acupuncture and phytotherapy

ABSTRACT

Female patient, between 60-65 years, turned to acupuncture treatments due to the presence of back pain that had existed since the age of 20. Massage relieved the pain temporarily. Before had Japanese acupuncture which relieved the pain enough, allowing three months without pain.

The pain was due to bad posture due to prolonged work. A semiotic analysis did not allow to conclude the existence of a clinical pattern associated with pain. Acupuncture treatment was selected with attention to local points of pain (ashi), selection of points according to the nervous system and in accordance with the theory of meridians.

The patient responded very well to treatment and required a total of 5 sessions of acupuncture to be without pain. Patient was advised to do some maintenance or return to acupuncture treatments if the pain returned to emerge.

CASE REPORT

1 ª ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT

MAIN COMPLAINT

Pain since age 20.
Was a seamstress.
Have made lots of treatments. Japanese acupuncture done (in May this year) and was three months without pain.
Did massage: it improves the day and then back to normal.
type pain drawing. This latest crisis began about 1 or 2 months.
The pain is located in the back.
pain improves when pacient is sitting.
pain improves with heat if patient is sitting. Hot water feels good and relieves pain momentarily.
the pain worsens during the day.
Without knowing if pain worsens with movement.
Without feeling heaviness sensation.
radiating pain in the back.
pain described as being level 10.
area of ??origin of pain (by the 10th dorsal) appears more red.

OTHER SYMPTOMS

has a lot of heartburn.
without relevant symptoms.
has prostheses in both hips.

MEDICINES

ratinine – medicine for the stomach.

TONGUE

slightly purplish-red tongue
central fissures.
white cape.

DIAGNOSIS

Back pain diagnosis was inconclusive

EXPLANATION

In terms of basic theory of pain is a stagnation of qi. Ie in the absence of other symptoms who report medical standards it is considered that there is stagnation of qi.Personally I prefer to present the case as the diagnosis was inconclusive, since the semiotic analysis failed to even recognize the characteristics of the pain by stagnation of qi.

The few symptoms seemed to indicate the existence of a pattern associated with cold.

ACUPUNCTURE

ASHI POINTS ALONG THE BRANCH OF THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL BLADDER MERIDIAN
JIAJIA MOST AFFECTED ZONE
BL40, BL60