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Herbal formula better than drug for ulcerative colitis
A study from China suggests that Jianpi Qingchang Decoction can be used to relieve symptoms in patients with ulcerative colitis ...
Treatment of Meniere's disease
Author
Heiko Lade
Patient
Female aged 55
Symptoms
This particular patient was referred by another acupuncturist who didn't use herbs and had not obtained any results using acupuncture alone. Technically she did not have Meniere's syndrome but certainly wind phlegm was active.
She presented to me with the biomedical diagnosis of stibulitis (inner ear infection ) .There was a history of dizziness ...
Post Herpetic hypoaesthesia treated by acupuncture
A case report
Herpes zoster,a sporadic disease, is the consequence of reactivation of latent VZV (Varicella Zoster Virus) from the dorsal root ganglion. Shingles or herpes zoster is characterised by a unilateral vesicular eruption within a dermatome often associated with severe pain. Most debilitating complication of herpes zoster is pain associated with acute neuritis and post herpetic neuralgia ...
A case of sick building syndrome treated by acupuncture
by Heiko Lade (to contact Heiko please visit his website)
The practice of a TCM practitioner can often bring unusual cases through your door & the case that is being presented now certainly stands out in my career.
A female aged 38 originally sought Chinese massage to help with her fatigue and muscle aches and was then referred to me.
Ten months ago she and about 20 others who had been workin ...
Acupuncture reduces allergic rhinitis symptoms
For sufferers of seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR), acupuncture treatment can lead to a modest improvement in disease-specific quality of life and can reduce antihistamine use, compared with either sham acupuncture or the medication cetrizine. In a multi-centre randomised trial, German researchers randomised 422 people with SAR to receive acupuncture plus cetirizine, sham (minimal needling) acupunc ...
Acupuncture and the brain
In an American study, fifteen healthy subjects were evaluated with magnetoencephalography (MEG) to map the location and timing of brain activity during low-frequency electroacupuncture (EA) and non-penetrating sham acupuncture (SA) using a metal filament at Neiguan P-6. Both EA and SA evoked brain responses in the contralateral primary somatosensory (SI) cortex. However, initial responses for EA p ...
Acupuncture treatment of peripheral facial nerve palsy
Authors
Cardoso T., Mendez C. M., Jimenez I.
Introduction
Peripheral Facial Nerve Palsy is an inflammatory neuropathy. Patients can have a viral prodrome. Although it is not universally accepted, some authors consider that idiopathic facial nerve palsy is a polyneuropathy, with slight findings referable to the trigeminal, glossopharyngeal, and vagus nerves, and the second cervical nerve in ...
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