THE POWER OF ACUPUNCTURE POINTS, THE EFFICACY OF ACUPUNCTURE IN TREATING 30 AILMENTS, WITH POINT FORMULAE AND CASE STUDIES

Course overview

This course offers a narrative from my personal experiences which intends to demonstrate that acupuncture is useful in treating 30 different ailments, many of which are not pain afflictions. And when I say acupuncture, I mean needling acupuncture points per se, not the many other valid and effective modalities of traditional Chinese medicine, e.g. cupping, estim, exercises, herbal therapies, magnets, massage, and moxibustion. However, in a few cases I do comment upon auxiliary modalities used to amplify the effect of the acupuncture. I do not make much mention of treating ailments with ear acupuncture although I have found auriculotherapy to be very effective. That is a topic for another course. This course material draws upon my 37 years of personal clinical experiences, and I do my best to present interesting anecdotal accounts, noting the pulse and tongue indications for many of those cases. Some of these treatment approaches are of my own discovery, others are rarely used. All are powerful and effective. Some of the cases studies are quite humorous; all are true, except the names have been changed to protect patient confidentiality. Ailments discussed are as follows: 1. Addiction a. Adderral b. smoking 2. Broken bones 3. Carpal tunnel syndrome 4. Conjunctivitis 5. Dental Pain of the upper and lower jaw 6. Diarrhea, abdominal pain and cramping 7. Fevers, coughs, and sore throats 8. Genital warts 9. Headache 10. Heel spurs 11. Hot flashes 12. Infertility 13. Insomnia 14. Intercostal neuralgia 15. Irritable bowel syndrome 16. Jet lag 17. Knee pain 18. Lower back pain 19. Male impotency 20. Mute after stroke, paralysis 21. Nausea 22. Nosebleeds or epistaxis 23. Peripheral neuropathy 24. Piriformis syndrome 25. Psoriasis 26. Sciatica 27. Shoulder pain 28. Tachycardia 29. Tendonitis, epicondyle 30. TMJ