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Acupuncture-Moxibustion & Related Modalities
Acupuncture & Phlegm Heat Insomnia
According to Bob Flaws & James Lake, MD,
in Chinese Medical Psychiatry, sleep disorders are due either to the
presence of some evil qi harassing the heart spirit or nonconstruction and malnourishment
of the heart spirit. In terms of evil qi which may harass the heart, these may
consist of heat evils, phlegm, and blood stasis, and the main disease mechanisms
of many psychiatric disorders, including sleep disorders, are a combination
of phlegm and heat harassing the above. Recently, Chen Rui published an interesting
study on the acupuncture treatment of phlegm heat insomnia. Titled, “A Clinical
Audit of the Acupuncture Treatment of 120 Cases of Phlegm Heat Harassing Internally
Pattern Insomnia,” this study appeared in issue #6, 2001, of Bei Jing Zhong
Yi (Beijing Chinese Medicine) on pages 38-39. Below is an abstract of the
salient points of that study.
by Honora Lee Wolfe, Dipl. Ac., FNAAOM
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Acupuncture & Plum Pit Qi
Keywords: Chinese medicine, acupuncture, psychiatry, neurotic esophageal stenosis, globus hystericus, plum pit qi, He Gu (LI 4)
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Bleeding in the Treatment of Common Acne
Since acne is a commonly seen condition, any simple treatments for it are, at least in my experience, welcome. Below is a summary of Wang’s study.
by Honora Lee Wolfe, Dipl. Ac., FNAAOM
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Clinical Applications of Bleeding Therapy in Acupuncture
Bleeding therapy, also known as network vessel pricking, is one of the treatment methods of acupuncture-moxibustion. Although this method is not as well known or widely used in the West as other treatment methods, it is my and many Asian practitioners’ experience that this method is indispensable for achieving satisfactory therapeutic effects in certain cases.
by Honora Lee Wolfe, Dipl. Ac., FNAAOM
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Electro-acupuncture & Depression
This study was a randomized, two-wing comparison study. Altogether, there were 60 cases enrolled which were then randomly and equally divided into a treatment group and a comparison group.
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Network Vessel Pricking; The Forgotten Key to Chronic Problems
It is a statement of fact in Chinese medicine that, “New diseases are in the channels; enduring diseases enter the network vessels.” This means that all chronic, enduring diseases eventually result in the blood stasis which then obstructs and hinders the free flow of the network vessels. In A Practical Dicitionary of Chinese Medicine, Wiseman and Feng define network vessel pricking (ci luo, a.k.a. luo ci) as one of the nine traditional needling methods. It is described as bloodletting by pricking small visible subcutaneous vessels with either a three-edged or skin needle (i.e., a plum blossom or seven star needle)....
by Honora Lee Wolfe, Dipl. Ac. & C.H., FNAAOM
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