"gnigma" Profile

I don&#39t take insurance, though I will give the patient a bill if they want to submit it themselves. Here, the insurance companies pay $30 maximum per claim, and you have to be listed as one of their "acceptible providers."...

I would concur with Chad that some tonification of the child&#39s kidney system is in order. I&#39ve worked as a RN for years before becoming a DOM, and meth use during pregnancy can affect the kidney, especially kidney yin. The...

Offhand, I&#39d say internal heat, especially if you also have constipation, due to yin deficiency. You have liver, heart, spleen/stomach and kidney involvement, from your S&S. Understand, it&#39s hard to diagnose effectively without actually seeing you, taking your pulses, etc....

I agree with Chad. Although I&#39m always careful to tell patients that acupuncture is not exactly completely painless, there should not be pain like what you&#39re describing. "Da qi" is the term used for the achy, warm, heavy or full...

If there is a physical malformation, acupuncture alone is not going to give permanent results. It will help with the symptoms, but the deformity is still there. You didn&#39t say whether it&#39s a stenosis, bone spurs, or bad disk, but...

For pain on the outside of the elbow, check the corresponding meridians on the opposite knee. For instance, if the pain is on the TaiYang (SI) meridian, check for ashi points on the TaiYang (BL) meridian at the opposite knee....

It&#39s been my experience that acupressure actually causes the patient MORE discomfort than using needles. In order to get the same amount of stimulation that you would get by inserting a needle to the proper depth, the practitioner has to...

I have a patient that I treat who has an MD diagnosis of hyperthyroidism. His symptoms presented as liver yang rising, with heat, yin deficiency, HT yin deficiency, as well as migraines, hypertension, constipation, insomnia and night sweats. I treat...

There&#39s probably always going to be some odor. I work in a clinic that has vents rated twice what you need to burn moxa, and you can still smell it. Part of the problem is the interior walls in commercial...

First thing I would do is refer him to an MD and have them auscultate for neck bruits, which can indicate a plaque buildup in the carotid arteries. That would put him at a risk for stroke from a clot....

From a western medicine POV, the TSH is a hormone that tells the thyroid to produce T4 (and thus T3). So, if the TSH is high or normal and the T4 is low, you have hypothyroidism--- generally low metabolism. (Qi,...

I usually tell patients it might take 3 to 5 treatments to begin tomake a correction in the root problem. For pain the results should be more or less immediate--- like a 50% reduction by the end of the first...

I don&#39t really provide a true community acupuncture service. What I do is provide second and maybe third treatments in the same week at reduced cost. A second or third treatment for the same problem takes a much shorter examination,...

When using meridian style based treatment, like Dr. Tan&#39s method or Master Tung&#39s method, the actual treatment for pain or discomfort is to disperse the mirror points on the opposite side from the pain on the appropriate meridians. This works...