Most of you may have read something about acupuncture by now, or you might have an idea of what it is. Still, there might be some questions regarding its authority and authenticity when it comes to healing diseases. For one, people need to understand the fundamentals of acupuncture and maybe they could begin to appreciate its healing qualities. The following are a few facts about … Continue reading
Arthritis, joint pain, chronic pain, and most especially lower back pain, are some of the most common reasons why patients seek-out acupuncture treatments. For a lot of these people, Chinese medicine and acupuncture have been extremely beneficial in the relief of their pain. The question is, will it work for you?
Chinese Medicine and Pain
Joint and/or musculoskeletal pain, in Chinese medicine, is referred to … Continue reading
Both Western and Eastern medicine view frequent anger to be a destructive emotion and when a person is constantly angry, the anger can become a part of his life and the person then uses it as the main way to deal with anxieties or emotionally-charged situations. Anger can then be the person’s main personality trait instead of it being an occasional feeling. And since this … Continue reading
Imagine yourself going completely blind by the time you cross the age of sixty. Since 1 in 4000 people do go blind by the time they reach 60 you just might be one of the unluckiest people on earth. Retinitis Pigmentosa is the medical term of a special eye abnormality that tends to make people go completely blind due to the degeneration of their retina. … Continue reading
Nerve damage is a an extremely variable condition that can manifest in loss of or limited range of motion, tingling, numbness, pain, and a host of other symptoms depending on what nerves are affected. Treatment typically is conducted by a neurologist in order to determine what approach needs to be used: medications like oral or nerve blocks, electrical stimulation methods, physical therapy, or surgery. Prognosis … Continue reading
In a release of a recent clinical study’s results on the effectiveness of acupuncture for the relief of dysmenorrhea pain in the Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the positive effects of this millennia-old Chinese alternative therapy were verified. The positive reaction of patients suffering from menstrual pain who were administered with acupuncture treatment in Pem demonstrated the high level of efficacy of this treatment.
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Sore throat has two types: acute and chronic. Acute sore throat is often the result of heat wind resulting in issues such as a floating rapid pulse, cough with yellow sputum, and fever.
For a heat wind acute sore throat diagnosis, Chinese medicine doctors usually recommend the classic formula Yin Chiao Je Du Pian. The more efficacious and faster the condition clears if the formula … Continue reading
Based on the latest study of Chinese medicine and acupuncture in the United States, a staggering 8.3 million Americans experienced some form of acupuncture treatment at some point in their lives! Out of that enormous number, 2.2 million underwent the treatment within the past year. In 1971, an article written by New York Times columnist James Reston presented the concept of utilizing needles to remove … Continue reading
People who have been experiencing alternating diarrhea and constipation, pain, excessive gas, and stomach bloating may be interested to know that their symptoms may be due to exacerbated stress. Other symptoms that commonly accompany those primary symptoms include weakness, palpitations, back pain, faintness, headache, fatigue, and heartburn. If most of these apply to you, then you are one among the 20 million Americans who suffer … Continue reading
Around 30 million Americans are sadly (pun intended) taking antidepressants for depression giving the United States the monicker “Prozac nation”. But besides drugs, there are several different ways to treat depression. The pharmaceutical companies are relying on the spread of anxiety and stress that now plague almost every household in America; anyway, it is highly improbable that the symptoms will go away anytime soon.
The … Continue reading