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Dr. Quaranto trained in the Zhu Scalp Acupuncture (ZSA) system under the tutelage of Dr. Zhu Ming Qing completing that initial training at the Qingdao University School of Medicine, acute neurology department in Qingdao, China. Zhu Scalp Acupuncture is the treatment par excellence for those suffering the after-effects of stroke.

SYNOPSIS OF SCALP ACUPUNCTURE
by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D. and Edythe Vickers, N.D., L.Ac., Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, OR
THE NATURE OF SCALP ACUPUNCTURE

Scalp acupuncture is one of several specialized acupuncture techniques with a specific body location, taking its place alongside ear, nose, hand, foot, and wrist/ankle acupuncture. The more general acupuncture therapy is often called body acupuncture.
There are three basic features of scalp acupuncture that differentiate it from body acupuncture:

1. Treatment zones have been mapped onto the scalp that are associated with body functions and broad body regions. In general, within a defined zone, the forward part of the zone (nearer the face) is used to treat the upper body, while the rear portion of the zone is used to treat the lower body. Functional zones, such as sensory, memory, and motor, are usually located at the back and sides of the scalp.
2. In scalp acupuncture, the needles are to be inserted within a thin layer of loose tissue beneath the scalp surface, at a low angle of about 15–30 degrees. the insertion of these hair thin needles is virtually painless.
3. For scalp acupuncture, the needles are stimulated in place, while either the patient or the doctor activates the affected area of the body.

More than 80 diseases are currently treated by this therapeutic method, which is particularly effective in treating disorders resulting post stroke, disorders of the central nervous system, and various acute and chronic pain syndromes, neurasthenia, anxiety neurosis, and other psychological and psychosomatic disorders, periarthritis of the shoulders, ischialgia, pain in
the back and loin, painful heels, and other pain syndromes, hemiplegia, aphasia, senile dementia, and other brain disorders.

Professor Zhu Mingqing has developed a popular version of scalp acupuncture. “In recent years, Zhu’s scalp acupuncture has been a craze in Japan, America, and China. In 1991, Zhu established the Chinese Scalp Acupuncture Center of the U.S.A. in San Francisco, and, in 1992, he published an English-language book on his methods: Zhu’s Scalp Acupuncture (2), now out of print. He currently provides treatments for several neurological disorders at Zhu's Acupuncture Medical & Neurology Center, in San Jose, California.

Dr. Zhu traces the origins of modern scalp acupuncture to the work of Huang Xuelong, who in 1935 introduced the concept that there is a relationship between the scalp and the cerebral cortex. Several acupuncturists pursued this line, seeking points and zones on the scalp that would treat diseases of the brain. Initial results of clinical work indicated that acupuncture applied to the scalp had good effect on diseases that were associated with cerebral damage, such as stroke. Its applications were then extended to virtually all other diseases, but a focus on nervous system disorders is still dominant. Other physicians in China trace the acceptance of scalp acupuncture as a new system to the development of ear acupuncture, which is also thought to be especially useful for neurological disorders due to the location of needling at the head.