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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 ...
Different autonomic response at wood and metal acupoints
Investigators from South Korea have found that the effect of acupuncture on the autonomic nervous system differs between the wood and metal points of the Pericardium and San Jiao channels.
Digestive herbal formulae have antacid effect in vitro
Two Chinese herbal formulae have been found to have antacid effects in an artificial stomach model.
Bi-Qi capsules prevent inflammation
Bi-Qi capsules, which are prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis and other osteoarticular diseases, have been found to suppress inflammation via several molecular pathways. The capsules contents include Ma Qian Zi (Strychni Semen), Dang Shen (Codonopsis Radix) Fu Ling (Poriae Cocos Sclerotium), Bai Zhu (Atractylodes Macrocephalae Radix), Gan Cao (Glycyrrhizae Radix), Chuan Xiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma) ...
Acupuncture and Chinese herbs alleviate symptoms of ovarian failure
Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicines (CHM) can serve as complementary therapies to alleviate menstrual and perimenopausal symptoms, and improve serum sex hormone levels in women with premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) ...
Acupuncture reduces blood glucose in diabetics
A single session of acupuncture at Zusanli ST-36 is effective at reducing blood glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) ...
Ren Shen Yang Rong Tang reduces cancer survivors' fatigue
In a collaborative study between Chinese and US cancer centres, the Chinese formula Ren Shen Yang Rong Tang (RSYRT, ‘Ginseng Decoction to Nourish the Nutritive Qi’) has been found to significantly reduce severe fatigue in cancer patients ...
Sensitive fibromyalgia patients respond differently to acupuncture
Fibromyalgia patients who exhibit greater sensitivity to pain are more likely to respond to sham acupuncture, and more likely to experience a worsening of pain after verum acupuncture, report US researchers ...
Placebo is a specific effect of healing rituals
A paper by Ted Kaptchuk suggests that, rather than being non-specific, placebo effects are in fact the 'specific' effects of healing rituals.
High intensity electro-acupuncture better for knee osteoarthritis
High-intensity electro-acupuncture (EA) is more effective than low-intensity EA at alleviating the clinical symptoms of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients ...