Jerry Tennant - Healing is Voltage: Acupuncture Muscle Batteries: An Atlas

Copyright 2014 Jerry L Tennant
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 150850072X
ISBN 13: 9781508500728

Authors Note:

I write books and give lectures intended to help people restore their health. I am a physician---not an English major. To my surprise, people call and email me to let me know I misused a comma on page x in my book! Those good intentions simply take away time I would normally use to figure out a better way for people to get healthy.

To my dismay, I spend more time formatting a book than I do writing it. To me, that seems like a waste of time. I hire professional editors to do the copy editing but there are still mistakes or they change the meaning of what I wrote.

Apparently there are people that sat around a desk and decided the proper way to use commas, capitalization, etc. so they could sell books on proper punctuation. For example, I was taught in the 1940s that if a series of words were a special phrase, you would enclose such words in quotation marks as I did in the last sentence with proper punctuation. I was then taught that a period meant that you had reached the end of that sentence. If a phrase preceded the period, the period still went at the end of the sentence. However, now someone has decided that the period goes before the closing phrase quotation mark! That makes absolutely no sense, but it sells books for those that make these rules and creates an industry for English majors that get paid hundreds of dollars to move commas around and change the meaning of what those of us that arent English majors write.

Grammar Tips says, Now, keep in mind that this comma and period inside the quotation marks business is strictly American usage. The British don't do it that way. They are inclined to place commas and periods logically rather than conventionally , depending on whether the punctuation belongs to the quotation or to the sentence that contains the quotation, just as we do with question marks and exclamation points.

I paid the editors at CreateSpace, a subsidiary of Amazon, several hundred dollars to edit this book. I accepted their edits even though I think it is harder to read than the way I wrote it. For example, they made the headings the same font size and capitalization as the sentences that follow. They also removed some of the bullets from lists! The Chicago Manual of Style says:

6.124 Vertical listspunctuation and format

A vertical list is best introduced by a complete grammatical sentence, followed by a colon (but see 6.125 ). Items carry no closing punctuation unless they consist of complete sentences. If the items are numbered, a period follows the numeral and each item begins with a capital letter. (When items in a numbered list consist of very long sentences, or of several sentences, and the list does not require typographic prominence, the items may be set in regular text style as numbered paragraphs, with only the first line indented, punctuated as normal prose.) To avoid long, skinny lists, short items may be arranged in two or more columns. If items run over a line, the second and subsequent lines are usually indented (flush-and-hang style, also called hanging indention, as used in bibliographies and indexes). In a numbered or bulleted list, runover lines are aligned with the first word following the numeral or bullet. An alternative to indenting runover lines is to insert extra space between the items.

So it isnt clear to me why they removed some of the bullets, but remember that Im not an English major. Im just a physician.

So if you find errors and think that book titles should be underlined instead of italicized, you will need to discuss that with the editors---not with me. So please dont write or call me to tell me that I used a comma incorrectly. If this book helps you get well, I have achieved my goal.

Finally, remember that by the time this book is published, I will be 75 years old (only I must not say 75---numbers less than one hundred are supposed to be typed out---Ill be seventy-five.) So please make allowances for my impending senility!

Jerry Tennant, MD, MD(H), PScD

www.tennantinstitute.com

Table of Contents

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Acupuncture Muscle Batteries

You are going to find the next few pages confusing. Please dont stop reading. I am including these pages so you will understand what the current teachings about acupuncture are. It is against this background that I will propose a new theory of acupuncture that I think you will find much easier to understand and useful in clinical practice and in each individuals understanding of health and disease.

What is acupuncture? This question is hundreds of years old. Few can agree on the answer. Elizabeth Reninger, Taoism expert, says,

Acupunctureone of the principle therapies used in Chinese Medicineinvolves the insertion of hair-thin needles (at an average depth of to inch) into specific points along energy-channels called meridians. The insertion of the acupuncture needles at these specific points supports a balanced flow of qi (life-force energy) through the meridians. When the qi is flowing in this balanced way, the body/mind is able to regain, maintain and improve its health and vitality. According to Chinese Medicine, it is a blockage or imbalance in the flow of qi that is the root cause of disease. When the qi associated with a particular organ system is in a condition of excess, deficiency or stagnation, negative emotional states such as fear, anxiety, anger, sadness or worry tend to manifest. If left unresolved, this imbalanced emotional energy will begin to produce physical symptoms. Similarly, if one of the five shen (spirits) of the organs is disturbed, the energetic imbalance produced by this disturbance will also, in time, manifest as physical disease.