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Acupuncture Congress 2018
Herbal Medicine: Open Access
ISSN: 2472-0151
Page 56
August 20-21, 2018
Dublin, Ireland
9
th
International Conference on
Acupuncture &
Chinese Medicine
S
imple protocols like the “NADA” and “Battlefield” are widely
used in North Americawithout a doubt are effective, especially
when trainingmany practitioners to treat a lot of patients in a short
time. However, when it comes to a case of any chronic condition,
it becomes very important to individualize the treatment. This
can only be done by finding active points. There are a few ways
to find active points. One is by palpating for tenderness and
another is using a point finding device to detect a change in the
electro conductivity of the skin surface on the ear. Both of these
methods require some guess work and lack the specificity and
the elegance of the Vascular Autonomic Signal. With the subtle
listening that is possible with the VAS, the practitioner can quickly
find the most important points on each patient and then proceed
to ensure those points were successfully treated. This is a level
of precise, individualized assessment and treatment unavailable
in other ways. The VAS requires no device, only the thumb of the
practitioner, which is trained to detect a subtle but clear change in
the pulse of the patient when hovering over an active point. When
we then introduce frequencies and substances as additional
searching tools, we can narrow our search into any question we
have about the patient’s system. The VAS gives practitioners a
unique window into the Central Nervous System of the patient,
making the treatment more effective and profound.
dave@canadianauricular.caGetting the point! ; the significance of the vascular
autonomic signal (VAS) in finding active points on the ear
Dave Maybee
Canadian Institute of Auricular Medicine, Canada
Herb Med. 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-0151-C1-003