tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72862114449878330052024-02-08T06:18:58.125-08:00Natural Medicine ForumThis blog is designed to be a place providing and exchanging information about prevention and treatment of illness using natural methods, such as acupuncture, herbs, diet, and others.Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-3304180542787315772016-08-07T15:31:00.001-07:002016-08-07T15:44:07.537-07:00Treatment of scleroderma with acupuncture and Chinese herbal formulaMs. Adam (31 y/o) lives in Michigan. She came to my clinic on July 27 for her scleroderma accompanying by her sister and her relatives here. Her sister found me by searching the internet. She saw the testimony of my patient Maria in Youtube (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJeu3rReN0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJeu3rReN0</a>), then called me and scheduled the appointment a month ago.<br />
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She said she was diagnosed scleroderma earlier this year. The joints of her fingers, feet, elbow and knees were all swelling, worse in the morning. And the fingers become into blue when it is cold. It takes a while for her to walk after sitting because of the stiffness of her knees. It is very difficult for her to swallow and she felt short of breath after eating. And she felt fullness in abdomen. The acid reflux became severe when she laying down, and it made her difficult to sleep during the night. Her doctor prescribe methotrexate for scleroderma, cilostazol to increase the blood flow, and pantoprazol for acid reflux. But they seem no help. The symptoms are very similar with these that Maria described in her testimony. The chest skin of the both patients were hard as a rubber.<br />
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I gave her acupuncture that day and also prescribed Chinese herbal medicine. The patient feel the difference right after the acupuncture treatment. She felt that the tightness of her chest became loose and her knees became less pain when she stood up to walk. I told her to take the herbs at least one hour separate the Western drugs.<br />
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It was Wednesday. Since she had to fly back to Michigan for her school on Sunday, I suggested her come back on Friday and Saturday. When she came on Friday, she told me that the acid reflux stopped bother her during the night and she felt much less pain of her joints. Her joints swollen disappeared after three acupuncture treatment. On August 3, she send me a text message and said "I am taking your medicine, it is working well".<br />
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I told her continue to take the herbal medicine. Best wishes to her.Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-80982450877377544452015-01-30T22:12:00.000-08:002015-01-31T00:51:44.154-08:00Is Traditional Chinese Medicine Scientific and Effective?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-25518476538296027092012-04-17T14:53:00.000-07:002012-04-17T14:53:48.199-07:00Infertility woman with lupus becomes pregnantMonday last week, Cynthia (female, age 42) called me excitedly for a good news: she became pregnant! <br />
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Cynthia has married with her husband for 7 years, but never got pregnant although they have been kept trying. In 2010, red spots appeared on her cheek and neck with rash and itchy. She was first diagnosed as allergy, but the treatment did not help and the red spots gradually spread to her chest late last year. She changed the doctor, and finally was diagnosed as lupus by the end of last year. The Rheumatologist prescribed her plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) and steroid. She did not want to take steroid because of its side effects. After she took plaquenil, the red spots spread more and she felt more itchy. Therefore, she started to look for alternative treatment, then found me through internet. When she came, she told me that her back head, neck and shoulders were very tight and pain, and the skin below her nailed were also affected. <br />
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Lupus is an immune disordered diseases. If it is not well controlled, it will not only gradually affect the vessels, muscles and joints but also impact the functions of nerve and hormone, then internal organs due to spread of inflammation. <br />
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In addition to the combined treatment with acupuncture and herbal formula, I also gave her pricking blood therapy when she came for acupuncture treatment twice per week. I told her that my treatment will improve the circulation of Qi and blood, which means to regulate the function of the neuro-endo-immune network. Only with one session of acupuncture, she felt the pain and tightness on head, neck and shoulders were significantly reduced. After few sessions of treatments, she said she felt no more itchy, and the redness was gradually reduced. However, the redness became once worse before her period came. I told her it has been found that levels of female hormones related to the symptom. The symptom became settles down after her period ended. At this time, I added two points to regulate her hormone. After about two months treatment, her skin redness become much less, looks almost normal when she got up in the morning. She told me that her relatives who saw her during Christmas were surprised at her skin improvement when saw her in March. <br />
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On April 2, she called me about her pregnancy. She said her husband was tearing after she told him the excited news. She asked me whether need to continue the herbal formula. I told her when become pregnancy, the progesterone becomes higher, thus most pregnant women have much less or no symptoms during their pregnancy, therefore, no need for herbal medicine now. She told me that she did feel very well, almost normal now. But I reminded her to be careful especially during the first trimester of her pregnancy because of her age.Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-8862976094787188152011-11-22T12:16:00.001-08:002011-11-22T13:05:37.408-08:00Acupuncture & Herbs for Stage IV Stomach Cancer (2)This is a continued story about Acupuncture and Herbs for Stage IV Caner written on Nov. 8.<br />
