1. LESSON THREE ACUPUNCTURE
Megan Donahue
Unit 5 Assignment
Kaplan University

2. Reiki meditation
10-15 minutes on sharing experiences on Reiki Mediation
What are the charkra’s
Did anyone see lights, faces, or nothing at all?
Would you continue to meditate?
How can we connect mediation with our health?
Welcome to our last class! I hope you enjoyed having Dr. Lili here. What did you learn from her? Did you like any of the oils she brought? For those who received a Reiki treatment, what did you think about it? Would you recommend it to your friends or family? Moving on…Meditation in not a one time thing and it isn’t something you “get”, it is a process in which you continue to learn and grow each and every time you practice. That is what it is, a practice because each time, you prepare for the next time. So, we will be doing the following…

3. CHAKRA
If all of these are alligned and all of your energy is flowing…do you think you will feel balanced? How do you think you would feel handling stress if you are in tuned? How do you think your body would handle stress? As we move away from the natural products and mind, we are going to focus on the body.

4. ACUPUNCTURE (www.acupuncture.com, 2012)
Early History
2,000-4,000 years
China
Stone knives or sharp edged tools used to drain abscesses (Lewith, n.d.)
Chinese medicine
Philosophy: seeking harmony between the living and dead ancestors; good and evil spirits on earth
You would be amazed at the length of history acupuncture holds in time. Some historians say two thousand years and others say four thousand years…I feel better knowing how far we have come from stone knives and shape edged tools to thin needles!

5. HISTORY First text Nei Ching Su Wen Same book, different names:
Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine
Canon of Medicine
Deals mainly with philosophical concepts that hold true today
Yin and Yang
Opposite aspects of the material world
Fluctuating balance of nature, especially within
The number five
Notes on the musical scale
Tastes for food and five elements (earth, fire,…,…,&..)
Most of you, as you continue on your journey through CAM practices will hear of the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine. What do you think yin and yan means? What do you think the rest of the elements are? (water, wood and metal)

6. history
Needles
The knives were replaced with needles of stone and pottery (Lewith, n.d.)
Still used in some parts of China today
Metal needles
9 needles
Arrowhead: superficial pricking
Round: massaging
Blunt: knocking or pressing
Three edge: puncturing a vein
Sword like: draining absccesses
Sharp round: rapid pricking
Filliform: thick muscles
Large: puncturing painful joints
The main one used today is the filliform, according to Lewith, surgical instruments are used for more complicated treatments. For example, the scalpel would be used instead of sword like needle (n.d.). I could go into more details about the history but I won’t. I want to touch on the things you will most likely hear when someone talks about acupuncture, this way, you know what they are talking about…

7. Qi A proper balance of the forces (elements) within Pronounced “chee”
When the body has a healthy circulation or force, it has a balanced qi
Every living thing has it
Travel along “meridians”
There are 14
Qi flows up and down the meridians
When there is illness, then the qi has been blocked, it is unbalanced or there is not enough

8. MERIDIANS
In this picture, which shows some of the meridians, can you make a connection with something else? So, if our chakras and meridians are connected, in a way, do you think acupuncture and meditation have a correlation? Do you understand the theory of the qi and the meridians?

9. Points (www.acupuncture.com, 2012)
There are about 365 acupoints on the body
Using very find needles, it is influence the functioning of the body
Most of the points have specific energy function
Some points take energy towards the inside of the body
Others take the energy to the surface of the skin

10. treatment Based on person to person
One treatment does not fit everyone
Practitioner has to be licensed by a state regulatory board ( 2014).

11. REFERENCES
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Lewith, G. (n.d.) The History of Acupuncture in China. Retrieved from cupuncture_in_China/1819
National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. (2014). Retrieved from sheets