Adrenal treatment

June 2, 2005

Hi Sharon,

Could you please share the Matsumoto adrenal treatment protocol.

Speaking of blown out adrenals! I currently have a 30 year old male

patient that is stressed to the hilt, can't sleep, suffers from OCD,

suffers from depression, impotence, smokes, drinks and basically on the

fast track to a major meltdown. His job is majorly stressful, he

recently ended a significant relationship, lives alone, just bought a

house and is a classic type A personality.

He has the Kidney Yin pulse of a post menopausal woman and his Heart

pulse is practically non-existent with an almost excess Liver pulse.

His Kidney Yang pulse is much stronger than his Kidney Yin, but is very

wiry (a classic " adrenal " pulse), Spleen feels good, but Lung has a

" tired " feel to it. He is way out of balance energetically, which I can

feel with the pulses alone. I'm trying to get him to take herbs, modify

his diet and do some emotional work, but he just wants acupuncture. His

tongue looks pretty normal, pale red, slightly thick white coating in

the Spleen and Kidney root.

He was having great success with an acupuncture Dr. in Michigan when he

was visiting his mother. This doc. was using a lot of electricity and

laser on him and also seeing him twice a day sometimes. I'm trying to

get the treatment protocols this other doctor was using, but he will not

return my calls.

I've done an aggressive energy treatment while also tonifying Kid, Sp

and Liver. I've done Yin Tang, Ear NADA protocol, St-25, Ren-4, Ren-12,

Ren-15, Ren-17 with needles, electricity and laser plus a dozen or so

other Kidney (Kid-3, 7, 9) Spleen (Sp-3, 6, 10) and Liver (Liv-3) points

(also LI-4, SI-3, SJ-5, Lu-7, Lu-9, LI-11). He may get an hour or two

of relief after a treatment, but then gets right back into his routine.

I haven't had much success with tonifying his Yin with acupuncture (it

works wonders with some patients) and he doesn't seem too interested in

taking herbs right now even after explaining how limiting that makes my

treatments. He likes a lot of needles and strong stimulation,

basically very Yang.

I have talked to him about my concerns, but he is confident that I can

reproduce the great results he was getting with the other acupuncturist.

I'm not so sure as I feel he is looking for someone to " fix " him and not

taking personal responsibility for his health and wellbeing.

I want to help this guy, but I get the feeling that I am on a slippery

slope and that even the best acupuncture treatments in the world won't

counteract his lifestyle. I'm open to any kind of treatment that may

make a breakthrough with him. He is willing to see me 3 times a week,

and right now I am his only " positive " support apart from his mother who

is paying for the treatments, which is another possible issue. His

mother is the one that found me and after talking with her on the phone

she felt I was the best acupuncturist she talked to in the area to help

her son.

Thanks!

Christopher Vedeler L.Ac., C.Ht.

Oasis Acupuncture

http://www.oasisacupuncture.com

8233 N. Via Paseo del Norte

Suite D-35

Scottsdale, AZ 85258

Phone: (480) 991-3650

Fax: (480) 247-4472

The points I use are a Matsumoto adrenal treatment, and I added the

notion

of getting them to connect to their stuff. I suppose any adrenal

treatment

protocol would do.

Best wishes,

June 2, 2005

Hi Chris,

Wow what a case!

From what you were saying, I did get the feeling of him wanting someone to

keep him on the track he is currently running on.

I see that a bit too, where any tonification is just used to support the

current coping mechanism. I wonder about what I am doing in such

circumstances. For me it has felt like this person is on a collision

course, like a runaway train, and somewhere down the track he is going run

into something that his current coping mechanism is not going to be able to

handle. I suppose we could call this hitting rock bottom.

Now the pulses Matsumoto gives are Rapid thin and wiry, or Sinking and slow,

she calls it Master Nagano Dx for adrenal exhaustion. The rest of what

follows is from seminar notes and misses the visual of watching the

treatment process so you will probably need to feel your way. Hope it

helps!

Adrenal Exhaustion Protocol - trauma, infection, inflammation, surgical

procedures, drugs and medications, restrainment, debilitating disease, lack

of oxygen

Target area - Kd 16 around navel at 45 degrees (8 and 4 o'clock) - Adrenal

Reflex - Renal Artery Reflex

Kd 16 area may palpate as hard like a stone - especially for meds taking or

surgery patient; or it may feel tight

Kid 27 may feel tender; look for gummy feeling at interior border of the

sterno-clavical joint

When doing local needling at the navel, the more onion like layers the more

the number of treatments

Step 1. Kd 6, Kd 27 and Lu 5

Kd 6 usually 10 degree insertion toward the calcaneus tendon some times 90

degrees works better

Kd 27 10 degree insertion towards the manubrium of the sternum. Find the

gummy feeling

Lu 5 is usually needled 45 degrees downward with the flow of the channel; pt

can be more superior, inferior or lateral.

Step 2 Sp 9, GB 25 applied when Step 2 release is less than 50-60% - Dai Mai

release, and suggests a structural imbalance of abdominal muscles and linea

alba

Sp 9 is needled at about 10-15 degrees upwards with the mai flow - look for

and needle into gummy feel. If effective underlying Spleen Xu.

GB 25 is palpated and needled towards spine, at the location that relieves

umbilicus. If GB effective may suggest underlying Kd Xu.

Step 3 Only applied when the umbilicus is not totally released by Steps 1

and 2

At the 8 and 4 o'clock one at a time, insert to the depth of the first layer

(that onion concept written about earlier) and wait 1-2 minutes before

attempting next layer, repeat.

Stone like naval area - use moxa etc

Magnets Nth pole Kd 16 Sth Kd 27, stimulate electrically or mechanically.

(I'm not certain to what she is referring her exactly as I don't usually

find I need to go this far in the treatment also I can't give a reference to

her Nth and Sth pole in magnets).

Best wishes,

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