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About two weeks ago, the cancer patient's wife, Maria told me that the Allen's new blood test showed that his carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), a tumer marker raised to 30, higher above the normal range (<2.5 ng/ml) , and it was within the normal range before. The patient felt severe pain on his left low back at that time (he did not tell me about the pain before then). The oncologist worried about the further spread of the cancer cells, therefore, ordered the the CT scan for his bone. The exam was scheduled on Nov. 17. I could tell that both the patient and his wife were nervous about this. But the patient told me that the low back pain has been for serval years, started before the cancer been foundt out, but now getting worse because he had been laying on the bed for couple of months due to the chemotherapy. <br />
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Based on the significant improved condition of the patient I saw (please read the story on <a href="http://willow4health.blogspot.com/2011/11/acupuncture-and-herbs-work.html">http://willow4health.blogspot.com/2011/11/acupuncture-and-herbs-work.html</a>), I didn't believe the combined treatment of chemotherapy with acupuncture and herbs would make his situation worse. Therefore, I searched the internet for the information of CEA test. <br />
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<span style="background-color: none; color: white;">The CEA test measures the amount of the protein of carcinoembryonic antigen that may appear in the blood of some people who have certain kinds of cancers. Patients with more advanced tumors or tumors that have spread throughout the body are more likely to have high CEA values. Therefore, the Oncologist was worried about the further sperad. But when I did more search about the CEA, I found out that on one page of the MedicneNet.com, it says: "Chemotherapy and radiation therapy can cause a temporary rise in CEA due to the death of tumor cells and release of CEA into the blood stream". </span><br />
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After seeing the last sentence, I told the patient's wife:" The lift of the CEA marker might be because of the death of cancer cells. The reason I said so is because his back pain is below, rather than right behind the stomach. It might be due to his long time laying on the bed. Let me see whether I can fix his back pain. If the pain is fixed, then it is not caused by the cancer spread for sure". She replied:" I will pray for that." <br />
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In the following acupuncture treatmments, I added treatment on the patient's back. When he came on Nov. 19, after 4 times treatment, the patient told me that his pain on the back had been completely gone. He said he had took the CT scan on Nov. 17, but the result has not come out yet. When his wife came back today (Nov. 21) for her scleroderma (I will tell the story about the treatment on her later), she told me that the Oncologist just called her before she left her office and told her that the CT scan showed that the cancer cells in the lymph nodes on the back of Allen's stomach has disseapperd. The oncologist said this is the best gift for Thanksgiving to them. <br />
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Praise the lord. I pray the lord to give me and the oncologist wisdom and give the couple confidence to let let us fight the cancers together.Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-77887681327419817342011-11-18T21:24:00.000-08:002011-11-18T21:34:38.079-08:00Treatmenf of Tinnitus with AcupunctureTinnitus is a ringing, swishing, or other type of noise that seems to originate in the ear or head. It was reported that nearly 36 million Americans suffer from this disorder. More information about this diseases such as causes and treatment is available from many website. One of them is <a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/tinnitus/article.htm">http://www.medicinenet.com/tinnitus/article.htm</a>. <br />
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The noise that patients complained most in my clinic sounds like <span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_yo3grx="115" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps" closure_uid_yo3grx="133">Cicada singing. </span></span>To patient with severe and contineous ringing in the ear, it is not simple nuisance anymore. It may bother his/her sleep and gradually made her under depress. Most of my patients said their ENT specialists could not find out the cause and had no method to treat. Diseases or symptoms of that no structural change of organs and tissues is found by examination are called dysfunctional diseases. I believe that the cause of such diseases or symptoms relates to the poor circulation of capilaries, which supply nutrients and hormones through blood to the nerves that control the function of the impacted organs or tissues. The poor circulation of blood might be due to infectious or non-infectious inflammation depending on individuals. <br />
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My personal practice showed that the sooner the treatment begins after the ring onset, the shorter of the treatment needs. Sometime, herbal formula may be needed if the acupuncture treatment result is not significant.<br />
