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Low Vision
Acupuncture may be useful to treat certain eye pathologies associated
with low vision. I wish to avoid
the perception that acupuncture cures macular degenerative disease. It does
not. However acupuncturists have reported possible improved visual changes
following acupuncture treatments.
Dr. Alston Lundgren, MD is a medical acupuncturist who has certainly
helped many patients improve upon their low vision associated with Macular
Degenerative Disease. He has
published two articles that are listed below: Click on the links to read the
articles.
XVIII ICER Presentation, Beijing, China, September 2008.
Dr. Richard C. Niemtzow
employs acupuncture to treat low vision problem. This is a significant modification
of Dr. Alston’s Santa Fe protocol. The results are variable, but frequently
good. I no longer places small gold needles in the ears. Needling the points LR
3 and LR 8 are replaced by insertion of the needles into the closest bony area
associated with these acupuncture points. The red lead of an electro-stimulator
is attached near LR 8 and the black lead is attached to near LR 3. The circuit
is mounted bilaterally and the electronic parameters consist of a square wave
stimulation at 5 Hz over 30 minutes. The two needles placed in LR 14 are
replaced by one needle inserted superficially into the bone of the sternum.
This becomes the negative lead from the electrical stimulator and the positive
lead is placed into Qi Hou in one eye and another lead is set-up in a similar
manner for the opposite eye. The eye needles are placed so that they contact
the orbital bone as it skims down it near Qi Hou. Electronic diodes are placed
in the eye circuits. Inserting
diodes into these circuits keeps the current in the eye and blocks it from
reaching the sternum area when the square wave phases into the appropriate
polarity. The circuit is mounted bilaterally and consists of a biphasic square
wave at 5 Hz over 30 minutes. As mentioned the biphasic characteristics are
blocked in the eye circuits by the diodes.
The following article should be reviewed for medical safety
issues.
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