acupuncture and phytotherapy

In this article I will give you some points you can use in cases of diarrhea. These points can also be used if the diarrhea is accompanied with abdominal pain or if there is only pain in the abdomen.
3 points are in the abdominal region (12RM, 8RM and 4RM) while the other 2 points (36ST [...]

Pain in hypochondrium is a common symptom in diseases of liver as acute or chronic cholecystitis, for example. I intend with this short article showing the location of some points useful in the treatment of this symptom.
We can select close to 10 points, regardless of clinical patterns, to relieve the symptoms. The first four points [...]

(The image from the right is wrong. Were you read point BL12 you should read LU7).
In this advice we dedicate ourselves to disclose some points that we can use when getting the flu.
The flu in Chinese medicine, is considered a clinical pattern of invasion of pathogenic wind and may consist of the following symptoms: fever [...]

Chinese Name
Mai Dong
Pharmaceutical Name
Radix Ophiopogonis
Botanical Name
Ophiopogon japonicas
Cultivation
It is mainly cultivated in the provinces of Zhejiang, Sichuan and Hubei.Bensky does not mention the province of Hubei and refer the Jiangsu province
Harvesting is done during the summer.

Chinese Name
Yín yáng huò
Pharmaceutical Name
Herba Epimedi
Botanical Name
Epimedium grandiflorum Morr.
Cultivation
Grown in the provinces of Shannxi, Liaoning, Hubei, Sichuan, and others.
The harvest is done in summer and autumn.

This chapter emphasizes the points of acupuncture most widely used and hence the classification of 4 general points. Its widespread use is due to the clinical effects that these points show. The table below indicates the main points and clinical applications:

Acupuncture Points
Clinical Indications

7L/lieque
disorders in the head and neck

4LI/hegu
disorders in the face [...]

Blood stasis is a clinical pattern that betrays a series of symptoms that are associated with the interruption of blood flow, as understood in the TCM.
There is always a correlation between the stagnation of qi and blood stasis because it is the free flow of qi that allows the mobility of blood. It is very [...]

You can find 3 acupuncture schools in Hawaii. Two of them are located in Honolulu and the other in Kamuela.
1 – The institute of Clinical Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine
2 – World Medicine Institute, College of Acupuncture and Herbal medicine
3 – Traditional Chinese Medical College of Hawaii
The institute of Clinical Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine
The institute of [...]

«After 3000 years of mystery, the secrets of acupuncture have been unlocked by Curtin University of Technology researchers.
Curtin Adjunct Professor, Dr Morry Silberstein, has developed a new theory that explains — for the first time — the scientific reasons why acupuncture works.
“We have never really had a scientific explanation for how acupuncture actually works,” he [...]

The following article talks about a problem I’ve discussed with some colleagues and that bothers me a bit but that seems to pass unnoticed by many of my colleagues in Chinese Medicine. As such, I decided to publish the article on the blog. The reader can find the original at this address: http://revistavivasaude.uol.com.br/saude-nutricao/73/artigo132437-2.asp.
The original article is in [...]