Last week I interviewed esthetician Joanne Denny on my weekly webinar.   The face is a bio-electric gateway to the entire body. The face reflects the health, stresses and conditions of all the internal organs and glands. As we treat the face with certain frequencies and colors we can send balancing, healing energy back to the organs, and the face will then respond by looking more rejuvenated.  Understanding this is one of the great keys to mastery in facial rejuvenation.

After you watch this recording please post your first impressions below in the comment box. Questions and opinions welcome!

Dr. Darren

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This 5 minute video shows you the techniques I used to treat a man who was 18 months post-stroke, with paralyzed right side and inability to swallow or speak well.   You will see the use of Microlight (microcurrent and light therapy), Russian Stimulation, needle acupuncture and microcurrent scalp acupuncture.  Amazing and informative!  Please comment below about your experiences with treating post-stroke.

I teach these and related methods live at our East-West Seminars  www.eastwestseminars.com

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I just wrote this article to explain a little-known acupuncture method that can provide gratifying results for emotional imbalances.  This method can be done with or without needles.  Read it at this link:  www.eastwestseminars.com/8Extra0401.pdf

Please post your comments or insights below after you read it.

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There has been a lot of controversy and conversation about this question.  Therapeutic cold lasers have been agressively marketed to chiropractors and some acupuncturists, and many of these professionals do report very positive results. Others prefer the greater versatility and lower cost of LED color light therapy. This article provides research and new perspectives that will help you understand the differences and varying values of lasers and LEDs.

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By the way, the email given for me at the end of this article is incorrect. Please leave your comments here on the blog about this article and what you know about this subject.

Dr. Darren

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Do you deal with challenging pain or neuropathy patients in your practice, or know people who do? This short article will share powerful protocols for combining acupuncture and microcurrent therapy for upping your positive results.

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There have been many studies done on highly successful people. They have certain common traits. The one I want to write about here is their ability to turn lemon into lemonade. To find the hidden opportunity in adversity and make it flower into mucho cash.

Less successful people get frozen by fear and self-doubt when adversity strikes and miss those seeds of opportunity.  The good news is that we can freely migrate from the less successful camp to the more successful one if we really want to. 

I learned the term “accepting for value” while studying the inner workings of our U.S. economic system in the 1990’s. Some very clever people were figuring out how to turn debt into assets, literally switching their polarity. A couple of them I knew ended up in jail, so maybe not so brilliant.  But the principle of accepting for value has since fascinated me. This is the essence of turning negatives into positives, lemons into lemonade. 

Let’s get out of the abstract and into the practical here. What are your major business negatives?  The most common business challenges I hear about from my students/colleagues are:

1. Not enough people are interested in what I offer

2. I am working too hard and not making enough money

3. I feel kind of stuck and in a rut, not sure what to do differently

4. This economy is kicking my butt

5. Not enough of my clients/patients are getting impressive enough results to build my business

So put on your inspirational thinking cap.  How could YOU turn each of these lemons into lemonade?  If you want to play with me, think about this, or whatever other main business challenges you have.  Write down the challenge, then ask your inner self, higher self, intelligent self or whatever to show you how to Accept it for Value and turn it into lemonade. I will follow up with another post soon showing how you could accept each of these for Value and change their polarity. But it would ruin the fun to do that now.  Your turn.

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Modern medicine has few answers for alleviation of the pain, numbness and disability created by peripheral neuropathy.  The brightest option for treating this condition is offered by Microlight therapy.   You can ready all about it and start helping your patients with diabetic or other forms of neuropathy.

Click here to read article.  If you find it useful, please post your comments or questions below on my blog.

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Would you love to have a way to relieve pain in the twinking of an eye, faster than a speeding bullet?  If so you will love this protocol.  The Magic Auricular Pain Protocol is a 3 step process for auricular treatment with needles or microcurrent.

You can read all about it here.  Please come back to my blog and tell me about your results.

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This post is on the lengthy side, but I thought it was very valuable information for me to share with you. It’s going to be published in the March issue of Acupuncture Today, so you can keep an eye out for it there, as well.

