by David Alimi, Thomas Burgoon, Chin Chan, Tomás Dawid, Silvia Elenkova, Francisco Lozano, Hedi Luxenburger, Carlo Moiraghi, Chun Lee Oei-Tan, Petja Piehler, Paola Poli, Patrick Sautreuil, Karin Stockert, Konstantina Theodoratou, Marcia Yamamura (ICMART – International Council of Medical Acupuncture and Related Techniques)

All the authors of this book are medical doctors, colleagues who have worked together for many years in ICMART, the International Council of Medical Acupuncture and Related Techniques, in a beneficial exchange of experiences, practices and how they apply Medical Acupuncture in their own various environments. ICMART was founded in 1983 in Vienna and now represents over 80 medical member organizations, with more than 50,000 individual doctors. In this book, the authors present a selection of the wide variety in medical acupuncture applications, and its purpose is also to advance its further insertion into integrated healthcare systems.

Contents
PREFACE by Hedi Luxenburger

1 / AURICULOTHERAPY, THE MASTER OF PATHOGEN CIRCUITS by David Alimi

Auriculotherapy in France
Pain management in France
Pain
Auriculotherapy strategies
2 /THE ROLE OF ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION IN THE MODERN TREATMENT OF ASTHMA by Thomas Burgoon

Asthma in the United States
Asthma treatment in the United States
The modern medical understanding of asthma
Modern research into the mechanisms of acupuncture’s action on the pathophysiology of asthma
The understanding and treatment of asthma in traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medical theory and asthma
Asthma – Essential pathophysiology according to TCM
Asthma – Main syndromes for Traditional Chinese Medicine
Asthma – General principles of treatment according to traditional Chinese medicine
Acupuncture treatment of asthma
3 /PHYSIOLOGY OF ACUTE PAIN by Chin Chan

Altered perception of pain
Acupuncture
Pain modulation
4 /GASTROCOLIC SYSTEM by Silvia Elenkova

Short presentation on the Bulgarian Society of TCM
Gastritis and gastric ulcers
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
5 / ACUPUNCTURE FOR DYSMENORRHEA – TONG JING by Francisco Lozano

Modern pathophysiology
Pathophysiology of dysmenorrhea
TCM differential diagnosis according to pain and type of menstrual cycle
TCM syndrome differentiation (pattern discrimination)
Treatment based on syndrome differentiation
Other complementary techniques for treating dysmenorrhea
Chinese auriculoacupuncture for dysmenorrhea
Clinical research into the treatment of dysmenorrhea in china
Acupuncture points with effect on the synthesis of prostaglandins in dysmenorrhea
Clinical cases reports on dysmenorrhea
Overview of the situation of medical acupuncture in Mexico
6 / ACUPUNCTURE AS PART OF AN INTEGRATIVE MEDICAL HEADACHE TREATMENT by Hedi Luxenburger

Introduction
Treatment of chronic headache
MIDAS (pain disability assessment score)
Therapy migraine – guidelines by the german society of neurology
Therapy of tension-type headache (TTH) – Guidelines by the German Society of Neurology, 2015
Acupuncture treatment of primary chronic headache
7 /ONCOLOGY ACUPUNCTURE by Carlo Moiraghi and Paola Poli

Recognition and acceptance of acupuncture in Italy and Europe
Tumours in ancient archaeological discoveries and in the Neijing
Basic notions of acupuncture in oncology
Etiopathogenesis of cancer
Oncology therapy with acupuncture
The value of acupuncture in oncology
8 /NEURAL THERAPY AS A TECHNIQUE CONNECTED TO ACUPUNCTURE by Petja Piehler

Neural therapy and the anti-inflammatory concept in chronic diseases
Neural therapy: effective, sustainable and with few side effects for headaches of different genesis
Neural therapy in gastroenterology
Final comments
Eidelberg Charter for Neural Therapy 2016
9 /ACUPUNCTURE IN NATURAL DISASTER EMERGENCIES by Paola Poli and Carlo Moiraghi

Acupuncture in Italy today
Civil Protection in Italy and acupuncture practice
Acupuncture in secondary emergency care
The path of acupuncture
A few personal experiences
PTSD – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Scientific medical research
Acpuncture in an emergency in PubMed
Helping with needles in an emergency
Mission to Amatrice 2016 in practice
The value of acupuncture in an emergency
10 /NEURO-ACUPUNCTURE, A LEVEL IV ANTALGIC? by Patrick Sautreuil

