Acupuncture and Insufficient Lactation

If the diagnosis calls for acupuncture to help resolve this issue, you would be suprised how effective acupuncture can be. Sometimes herbs and acupuncture are needed, but often times I have just utilized acupuncture only.

Acupuncture and Frozen Shoulder

Currently treating a patient with frozen shoulder. I am using acupuncture points on his opposite leg and unaffected shoulder. This allows me to have him move his affected shoulder while I am treating him. The results are quite dramatic.
His previous acupuncturist treated his affected shoulder only. This provided temporary relief only.
As I saw in China, frozen shoulder is best treated by moving the affected joint during treatment.

Bi Yan Pian

Great herb for allergies.

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Healthy New Year

Resolutions, unfortunately, don't last. Healthy choices are simple and everyday decisions. Make them and keep them all year round.

Night Sweats

Chronic qi stagnation over time will produce counterflow of qi and depressive heat. This depressive heat may cause sweating. Don't confuse this with yin vacuity. Diagnosis! Diagnosis!

I just saw a patient who was incorrectly diagnosed as having yin vacuous heat when she had depressive heat. The patient was given the incorrect herbal formula Da Bu Yin Wan.

How Many Needles?

This may sound silly but...more needles are not more effective. I had a patient yesterday, who I was treating for shoulder pain, request more needles because her pain was severe. That is not how it works.

All points are selected based on your diagnosis.

Seized Up Back Muscles

I will have to disagree with RICE on this one.  (Rest, ice, compression, elevation)

I had several patients walking in my door crooked, in pain, desperate.  I used acupuncture and TDP Infared heat, instructed moist heat twice daily with gradual stretching of the IT band, piriformis muscle and others. (knee hugs, hip opening stretches, hamstring stretches)

Works like a champ.  Use ice minimally as the ice in chinese medicine causes more stasis in the tissues.