So we were doing acupuncture.
Needles was essentially the same thing, just a little bit less invasive and less surgical. I added copper scholars point in a year. That’s the point that the cruise stimulation communicates to me left and right brain. And then the patient stopped coming for a month because of scheduling reasons with me.
But despite not having any treatment for a month, fingers are remains open. And now the child is able to start sitting up and lean four on the high chair. Whereas before, if there was four on the high shirt, there’s just totally fall over on their face, on the high chair. So that means that there’s some core control that this child didn’t have before
we treat it local Twitch response on mussels hamstrings and gastrocs and soldiers to help with the spasticity that this child is presenting. And and then and then the parents, Charles the P the, this boy had a brother. And so because of a busy being, having a newborn in the family, he they stopped bringing him for awhile.
And then. And then I want to the reason why I show this slide is that there’s a point here called master sensorial point over here. And and what it corresponds to is actually the junction of all the different lobes of the brain. So the frontal parietal occipital temporary, so and so forth.
So this point of the brain is it’s called the masters and Sora point because essentially because the junction or the lobe stimulates all the brain at the same time. Patient, the parent came with a new imaging results showing that there was diffuse Y white matter patterns across the brain.
So I needed to have a way to, to treat. Across the whole brain and it has been in and they’ve and they also found that there was extra amount of degeneration in the course of Corpus callosum, which is why I needed to focus on points. I sent out five and the regular course crevasse and point to try to focus on th delivery, more stimulation to the regions.
So they came back in January 15th and they had a seizure in late 20, 21. On top of, having a younger brother, they were just too busy and didn’t come for awhile. So because of that, they put the doctors put them on an anti-seizure medication. Just to repeat what I say, or their CT shows us there’s reduced white matter and and thinning of the all across the brain and thinning of the Corpus callosum.
So this is why the treatment needed to have the masters in short point to stimulate the whole brain, but also to specifically focus on the Corpus callosum, because there was thinning of the Corpus callosum. Now the patients feel that they’re seeing a lot of progress and it’s been awhile. Now this, they feel that is pretty safe with their son.
So there’s now they requested me to do scopic Highlands in other areas that are approved, that they were previously worried about. The fontanelle is being closing. So the air would be the first sensory motor on the midline. And now I think, can you do to balance the area and Knoxville region? And then so after we did that one treatment with including the the Prada lobes and the frontal lobe for the first time, Patient came back and noticed that there was market improvement in the core strength.
The kid was starting to lean over in a high chair, but now actually it’s able to complete sit up in the high chair on his own. And actually when they’re lying down on the stomach and a bag trying to change the diaper is starting to want to do sit-ups to come back up. So this is very interesting because the only thing that was done differently was areas that are known to affect the core and immediately that got, that, got that, that improve.
So we can see if it’s working, don’t change it. We keep on doing that. And and we can understand why we do that because the area, of course, the first sensory motor area and the mid line, as you re very close to the supplementary motor you’re right. I mentioned to beginning, which helped initiate movement.
And then in February, on February 2nd, February, I decided that since this kid has this preference of the eyes going down to the bottom and has difficulty seeing things on the left side, there’s obviously some kind of ocular motor issues. What do I have to lose by trying to put the gallbladder 16 there and also put governing vessel 17, which corresponds to the primary visual cortex is back.
So what is both of the sensory aspect division wide for the movement as a vague vision? And can you do the rest of the point? And at the end of that session for the very first time the child was hugging the mom’s face. Okay. And so according to the mom has never, the child’s never done that before. And then that was pretty promising, but two days later I received an email from the mom and this is a video I’m going to show you.
After only adding the gallbladder 16 point, which is really the eye movement that at the child biweekly or weekly physiotherapy session, when they’re playing with toys and learning to move their hands and eyes for coordination purposes, that there was for the very first time a intense, intentional grabbing of objects, fixing it, seeing, grabbing it and being able to bring it back with purpose, not just randomly.
Okay. So this is a video that I’m going to show you to finish today’s presentation. And and so let’s have the video please,
so you can see very well. He is reaching for the. This is it, you have been using the special how many times he never did. And then the mom is commenting that they always use this for all the time, but this person
Okay. So that means that as they move the toy away, he’s aware of it and is changes, naked eyes to continue to track that toy. So this is, I just thought it was very interesting to be able to share that outcome, that research with you, that scholars 16 call I window, has in his name, something to his vision and based on our MRI research.
Safe to say that is probably the frontal eye field, which is involved in ocular, motor hyperbole, and specifically for six psychotic movements. So I hope you appreciate the excitement that I get when I do this kind of research, but as obviously the reward is to be able to help, we are conditions like Havana syndrome and the two little boy who, is so severely developmentally delayed.
Now we actually can help them in their physical therapy or occupational therapy so that they have a better chance of having a a a a higher quality of life. Thank you very much for your attention. And next week for our our show, our guests are going to be Brian Lai and Matt Callison
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Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