Introduction
From trigger points to deqi
Different indications for neuro-acupuncture in physical medicine and rehabilitation
Semi-permanent subcutaneous needles
Psycho-subjective dimension of pain and neuro-acupuncture
Training and transmission
Synthesis
Conclusions
11 /ALLERGY: ALLERGIC RHINITIS by Karin Stockert

Acupuncture in Austria
Allergies
Allergic rhinitis
Allergies in Chinese medicine
12 / STRESS DISORDERS by Konstantina Theodoratou

Acupuncture in Greece
Common treatment in Greece
Description of the disease according to Western medicine
Stress disorders and Chinese medicine
Diagnosis according to TCM syndromes
Therapeutic principles
Acupuncture therapeutic strategies
Clinical cases
13 /LOWER BACK PAIN by Marcia Yamamura

Emotional factors and lower back pain
Influence of the Extraordinary Meridians yangqiaomai, yinqiaomai, dumai, daimai and yangwei
Diffuse lower back pain
Conditions affecting the pangguang (Bladder) tendino-muscular meridian and lower back pain
Posterior muscular path affection and lower back pain
APPENDIX 1 / THE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES IN THE NETHERLANDS by Chun Lee Oei-Tan

Introduction
Practice-based trial of acupuncture in tennis elbow, short- and long-term effects
RCT on chinese herbal medicine at the medical university of Nijmegen
Acupuncture in copd, for moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Living lab for acupuncture during chemotherapy (Acu-Chem). A pragmatic implementation and evaluation programme
APPENDIX 2 / BLOOD DONATION AFTER ACUPUNCTURE: A JUSTIFIED DEFERRAL? by Tomás dawid

Introduction
Term definitions
Actual reality
Collateral facts
Facts, final conclusions and recommendations
Proposals

Art in the Western world has created a complex language of symbolism, and artists channel their material through this language in order to communicate something to their public.

The idea of art as communication is a fundamental aspect of Western aesthetics, as is the resulting interconnection between form and content. Music is considered a language of emotions, and is “sound forms in movement”. This is its only point in common with the idea of art in the Eastern world. Eastern Art communicates through visual effects in movements (ideograms) rather than through logos, the simple, sculptural, and thus inflexible, word.

Starting from Daoism, the authors of this book take us on an exciting journey through sound, vibration, listening and the effects of listening, its repercussions on energy and mind, locally and generally. This book is original in its form and content, with unexpected facets emerging in each part, and in the way each part unfolds. Its excellent introduction presents a both broad and synthetic vision of that complex philosophy of life that goes under the name of Daoism, a philosophy and religion often discussed, and equally often misrepresented, curtailed and falsified.

Contents
Preface by Carlo Di Stanislao

Introduction by franco cracolici

PART I / DAOIST MEDICINE by Franco cracolici

1 / Brief outline of Daoist thought and culture

2 / Daoist medicine: origins, history and meaning

The ways of meeting and the process of knowledge
Daoist religious and philosophical-alchemical schools and currents
The earliest therapeutic applications. The Daoist approach
Daoist practices
Techniques to achieve immortality
The culture of prevention
True knowledge… in Daoist culture
Numbers
Celestial Journeys
The conduct of the Daoist doctor
The great Daoist doctors and alchemists
3 / The meridians: energy pathways, tracer points, pathological knots

Acupuncture points
Knots
Changes
Act with respect
Shen
The cycle of vegetative souls
The qi and its manifestations
Shen treatment
The five wills
Treatment of the five wills
The thirteen Sun Simiao gui points
Protocol and treatment
The ling points
Protocol and treatment
The nine flowers of Ge Hong
The dao points
Protocol and treatment
Tian xing xue points, ‘eleven heavenly stars’
Protocol and treatment
GV-23 shangxing, Upper Star point
The tian points, ‘Heaven’
Protocol and treatment
The spreading of Heaven: the Emperor’s canopy
Acupuncture and wai dan, ‘external alchemy’
Path with acupuncture
Inner alchemy
Abuse and suffering: violence kills the soul
The ren mai or Conception Vessel
Proposed therapy with ren mai points for cases of abuse
Protocol and treatment
The Extraordinary Meridians
Extraordinary Meridians and Daoism
Centre, centres
The emptiness of xu / wu / kong
The void in various suffixes
Void rebalancing treatment
Emotional turmoil and the path of the diaphragm
Stomach-diaphragm treatment
The biochemical pathway of emotions
The transition points or gates
The Pericardium, the Heart’s shield
Functions of the Pericardium
Protocol and treatment
The eight applications and the six Heart guards, according to Liezi
Harmonising treatment
From light to light: from the eyes to the brain
Light treatment
The Earth… the earths
Another Earth. ST-4 dicang
The wise land. SP-4 gongsun
Jing-well points
Doors and gates: passages and transits
Epilogue

