East meets West – Contributions from veterinary research findings for an understanding acupuncture and related techniques from a western scientific view

Title : East meets West – Contributions from veterinary research findings for an understanding acupuncture and related techniques from a western scientific view

Abstract:

Acupuncture - Acum Pungere: “to prick the point” - this is the translation from Latin. But (in one of the many westernized spellings) the Asian says “Zhen Jiu”: “Pricking and burning” - so it is not only the prick with the needle, but also other types of stimulation that offer somatomotor and somatovisceral diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities. The scientific justification of methods such as massage, acupuncture, thermotherapy (e.g. moxibustion), neural and electrotherapy will be explained to Western skeptics on the basis of various research (macro- and microanatomic, pathophysiological as well as behaviorism) results, especially from animal observations, experiments and veterinary empirical studies.

Biography:

Studied at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 12 years of professional-scientific work in the human pharmaceutical field (focus on neural therapy, local anesthesia, pain therapy), doctorate on the subject of anatomical-pathophysiological principles of the functional mechanisms of auriculomedicine (“ear acupuncture”), 10 years of lecturing at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna on acupuncture and neural therapy in surgery and internal medicine, since 1999 head of the Vierbeiner Reha-Zentrum and the Academy for Advanced Veterinary Medicine in Bad Wildungen, Germany. 4 years lecturing on the subject of physical medicine at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Since 1989 courses for veterinarians and animal physiotherapists in the fields of acupuncture, neural and pain therapy and physical veterinary medicine in Germany and Austria. Textbooks and awards on these topics and publications. Currently studying medical sciences at the Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg.