By the time most patients decide to visit an acupuncturist or other CAM practitioner they are past the acute stage of pain or illness. In fact, most patients visiting us have a history of chronic pain and/or illness that have not been well alleviated with Western medicine. When a patient tells us that they have sacro-iliac pain, migraines, knee pain or a host of other complaints, diagnosis usually reveals a combination of Internal and External factors. For example, a 45 year old woman with recurring hip-SI pain that also has tension in the Liver-Gall Bladder functions, or a man with knee pain in which Kidney-adrenal imbalances also show up.

Microcurrent therapy is highly effective for alleviating pain in muscles, fascia and joints when the proper combination of techniques are used. Such techniques include circling the dragon (Probe Preset #1), polarized Great Loops holographic treatment (Probe Preset #2), local Ah-Shi point dispersal (Probe #3) and micro-interferential with active motion (IF # 2).1 These methods all primarily target the more superficial Tendino-Muscular meridians, with secondary effects on the principle meridians.

I have found that treatment effectiveness, and carry-over of benefits, for pain and injury patients can be greatly enhanced when the internal Organs associated with the area of pain are also treated with Mu-Shu method. This article details the use of polarized microcurrent and color light for this purpose.

The Acutron Microlight system is used for in these explanations. Here are the steps:

1) Use Alarm Point kinesiology to test each Organ. This is a system developed in Japan in which the patient touches each front-Mu (alarm) point while the practitioner tests the strength of the "O" created by the patient touching the tips of their thumb and middle finger of the opposite hand together.2 Determine the Organs that are imbalanced (the "O" Ring test will be weak when the patient is holding the associated Mu point.)

2) Test which of the 12 healing colors makes weak Mu point tests go back to strong, using therapy localization. To do this, put a color filter on the patient's body in the vicinity of the weak Mu point while they continue to touch the point, and then retest. Try various colors until you find the one that makes the test go very strong.

3) Select a set of complementary colors that includes the one that made the weak Mu point go strong:

Yang Color:

• Orange
• Yellow
• Scarlet
• Lemon
• Magenta

Yin Color:

• Blue or Green
• Blue or Indigo
• Violet
• Purple
• Turquoise
• Green

The names in parentheses are Acutron presets appropriate for each technique. Details on this practice can be found in my book Microcurrent Electro-Acupunctue, and it is taught at each East-West

Balanced Complementary Colors Magenta Green

For example, you are treating a low back pain patient. You find that Liver and Small Intestine Mu points were weak on the "O" ring test, and Green color tests the strongest to strengthen the weak Mu points. In this case you could use Green for local-distal treatment of the painful zones, and Magenta or Red for the Mu-Shu point treatment. In most cases use the Yin (cooling) color for the local-distal microcurrent probe techniques, and the Yang (supplementing) color for the Mu-Shu treatment. (I do suggest that you muscle test to confirm, in some cases these will need to be reversed).

4) Using microcurrent and and color light combination treatment (using the Yin color), apply 2 - 3 microcurrent electro-acupuncture techniques, as listed above. Re-test range of motion to note degree of improvement after each technique. For most myofascial and joint pain conditions,include micro- interferential with simultaneous active motion.

5) After patient has achieved maximum results with these techniques, directly treat the Organ (or two related Organs) with Mu-Shu method: Select polarized microcurrent (Probe preset #2), and place the + probe on the front-Mu point of the Organ, and the - trigger probe on the associated back-Shu point. Treat both Shu points, left and right, in turn. If the Mu point is also bilateral, treat the left Mu and Shu together, then the right Mu and Shu together. Treat for about 20 seconds per Mu-Shu set.

In the example above, you could use Magenta light with the polarized microcurrent probe, and place the + probe on Liv 14 and the - probe on UB 18, left then right. Follow with + probe on St 26 or Ren 4 and - probe on UB 27, left then right.3

This combination of myofascial and Internal Organ treatment provides a very thorough way to address the complexity of your patient's presenting conditions. It is taught hands-on at most East-West Seminars events.

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