PART II / THE ART OF LISTENING. FEELING, THINKING AND IMAGINING MUSIC by Franco Pianigiani

Introduction
4 /In the beginning was the word

The meaning of music
The relationship between word and sound
Union of Heaven and Earth
Music as a model of the world
Music and magic
The sorcerer
The birth of symbols
Waters in darkness
The phases of creation
The meaning of wings
The soul of the world
Sacrificial sound
The pillar
Black feathers and the eagle
5 / The elements of music

Rhythm
The meaning of the voice
The individual sound
The sound substance
The word
Gregorian chant and human voice
Music and metaphysics: harmony of the spheres
Joy and praise: the essence of hymns
6 / Primordial sound

Nada Brahma
Everything is sound
Language universality and music therapy
The musician
Physical properties of sound
What is sound
Sound and noise
How sound propagates
Speed of sound
The pendulum
The pendulum and musical instruments
Sound pitch
Sound intensity
Sound duration
Timbre
Forms and structures in harmony
Melody and harmony
Musical notation
Time signature
Brain perception
Cerebral hemispheres
Brain waves
The perception of sound
7 / Sound, mind and perception

Cognitivism, dualism and neuropsychology
Gestalt and perceptive psychology
The handling of expectations
Neural codes and activations
The function of memory
Categories and concepts

Part III / MICRO-SYSTEMS by Massimo Rinaldi

Introduction 405
8 / Abdominal-umbilical palpation

The bagua
A new interpretation model
The navel in Western medicine
The symbolism of the navel
Gate of the spirit, gate of life
Pre-Heaven, xian tian bagua
Post-Heaven, hou tian bagua
Releasing the navel
Energy embryology
Abdominal semiotics, the origin of abdominal diagnosis
Releasing the abdomen according to the five movements
9 / ECIWO acupuncture Micro-Systems

Umbilical acupuncture
Second metacarpal bone acupuncture
Conclusions

Part IV / FROM COMMUNICATION TO HEALING by Franco Cracolici, Alessandra Franco, Valeria Selvi

Introduction
10 / Electric current, electromagnetic radiation and sound

11 / The language of cells

From the language of cells mediated by electromagnetic radiation to bioresonance
From the language of cells mediated by sound to cymatics
From ancient medical art to regenerative medicine
References

Index of points

Clinical Experiences
by Gemma D’Angelo – 2019

Gemma D’Angelo introduces the reader to the theory and practise of Abdominal and Umbilical acupuncture describing her clinical experiences. Abdominal acupuncture is very interesting for its effectiveness in particular in treating joint disorders of the spine and limbs but also in treating neurological conditions associated with spinal nerve root compression that cause sciatica and radiculopathy.

The author presents the treatment protocols and their different therapeutic effects in two sections; one that lists protocol treatments applicable to more than one condition and a second where the disorders are listed according to their clinical specialisation.

Contents
Part I : ABDOMINAL ACUPUNCTURE

A brief introduction to abdominal acupuncture
Embryonic development of the Extraordinary Meridians
Extraordinary Meridians
Elements of embryology useful to abdominal acupuncture
Fundamental systems of regulation
Energy conduction in meridians
Biophotons: a component of qi
The umbilical regulating system
Abdominal acupoints: the turtle system
Additional abdominal points
The eight abdominal regions (ba gua)
New considerations related to the abdominal wall
Indications and contraindications of abdominal acupuncture methods
Rules for clinical application
Clinical protocols
Part II : UMBILICAL ACUPUNCTURE

Notes on umbilical anatomy
Physical features of the umbilicus
Yi medicine
The ba gua in Yi medicine
Functional relations between the umbilicus and the organ systems
The celestial animals
Shu-shu, ancient chinese mathematics

The meanings of the ba gua symbols
Ba gua and mandala: a possible combination
The umbilical clock
The umbilicus and the lunar phases
The umbilicus and the six levels
The yi globe – symbol of the microcosm

How to locate the area of treatment
He tu, lo shu and the eight trigrams
Dai mai and energy circulation in he tu and lo shu
Correlations between trigrams and numbers
Qi microcosmic and macrocosmic circulation
Yin and yang, ba gua and modern science
BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ANALYTICAL INDEX

Autore
Gemma D’Angelo MD, President of ASIAA – Scientific Association of Abdominal Acupuncture. President of AMADELL – Association of East Medical Acupuncturists. Board Member of FISA – Italian Federation of Acupuncture Societies