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Pulse Controlled Laser

Acupuncture Concept

Dr. med. vet. Uwe Petermann (DVM)

Printed in Germany
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Table of content

Introductory remarks ........................................................................................... 8

Foreword ............................................................................................................ 17
Introduction .......................................................................................................... 18
Acupuncture, one of the oldest forms of therapy in the world, modern than newer before 18
First, there is great scepticism ............................................................................... 18
The use of acupuncture is now growing rapidly .......................................................... 18
What is the way that acupuncture works?............................................................... 19
Progress through the use of laser technology ............................................................. 20
Where is the evidence? Numerous tests have verified the outstanding efficacy of
acupuncture. ........................................................................................................... 21
Which diseases can be treated successfully with laser acupuncture? ........................... 24
Acupuncture today is meeting with growing interest from veterinarians ......................... 27
References: ......................................................................................................... 30
Chapter 1............................................................................................................. 31
Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine ......................................................... 31
The history of veterinary acupuncture ........................................................................ 32
Eastern physiology .................................................................................................. 34
Phases of Change (5 Elements) ............................................................................... 37
The function circuits or meridians .......................................................................... 39
The element Wood ............................................................................................... 39
The element Fire.................................................................................................. 40
The element Earth ............................................................................................... 41
The element Metal ............................................................................................... 42
The element Water .............................................................................................. 43
Sheng and Co Cycle ............................................................................................ 44
The origin of diseases .......................................................................................... 45
Eight Principles ....................................................................................................... 46
Yin - Yang disease ............................................................................................... 46
Internal - external disease ..................................................................................... 47
Coldness - heat ailments ...................................................................................... 47
Deficiency - excess ailments ................................................................................. 47
Placing the meridians in the traditional Chinese frame of thought ................................. 48
Tonification points ................................................................................................ 49
Sedation points .................................................................................................... 49
Source points ...................................................................................................... 49
Luo Connecting points .......................................................................................... 50
Alarm points ........................................................................................................ 51
Back Shu or Association points ............................................................................. 52
Master points ....................................................................................................... 53
Influential points ................................................................................................... 53
He Sea points ...................................................................................................... 54
Opening points: ................................................................................................... 55
Acupuncture points and meridians ....................................................................... 55
Point locations ..................................................................................................... 56
Lungmeridian ...................................................................................................... 58
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Large Intestine ..................................................................................................... 58
Stomach meridian ................................................................................................ 60
Spleen Meridian ................................................................................................... 60
Heart Meridian ..................................................................................................... 62
Small Intestine meridian ....................................................................................... 62
Bladder meridian.................................................................................................. 64
Kidney meridian ................................................................................................... 66
Pericardium meridian ........................................................................................... 68
Triple Heater meridian .......................................................................................... 68
Gallbladder meridian ............................................................................................ 70
Liver meridian ...................................................................................................... 70
The Eight Extraordinary Vessels............................................................................ 72
The Governing Vessel .......................................................................................... 72
Conception Vessel ............................................................................................... 72
The Ting (= Jing Well) points................................................................................. 75
Some simple concepts of treatment: .......................................................................... 79
Shu-Mo-treatment ................................................................................................ 79
Rule of the linked meridians .................................................................................. 79
Midday Midnight concept ...................................................................................... 80
Mother Son rule ................................................................................................... 81
Tendo Muscular Meridians .................................................................................... 82
Acupuncture, a regulatory therapy............................................................................. 83
Anatomy of the acupuncture point ......................................................................... 83
The Effects of Acupuncture ...................................................................................... 84
References.......................................................................................................... 89
Chapter 2............................................................................................................. 90
Modern (western scientific) Acupuncture ........................................................ 90
Locating the active acupuncture points through RAC/VAS pulse control .................... 91
Direct RAC/VAS .................................................................................................. 91
Laser Therapy and Laser Acupuncture ................................................................. 93
Summary ............................................................................................................ 93
History of laser technology .................................................................................... 94
Application of LLLT in humans and animals ............................................................ 94
Therapy and acupuncture lasers ........................................................................... 94
Acupuncture lasers are diode lasers ...................................................................... 95
Function of the diode laser .................................................................................... 95
Emission of continuous wave laser ........................................................................ 96
Emission of impulse laser ..................................................................................... 96