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Acupuncture and Chinese herbal formula are effective to many diseases that medical doctors fail to treat. This is only one example.Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-24953411810095980002011-11-08T18:17:00.000-08:002011-11-22T14:55:47.374-08:00Acupuncture and Herbs for Stage IV Stomach CancerOn Oct. 17, Allen (age 50) came to my clinic accompanied by his wife. He was dignosed as Linitis plastica, a rare stomach cancer at stage IV in late May this year. Because cancer had spread to the lymph node outside of the stomach, the oncologist decided to give him chemotherapy to let the lymph node shrink first before the surgery for stomach. Therefore, he started to having chemotherapy in middle of June. However because the number of his leucocyte (white blood cells) dropped to 1.2 (normal range is 4.0-10.0 THOU/CUMM) due to the side effect of the medicine, the doctor had to stop his chemothrapy after the blood test result came out on Oct. 13. There is no medicine to increase his leucocyte. He said he had been very weak, dizzy, nausea and vomitting, no appetite and energy at all since the chemotherapy began. Therefore, the doctor had to punch a hole through the skin at the left side of his navel for a feeding tube while receving the chemotherapy. <br />
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Time is life. The cancer cells might have grown again if the chemotherapy being stopped long due to the too low leucocyte. In this case, his wife, Maria, a nurse working in Kaiser hospital, searched the internet and found me.<br />
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I gave him acupucnture and formulated scientific herbal extract, then told him come twice per week. That was on Monday. <br />
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When he came back on Oct. 22 (Saturday, 2nd time), he told me that he felt significant difference after the first treatment, and when he went to see the oncologist on Friday (Oct. 21), his doctor checked the blood and the test result showed the leucocyte rasied to 5.0, high enough for chemotherapy, so the treatment started again. And this time, he was able to eat, no nausea and vomiting, therefore, no tube needed anymore. <br />
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When he came on Oct. 25 (3rd time), he told me that he ate like a horse now, felt more energetic. <br />
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When he came on Oct. 29 (4th time), he brought his blood test taken on Oct. 27, ten days after the acupuncture and herbal treatment. His leucocyte raised to 6.9. He also showed me the data taken from middle August to middle September. The highest of his previous leucocyte nuber was 5.8. <br />
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The patient said that the doctor gave him another stronger but more toxic medicne with i.v. every 3rd week. Before the treatment in my clinic, every time after he received the 2nd more toxic medicine, he was always completely knocked down for the following whole week. But while having acupuncture and herbal treatment, he was fine with it now. When his son sent him here with his girl friend, the girl told me that she rarely saw the patient before because he always lain in his room, but now she saw him walked around every time when she visited them.<br />
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When the patient came again today, in 22 days after acupuncture and herbal treatment started, his face looks rose pink, much more healthy (it was pale just like a white page). He said to me "I have not felt such good for a long time already, and I wants to do exercise now". I suggested him start doing strech with deep breath at home. He also brought the blood tests taken every week during the past month. In addition to leucocytes, his low red cells are also slowly raising.<br />
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The couples are christians. Every time when they came, they thanked the lord for having received treatment in my clinic. Joseph said that he is very confident to fight aginst the cancer now.Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-29396377492401043152011-08-09T09:21:00.000-07:002011-08-09T09:21:03.652-07:00A story about treatment for a manager of two medical centers<div style="text-indent: 0.25in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Carmen R. is a manager of two medical centers in LA area. She came to my clinic for stomach problem on May 2. She told me that started from October last year, she felt spasm and burning on her middle chest. Her doctor diagnosed the problem as </span>gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and gastritis and prescribed protonix for her. She felt little better by taking this drug at the beginning, but the symptom gradually getting worse. She felt pain below the ribs and severe burning when hungry and after eating. She could only eat little each time, otherwise the burning became very severe. She had to eat more times for this reason. Her doctor told her that she should not drink milk and eat apple and many other staffs. The only meat the doctor suggested her was chicken. She had been sick of the only few kinds of foods she could eat every day. </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;">Because of the insufficient nutrient and poor absorption in addition to the suffering, she felt very tired and desperate. She was under depression. She was not sure whether the severe symptoms were caused by the medicine she was taking. She kept asking me with worry: “Can you help me, doctor?” </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;">I suggested her get both acupuncture and herbal formula for the best result. But she wanted to try herbs first. I prescribed scientific herbal extract for her. After taking about ten days, she felt better and had more energy. I prescribed her more herbs for another 15 days. I showed her the list of the possible protonix side effects from the website and suggested her try to gradually drop down protonix because it failed to help her anyway. </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;">When she came back on June 15, she told me that she