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ACUPUNCTURE MADE EASY

By Sheldon C. Deal, D.C., N.M.D.

INTRODUCTION:
Herein lies some techniques and principals that can be used for any applied
Kinesiology procedure. Not just acupuncture, these principals apply to any
kinesiological procedure you want to use and greatly simplify your practice and avoid
duplication and avoid fixing compensations or adaptations and help you to get at the
primary problem.
BODY:
The first thing that you should do is to make sure that youre testing a normal
muscle and not a over facilitated muscle. So many doctors get caught up on this point
and dont realize the test muscle that they are using as their indicator is over facilitated,
and therefore, its difficult to find anything if you are using an over facilitated muscle.
For example, an over facilitated muscle will not unlock when you pinch the spindle
cells in the belly of the muscles together, or if you pull the golgi tendons at the ends of
the muscle apart, thats one way to find an over facilitated muscle. If those procedures
do not unlock the muscle, then you know the muscle is over facilitated. A shortcut for
this is to put the North pole of a magnet on the belly of the muscle that is to be tested,
that should also unlock it. And if it doesnt, then you know you have an over facilitated
muscle. And, there is a good chance that all the muscles in the body are over facilitated
not just that one muscle. Now you need to fix the over facilitated muscle to proceed.
One of the most common reasons that the muscle is over facilitated is that the patient
requires the pre and post ganglionic technique to be done. A shortcut for this is if
SP-21 on the left challenges. We use the word challenge when the doctor touches it or
we use the word therapy localize when the patient touches it. If the muscle is over
facilitated then you cant use the patients muscle to test for this, therefore, you must
use a surrogate. Make sure that the surrogate is not locked up, then have them touch
the patient, and then you touch SP-21 to see if it unlocks the muscle. If it does, thats
the indicator that they need to have the pre and post ganglionic technique done. These
ganglion areas correspond to the seven chakras. They are named the root, sacral, solar
plexus, heart, throat, brow, and crown. The simple way to fix whichever one shows up,
is the doctor places one hand on the front of the patient and one hand on the back of the
patient at the location of the chakra and holds both hands there until they feel a
pulsation equal in both hands. One exception to the rule is when you come to the brow
chakra, you put one hand on the brow and one hand on the patients left eye and hold
both of those locations until you feel equal pulsation. The other exception is on the
crown chakra, you put one hand on the vertex of the skull where the crown chakra is
and the other hand over the patients right eye and hold both of those locations until
you feel an equal pulsation. Then when you go back the muscle should no longer be
over facilitated.
Other possibilities are that the patient may require a cervical adjustment. You can
therapy localize the cervical spine through a surrogate to see if that is required. Now