Frequencies according to Nogier ........................................................................... 98
Frequencies according to Bahr .............................................................................. 99
Frequencies according to Reininger......................................................................100
Results of investigations into the effective mechanisms of the therapeutic laser ...........101
Physiological basis of laser effects .......................................................................101
Effectiveness of therapeutic laser .........................................................................101
More than 300 scientific publications on the effects of LLLT ....................................103
Indication for Laser Acupuncture, Body and Ear Acupuncture Treatment .................107
Orthopaedics ......................................................................................................107
1. Back pain in horses and dogs ...........................................................................107
2. Tying up in horses ...........................................................................................110
3. Acute lameness, distortion and contusion in horses and dogs .............................110
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4. Acute and chronic laminitis in horses.................................................................111
5. Acute and chronic tendonitis (bowed tendon) .....................................................113
6. Infectious arthritis and tendonitis .......................................................................115
Wound healing ...................................................................................................116
1. Not infected wounds ........................................................................................116
2. Wound infection ..............................................................................................116
3. Abscesses and phlegmonia ..............................................................................119
4. Infections of the navel and fistulas of the urachus ...............................................120
Gynaecology ......................................................................................................121
1. Ovary, Uterus and Hormonal diseases ...........................................................121
2. Parturition disorders ........................................................................................123
Internal diseases.................................................................................................123
1. Liver disease ..................................................................................................124
2. Colic and abdominal pain .................................................................................124
3. Lung diseases, Asthma and COPD (RAO) .........................................................124
4. Kidney disease ...............................................................................................124
5. Heart disease .................................................................................................125
6. Eye disorders ..................................................................................................125
7. Emergency treatment for shock and collapse .....................................................126
Neurology ..........................................................................................................126
Case report ........................................................................................................127
Radial paralysis of a 3-year-old mare after lightning stroke .....................................127
Local laser treatment as the ideal introduction to acupuncture .................................128
References.........................................................................................................129
Chapter 3............................................................................................................132
Acupuncture in acute and chronic immunodeficiency ..................................132
Summary ...........................................................................................................133
Introduction ........................................................................................................133
Acute and chronic immunodeficiency........................................................................133
Pulse Controlled Laser Acupuncture as a Holistic Therapy .........................................134
Acupuncture a regulation therapy .........................................................................135
Substitution of “Kidney Energy” for ethiogenic treatment .........................................136
What therapy could be applied in acute immunodeficiency? ....................................138
Superficial respiratory infections ...........................................................................138
Superficial intestinal infections .............................................................................139
Superficial bladder infections ...............................................................................139
Immunodeficiency in chronic diseases ..................................................................142
The pool of energy ..............................................................................................142
Which possibilities do we have to balance out the organism? ..................................144
The Yin circle .....................................................................................................146
Energetic Acupuncture ........................................................................................147
Removal of pollutants ..........................................................................................148
How to find the pollutions and the right homeopathic dilution ...................................148
“Disturbing Focus” or “Perturbative Field” ..............................................................149
Disturbing foci in the teeth ...................................................................................151
disturb and the related Flower Essence that assists the body to eliminate the teeth foci.
For treatment with the Flower Essences one gives one to two drops from the Stock
Bottle a day or one can make a dilution of the Flower Essence. You place 10 drops of
the remedy into 30ml of water and give 10 drops three times daily from the dilution for
dogs and 20 drops three times daily for horses. .....................................................153
How to find disturbing foci ....................................................................................153
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Treatment of the Disturbing Focus with Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) .................155
Cases that demonstrate immunodeficiency caused by the perturbative field principle 155
Case study No. 1 ................................................................................................155
Case study No.2 .................................................................................................156
Discussion .........................................................................................................159
References.........................................................................................................160
Chapter 4............................................................................................................162
Ear Acupuncture ...............................................................................................162
Ear Acupuncture Maps of orthopedic points, organ points and the pathway of the
meridians at the ear ................................................................................................163
Summary ...........................................................................................................163
Introduction ........................................................................................................163
What is the way ear acupuncture works? ..............................................................164
Controlled Ear Acupuncture as a diagnostic tool ....................................................166
Body Acupuncture versus Ear Acupuncture ...........................................................167
Further development of Controlled Ear Acupuncture ..............................................168
Ear Acupuncture in Dogs and Horses ...................................................................170
Methodology of finding the orthopedic points .........................................................171
The procedure of lameness diagnostics by RAC-controlled ear acupuncture ............175
The organ-points on the ear .................................................................................175
Diagnostic and treatment by the body-points at the ear ..........................................176
Transposing the body-points to the ear .................................................................177
Comparing ear-points with identical body-points ....................................................177
The meridian points on the dogs and horses ear .......................................................180
Discovering of the meridian points on the ear ........................................................194
Ear Acupuncture and RAC control as a Diagnostic Tool .........................................195
Diagnosis of Lamenesses and organ diseases using RAC ......................................195