had stopped taking protonix for 9 days and the symptoms had been improved about 50%, but still felt burning especially when the stomach was empty. I modified the formula and let her take for another 15 days. </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;">She came back on July 18 and told me that she felt much better. I could tell that she was so happy and no more depression. When I asked her to give me a number from 0 to 10 to let me know the percentage of the symptoms improvement. She told me if the severity was 10 before the treatment, it became to 3 now. </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;">She told me that she had suspected that the medicine (protonix) made the symptoms became worse. She said that when she saw patients in the clinics she worked for, she just wanted to tell them don't take these drugs, but she could not do that because of her work. </span></div><br />
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</div><span style="color: white;"></span>Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-79037887300845802652011-08-06T21:05:00.000-07:002011-08-06T21:05:52.170-07:00Treating stomach flu with acupuncture and Chinese herbs<div style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.25in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;">Betty came to my clinic accompanies by her husband this week. She told me that she got food poisoning with severe vomiting, diarrhea and high fever after ate in a restaurant last week. She was sent to emergency and treated with antibiotic. Now, although no more fever and vomiting, she had no appetite and energy at all, even could not sit up and drive by herself. I treated her with acupuncture and Chinese herbal formula. She came for the 2nd acupuncture treatent yesterday and told me that she felt the improvment. Her visit reminded me the treatment of the same problem for my daughter Emily two years ago. Here I want to share the story to show you the different result of treatment between Chinese medicine and modern drug.</span></div><div style="line-height: 115%; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;"> Emily got stomach flu after she ate in a restaurant too. She felt nausea and kept vomit, threw up everything she ate after then, even one drink of water. But she just felt that the toxic material was still in her stomach, which hindered everything she drank and ate down through. She had no appetite at all. She went to the doctor and was given <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">antiemetic medicine. </span>But it did not help. Finally, she had to call her dad to take her home from the college (she lived there). She was too weak to sit up in the car while her dad drove. Thus, the dad decided to send her to the emergency room in Kaiser directly. </span></div><div style="line-height: 115%; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;"> After I knew this, I went there from home. I did not trust the doctors in the emergency room because not long before then, two men I knew died without clear reason in a hospital when they were sent there because of high fever. </span></div><div style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.25in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;">When I just arrived there, an assistant (I guessed so) came to the room to give her tylenol. I asked why, the guy said the doctor prescibed. And I asked "For what? She has no pain, nor fever." The guy then turned to Emily whether she wanted to take it. She shaked her head. I was wondering what was the doctor doing there?</span></div><div style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.25in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;">The vomit was only stopped while she was given <i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">i.v </span></i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">. in the hospital. The doctor prescribed another antiemetic medicine after then. I went to the Pharmacy to pick up. The pharmacist told me that the medicine needs to be taken after eating. I asked the pharmacist: “How can she take the medicine while she is threwing everything up?” The pharmacist shrugged without giving any suggestion. As I expected, only in few minutes after Emily took the antiemetic medicine in the emergency waiting room<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">,</span> she throw up again with the medicine. I said to my daughter: “Let us go home and mom will fix your problem”. It was 1 AM in the morning already.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.25in; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN" style="color: white; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Although Emily was scared of the acupuncture needles, she accepted to take it this time because she was so miserable – she knew that the toxic substances was still staying in her stomach and that made her threw up anything she ate and drank.</span></div><div style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.25in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;">Right after I inserted the acupuncture needles on her wrists after got home, she threw up again. But different from the previous vomits with only little she just drank or ate, she threw up all of the staffs with rancid and sour smell this time. She felt her stomach was finally emptied. She then felt hungrey and was able to eat. No more vomiting after she ate that night. I gave her some herbal tea to let her drink before slept.</span></div><div style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.25in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: white;">On the next day, she felt much better with more energy. She asked me how the acupuncture needles worked? I explained to her: the toxic substances she ate impacted the function of the nerves that regulate the contraction and movement of the stomach, made them failed to do their work. Thus, these toxins stayed within the stomach and blocked what she ate and drunk, and made them been throw up. The acupuncture needles miraclely stimulated the nerves and waked them up to perform their work. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
