acupuncture and phytotherapy

One of the lectures given at the Seventh National Congress of SPEM (Portuguese Society for Multiple Sclerosis) was about electro acupuncture, electro acupuncture’s effects in Multiple Sclerosis and physiological explanations for the effect of acupuncture.
As always worth it to hear a lecture by APAE (Portuguese Association of Electric Acupuncture). And the will after listening was I [...]

Two years ago I received a patient, 45-50 years age group, that reported insomnia as the chief complaint. During interrogation, I patient told me that insomnia originated as early as 30 years and had started with a strong emotional trauma.
The patient reported that the trauma was overcome. However referring insomnia since the incident and had never been [...]

Ending this cycle of articles (and I promise that this is indeed the last one!) On information and direction in a protocol of acupuncture would like to start over. To the first article. In it I stated that the need to write this new battery of articles was due to a statement made to the articles of [...]

Did you thought the article series was over? Not yet. There’s still a little step of magic to understand something for these acupuncture protocols. Let’s review them again.
1 – GB26-ST28-LV5-BL30-BL32-9SP-CV3 authored by Ganglin Yin and Liu Zhenghua
2 – GB26-GB41-SJ5-CV3-CV6-SP6 authored by Jeremy Ross
These acupuncture protocols have a different number of points and in their acupuncture points only two [...]

Knowing how to distinguish the main symptoms of the protocol we are in a position to study the clinical pattern and thus get to know more other symptoms or characteristics peculiar to certain symptoms.
For ease I’ll build another table where we could distinguish the acupuncture points that treat only symptoms, points to the clinical pattern/syndrome [...]

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 [...]