TCM Case Study

08/02/2020

Acupuncture under Live Thermography
Physiological reaction when patient recieve Acupuncture on Liver Area for
Liver Heat Deficiency

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07/20/2020

Complementary therapy of traditional Chinese medicine for blood sugar control in a patient with type 1 diabetes

Objective: Using a case study to discuss the effects of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatments on Type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Clinical features: A 4-year-old girl with sudden polyuria and nocturia (fasting plasma glucose level: 270mg/dL) was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Although multiple daily insulin injections were applied, her plasma glucose levels were still unstable. Therefore, she received a complementary TCM therapy by taking modified Liu-Wei-Di-Huang-Wan (3.0g/day; three times daily) for 3 months. After the treatments, her plasma glucose levels appeared to be more stable. HbA1c 6.5% and insulin injections were reduced to only once a day.

Conclusions: The results suggest that complementary TCM therapy has the ability to assist some patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus in controlling their plasma glucose levels.

Keywords: Complementary and alternative medicine; Traditional Chinese medicine; Type 1 diabetes.

06/01/2020

Multiple Myeloma Maintained with Chinese Herbal Medicine Treatment Alone

Multiple Myeloma (MM, Kahler's Disease, or Plasma Cell Myeloma) is a cancer of the white blood cells. With this condition a persons body produces too many abnormal cells in the bone marrow which effectively causes the blood to thicken and tumors may form in the bone.

the case study I am discussing today is of a woman diagnosed at age 49 with multiple myeloma who after undergoing western treatments for about one year discontinued them in favor of a full TCM approach. Her decision was largely due to multiple side effects that were untenable for her.

In TCM terms multiple myeloma may fall under the Xue Bi diagnostic pattern which effectively means "blood painful obstruction". This is a pattern that effectively starts with a weakness in what we would call the "blood" (or "xue") which has more meaning than just our blood in western terms, which then allows "cold" or stagnating forces to enter deeply into the body which can create a range of issues from neuropathy, pain, paralysis, and more depending on other factors. The treatment in Chinese Medicine terms is to warm interior cold and warm and disperse cold in the channels.

One of the important formulas for "blood painful obstruction" is called Huang Qi Gui Zhi Wu Wu Wan or the "Astragalus and Cinnamon Five Herb Decoction". As the name would indicate two of the most important herbs in the formula are huang qi (or "astragalus") and gui zhi (or "cinnamon"). In Chinese Herbal Medicine terms huang qi will tonify the qi, more specifically the defensive layer of the body or "wei qi" which is in some ways the initial functions of the immune system which keep us from getting sick to begin with. Gui Zhi will release exterior cold in TCM terms which functionally pushes out the influences that are causing disease.

04/30/2020

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04/24/2020

Why we are Dizzy!!

feeling dizzy when getting up from sitting or lying down. There is another type of dizziness which is dizzy while sitting, lying or standing. It feels like sitting on a rocking boat all the time.
The reason for this type of dizziness in Chinese medicine is that there is dead water (damp phlegm) in the blood which provides insufficient oxygen to the brain. We use a herb called Zhe Xie to clear the toxin (dead water) from the blood. There is a herbal formula called Zhe Xie Tang to treat this type of dizziness.
The formula is made from Zhe Xie and Bai Zhu. Zhe Xie clears the toxins from the blood. Bai Zhu removes dampness and strengthens the digestive system. It is a very simple formula from Shang Han Lun. But it is quite powerful.
A patient came in and complained about feeling dizzy while sitting, standing and lying down. “It feels like sitting on a rocking boat.” She got checked in the hospital and was told that there is nothing wrong with her. “Of course there is something wrong. Otherwise how could I feel so dizzy.”
I prescribed Zhe Xie tang in raw herbs. We also did Acupuncture in conjunction. After the first week there is obvious improvement in the dizziness. In about 2-3 week nearly all the dizziness are gone.

04/20/2020

Effect of One Acupuncture point Zhong fu LU1 Point on respiratory function.

04/17/2020

Knee Pain Case Study
This is a case study of a 53 year old man who presented with pain in the anterior medial aspect of his right knee,
The pain was present most of the time but developed increasingly worse with high activity, climatic change or at the end of a days work. This made it very difficult for him to worked long hours in construction industry and walked up stairs all day.

Biomedical diagnosis: diagnosed him with OA of the knee after The MRI showed joint space narrowing due to loss of articular cartilage and slight osteophyte formation.

TCM diagnosis was anterior medial knee pain due to fixed Bi syndrome Cold and damp predominant with stagnation of Qi and Blood with kidney yang deficiency.

TCM treatment was to eliminate the dampness, scatter the cold, improve the flow of Qi and Blood, tonify liver and kidney and alleviate pain.