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Severe patients may die of heart failure.</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">On December 17, 2010, Mrs. Huang (age 68) came to my clinic with her husband because of her severe dizziness . She went to see a cardiologist two weeks ago due to the chest tightness, difficult breath and slight dizziness. According to the report fro the specialist, the exercise stress echocardiogram (ECG) showed “strongly positive for ischemia”, and the rest ECG i</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: SimSun;">ndicated mild concentric left ventricular hypertrophy. The doctor recommended an invasive cardiac catheterization and prescribed –statin and asprin although her lipid panel blood test showed normal. She was unwilling to have the catheterization treatment. Thus, her family doctor referred her to another cardiologist for the second opinion. The appointment of the second examination was scheduled on Dec. 23, and the result will be given on Dec. 28<sup>th</sup>. </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: SimSun;">She took the medicines as the doctor prescribed. Although the chest tight was became less, the patient still felt short of breath when gent upstairs and the dizziness became more worse in the last two day. Her head was pain and heavy. She could not wait till see the second doctor, therefore, her husband searched for the Chinese doctors from the yellow book and found me. I gave her pulse diagnosis and measured her blood pressure. It was 180/90.</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: SimSun;">I told the patient that her currently dizziness is mainly due to the high blood pressure and heart dysfunction caused by the blocked coronary artery, both acupuncture and herbal formula could effectively lower her blood pressure, and improve blood circulation of her coronary artery as well as blood supply to her brain. Therefore, I suggested her have acupuncture and herbal formula simultaneously. She accepted. I gave her acupuncture treatment and measured her blood pressure after then. The pressure dropped to 130/80. She told me that she felt her heavy head became much lighter, the dizziness was also diminished. I told her taking herbs I prepared and come back in three days.</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: SimSun;">She came back on Dec. 20, told me that the dizziness has dropped from 5 to 1. The short of breath when she climbed upstairs was also disappeared. She asked me to treat her shoulder pain with acupuncture. After the treatment, I told her continue the herbs I gave her last time and let me know the exam result from the second cardiologist after Dec. 28. The patient did not come back. I called her after New Year asking for the result. The lady told me that she was fine now and the second doctor told her the exam showed normal. Because she was taking care of her grand children, she could not come to show me the result.</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">CAD and stroke occur with higher ratio among people with higher blood pressure, higher blood lipid, and higher blood sugar (three high), hormone disorders, over body weight, smoking, and older age. Therefore, these people should actively prevent CAD. Drugs can control the blood pressure, sugar, and lipids, but the patients who are taking them are still in higher risk getting CAD and stroke than others. Thus, I suggest these people take herbal products periodically for prevention. Of course, you need to carefully select the safe products. Even to people with no <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">three high</i>, with the age growing, I recommend people over age 40 do periodic body maintenance with herbal products like maintening your car, especially to your circulation system. This is when getting older, blood vessels, which include arteries, arteriole, veins, venules and capillary, wil become more or less narrowed, blocked, or fragile without our knowing, particularly the capillaries. My college daughter said using a car as an instance sounds unscientific, and should not come from her mom, a scientist with a Ph.D. I told her that human body is indeed an alive, more complex machine. </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: SimSun;">Most of patients came to my clinic for CAD or stroke have either hypertension or diabetes. I treated them with acupuncture and herbal formula first to relieve their symptoms, and asked them taking capsues of Tri-rejuvenator and Tri-circulator I made alternatively after then. Their feedbacks are very good. Few of these who have CAD and went to ER frequently before the treatment no longer need to go to ER. </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: SimSun;">Many of my patients went to see other acupuncturist before came to me, then turned to me because they were not satisfied with the treatment result by the previous doctors. Most of them were satisfied with my treatment. Some people tried one or two times from an acupuncturist, then concluded that acupuncture or herbal formula had no effective; some others went to see only one medical doctor with no good result, then no longer believed medical doctors. In fact, neither attitude is correct. </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">By the way, I am telling you that press “Nei Guan” point could effective reduce the symptom of acute onset of heart failure, and may even rescue one’s life. </span></div>Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-54733522964926100992010-12-22T15:43:00.000-08:002011-08-06T21:10:10.247-07:00Improvment of kidney function with acupuncture and herbal formula<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On 12/15, I wrote about treatment for Paul's dizziness and hand numbness, and mentioned at the end that the treatment was continued for his kidney problem. This morning, he came to my clinic with the blood test result tested on 12/20/2010. The result showed that his kidney function has been significantly imporved. 