acupuncture and phytotherapy

What is my practice on a daily basis?
After writing about the sale of herbal dietary supplements/Chinese herbal patent formulas/natural dietary supplements and corruption which can be generated around them, I think it would be intellectually dishonest, at least, not describe my clinical practice.
What I do, on this issue depends very much on where I make [...]

Who can guarantee that the acupuncture practitioner does not prescribe only those patent formulas that gives him a higher percentage of profit?
One way of acupuncture professionals eliminate this problem is to eliminate the profit from sale of patent formulas of Chinese materia medica (herbal remedies). If you do not make money by selling the patent formula [...]

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 [...]

Recently I received an email from an acupuncture patient who sought a second opinion for a treatment he was receiving.
“Good afternoon Dr. Nuno Lemos
Since November I’m a patient in acupuncture treatment, appeared to me some complications in my health related to compressed medula and lost of speech.
I’ve been everywhere and tried everything from the osteopath [...]

Recently in a discussion at an international forum I ended up with a mark of greater ethical content than scientific.
Scientific studies say that acupuncture does not have much use to quit smoking. Rather they say that acupuncture treatment as a principal treatment is a complete nullity. Other studies say that acupuncture as a secondary treatment – to [...]

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 [...]