"Dr.NubbyDAOM" Profile

Why not try another local practitioner? And let the new practitioner know about your reaction (to what was presumably an insertion at TH5). The good news is that there are many, many other point combinations and Acupuncture micro-system treatments (.e.g.,...

As @Chad_Dupuis advised, getting help from a licensed practitioner is the way to go. But if there are no licensed acupuncturists in your area you can try to experiment with relevant patent formulas like Xiao Yao Wan variants or Calm...

Don’t know what state you’re in , but here in California there’s so much competition that you need to get results fast or patients just walk to another practitioner. Accordingly, it may be best to focus on his pain–branches, since...

McCloud, Chad_Dupuis is offering you very sound advice. Adopt an “anti-inflammatory diet” first and foremost: Eat low on glycemic index (cut out 90% or more of flour, white rice, sweets, etc.) Cut out intake of Omega-6 essential fatty acids (corn,...

Ditto to what Chad advised. But adding a qigong therapy to the mix, imo, is just as important. Preferably a form that directly involves moving/awakening energy in the adrenals and 'nads. Also, use sexual tantra. The Healing Tao toolkit is...

To summarize, the Xiang-Xia-Liu-Jun-Zi, Liu Wei Di, and the Liver heat clearing formulas all had temporary and limited benefit to you. I’d use these as your base formulas. Order some single herb granule concentrates of the herbs in those formulas...

Your pattern(s) need to be treated like a see-saw. Tonify Qi too much and empty-heat rises (causing insomnia). Tonify Yin too much and dampness rises, smothering yang and causing chills. Clear heat or damp-heat too much, and same thing (chills)....

Twenty years ago, my first teacher, a Chinese Qigong adept and acupuncturist in Kuala Lumpur named Chiong Hock Seng, was completely into using Chinese astrology to pick a single distal point that changed hourly to “activate” a conventional body treatment....

From your tongue and description of symptoms–as well as your reactions: positive, mixed and negative to different formulas–from a TOM/TCM perspective you’ve got a mixed deficiency-heat pattern, with some GI damp-heat thrown in. In other words, you’ve got both heart-kidney...