that you have a normal test muscle, the next thing to look for, is the patient therapy
localizing normally. Normal means that they should therapy localize with any part of
the body. A common situation is that therapy localization will occur only if they have
palms down, or sometimes with only palms up. If you dont know that, obviously you
could miss what you are trying to therapy localize. So, if they are not therapy
localizing properly then the ionization is going to be off. You can test by having the
patient breath in through the left nostril and out through the right nostril. If that causes
the indicator muscle to go weak, then that patient needs calcium and they will therapy
localize palms down only. The other example is if they get weak when they breath in
on the right nostril and out on the left nostril, then that patient needs potassium and will
therapy localize palms up only.
You can see how, if you didnt know that in advance how you could miss your therapy
localization. In rare cases, the patient may be low in calcium and potassium both, and
now they wont therapy localize in either position. So, you can see how this can be
applicable no matter which applied Kinesiology technique you are using. Now heres a
shortcut to see if the patient needs something electromagnetically done; the doctor puts
a five-fingertip challenge to the patients chest to see if that changes the indicator
muscle. If it does, they need something electromagnetically done. Electromagnetically
could include cross crawl, blood chemistry, figure 8, acupuncture, centering, which in
turn includes hyoid, cloacals and gait reflexes. Because acupuncture is included, it
turns out to be a good shortcut for acupuncture.
Now we want to talk about priority. The body is masterful at compensating and
adapting, and if you dont fix what a priority turns out to be then you are only fixing a
compensation. If you try to fix something that is not a priority, either you cant correct
it or the correction wont last. So once you have found something, the way to ask the
body if its a priority or not is have the patient put the tip of their middle finger to the
junction of the distal and proximal phalange of the thumb. If it changes your muscle
test, then you have found a priority. If it doesnt change your muscle test, then you
should go and search for something that is a priority. What usually happens is that
when you come back to the item that was not a priority after you have fixed the
priority, either it is gone because it was just a compensation, or it becomes a priority.
In acupuncture, energy can neither be created nor destroyed. The ideal situation is that
the acupuncture energy is equal in all 12 meridians. If there is an acupuncture problem,
then at least one meridian is going to be over and at least one meridian is going to be
under. Because energy cannot just disappear into thin air, the energy missing in the
under meridian had to go somewhere, and thats why we find an over meridian with
every under meridian. So, an easy way to find that is have the patient therapy localize
their navel with their left hand as you test the muscle on the right arm. If that weakens
your indicator muscle, then you know that there is an over meridian on the left side of
the body. Then have the patient touch their navel with their right hand and you test the
muscle on the left arm. If that weakens, then you know you have an over meridian on
the right side. If neither side weakens when you do that, that means there are no
meridians that are over, consequently there are no meridians that are under because the
two obviously go together. Therefore, the patient requires no acupuncture treatment
this time.
Think of the 12 acupuncture meridians as 12 troughs of energy or fluid that
must be equal in their energy level or their fluid level. Once you find which side of the
body the over is on, then you can check the pulse points. There are six pulses on each

wrist. If the doctor touches these pulse points and tests an indicator muscle, only under
meridians will show up. If the patient touches these pulse points as you test the
indicator muscle, only over meridians will show up. Also, light pressure by either the
doctor or the patient will show Yang meridians only. Deep pressure by either the
doctor or the patient will show only Yin meridians. An under meridian will always
have a muscle that is weak in the clear. On over meridians, the muscle will always test
strong, so therefore, you could miss an over meridian thinking that it is normal because
the muscle is strong. But, if you therapy localize the alarm point of the over meridian,
then it will weaken the indicator muscle for that particular meridian. Once you identify
a meridian by the pulses, you can have the patient move their eyes left and retest and
have the patient move their eyes right and retest. Whichever side that the eye
movement changes the indicator muscle, that is the side which the meridian exists.
Now you have narrowed it down to which meridian is over and which meridian
is under. Now the trick is to fix it, is to always treat the command point on the under
meridian that represents the over meridian (see diagram one to help you locate these
pulse points that are represented by the command points). Never treat an over because
it only scatters the energy, some of which will end up at the under, and temporarily you
will get an indicator muscle change, but it will not be a lasting correction. You should
always treat the under, that way it is specifically drawing energy to the under from the
over. This rule applies regardless if the energy has to use the Shen cycle or the Ko
cycle to arrive there. The energy may have to jump through hoops to do so, but it
doesnt change the rule.
If the patient has five or more meridians that are out of balance, they will
simultaneously have a lateral occiput. If they have four or less meridians out of
balance, they will simultaneously have an anterior or posterior occiput. So, doctors
who are adjusting the occiput could accidentally be fixing or balancing the acupuncture
system. Thats why we say that doctors who do manipulation fix more patients
accidentally than non-manipulating doctors do on purpose.
Now you can ask the question, should the correction be mechanical or should
the correction be electromagnetic? And you can use another finger mode to ask this
question, if the thumb and first finger touching each other changes the indicator
muscle, that means the patient wants a mechanical correction. If the thumb and little
finger when touching each other changes the indicator muscle, the patient wants an
electromagnetic correction.
Another method that can be used, is that when you tug around the naval in the
direction of the five elements, whichever one of the five directions changes the
indicator muscle, that shows that element will have an over meridian. Then you could
go to a test muscle for each of those meridians to see which one is over when you touch
the alarm point. Then have the patient turn their eyes left or right to see which side of
the body it is on. That would be another way of showing it without going to the pulses.
When you treat couple meridians you have the option of using the luo point to make the
correction or using the command point to make the correction.
The nature of the acupuncture point determines the effect that occurs, not the method
that you use. For example, there are sedation points and tonification points and that is
the nature of the point. Thats what happens when you treat that point, tonification
happens based on the nature of the point, rather than the method that is used. The
method that is used could be a needle, digital pressure, magnet, acutab, or a laser. The
laser will actually duplicate everything that a needle will do, provided its a helium,

