Jiang Liu Can a minimum of six acupuncture treatments actually reduce the number of migraine headaches? A 2016 study titled “Acupuncture for Preventing Migraine Headaches” sought to answer to this question. The study was published in the Cochrane Library. A migraine causes severe pain, usually one-sided, and may be accompanied by nausea or photo-sensitivity. The results of … Read more…
Acupuncture provides tinnitus relief. Luoding City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Guangdong, China) researchers determined that acupuncture combined with the herbal formula Liu Wei Di Huang Wan relieves symptoms and improves quality of life for tinnitus sufferers. The study compared acupuncture and herbs with hyperbaric oxygen treatment. Acupuncture plus herbs produced a 77.5% effective rate … Read more…
Paralysis After Traumatic Brain Injury: Can Acupuncture Help? Can acupuncture help patients with limb paralysis caused by traumatic brain injury (TBI)? A new study suggests it has promising potential. Published in the Chinese journal of Acupuncture Research, the study included 70 TBI patients divided into a medication group and an acupuncture plus medication group. The … Read more…
Acupuncture Found Effective For Traumatic Brain Injury Researchers conclude that acupuncture increases the total effective rate of mannitol and oxiracetam for the relief of limb paralysis due to traumatic brain injury. Researchers from South Medical University combined acupuncture with drug therapy. Patients receiving both drug injections and acupuncture in a combined treatment protocol had superior … Read more…
Healing Persistent Lyme Disease & Chronic Infection Symptoms (Part 2) By Greg Lee, LAc from Acupuncture Today Clinical Pearl #5 Microparticle Herbs & Essential Oils for Faster Symptom Relief I gave one of my Lyme arthritis patients three formulas of granule herbs which were dosed at 33 grams a day. At one point, she … Read more…
Acupuncture: Treating sexual health issues Saturday, August 24, 2013 by: Lisa S. Lawless, Ph.D. (NaturalNews) Acupuncture is a scientifically proven treatment for a variety of health issues, including sexual health related concerns. It has been used with and without Chinese herbs to address health and sexual functioning concerns for over 5,000 years. By using very … Read more…
Acupuncture Beats Drugs For Menstrual Pain Relief Researchers find acupuncture combined with moxibustion more effective for the treatment of painful menstruation than ibuprofen. Across three independent studies, researchers made several important findings. Acupuncture plus moxibustion produces superior treatment outcomes to oral intake of ibuprofen. Acupuncture plus moxibustion is superior to using only acupuncture as a … Read more…
Gao J1, Li T, Huang Y. Abstract Prolapse of rectum usually occurs in the children with insufficient qi and blood, in the elders with declined qi and blood or deficiency of qi in the middle jiao (burner), in the women who made qi exhausted during labor resulting in deficiency of qi and blood, and in those with … Read more…
Acupuncture and Prolapse: A Natural Condition with Oriental Medicine BY SKYA ABBATE, DOM. Acupuncture Today The development of prolapses is a natural human condition. They can come about due to a weakened physical condition; age; gravity; excess weight; various childbirth situations; organ removal; or organ weakness. In Chinese medicine, prolapses are primarily viewed as being … Read more…
Using Traditional Chinese Medicine for Irritable Bowel Syndrome By Jisun Ryu, MS, LAc, Dipl. OM Acupuncture Today The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)1 defines irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) as a digestive disorder that affects the large intestine causing symptoms such as abdominal cramping, abdominal bloating, and a change in bowel … Read more…