Microcurrent therapies consist of very low-intensity electro-therapeutic currents delivered to the body for pain relief, assisted rehabilitation and electronic, non-needle acupuncture.  Microlight therapy is the combination of microcurrent and color light therapy.  Both microcurrent and Microlight can be considered to be part of the growing field of Energy Medicine – the use of energy frequencies and wavelengths to promote accelerated healing and well-being.

There is now wide recognition of the value of microcurrent therapies for pain relief.  What is less understood are its valuable applications for treatment of neuropathies, neuro-muscular degenerative diseases and internal medicine.  Special treatment protocols are required to address these conditions.  Knowledge of appropriate acupuncture points is required for good results.

The focus of this article is the uses of Microlight therapy for treatment of diabetics.  While there is much anecdotal evidence for the effectiveness of this approach no formal studies have been published to date.  I will explain two ways Microlight can be used to treat diabetics here.

It is beyond the scope of this article to fully explain the use of acupuncture and adjunctive therapies for diabetes.  Good acupuncture treatment for this condition requires differential diagnosis and choice of appropriate acu-points.  Major TCM diagnostic categories for evaluating diabetes include Spleen Qi deficiency with possible dampness or damp heat, Liver Qi stagnation with possible Liver Fire, or wasting disease of one of the three regions of the Triple Warmer.  Once good differential diagnosis and acupuncture treatment planning has been accomplished the addition of vibrational medical methods can significantly improve outcomes.  Therefore the treatments described in this article should be used as a complement to good acupuncture treatment.

No therapy for treatment of diabetes is likely to be effective without needed dietary and lifestyle changes being implemented.  Such programs are called Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (TLC).  The NIH has mandated that physicians first put their patients on TLC programs before starting them on long-term regimes of medications.  It is likely that acupuncture and energy medical therapies could reduce the amount or duration of medication needed.  The therapies for treating diabetes can also be helpful for weight loss and management.  The Ideal Weight Program™ developed by Debi Weiss, R.N., L.Ac. is highly effective for weight loss and “diabesity”, a complex condition encompassing both diabetes and obesity.

While a patient is making necessary dietary changes Microlight therapy can be useful for treating diabetes in the following ways:

1.  Alleviation of peripheral neuropathy (PN)

Microcurrent therapy has been shown to reduce or even fully eliminate the symptoms of peripheral neuropathy.  Positive results have been noted for treatment of neuropathy in diabetics and AIDS patients who were experiencing the side–effects of long-term medication regimes.

Treatment techniques include:

• Application of pad electrodes to the legs, with special frequencies and polarity patterns being utilized.  See details below.
• Treatment of acupuncture points on the legs and lower back with needle acupuncture and/or Microlight probe electrodes that strongly promote energy circulation and help “wake up” dysfunctional nerves

Richard Niemtzow is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Air Force who has introduced many acupuncture treatments, as well as microcurrent therapy, into the military.  Dr. Niemtzow developed a protocol for treatment of PN that showed positive results for many military personnel.  It called for 20 minute microcurrent treatments every other day for 1 – 3 weeks.  I have personally experienced very positive results with my patients using a version of this therapy.  His suggested microcurrent frequencies were 0.6 and 1 Hz.

I have found that the most effective form of pad electrode treatment for PN uses a sequence of Russian stimulation followed by microcurrent.  Russian current is a modality devised by Kots in the 1970’s for the Russian Olympic team.  It consists of a complex milliamperage pattern and is applied to the body for muscle strength building.  I have discovered, quite serendipitously, that this form of current can also be very effective for treatment of post-stroke, peripheral neuropathy and other neuro-muscular degenerative conditions.  Further, I have observed that best results are produced by applying 5 – 15 minutes of Russian stimulation followed by 10 – 20 minutes of microcurrent through the same pad electrodes.  This form of sequence therapy, plus Microlight probe stimulation, is available through the Acutron device.

