Electrical Acupoint Stimulators - Please Help!

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Hello One & All,

 

I've recently become interested in acupressure due to the realization (with

the gracious assistance of some on another list!) that I have the potential

to cure my allergies using NAET (Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination

Technique). See: http://www.naet.com/ After receiving her book: " Living Pain

Free " and being inherently lazy I realize that there are Electrical Acupoint

Stimulators available such as the one at: http://www.japo.fi/~dante/ACU.HTM

which make acupressure stimulation much easier and perhaps more effective.

Incidently the book does not describe how to cure allergies specifically but

deals with painful conditions which may result as a reaction to allergies.

She obviously wants you to go to one of her trained professionals to get a

treatment for allergies.

 

By the time one pays the exchange rate, shipping, customs and duty on

products one can anticipate them doubling in price! Besides I have a

frequency generator and the capability to construct simple electronic

circuits so I see no reason to purchase one. Plus of course the challenge and

satisfaction of creating an instrument with which you can heal yourself. The

output can't be that difficult to duplicate (or enhance) if one knew the

particulars such as: configuration of electrodes (easily determined by

examining one), the output impedance, waveform, frequency and peak to peak

voltage.

 

I looked at the waveform on my oscilloscope of a TENS type

stimulator; it was an AC damped wave, : about 2Khz sub-modulation with a

pulse repitition rate of about 1.3Hz . Amplitude was max on the pulse

leading edge up to maybe 36 volts...

 

To be sure all Electrical Acupoint Stimulators are not created equal.

Moreover it is possible that certain stimulators may be more effective for

some bodies and others better for other types.

 

Other than the complex waveform I describe I received information on basic

waveforms from 3 others.

 

1/ Pointer-Plus: retails for $125.00 Cdn. has an output intensity of 0-22mA.

@ 10 Hz. Pulse width 240usec and a wave shape " biphasic square pulse with

negative spike " It uses a 9v battery.

 

2/ Pointer-Plus SP4: same except 4 Hz.

 

3/ Professional 900: retails for $320.00 Cdn. Promoted by retailer to be the

best (certainly has the highest profit margin) 2.5 Hz. (Endorphin Release)

Square wave, 50% duty cycle (200msec pulse width) Output is listed at 3.5

volts dc. (I presume this to be an offset) Intensity 500 uA into 500 ohms.

Selection can be made: negative (sedation) positive (tonification) also

operates on 9v battery.

 

Some of these devices emit a brief pulse of Piezoelectric current. This is

the same type of current emitted by the fascia (a type of connective tissue

in the body) when it becomes bent or compressed. The

accupuncture/accupressure meridians lie in the fascial plane of the body.

These devices temporarily block pain signals. I have a good device on

loan...it will cost me about $115.00. I have some info on the manufacturer

and a tape and literature came with it.

 

I can't help but imagine that the most effective treatment would occurr using

acupuncture needles and electrostimulation. But what current, waveform,

frequency and peak to peak voltage? Any positive insight and guidance would

be appreciated.

 

In the Light of Our Creator,

We can help others find health,

Murray Grummitt