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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">01/27/2010 1.3 57</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">09/25/2010 1.5 48</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12/20/2010 1.1 69</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creatinine is a breakdown product of creatine, which is an important part of muscle. It is removed from the body by the kidneys. Creatinine test is used to evaluate kidney function. If kidney function is abnormal, creatinine levels will increase in the blood because less creatinine is released through your urine. Females usually have a lower creatinine than males, because they usually have less muscle mass. Creatinine levels also vary according to a person's size and muscle mass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GFR is the abbreviation of glomerular filtration rate. GFR test is used to check how well the kidneys are working. Specifically, it estimates how much blood passes through the tiny filters in the kidneys, called glomeruli, each minute.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the National Kidney Foundation, normal results range from 90 - 120 mL/min. Older people will have lower normal GFR levels, because GFR decreases with age. Levels below 60 mL/min for 3 or more months are a sign of chronic kidney disease. Those with GFR results below 15 mL/min are a sign of kidney failure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Paul's last blood test (12/20/2010) showed that his creatinine is within normal range now and his GFR is increased, close to the normal range. This two data indicated that his kidney function has been significant improved. Paul and his wife are very happy. He brought a pot of poinsettia flower to me when he came today. I told him that the treatment is better to continue further for better result.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Treatment reslut from Paul has significant demonstared the advantage of traditional Chinese medicine for health problems that modern medicine unable to treat. </span><br />
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</span>Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-49059634892042863102010-12-22T00:33:00.000-08:002011-08-31T23:52:55.025-07:00Treatment of stroke with acupuncture and herbal formula<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">On Dec.1, Mrs. Hu (female, age 65) came to my clinic accompanied by her husband. She stated that on Nov.23 last month, to welcome her daughter’s family come for Thanksgiving, she made house cleaning including painting by herself, but one hour after she finished the work, she fallen down from the chair and was sent to the ER. She was diagnosed stroke. The MRI indicated that there was a small block in vessel of her right side of the brain. She was treated and sent back to home the next day. Although she was able to walk, her left hand was weak and the fingers were unable to close together and hold anything, not to mention cooking and wearing cloth. The doctor let her eat asprin. But she did not see any improvement after taking it for one week. She often read my articles in the news papers, thus decided to come here. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">After diagnosis, I suggested her have acupuncture and herbal treatment simultaneously. I explained to her that acupuncture is very effective for stroke sepuela, such as paralysis, weakness, or numbness because it could directly stimulate the nerve function, while the herbal formula was for improvement of the blood circulation. She agreed. Right after the electrical acupuncture treatment, the patient felt improvement of the finger movement. Although it was difficult, the thumb, index and middle finger tips of her left hand were able to touch each other. I prescribed herbal formula and asked her to come back in three days for the second acupuncture treatment. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">She came back three days later. She told me that the fingers of the left hands were able to control and move with strength, but still not completely recovered yet. With total three acupuncture treatments, her fingers were completely recovered. Her husband was very happy because she could cook for him again. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I told the patient that after the ten days administration of herbal formula, she can change to take the capsule of Tri-Circulator I developed. I suggested her better to take it regularly to maintain the blood circulation and elasticity of her blood vessel. The reason was that even though she was recovered this time, there must be more or less embolus moving in her blood which might adhere to any parts of her vessels any time. This is why many patients with stroke or coronary artery disease (<span style="letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">CAD) have the second or even third time onset later. One example is the previous president, Bill Clinton who got two heart surgeries. Researchers have scientifically confirmed that Chinese herbal formulas could effectively eliminate the thrombus and embolus. Tri-Circulator capsule can effectively improve the blood circulation. Many of my patients with stroke, CAD, or symptoms caused by poor circulation such as difficult breath, palpitation, finger numbness, have taken it with satisfied results.</span></span></span></div><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">The surgery for stroke or CAD could remove the thrombus, but is unable to prevent its recurrence. The blood thinners can prevent the formation of thrombus, but they have high risk of blood bleeding. In comparison with the surgery and blood thinners, a good Chinese herbal formula can not only improve blood circulation by eliminating the thrombus and embolus, but also improve vessel elasticity, thus, very effective in preventing the onset of stroke or CAD. And it has no bleeding side effect. