Archive for December, 2009

PLANT ACUPUNCTURE, ESOTERISM AND NONSENSE – part II

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 0:19 No Comments

The article continues with the presentation by the author of this method and the type of research he has done:
“The research of Dr. Evaldo in acupuncture is in relation to breeding, flowering, fruiting, seed production and plant growth. He is searching now, ways to increase the resistance of plants to pests and diseases.
According to Dr. [...]

This was posted under category: ESOTERISM, TCM BASIC THEORY

Find Acupuncture Schools in New York

Tuesday, December 29, 2009 13:45 No Comments

You can find 5 acupuncture schools in New York.
You have the Tri-State College of Acupuncture that is proud of being one of the oldest acupuncture schools in the USA and is celebrating their 30th year. According to their site, this acupuncture school “Located in New York City, … offer in-depth professional Master’s degree programs, featuring hands-on training [...]

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PLANT ACUPUNCTURE, ESOTERISM AND NONSENSE – part I

Monday, December 28, 2009 13:12 8 Comments

Thanks to the excellent work of the directors of fórumMTC, whom I congratulate, the community of Portuguese acupunctures not only won an extra space to communicate and still was rewarded with access to various scientific studies and a variety of world news on acupuncture.
This article is a criticism of one of these articles (and should [...]

This was posted under category: ESOTERISM, TCM BASIC THEORY

Asepsis and clinic in acupuncture – part II

Saturday, December 26, 2009 0:35 No Comments

The suction cups are the use of a glass or cristal cup which inside oxygen is removed by combustion and then placed on the body of the patient. The lack of oxygen creates a vacuum that spin the skin and stimulates local blood circulation. There are various practices associated with this therapy that I feel [...]

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Asepsis and clinic in acupuncture – part I

Thursday, December 24, 2009 15:32 No Comments

Makes a few months that I have a note on my computer to remind me to wright about asepsis in acupuncture clinical pratice. This idea came to me when, in a discussion, was discussed the problem of disinfected cupps in the cupping method. Basically the text describes the practices in which I drive my self [...]

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Impotence-erectil disfunction and acupuncture treatment

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:34 No Comments

Impotence is the inability of man in achieving an erection or achivieng an erection but that is insufficient for the success of sexual intercourse.
In Chinese Medicine there are 3 main patterns: (1) fullness pattern- damp-heat – (2) pattern of vacuity – Kidney yang deficiency – and (3) pattern from the desahrmony relationship between 2 zang [...]

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Temporalis Muscle Trigger Points

Sunday, December 20, 2009 14:42 No Comments

The trigger points of the temporalis muscle can trigger episodes of pain marked by geographical differences and episodes of pain in other regions less suspicious as the teeth.
They are a cause of frontal and temporal headache. In the frontal headache pain tends to be more pronounced in orbit above the eye, while in the temporal [...]

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“Energetic” Indignation, false prophets and inflationary bubbles

Thursday, December 17, 2009 14:51 No Comments

3 days ago a friend called me to see if I was giving apointments at home in Cascais. I had to say, with regret, that in time, due to excessive work, I could not provide home consultation and much less in Cascais which is quite far from my usual places of work or from my [...]

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Yin deficiency symptoms – chinese medicine diagnostic

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 0:49 10 Comments

Yin is, as understood in Chinese medicine, responsible for organic liquids and anchor the yang. If Yin becames weak then we assist to an increase of Yang in the way that a clinical pattern of yin deficiency will be characterized by the following symptoms:
1. Agitation: a person can not be quiet, feel more agitated than normal because [...]

This was posted under category: TCM DIAGNOSIS

Tinnitus and deafness and chinese acupuncture

Sunday, December 13, 2009 0:12 No Comments

Tinnitus is characterized by patients as a bell-like sound in the ears. Deafness is the loss of ability to hear.
DIAGNOSIS ACCORDING TO CHINESE MEDICINE
invasion of external wind
Sudden onset of tinnitus or deafness, tinnitus worsen with exposure to wind and cold, fever and chills, aversion to cold, aches, stiff neck, lack of sweating, headache, [...]

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