February 18, 2013
36-year-old Helena had suffered from cystitis for nearly three years. It first started after she had intercourse with her boyfriend one day and had recurred every two or three months, always after sex. As she and her boyfriend were moving together, she feared about the increasing chance of getting relapses. Because conventional medications couldn't stop the recurrence, she started to look for alternative treatments and after some research finally decided to try acupuncture. She also complained about a discomfort of dryness in the vagina. Her periods were normal. I chose two points in her abdomen and another two in her legs for the first acupuncture session. She reported a mild vaginal bleeding followed the treatment, which I believed was the body's normal reaction. We carried on with the acupuncture every a few weeks and some points in her back were also used. For three months since the first session, she didn't have any relapse again. Then I decided to stop the treatment and asked her to come back only when she felt any symptoms. Six months later Helena came to see me for a backache and told me that the cystitis hadn't bothered her again.
Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Urinary system
January 14, 2013
67-year-old Elizabeth had a number of problems when she first came to see me in 2012. She'd had IBS for years and suffered from tummy ache and constipation. In the last few months she'd had acid reflux and had been diagnosed with hiatus hernia. She was anxious, tired and restless at night, and also having headaches, stiff neck and achy back. She had thready pulse and pale tongue with white coating. I believed that in terms of Chinese medicine, the key point in her case was malfunction of the ...
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Digestive system
January 1, 2013
More than 1,200 people have signed an online petition to save an acupuncture service based at the maternity unit at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-20402684
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : News & research
December 10, 2012
76-year-old Ron came to see me in 2009 for a problem in his right hand. He had a pain in the centre of the palm and his middle finger would lock when it bent, and he had to use the other hand to straighten it out. This condition is called "tenosynovitis", which is a local inflammation causing thickening in the tendon sheath. Because the movement of the tendon is restricted by the thickened tendon sheath, the finger is locked in a bending position, which is called "trigger finger". I found a f...
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Muscular-skeletal system
November 20, 2012
45-year-old Tracy had suffered from a discomfort in her right foot for 8 months. There was a dull ache in the contiguous halves of the third and fourth toes. She had tried some specially made insoles from the chiropodist but didn't get any help. Recently she started having a hot feeling in the same place on her other foot. She went to see the doctor and was diagnosed with Morton's neuroma, which is a fibrous tissue formation around the intermetatarsal plantar nerve. Since the medication didn'...
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Nervous system
November 2, 2012
A three-year trial showed acupuncture had across-the-board benefits, alleviating both mental and physical fatigue and improving overall quality of life in breast cancer patients.
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Nervous system
