acupuncture and phytotherapy

Before you read this article you should be aware that the author opinion is formed on his experience in Portugal. The market practices might be slightly different were you live. If so I would appreciate some time of yours to explain the differences by placing comments to this article. As always I hope you can [...]

Like every smoker I love smoking. Otherwise I would not smoke. Like many smokers, but not all, I also have a visceral hatred for the tobacco that causes addiction and the damage it causes, or will cause to my health.
For several times I have quit smoking. In the past I got to be one year without smoking… and back [...]

Recently I had the privilege to hear comments about the “energy” of some people. Well, it was not quite a privilege. But it was something that really taught me a lot more about “energy“. And what I discovered was this: It´s not one “energy“…
You must be confused. I explain myself better. For some people the techniques of needle manipulation in [...]

It is common to observe patients with trigger points in various muscles. Very common in clinical practice is to observe a link between trigger points in upper trapezius and esternocleydomastoideu. These two muscles are important for the movement of the head and often subject to great stress. Indeed it is quite common, people accumulate tension on the [...]

There are four areas of trigger points in trapezius muscle. In its upper edge are the trigger points that normally triggered painful symptoms in the head and neck.
Neck pain usually manifests itself in its outer edge in the region traversed by the meridian of the gallbladder (GB). In addition to neck pain patients may also [...]

ABSTRACT
A female patient aged 39, turned to acupuncture consultations due to back pain crisis (herniated disc) that prevented her from working properly. In her profession was required to travel a lot and the seats of airplanes worsened the pain limiting her even further.
She had been diagnosed with a herniated disc, between 3 and 4 years in [...]

ABSTRACT
Female patient, 33 years old, had physician-diagnosed sinusitis (sinus infections, sinus infection) when resorted to acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine consultations.
The sinusitis (sinus infections, sinus infection) crisis started for 2 and a half weeks and the patient was followed from the start by Western medicine. Symptoms such as runny nose (nasal mucus) or phlegm (expectoration) disappeared with Western [...]

What is NADA?
NADA stands for National American Detoxification Association (NADA)[i] [ii].
What is the NADA acupuncture protocol?
The NADA acupuncture protocol is a protocol of auricular acupuncture to treat addiction. It is a fixed ear acupuncture protocol that does not involve diagnosis and usually are not changed.
Which are the points that constitute the NADA protocol?
This acupuncture protocol consists [...]

Smoking represents one of the greatest current risks to public health. Among the several therapies for quit smoking (addiction treatment programs) advertised is common to find acupuncture. In particular, auricular acupuncture.
The auricular acupuncture can be done with needles, electrical stimulation or by placing small bead – can be seeds – into specific acupuncture points located on the [...]

The symptoms we want to relieve can be treated in many ways. We can use only the symptomatic acupuncture points or we can try to adapt the entire acupuncture protocol to points dealing with the symptom when framed in a clinical pattern.
One of the symptoms referred was sweating. To treat sweating you can resort to acupuncture points [...]