• Goodheart has treated certain muscle weaknesses with the use of tonification points (= one of the command points)

• Acupuncture system is one of the five factors of the intervetebral foramen (IVF)

• Application of AK for checking the system of meridians and associated organs(Goodheart, Leaf, Walther, Gerz)

• Description of the muscle - organ - meridian - classifications from Goodheart

• Relations with the associated sedation point on the same side of the body can be verified

Example:Normotonic M. rectus femoris (SI - associated) is weakened through the sedation point SI 8 on the same side of the body

Adductors PC Reprod. org. Piriformis PC Reprod. org.Abdominals SI Duodenum PopliteusGB GallbladderBizeps ST Stomach Quadr. lumb. LI AppendixBrachioradialis ST Stomach Rectus femoris SI Small intestineCoracobrachialis LU Lung Rhomboid LR LiverDeltoids LU Lung Sacrospinalis Bl BladderDiaphragm LU Lung Sartorius PC AdrenalsGlutaeus group PC Reprod. org. Serratus anterior LU LungGracilis PC Adrenals Subscapularis HT HeartHamstrings LI Rectum Supraspinatus CV BrainIliopsoas KI Kidneys TFL LI Large intestineInfraspinatus TE Thymus Teres major GV SpineLatissimus dorsi SP Spleen Teres minor TE ThyroidLevator scapulae LU Parathyroid Tibialis anterior Bl BladderNeck ext. / flex. ST Sinus Tibialis posterior PC AdrenalsPMC ST Stomach Trap. upper KI Eye, EarPMS LR Liver Trap. mid./lower SP SpleenPectoralis minor Lymphatic system Trizeps brachii SP SpleenPeronaeus group Bl Bladder Trizeps surae PC Adrenals

• Sedation point = the most reliable method of sedation ( ICAK Conference in Monte Carlo 1996)

• An internal disease pattern without a definite differentiation between hypertonic and normotonic muscles is unimaginable

• The sedation point is only one of the five command points onto every meridian

• Further command points offer more intense possibilities of sedation or tonification

• Effective potential of all command points

From 1997-2001 analysed with AK from Gerz, Eppler-Tschiedl, Suntinger and Burtscher

• Results: Book “ AK-Meridiantherapie (AKMT) - synthesis of acupuncture teaching and Applied Kinesiology” (AKSE 2001)

• AKMT courses belong to an obligatory curriculum of the IMAK

Combination of AK and command points - short AKMT -it permits detection of coherences between organs, meridian functions, focuses and structure

Diagnostic possibility• Analysis of meridian- and organ systems • Differentiation of focuses and intolerances• Differentiation of the effectiveness of therapeutic substances

Therapeutic possibility• Efficient acupuncture with 2 to 3 needles

Association of meridians to muscle testing gives an overview of the condition of the meridian:

• An empty meridian correlates with one or more weak associated muscles in the AK-muscle testing

• An exaggerated meridian correlates with one or more hypertonic associated muscles

• A balanced meridian is associated with normotonic muscle testing of the correlating muscles

( Goodheart, Leaf, Walther, Gerz)

Identical AK results ( CH, TL)

Identical findings on several teeth

Evaluation?Consequence?

Lots of incompatible nourishments

• Reduced compliance of the patient • Development of counterproductive stress

Example for further differentiation:

Indicator muscle hypertonic through

nourishments / focus:

Sedation point doesn’t weaken any more

However more sedating points allow further

differentiation

Primary treatment of most irritating factor

Example for further differentiation:

Weak indicator muscle through nourishment/ focus:

Tonification point strengthens/ does not strengthenMore tonifying points permit further differentiation

Primary treatment of most irritating factor

Primarily evaluation of most possible findings

• AK muscle testing• CH, TL• Functional orthopedic results, …

• Best acupuncture point which negates all positive findings when challenged or therapy localized

Acupuncture will be successful

In most cases only 2 - 3

highly efficient

acupuncture points

Reduction of needles

being used

Good compliance

• Element points are most commonly found

• Only few acupuncture sessions (treatments) will

be necessary (5 - 7x)

• Five points on each meridian are called command points

• Correlation of each point to an element with its given quality

• Each meridian contains of one:

• Element points act in an overall way on other elements with only minimal effect on their own element

• Element points work simultaneously:

– Tonifying on the son-element– Sedating on the mother-element– Controlling on the grandson-element– Supporting on the grandparents- element

• Element points are the central key points of the command points

AK muscle testing hypertonicynormotonus

weakness

Local TL / Challenge

of organs, alarm points…

Case history all the criteria

of the TCM

Testing of the element points which will most probable negate

the positive findings

AK-Meridiantherapie Synthese der Akupunkturlehre

und Applied Kinesiology

(Burtscher, Eppler-Tschiedel, Gerz, Suntinger)

AKSE Verlag