There are several ways to practice acupuncture: the auricolopuntura the craniopuntura el'addominoagopuntura, all three methods are related to specific somatotopically corresponding areas of the body: ear, skull, and of course abdomen.

In this type of acupuncture you follow a precise map of the area chosen representation of the body. The maps, however, may differ from school to school. For example, auricular, the most common method by far, the maps used by the French school are different from Chinese.

In addition, auricular, being applied over an area as small as ear representing the entire body, is characterized by the need for pinpoint accuracy in finding the point, so that through modern technology becomes more and more use of instruments "look at" electronic.

In addition to these there is a different treatment under the micro-channels or meridians, considered as energy circuits, connected to the internal organs or viscera. There are 12 channels called "ordinary" or 8 main-called "extraordinary" or "wonderful."

Each of these channels has points and outlines a specific, coded accurately with a Chinese name and a mark internationally. The Chinese name is sometimes extremely important to the function of the point and often very romantic as the door of life or feed the elderly, this is what we might call classical acupuncture.

What is interesting to know is that acupuncture is practiced widely in Europe and China, represents only the concepts survived the Chinese Cultural Revolution. During that period, in fact, the greatest masters of acupuncture, which were often monks, were simply exterminated and the lyrics less conventional and representative of secret traditions burned.

Only when Mao found himself without sufficient resources to deal with his nation, he decided to revive and codify the ancient medicine calling Traditional Chinese Medicine.

So it was that some texts were restored and some teachers still alive were rescued from forced labor camps and in official reinstated. Despite this "formalization", some ancient knowledge was, however, survived without the knowledge of the system, passed down orally from master to disciple or from father to son.

Today it is still possible to find medical acupuncturists who have had the opportunity to study these ancient techniques, of course, you can not find in the official texts of MTC.Si acupuncture is much more refined and complex, which uses not only the ' action of each point and each channel reported on its unique characteristics, but allows different treatment strategies by exploiting the many possible combinations and synergistic actions of the issues addressed.

In particular, it is possible to act on an area body working not only on the corresponding channel but using the internal relations of the other channels associated with it.

The channels are interconnected by five different reports and with a minimum of three other channels. This allows you to enhance the action of energy circulation to the desired channel.

It 's like if instead of sending a police car to circulate the cars on the highway, we sent a team of four flying well distributed on different roads converging to the area to be released, dispersing and dissolving the traffic upstream.

But this is just the beginning, there is on every channel and not only on each body segment, a somatotopically corresponding to the entire body here is that the choice of the points, as well as follow the channels connected to each other, will also use the selection of points at a distance corresponding to the area to be treated. This creates a dynamic global rebalancing that allows you to precisely target its action on an area while leaving it free from the needles.

According to this ancient knowledge, there is a point in our body that can not be used as an acupoint. On each channel, and between a point and there are countless other points with the therapeutic possibilities and the same goes for the points located between a channel and another. That's why the so-called "extra points" (points that are recognized thanks to God from the classical MTC and coded with numbers and symbols), are sometimes extremely effective. And yet, because there is not the false acupuncture, as used in scientific work to refute the effectiveness of TCM, however, it produces an effect not only psychological but also physical and energetic.

Another feature of this ancient method is to use the alternate, yin-yang, up-down-left and right, acting in an extremely dynamic and reproducing an activation energy of circular. In practice, each limb is treated with acupuncture points located only on channels or only on yin yang channels. To understand: right arm: yang channel, right leg: yin channels, left leg: yang channels and left arm: yin channels.

The traditional method of application of sections in the MTC, provides the ability to insert needles on the area directly affected by the pain as well as points where the classical action feature is well known and traditionally accepted. This method has over the years become increasingly rigid and sterile in its application.

In TCM classic to tone or disperse, working only occasionally on the old points. It is absolutely clear and uniquely coded method of application that allows the needle to achieve the specific purpose of toning or dispersion, except for bleeding and moxa, which are currently the most effective method to disperse and tone respectively .

Since the dawn of Chinese medicine instead of the old five points of each meridian are the cornerstone and the potential of each acupuncture treatment. In the first instance correspond to the five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, water and the law of generation and control that comes with it.

This is not just philosophy but a representation of the natural laws that are manifested in the art. "The wood feeds the fire and control the land," is a 'statement that any farmer knows without a lot of literary studies.

Secondly, the five points are also the oldest members of the Bagua of each channel. The 8 trigrams, or Ba Gua, pairing giving rise to the 64 hexagrams, ideographic signs with six lines, whole or broken, which we find in the book I Ching.

The solid line represents the Yin Yang and the broken. Each trigram can be a channel, and each hexagram is in correspondence with one of the oldest and five points with a further point called Luo. In this way the entire Gua becomes a kind of map of the canal being treated.

With the addition of this knowledge we can transform the Gua of a channel to another, producing a particular circuit, but also turn it into energy Gua most appropriate to sedate or tonify a particular element. It becomes possible to create countless combinations, for example, to quell the fire, which is particularly useful in acute diseases.

It becomes easy to understand how this particular acupuncture, unknown to most people, have a versatility and dynamism absolutely unmatched by traditional methods. In fact, its dynamism and its circularity refer to the law of Yin and Yang and Shu points are used is connected to the law of five elements, the mystery which goes beyond the mathematical laws.

I personally had the opportunity to study and implement this type of acupuncture in Italy and abroad thanks to several teachers and I can assure you that, once taken this road, you can not go back, because the results are so fast and bright as to make other methods is clearly obsolete.

Today, after almost 10 years of field research, my dear Maestro Giulio Picozzi to whom I owe all my knowledge and ability to practice acupuncture, has finally decided to teach these new techniques through courses for doctors called Acumen, held in Milan and Bologna . Bringing this knowledge secret and only granted prior to the followers closer, within reach of all acupuncturists curious and eager for new ways forward with passion.

The most effective pain can be experienced in practical and concrete way already during the first session of acupuncture. This method allows easy, or by palpation of the painful joint mobilization, and to ensure an immediate reduction of pain and stiffness of the joint involved.

In addition to successfully treat any type of pain, are achievable interventions targeted on domestic issues are more complex. After an evaluation of the constitution and diagnosis according to the five elements, it is possible to interact on the meridians involved in the transformation of the channel Gua, Gua in the most appropriate to amend this constitution.

With these techniques we can explain the efficacy of commonly used acupoints for acupuncture, but the empirical classical work in harmony with the current season, or focus the treatment on the physical or the patient's personality.

This becomes possible with acupuncture also act on inflammatory and degenerative diseases as well as on serious diseases in the acute phase and not only mild, kind and psychosomatic dysfunctional, as unfortunately many doctors think.

Finally, in this way, we not only preserve and pass on some of those ancient body of knowledge that have made the East the cradle of humanity but also to revive them and make them live again free to grow and flourish along with new techniques and discoveries of modern medicine.

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Tags: Acupuncture , old school , extra points , I ching , MTC

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