October 31, 2011
When 42-year-old Michelle came to see me in 2010, she hadn't been feeling well for 6 weeks. She had to urinate frequently and had a burning sensation in the urethra. Her back was aching a lot, and she was feeling tired. Some days when it got worse, she was feverish and headachy. In the last few days she noticed some blood in her urine. To me it sounded like a problem of kidney stones. So I decided to use acupuncture to alleviate the symptoms, and also asked her to go to see her GP for an examination. The acupuncture points I used were on her neck and lower back. When she came back three weeks later, I was told that after last session of acupuncture, the burning pain in her urethra eased off instantly, then the next day after a sudden pain in her back and tummy, she passed some crystal-like bits in the urine. The examinations for the kidneys and bladder she had afterwards didn't show anything wrong, but she still felt tired and headachy. Then she had another session of acupuncture. A week later when she came back, I was told she had passed some more grains of sand after last treatment. We carried on with the acupuncture for a few weeks and finally the symptoms stopped bothering her. In this case, acupuncture probably increased the movements in the organs of urinary system so that kidney stones could be passed out.
Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Urinary system
October 27, 2011
When Sonya came to see me in 2006, she was a mother of two children. She and her husband then wanted to have a third child, but this time it wasn't easy. In the last one and a half years, she'd had three miscarriages, which all happened in about week 11, and the last one just happened 2 months ago. Sonya also had type I diabetes and had been on insulin for many years. According to her history and clinical manifestations, I believed her problem was deficiency of Qi and blood, and the princip...
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Reproductive system
October 25, 2011
My friend Colin is 82 years old and lives on his own. He had a heart attack during Christmas in 2010 and was kept in hospital for a week, diagnosed with myocardial infarction. Since then he sometimes had short breath and mostly it could ease off itself. But one night in October, he had a more severe one which made him very panicky, so he phoned me to ask for help. When I got to his house, he had just called the ambulance. He was sitting on the bed side panting. His chest was full of bubbling ...
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Circulatory system
October 23, 2011
Many studies in recent years have shown that acupuncture is more effective than conventional treatments for lower back pain, though some researchers concluded that it's just a placebo effect - no more effective than sham acupuncture which doesn't penetrate the skin or places the needles in random points. I admit the existence of placebo effect, but the question is, to what extent it works? Can it work as well as real acupuncture does? In some studies, acupuncture was delivered for quite a lon...
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Muscular-skeletal system
October 20, 2011
When Keith first came to see me, he was asking for herbal medicine for his prostate problem. He was diagnosed with an enlarged prostate two years ago. He kept frequently and urgently passing water, but couldn’t pass it out completely. He always felt some discomfort in the lower abdomen. Apart from this, he also had aches in the sole of his feet, and none of the various treatments he’d tried could help. Regarding the prostate condition, I said to him that acupuncture should work more qu...
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Urinary system
October 20, 2011
59 year-old Mrs Jackson came from Scotland. Her complaint was a stomach pain for 15 years. She often felt bloated in the stomach and belched a lot. The symptoms seemed had started after she took a lot of antibiotics for an infection many years ago. Her doctor said it was gastritis and prescribed various medications, but none of them could get rid of the symptoms completely. I gave her an electro-acupuncture treatment. The points I used were Zhong Wan in the abdomen, Liang Qiu in the legs, Ge ...
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Posted by Peng Zhang. Posted In : Digestive system