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">Patients with stroke became disabled because the nerves that control the body function were impacted due to the poor circulation around it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the affiliated hospital of Liaoning College of Traditional Chinese medicine where I worked in China, more than half of the in-patient were disabled stroke patients who were directly transferred from medical hospital after ER treatment. With the combined treatment of acupuncture and herbal formulas, most people recovered by these treatments with the explanation in the 2nd paragraph. </span></div><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span class="short_text" lang="en"><span closure_uid_ytoqkd="507" style="color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;" title="" xc="冠心病" yc="Coronary heart disease">It is necessary to remind readers that people with hypertension and diabetes have higher chance of vessel blockage, particularly in heart or brain. In addition, diabetes patients also easily have circulation problems at foot, eyes and kidneys. Most of my patient with stroke or CAD have either hypertension or diabetes, or both. Therefore, I strongly recommend hypertension and diabetes patients take some herbal products regularly to prevent the stroke and CAD.</span></span></div><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Last Thursday, a male patient (Chen, age 48) came to my clinic with such a problem. He said that in the past half year, several carbuncles developed one another on his bottom. His family doctor gave him antibiotics, but the medicine could inhibit the carbuncle at the beginning, however, new carbuncles always grew again within a month after stop taking the antibiotics. And the antibiotics failed to take effect later because the bacteria gradually produced resistance to the medicine by gene mutantation. The doctor then had to cut the last two with surgery a week ago. But soon in one week, another new one came out again. He knew that it would become bigger within one or two days. He did not want to have surgery any more, thus decided to try Chinese medicine. He found me after he prayed. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I gave an examination first. The carbuncle was just came out, so was still small, hard and red, the size was about a nickel. I told the patient that I would give him acupuncture and maxibustion treatment, meanwhile prepare herbal formula for five days to let him take daily. I also suggest him to take some herbal medicine to enhance his immune function after the carbuncle being treated. He accepted my plan. After the treatment, I told him to come the next day. He came back last Friday. The carbuncle did not grow, and the area with hardness reduced to a size of azuki bean. I gave him another treatment of acupuncture and maxibustion, then told him come back when he finished the herbal medicine. He did not show up this week. When I called him yesterday, he told me the carbuncle has disappeared. He will come back soon when he has time for herbs enhancing his immune function. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-47044174549778050792010-12-15T11:09:00.000-08:002011-08-31T23:55:05.785-07:00Dizziness and numbness caused by poor blood circulation<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Based on the above statement and pulse and tongue diagnosis, I told the patient that his problems were caused by the poor Qi and blood circulation. I treated him with acupuncture and Chinese herbal formula. The treatment was focusing on the dizziness and fatigue first, then the numbness and kidney problem. When he came back for the 2nd acupuncture treatment, he told me that the dizziness has been reduced. But after the 2nd treatment, he stopped coming for acupuncture treatment and taking herbal medicine because his dentist asked him taking antibiotics for his tooth problem. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">About half month later, his wife called me to explain the reason and said the dizziness became worse again, so wanted to come for further treatment. This time, I told him that the treatment needs to be continued for best result. The patient promised to come twice per week. He also mentioned that his neck could not move around freely and his neck felt very tight. Therefore, the acupuncture points were modified. With four continuously acupuncture treatment while taking herbal formulas, the patient’s dizziness was completely gone in two weeks. The treatment was switched to the numbness. When he came last Tuesday after another four times acupuncture and modified herbal medicine treatments after the second two weeks, his numbness of fingers completely disappeared. He told me that his hands had not been feel numbness without taking the braces for three days and his feet felt warmer during the sleep, thus no extra blanket was needed for them. I told him that we could then focus on the functional regulation of the kidneys. Because he has no symptoms with the kidneys, the result has to be known when he gets the blood test next month. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Although the patient had severe problems, the medicine doctor could not tell him the exact reason. This is because his symptoms were caused by functional disorders rather than damage in his organs or tissues. The tightness of his muscle on the neck impacted his blood supply to his brain, consequently affected the nerves, thus causing dizziness, depression and fatigue. With the same reason, the poor peripheral circulation of blood in his four limbs caused his hands numbness and feet coldness</span>.</span></div></div></div></div>Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-70267247172478487552010-12-12T01:05:00.000-08:002011-08-31T23:58:26.813-07:00What is the biggest difference between modern medicine and traditional Chinese medicine?