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Acupuncture is a system or medicine with a wide range of applications. A doctor who combines Western scientific medicine with acupuncture can therefore select the most appropriate treatment in any particular case and will be able to treat a great variety of diseases in any part or system of the body (including certain mental conditions) in the way best calculated to give results.
Purely structural damage, such as a broken bone, cannot be dealt with by acupuncture. Whether a particular patient can or cannot be successfully treated depends on many individual factors including the severity and duration of his disease and the amount and type of damage it has caused.
Below is a list of more common conditions treated. The easier ones have a higher degree of success than the more difficult, but at times the seemingly impossible may be helped, while the easy may prove intractable.
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Neuralgia, headaches, migraine, fainting, trigeminal neuralgia, tics, spasm, cervical spondylosis, neck pain.
TopFibrositis, muscular rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, swelling, discoloration, cramps, intermittent claudication, cold hands and feet, weakness, some types of trembling, neuralgia of shoulders and arms, tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, osteoarthritis (shoulder, hip, knee, ankle and other joints), weakness or feeling of excessive heaviness of limbs, frozen shoulder.
TopDuodenal and stomach ulcer, hyperacidity, gastritis, dyspepsia, inability to cat ordinary food, non-digestion of food, no appetite, undigested stools, pale stools, eructations, wind, abdominal distension, bad breath, dry mouth, bad taste in mouth, heartburn, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, various types of colic, atony, under-function of liver, tender liver, hepatitis, chronic cholecystitis, colitis, pancreatitis, nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (morning sickness), abdomen feels cold, spastic colon, irritable bowel syndrome.
TopAsthma, bronchitis, tracheitis, shortness of breath, pulmonary congestion, recurrent colds, coughs and mild chronic pulmonary infections .
TopAngina pectoris, pseudo angina pectoris, pain or heaviness over cardiac area, fainting, palpitations, tachycardia, certain valvular defects, arrhythmias, arterial spasm, phlebitis, haemorrhoids, lymphangeitis, adenitis, pallor, pins and needles, poor circulation, fainting, feels easily cold.
TopPyelitis, cystitis, some types of renal colic, lumbago, bladder irritation and spasm, bed-wetting, lack of control of bladder. Pelvic pain, painful periods, irregular periods, flooding, menopausal trouble, hot flushes, ovarian pain, mastitis, menopausal loss of hair (sometimes), tender breasts, prostatis.
TopWeak eyesight, tired after reading a book a short time, not optical defects, black spots and zigzags in front of eyes, pain behind or around eye, conjunctivitis, blepharitis.
TopHay fever, rhinitis, nose bleeding, sneezing, loss of smell (some types), sinusitis, catarrh, tonsillitis, laryngitis, loss of voice, pharyngitis.
TopAcne, itching, eczema, urticaria, abscesses, herpes, neurodermatitis, psoriasis.
TopNervousness, depression, anxiety, tears, obsessions, timidity, stage fright, neurasthenia, wish to die, agitation, outbursts of temper, yawning, excessive loquacity, sleeplessness, nocturnal terror, many neuralgias, neuralgia after shingles, trembling, repetitive strain injury (RSI).
TopGeneral fatigue, lassitude, excessive sleep, excessive yawning, sensitive to change in temperature, travel sickness, post operative weakness, weakness after severe disease, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME).
TopMost of the more common diseases of children, excepting the infectious diseases. Children respond quickly. An important aim of acupuncture is to achieve and maintain healthy childhood, as much ill health of later years can be avoided. Bed-wetting, fear of the dark, bad tempered or frightened state, inability to learn properly at school, under-development, stunted growth (sometimes).
TopMany patients who have been treated by acupuncture notice an improvement in their general health. This is because acupuncture can correct those minor disturbances in health which may be undetected by other methods of diagnosis and which if they remain untreated could in later years easily turn into a serious overt and easily recognised disease. The sensitivity of Chinese pulse diagnosis (see section on preventive medicine), makes it possible to detect minor disturbances, enabling immediate treatment to be given at an early stage.
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