The Traditionai Acupuncture: Micromassager Instrument with Home Therapy Guide

By Michael Buist

The micromassager is a bone ball attached to a bone or wooden handle by a steel shaft.

Traditionally, these instruments were made out of ivory. Hardly appropriate these days, of course. These current instruments are beautifully handcrafted from sustainable, sterilised New Zealand beef bone and native hardwood, and the bone balls have similar properties to ivory in therapeutic application. The construction is deceptively simple in that the results obtained are beyond the scope of ordinary acupressure. These traditional type instruments are in fact rather ingenious.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris NZ
• Release date: Feb 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781499098068

Michael Buist

Michael Buist Michael qualified in traditional Chinese acupuncture in the UK in 1979. Since then he has been practicing in Wellington, New Zealand. In 1981 he began using traditional acupuncture micromassage in his clinic, finding it particularly effective on children and chronic fatigue clients. Initially, with his other clients, he used the method as a supplementary treatment while standard needles were in place. Gradually he started using micromassage more exclusively in his clinical work until, in the mid 90's, most of his work was with micromassage. He continues to practice in Wellington. Now he is also writing about this special method and technique, and welcomes contact with interested people who have obtained a micromassager tool.

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Rev. date: 02/03/2016

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Preface

A micromassager can get exceptional results when treating the tendino-muscular meridians and the extraordinary vessels, particularly their Master or Coupled Points alone. It is also very useful and completely appropriate in the treatment of severe fatigue syndromes where needles and moxa cannot be tolerated by the patient and are contraindicated.

Of course, children respond very well to micromassage. They usually lose their fear of pain and the unknown after the first treatment and may soon be telling the therapist where the acupoint is! So, I have found micromassage to be an invaluable tool in treating and supporting the conventional treatment of many common problems and illnesses in children.

Micromassage is also ideally suited to the self- treatment of local points in private areas of the body, for instance, the supervised self-treatment of breast problems.

In the above examples, it is important to be trained in acupuncture first. Practitioners of other modalities, though, can also get good results using micromassage as a supporting therapy.

No method or modality can do everything. It is obviously important for a practitioner to have more than one string to their bow in fighting disease.

Yet, often it is found that micromassage alone is all that is necessary to achieve the result. How simple and splendid that is.

Sometimes treating one acupoint alone is sufficient. This is particularly true with respect to the use of the Stream-Transporting Points, where micromassage can be considered to have a special effect.

In writing this book I was reminded of the time before I trained in acupuncture. There were no schools of acupuncture in NZ then, but a little acupressure book titled First Aid At Your Fingertips gave me information that I could use if I had to. It was very helpful – this was before I could find a qualified practitioner or a genuine school to go to. Maybe things are easier now; the traditional acupuncture system certainly has become more available since then and has proliferated into a myriad of different subsystems and teachings. Traditional Micromassage is