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">The human body is very complex and has a complicated self-adjusting system, whose functional substances have been recently known as the neuroendocrine immune network. The biggest difference between modern medicine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is that the former is an allopathic system, in which the self-adjusting function of the human body has been overlooked, while the TCM particularly emphasizes on the regulation of the self adjusting function, which mainly covered by the functions of Qi and blood that circulating in the meridians and collaterals in TCM. Although the new Neuroendocrine Immunology found the interaction between the nervous, endocrine and immune systems, it has neglected the important role of the circulation to these three systems. Specifically, the nerve cells and cells in the endocrine glands as well as immune organs all need blood supply for nourishment with nutrients and excretion of metabolites. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both acupuncture and Chinese herbal formula are able to regulate the self adjusting function through improving the circulation of Qi and blood. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-48990716186561986962010-12-03T16:00:00.000-08:002011-08-31T23:59:03.797-07:00Importance of blood circulation for health<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">TCM emphasizes maintaining an unobstructed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>circulation of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Qi</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> and blood, as obstructed </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Qi</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> and blood are considered the cause of many diseases. As far as we know, thrombosis not only effects coronary and cerebral arteries, causing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>heart attack and stroke,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but also effects pulmonary, portal, renal, hepatic, cerebral, and extremity veins – causing all kinds of symptoms or diseases. </span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Circulatory (blood + lymphatic) systems delivers nutrients to cells throughout the body, and also carries metabolized wastes out from tissues and organs. Only unobstructed blood flow can keep cells alive, thus health and quality of life. Cells, including neurons that regulating functions of organs and tissues will die if accumulating the wastes inside or not receiving enough nutrients.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: left 168.0pt left 186.0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: left 168.0pt left 186.0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Take the brain as an example. There are more than 100 billion neurons (nerve cells) in the human brain, composed of the central and peripheral nerve systems. The nerve systems regulate the cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive and eliminative functions, maintain hormone secretion, as well as control the movement of limbs, language, memory, recognition, thinking, etc. The brain weight is only 2% of the body weight, but it needs 20% of the total blood supply. </span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: left 168.0pt left 186.0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: left 168.0pt left 186.0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">The nerve cells use the nutrients provided from blood to synthesize neurotransmitters which control the regulations mentioned above. The brain cells can only function well when they receive enough nutrients from the blood, otherwise will die. Chronic insomnia, anxiety, poor memory, tinnitus, depressant, some types of headache, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are all related to blood deficiency in brain. </span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: left 168.0pt left 186.0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: left 168.0pt left 186.0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Keeping circulatory system function well is crucial for preventing diseases and aging!!! </span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; tab-stops: left 168.0pt left 186.0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: white;">Maintain your body is more important than maintain your cars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286211444987833005.post-46906345080925886622010-12-02T23:21:00.000-08:002011-08-31T23:59:57.915-07:00Holism is the most important characteristic of Chinese medicine<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The concept of holism in Traditioanl Chinese Medicine (TCM) considers the various parts of the human body as an organic whole, emphasizing the coordination of the internal organs among each other and the harmony of the human body with the external environment. </span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">TCM believes the human body is a complex network of connections, made up of channels and collaterals, which cover the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">neuroendocrine</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">-immune<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>network and circulatory (blood and lymphatic) systems in modern science. These networks not only connect the internal organs, but also control their functions through </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Qi</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>blood. Through these connection, the dysfunction of an organ may impact the functions of other organs. Therefore, treatments with Chinese medicine and acupuncture are based on this concept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>Willow Liuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14936153997434353441noreply@blogger.com0