What is Acu-AnMo acupuncture?

Acu-AnMo is an Acupuncture approach based on a fundamental,  but usually neglected, aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):  all pain is due to an obstruction in the flow of energy in the body,  and this disturbance can be of a different nature for apparently similar symptoms.

The aim is to treat joint pain and neuralgia, with an immediate effect.

 

   Each point is chosen according to the individual energy disruption diagnosis of what causes the pain, and the effect of its stimulation with a stylus must be instantaneous (otherwise the chosen point was not the right one...).

   Because we treat only one point at a time, and we test its effect immediately.

   In total, few points are stimulated, usually no more than one or two. On the other hand, the same point is generally stimulated several times during the same session, as long as each time it improves the patient.

   This original approach is made possible by the fact of not using needles, but a metal stylus that does not pierce the skin but stimulates the point thanks to a specific manipulation.

   The effectiveness of acupuncture is greatly increased.

Our unicist approach is therefore radically different from usual Acupuncture, based (even in China) on recipes, involving many points pricked at the same time, without knowing what action each point has on energy.

 

So instead of using many needles left in place for 1/2 hour, we stimulate the point, chosen in a logical and reasoned way, using a stylus manipulated in a specific way for about a minute: the immediate improvement of the patient confirms the good choice of the point. This can then be stimulated again if necessary - which could not be done with needles.

In addition, in some case of energy insufficiency, we use moxas.

 

Note that among the 9 types of classical needles mentioned 2000 years ago in the Nei Jing Ling Shu, 2 have round ends - therefore not made for pricking...

 

Using a stylus also has the advantage of being non-invasive, and therefore applicable to everyone, and by any Health Practitioner.

 

Particularly interesting and rapid effects

The effects of Acu-AnMo are particularly interesting and rapid, notably for:

  • lower back pain
  • shoulder pain, and other joint pain, recent or ancient
  • joint pain with or without osteoarthritis (shoulder, knee, hip, neck, etc.),
  • neuralgia and sciatica,
  • multiple pains
  • pain aggravated by rest or at night, or at the start of a movement or on rising, as for example (but absolutely not exclusively) in Rheumatoid Arthritis or Ankylosing Spondylitis;
  • non-articular pathologies, such as headaches and migraine; anxiety; menstrual disorders; etc.

Points chosen by individualized reasoning, not by recipe

  Each Acupuncture point has a very precise energetic action, which is specific to it (an action ignored in the 'recipes'), which we will describe in our courses for the points that we use (actions that are not found in any books; by the way the same applies to the energetic reasoning that we will explain).

 

   We therefore use Acupuncture points in a reasoned way , and not in the form of recipes (which are usually disappointing), as is still done too often: for such a symptom, such points (generally numerous...).

   In Acu-AnMo, it is on the contrary: for such an energy blockage, such a point(s), very few in number or even generally unique

 

 

Why the term “Acu-AnMo”?

Acu means needle in latin, here the round-tipped needle mentioned in the ancient classic text 'HuangDi NeiJing LingShu'.

 

Acu also to remind that we want to return to the sources of the reasoning of Acupuncture, as much for the energetic diagnosis of the cause of the pain, as for the choice of the unique specific point corresponding to this diagnosis.

 

AnMo, as shown opposite by the breakdown of the corresponding ideograms, means "to act gently on a point regulating the energy of the body, with an object held in the hand".

Because we never prick the chosen point.