Different options to get RAC rebounds ..................................................................196
What tools do we need for ear acupuncture in horses and dogs? ............................197
Indications for ear-acupuncture in combination with local laser therapy ....................199
Indications ..........................................................................................................199
Healing of wounds ..............................................................................................199
Orthopedics ........................................................................................................200
Neurology ..........................................................................................................200
Internal diseases.................................................................................................201
Eye conditions ....................................................................................................201
Gynecological conditions and birth problems .........................................................202
Psychic ear points and related flower remedies .....................................................202
The emotions, the points, the flower essences and the laser frequencies .................204
Ear acupuncture contra body acupuncture ............................................................206
References.........................................................................................................207
Chapter 5............................................................................................................208
Acupuncture in Emergency Treatment ...........................................................208
Introduction ........................................................................................................209
Acupuncture in shock treatment ...........................................................................210
Case Study No. 1: 17 year old Andalusia mare in shock situation ............................212
Case Study No. 2: 8 year old Lousitano mare with long standing poor performance
resistant to therapy .............................................................................................212
Case Study No. 3: 7 year old gelding, jumping horse (Hanoverian) with Myocarditis..214
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Case Study No. 4: 12 years old jumping horse (Westphalian) with acute blockage of the
vertebra Th9/10 ..................................................................................................215
Case Study No. 5 Emergency Acupuncture in dramatic colic of the horses ..............217
Stomach torsion of the dog ..................................................................................219
Birth emergencies ...............................................................................................219
Conclusions .......................................................................................................220
References.........................................................................................................221
Chapter 6............................................................................................................222
Laser Therapy and Laser Acupuncture in Wound Management and
Post Operative Fields in Veterinary Medicine.................................................222
Introduction ............................................................................................................223
Why laser acupuncture? ......................................................................................223
Healing of wounds ..............................................................................................226
Primary or secondary infected wounds ..................................................................226
Hyper-granulation tissue ......................................................................................227
Eye conditions ....................................................................................................228
Castration wounds ..............................................................................................228
Postoperative prevention of disturbing foci ............................................................228
Patient Case Studies ..............................................................................................229
Case Study No. 1: Infected tarsitis in a two-year-old crossbred stallion ...................230
Case Study No. 2: digital synovial sheath inflammation in a six-year-old crossbred
gelding ...............................................................................................................231
Case Study No. 3: A 3 year old gelding with very serious post-operative fistulation of the
funiculus testis ....................................................................................................233
Case Study No. 4: Jumping horse with extreme pain after Kissing Spines” operation 234
Case Study No. 5: A two year old Hanoverian gelding with a large wound in the flexion
area of the hock ..................................................................................................234
Case Study No. 6: A six year old male Scotch Terrier was bitten by a male Doberman
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Case Study No. 7: Gelding with an extraordinary reaction to laser treatment of the
castration scar ....................................................................................................237
Discussion .........................................................................................................239
References.........................................................................................................240
Chapter 7............................................................................................................242
Acupuncture in severe Chronic (Allergic) Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease (COPD) or Recurrent Airway Obstruction (RAO) in Horses ............242
Summary ...........................................................................................................243
Introduction ........................................................................................................244
Patients in this study ...........................................................................................244
Examination Procedure .......................................................................................245
Therapy .............................................................................................................245
Results ..............................................................................................................247
Case Studies .........................................................................................................248
Case Study No. 1: Eight-year old, dark brown, mare (Hanoverian) with back problems
and a medium to high degree of COPD .................................................................249
Case study No. 2: A 13 year old Arabian mare for the last 9 years with COPD..........250
Case Study No. 3: A ten-year old Trakehnian gelding with very severe COPD ..........252
Discussion .............................................................................................................254
References.........................................................................................................255
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Chapter 8............................................................................................................257
Laser Acupuncture in Treatment of Chronic Back Pain in Horses ...............257
Summary: ..............................................................................................................258
Introduction: ...........................................................................................................258
Own investigations ..............................................................................................259
Patients in the study ...............................................................................................259
Disturbing fields in back problems ........................................................................260
Case Study No. 1: Long standing back pain in 11 year old black warm-blooded gelding
(Westphalian) .....................................................................................................262
Case Study No. 2: Back problem in an 8 year old dark brown warm-blooded mare
(Hanoverian) ......................................................................................................263
Case Study No. 3: Tooth disturbing focus causes Back Pain in a 9 year old warm-
blooded chestnut mare (Hanoverian) ....................................................................263
Case Study No. 4: Acute ataxia in a 12 year old black warm-blooded mare
(Oldenburger) .....................................................................................................264
Case Study No. 5: Jumping horse with extreme pain after “kissing spine“ operation ..265
Results ..................................................................................................................265
Discussion .............................................................................................................266
Conclusion .............................................................................................................266
References.........................................................................................................267