Equine Acupuncture Training- Articles

--> Anatomy, fascia, chi, and the Tao , in Equine Acupuncture. I have a degree in Science.   Western Science is still trying to catch up with what the Ancients knew, and brought down to us via Acupuncture.   Consider a recently dead horse. If you do the anatomy you will find all the parts there including the fascia. The acupuncture point LOCATIONS are still there. But there are no acupuncture points. You cannot feel them. You cannot do acupuncture on a dead horse. There is no chi. There is fascia but no chi, no life-force. In the dead body there are no holes where the acupuncture needle could go. Actually you can put an acupuncture   needle into any part of it, it is just meat. But there will be no acupuncture effect. To be doing acupuncture and thinking in terms of a dead body is not so good. A living body is full of life, every single atom is alive, full of chi. This is very very different to a dead body. To get an idea of what is chi, when y...

--> Case Study on Horse with tooth abscess and Sinus infection by Anna Llambias Manus is a 12 year old Connemara Gelding that had what the owner said started with a fungal infection in the upper respiratory tract about 12 months previously and didn’t clear up. She then consulted numerous Vets and had X-rays done which showed that he had an abscess around two molars in the upper left jaw. As the antibiotics did not clear up the infection or tooth abscess the owner was given the option by the vets to pull the teeth out and do invasive surgery into the nasal cavity to operate on the Sinus. She didn’t want to take this option as pulling the teeth would cause other problems for the horse in the future and the sinus operation would require a lengthy recovery period with no guarantee of success. On speaking with the owner she informed me that Manus’s paddock mate had died shortly before the onset of this infection and he had been in a paddock on his own since. As grief ...

Scars should be examined upon first treating the horse. Depending on the age and depth of a scar it may be causing a Qi blockage which can allow other weaknesses to form. Assess to see if scars are related to any current symptoms. The following methods help the immune system by stimulating self healing forces NEEDLING Shallow needling (1mm or less) at end points of the scar will create a current and restore Qi flow.  For old scars needling may be done along the course of and within the superficial area under the skin only. Has immediate results and should not be painful. On occasion deeper needling may be used to restore blood flow and Qi to deeper areas. MOXA If scarring is over a large area with thick tissue damage use moxa lightly by beginning at the boundary and working in a circular motion to the centre then work your way back out again. 20 minutes of this daily for 5-10 days should heal up any scarring. *Do not use this method of any heat/inflammation is pr...

Case study(to help explain how this works) ; from Suzette. Horse presented as below for Cysts( swelling in nose) Suggested treatment; the Lungs are Full and causing the phlegm accumulation on nose. You will see the chest area is very full and there is a line down the side which runs up close to the Lung Back Shu point.   Cyst is in lungs area on facial diagnostic chart What you need to do is clear the phlegm from the chest . So points. Cv22 Cv17 Bl12, 13, Sp21  Lu11, Li5, will be main points. After pics :

--> Re; transpositional systems. This is a very interesting question and one I have thought about for a long time. It seems there are two kinds of transposition. The anatomic and the energetic. First,  there is not an agreement on point naming. There are about 3-4 different systems just for horses. And over the years there have been at least 3 different   naming systems for humans too. Before Mao the points only had names which were according to their qualities not numbers. He realized the importance of acupuncture and brought all the practitioners together and they developed a numbering system probably in the 40”s.   So a numbering system would be Ki1, Ki2, k3 etc. before that they only had names such as Baihui. (meaning roughly ;100 meeting points) This system then came to west in the early 70”s.   This is for humans.   Anatomic locations were given for the point locations but only worked as a guide to help find the points. The p...