Search results for: 'Shi Bu Wan'

Author Jean Song Patient Female, age 55 Symptoms Ten months since her last period, feeling disorientation, vexation, agitation and irascibility. Overwhelmed with melancholy and unease in the chest. Suffering from hot flushes, insomnia and often alarmed by nightmares; difficult defecation. Diagnosis Weak and slightly iregular pulse; white tongue fur, slimy at the root and red in colour. Pattern Id ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from Taiwan have found that auricular acupressure (AA) contributes to an improvement in postmenopausal insomnia (PI) by regulating the autonomic nervous system.

Author Jennie Longbottom BSc. MCSP, SRP Background AS is a 40-year-old woman, with an extensive history of chronic, idiopathic, pelvic pain, severe around ovulation and subsiding to a lesser degree some ten days after. She has been investigated by a number of gynaecologists, undergone several exploratory laparotomies, all results being inconclusive as to diagnosis and prognosis. She was recently ...

A response to a study debunking acupuncture for back pain ... 

A review from Taiwan gives an overview of the mechanisms by which acupuncture's analgesic effects are mediated. The authors outline the various mechanisms that appear to be involved in acupuncture analgesia (AA), from early studies investigating the relationship between acupuncture and endogenous opiates, to the role of the serotoninergic descending inhibitory pathway. They go on to discuss result ...

Six months of acupuncture treatment is associated with an improvement in insulin sensitivity in both normal-weight and obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) ...

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 ...