The osteopath and naturopath H. Van Gelder discovered energy frequencies that can help heal a wide range of health disorders.  Most of these frequencies can be applied through microcurrent stimulators to good effect.  During the 10 – 20 minute period of microcurrent application through pad electrodes described above the following frequencies which could be supportive for treatment of diabetes could be applied:

35 Hz:  Diabetes, also Liver

3 and 6 Hz:  Endocrine system

9 Hz:  Pancreas

91 Hz:  Pancreatic islets of Langerhans

23 Hz:  Kidney

In most neuropathy cases needle acupuncture can be used simultaneously with this pad electrode sequence.  Useful needle points include the sacral Liao and Shang-Baxie points.

2.  Organ / Autonomic Balancing Therapies

Organ functions are regulated by the autonomic nervous system through sympathetic and parasympathetic effectors.  There are special acupuncture points on the front of the torso called Alarm or “Mu” points.  These directly register the health of its associated organ, and can also be used therapeutically as acupuncture treatment sites.  There are also acu-points that run along both sides of the spine on the back called Associated or “Shu” points.  These are closely associated with nerve ganglia that connect with and regulate the organs.  Mu-Shu technique is a simple method in which the front-Mu and back-Shu points are treated together with polarized microcurrent and appropriate colors of light.

There are Mu-Shu point combinations that help balance function of each of the major organs affected by diabetes.    Organs should be selected that are found to be dysfunctional during differential diagnosis.  It is best to just select two Organs for Mu-Shu treatment per treatment.  Complete instructions for performing microcurrent and light Mu-Shu technique can be found in my article in the Acupuncture Today from February 2006, Vol 07, issue 2.  See the Columnist link on acupuncturetoday.com.

Color light selection is important for good results with Mu-Shu treatment of diabetes and other internal conditions.  Dinshah, the great pioneer of color therapy in the USA taught that the colors of light particularly beneficial for treating diabetes mellitus include Lemon, Yellow and Magenta.  I suggest using kinesiology to confirm correct choice of color for each Organ.

There is almost no risk to using this method and much potential for significant benefits.  The few contraindications for microcurrent treatment include patients with a heart pacemaker, active cancer processes or those who are pregnant.

It will be of great value to set up clinical trials to further document these valuable effects of Microlight therapies for treatment of diabetics.  This would fulfill a part of the NIH’s mandate for Therapeutic Lifestyle Change programs that can treatment more patients at lower cost, and with less need for long-term drug use.

I believe that Microlight therapy can be a particularly valuable treatment in settings where there are large numbers of diabetic patients and limited resources, as exists in many Native American reservation and inner city health centers.

There you have it, an early look at this useful article. Leave a comment below and let me know what you think!

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So many of us feel guilty as we indulge in holiday foods.  This article can help you turn the tide by telling you how you can enjoy tasty snacks and get mucho health benefits.

1.   Dig those kiwi fruits

Doctors advise patients to increase HDL cholesterol levels to protect the cardio-vascular system from heart disease and stroke.  Drugs with toxic side effects are usually prescribed to do that.  Studies from Taiwan and Norway have shown that eating 2 – 3 kiwi fruits per day can drop increase HDL levels, drop triglyceride levels by 15% and reduce platelet aggregation, a risk factor for heart disease (especially when over-indulging).

 2.  Tasty munchies that prevent cancer and lower blood pressure

In a recent issue of the Journal of Nutrition, scientists note that pistachios are high in anti-oxidants that promote healthy skin and eyesight.  These are lutein, beta-carotene and gamma-tocopherol.  Participants in a clinical study who ate up to 3 ounces of pistachios a day increased their blood serum levels of these anti-oxidants and reduced the “bad” cholesterol (LDL) in their blood, both of which benefit the heart.  Data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers showed that these green nuts can also help protect against lung and other cancers.  Another study showed that regular consumption of at least 1.5 ounces of pistachios per day could reduce systolic blood pressure by 4.8 mm of mercury, reducing stress on the heart.

3.  Reduce stroke risk with dark chocolate

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that dark chocolate contains a substance called epicatechin that may protect the brain after a stroke by increasing cellular signals that shield nerve cells from damage.  Giving epicatechin protected the brains of mice 3.5 hours after a stroke.  My favorite – the 86% cacao bars from Trader Joes.  But don’t overdo it.

What other healthy foods let you indulge while still being healthy? Let us know!

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