acupuncture and phytotherapy

We will continue to use examples. To make the article more interesting, let’s compare two acupuncture protocols and from them we will find the patient’s symptoms. The protocols to be analyzed are:
1 – GB26-ST28-LV5-BL30-BL32-CV3-SP9[i] made by ganglin Yin and Liu Zhenghua
2 – GB26-GB41-SJ5-CV3-CV6-SP6[ii] made by Jeremy Ross.
If you look at the second acupuncture protocol, made by Jeremy [...]

This loss of information is due to two fundamental aspects: first the protocol is defined by the therapeutic principles, not on the diagnosis and, secondly, because some acupuncture points can treat more than one symptom or one clinical pattern. The first we talked about extensively. The second can be understood by the following examples (we will use [...]

However in a general form that statement is correct. It is like the marquis of lapalisse, but actually all forms of medicine start their analysis by patients symptoms, defining a diagnosis and prescribe treatment. Something that is implied on the same phrase but that I will best explain here is that there are well define rules [...]

My articles on Efficacy and Beauty (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4) appear to have affected a reader from the portuguese acupuncture blog who comment it in MTCforum. Particularly the assertion that an acupuncture protocol with 24 points was an incompetent acupuncture protocol, as I think it is in most cases.
Although they have [...]

How many acupuncture points are needed to say that the protocol is no longer effective?
Among patients who do not respond to acupuncture to small differences between acupuncture protocols that have not yet been measured in studies and based solely on opinion, always conditioned, of the acupuncturists becomes virtually impossible to answer this question.
In a protocol [...]

How does these factors increase acupuncturists ignorance?
By this time I hope that the reader is convinced that the effectiveness of an acupuncture protocol has little to do with the beauty of it. In some cases the effectiveness of an acupuncture protocol does not tell us much about the knowledge of the acupuncturist. Anyone using local acupuncture points [...]

I’ll start to give acupuncture consultations in a massage school, 4NTEP, located in central Lisbon, more specifically on the Republic Avenue (Avenida da República).
The school 4NTEP is located at Avenida da República, n º 45 2 º floor.
Have easy access to get there by train (station Entrecampos) or metro (station Campo Pequeno and Saldanha).
You may [...]

When does the acupuncture protocol begins to become ineffective?
Something truly ironic is that a protocol of acupuncture done well is not necessarily effective. In patients unresponsive to acupuncture, well done acupuncture will not get any results but in other patients a protocol of acupuncture done badly can obtain beneficial clinical results.
What then can be determinant for [...]

Years ago I treated a patient with vertigo as the chief complaint. At the time, and despite being aware of other acupuncture points, I used, as basis protocol, for dealing with vertigo or dizziness three acupuncture points: GV20/baihui, GB20/fengchi and ST8/touwei.
The first 3 treatments went without effect. The patient’s symptoms remained exactly the same as they were. On [...]

How many points this meridian is made of?
This meridian is composed of 19 acupuncture points.
What is his external route?
This meridian begins on the little finger ulnar side on his nail angle.
The meridian runs along the entire inner edge of the hand between the palmar and dorsal skin, and the inner edge of the forearm.
In the [...]