acupuncture and phytotherapy

Acupuncture point LI20 located in the nasolabial sulcus at the level of insertion of the wings of the nose is known as Yingxiang. Ying translates into good and xiang into smell. Other possible translations include welcomed fragrance or pleasant perfume. The name of this point is due both to its location as their clinical indications. Lying near the nose [...]

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 [...]

I’ve mentioned in another article several studies regarding the use of acupuncture in drug addiction treatment (drug addiction) and the dependence on cigarettes (drugs). My view is simple: there are no studies that show that acupuncture is really effective and the results of many clinics can only be due to false advertising and triage of patients [...]

In the first article I mentioned a therapeutic example where the placebo effect may have been raised to the level of valid clinical intervention throughout the history of Chinese medicine. Another historical example I want to talk about does not concern the subject of “Art for Health and Longevity” but refers to acupuncture, in particular [...]