neon laser. The advantages are that there is no infection when you use a laser, or pain
to the patient.
Another shortcut that you can use is when you are doing the now and then
technique. Sometimes its questionable which is now the alarm point, but the now
alarm point will always two point to the eyelids. If you use that method to verify which
is the now alarm point, this eliminates questions about which time zone are you in, and
is it effected by day light savings time or not? That is a good trick to know.
A balanced meridian will not weaken when run backwards, contrary to what we
were told at one time. A meridian that is strong in the clear simply means that it is 51%
balanced. A 49% will not be weak in the clear, but a 49% meridian will weaken when
run backwards. So, to completely balance that meridian you need to fix the 49%er
acupuncture points that are not in balance. To do that, you should start at the most
distal point of the meridian, that way you will have less points to check. A good rule is
that any acupuncture point that needs to be treated will therapy localize in the clear.
And a positive finger will tonify an acupuncture point and therefore will exaggerate an
over. A negative finger will sedate an acupuncture point and therefore exaggerate an
under point. If the point is under to start with, then a positive finger could mask it. If
the acupuncture point is over to start with, then a negative finger could mask it. So, to
avoid this possibility, when you therapy localize an acupuncture point, use two fingers
(one finger on top of the other one) to make sure that the therapy localization is neither
positive nor negative, but neutral. After you find the point that needs to be treated, then
you can use one finger to see if it weakens with a positive finger, which means it was
over to start with, or if it weakens with a negative finger, which means it was under to
start with. The under one you want to tonify. You can do that by using the South pole
of a magnet, or if the point needs to be sedated you can use the North Pole of a magnet.
To determine if fingers are positive or negative, the right index finger is always
positive, and then they alternate after that; right index finger positive, right middle
finger negative, right ring finger positive, right little finger negative. On the left hand it
starts out opposite, the index finger is negative, the middle finger is positive, the ring
finger is negative, and the little finger is positive. The thumb on either hand is neutral.
This will greatly facilitate your treatment procedures.
Another suggestion is to keep the acupuncture chart on the wall of each
treatment room, so you can glance up at the acupuncture points on the chart as youre
treating the patient. You wont have to stop and look up the points and their locations;
it gives the illusion to the patient that you have all of these points memorized. The
patient does not realize that you are just reading the points off of the wall charts. Of
course, we dont care if the patient knows that we are reading the points off of the wall
chart.
Try these techniques, you will like them. This is one more piece of the jigsaw
puzzle that will greatly facilitate the success of your treating your patient.

References
Mann, F. Atlas of Acupuncture Points and Meridians in Relation To Surface Anatomy.
London: WM Heinmann Books, 1996.

Walther, DS. Applied Kinesiology Volume 1, Basci Procedures and Muscle testing.
Pueblo, CO: Systems DC, 1981.
Worsley, JR. Acupuncture Charts. South Colton, NY: Acupuncture, 1983.
Deal, SC. Fine Tuning The Acupuncture System. Summer Collected Paper ICAK,
1987:111.
Deal, SC. Advanced Kinesiology. New Life Publishing Company: Tucson, AZ 1998.

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