Fibromyalgia Treatments Through the Chinese System of Medicine
Treating fibromyalgia in Chinese medicine focuses on ridding the body of the invading pathogens, restoring normal circulation and flow of blood and Qi, promoting emotional harmony and fortifying the Kidney/Vitality system. Effective treatments include acupuncture, warming needle therapy, point injection therapy, Qigong, moxibustion, herbal and dietary therapies, cupping, massage and therapeutic exercise. A. Methods of […] |
Introduction to Chinese Medicine Analgesia
The term “Traditional Chinese medicine” T.C.M., makes reference to a number of practices, especially acupuncture, moxibustion and herbal formulas and their theoretical basis that has developed in China during a period of about 2,500 years. A theory of nature –and of health and disease– was set forth in the concepts of two essential forces yin […] |
Acupuncture and Drug Addiction
Acupuncture has been used in China for at least 2,000 years to treat a variety of disorders. The use of acupuncture for the treatment of drug addiction was discovered serendipitously in 1972 by Wen, a Hong Kong neurosurgeon conducting a series of studies on the analgesic properties of acupuncture. Heroin addicts who volunteered to be […] |
Tongue Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine
Tongue Diagnosis The diagnostic value of observation of tongue can be fully manifested only in clinical treatments in T.C.M. by using differentiation of syndromes. The facts verify that excess or deficiency of Qi and blood in viscera organs, depth of invasion of pathogenic factor, tendency of transmission and change in a disease can be understood […] |
Pulse Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine
Pulse Taking Chinese Style A normal balanced pulse is felt mainly at the middle level. Normal speed is between four and five beats per complete respiration, amounting to about seventy to seventy-five beats per minute. The quality of a normal pulse is elastic and “lively” neither hard and unyielding, nor flaccid and indistinct. Types of […] |
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine West Lafayette, Indiana
Dr. Angelica Kokkalis, O.M.D L.Ac.
(765) 497-0817