The acupoints selected are listed below:
SP10 , GB34, ST36, SP9,ST34, LV8
KD10, Knee earpoint & ear prostaglandin

Initial herbal preparation:
Du Huo Ji Sheng Wan with 20 pills 3 times daily. In addition, glucosamine 50mg, twice daily. topical herbal prescribed was Zheng Gu Shui to be liberally applied three times a day.
Conclusion: Following an 8 week period, Jim had reduced his level of pain
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04/05/2020

Acupuncture Improves Neural Function in Middle Cerebral Artery Stroke Study
Chinese Medicine, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, and tuina is widely used as a complementary and even primary treatment for stroke. Particular attention has been paid to stroke recovery for which acupuncture shows particularly positive results.
Recently, researchers from the Acupuncture and Moxibustion and Tuina College at Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Tianjin China conducted a rat model study to explore the beneficial effects of acupuncture on stroke recovery. Middle cerebral artery occlusion in rat models is a widely used method to study stroke affects and recovery. In
OBJECTIVES:
To observe recovery in movement function in rats with middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) after acupuncture treatment.
METHODS:
According to the randomized and controlled principle 1384 rats were divided into the basic control group (including the normal, sham, model control, model without intervention, Nimodipine, and para-Renzhong groups) and the acupuncture group (including the Neiguan (PC 6), Weizhong (BL 40), Sanyinjiao (SP 6), Chize (LU 5), Renzhong (GV 6) and non-acupoint groups). MCAO was modeled by Zea-longa's thread ligation and rats with scores of 1-3, as assessed by Zausinger's six-point method, were used in this study. Moreover, in the acupuncture group each acupoint was set with 12 different parameters by the orthogonal intersection method, resulting in 78 groups with 18 rats per group. The rats were treated by acupuncture once every 12 h for a total of six sessions and neurobehavioral scores were measured after each session. The neurobehavioral scores were compared by one-way ANOVA using the statistical software SPSS 17.0.
RESULTS:
After acupuncture therapy the mean neurobehavioral scores in MCAO rats increased gradually at each time point with a significant difference among the six scores, but with no significant differences between the fourth (48 h) and the fifth score (60 h), and between the fifth (60 h) and the sixth (72 h) score (P > 0.05).
CONCLUSIONS:
MCAO rats gradually recovered movement function over multiple acupuncture sessions. After the forth acupuncture session (48 h), the neurobehavioral scores of rats with cerebral infarction remained stable. Acupuncture treatment had a reliable curative effect on movement function in cerebral infarction rats.
Researchers used 1384 rats divided into various sham, control, western medicine (nimotop, nimodipine) and acupuncture treatment groups.
Points used within the acupuncture treatment group were as follows:
PC6, UB40 , SP6 , LU5, GV6
The acupuncture group received treatment once every 12 hours for 3 days (6 sessions total) and neurobehavioral scores were measured after each session.
Researchers found significant improvements in neurobehavioral scores within the acupuncture group with a stabilization of effects at 48h (after the 4th session). Researchers concluded that acupuncture treatment "had a reliable curative effect on movement function in cerebral infarction rats."

03/29/2020

This is to inform us all that the pH for corona virus varies from 5.5 to 8.5.

*RESEARCH: JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, APRIL 1991, PAGE 1916*

All we need to do, to beat corona virus, we need to take more of an alkaline foods that are above the above pH level of the Virus.

Some of which are:
Lemon - 9.9pH
Lime - 8.2pH
Avocado - 15.6pH
Garlic - 13.2pH
Mango - 8.7pH
Tangerine - 8.5pH
Pineapple - 12.7pH
Dandelion - 22.7pH
Orange - 9.2pH

How do you know you have coronavirus?
1. Itching in the throat,
2. Dry throat,
3. Dry cough.
So where you notice these three things quickly take warm water and drink.
Your Good Health Is My Priority

Do not keep this information to yourself only. Pass it to all your family and friends. God bless you.

03/29/2020

03/26/2020

2 Acupuncture Sessions Acute Back Pain Resolved

A gentleman (53y) came in to my office a few weeks ago complaining of acute lower back (lumbar) pain which radiated down the lateral side left leg. He described stabbing pain, level 9 (1-10 scale).
This had happened more than a year ago. After an Acupuncture treatment from a colleague the pain resolved until this recent episode.

Discussion for Back Pain Acupuncture Treatment:

Acupuncture Points used UB25, UB26, GB30, GB34, GB31, UB40, and UB60 in his left leg lumbar and hip.
The pain reduced immediately upon insertion of the needles. I add some Electropuncture stimulation with the needles.
While he rested with the needles in place,
I made up a custom formula to circulate blood. In Traditional Chinese Medicine theory, stabbing pain is due to blood stagnation, qi stagnation or poor blood circulation in the area.
In western medicine, the radiating pain indicates possible nerve impingement, likely caused by a disc protruding and pressing on the nerve root. He had not had any imaging of the area.

Acute Back Pain Acupuncture Treatment Results:
He returned 3 days later for follow up treatment.
The pain had much improved. It was no longer a stabbing nature.
Now he experienced mild stiffness in the morning with no radiating pain.
I repeated the acupuncture treatment in the area and changed the herbal formula. As the stabbing pain had resolved, i gave him a formula improve qi circulation in the area. The stiffness indicated the qi was not moving in the acupuncture channels of the lumbar region.

He presented the following week for acupuncture treatment with no pain.
I gave him one more Acupuncture treatment to consolidate the effects.
I advised him to call me if the pain returned. He left my office a happy camper.

03/25/2020

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