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Has anyone had any experience with Thymoma as a disorder to treat? Be interested in hearing if you have and how you treated it?

Dear Mr. Dupuis, I am writing on behalf of my dad, who is recovering from a minor stroke, creating vision, speech and swallowing abilities. My dad and I came across your article on “Top 5 Tinnitus Acupressure Points All Acupuncturists Use”. After applying your method on “Shuai Gu” and “Feng Chi”, …

Submitted By: panzerHI, I have a client with a stage 4 brain tumour. He is just starting one month of radiation therapy.He is uncertain whether acupuncture is advisable during the treatment. I would like to treat him and wondered if you had any advice on this or knew of any articles on this. He is…

My patient is a 49 year old male who has had a diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis for 19 years. He has a classic "bamboo spine" appearnace of his lumbar spine on x-ray. He has had no benefit from any alllopathic treatments to date. On TCM Tongue exam he has tooth indentations on the right side o…

Hello, new to Forums, was a Practiitoner until my wife had two failed spinal fusions and have been treating her as a full time carer for 9 yrs, our Daughter (39) has just been diagnosed with Hashitoxicosis, was wondering if anyone has treated this condition successfully with Acupuncure? Daughter ha…

Has anyone had good treatment success with a western condition called "Cervical Dystonia"? This particular case presents similar to Trigeminal Neuralgia with an added symptom of facial and tongue spasms - especially worse at night (with fatigue or under stress). The jaw tends to pull to the right s…

Hello, I know that Chinese Herbal Medicine has been used in the treatment of tetanus, but is acupuncture ever indicated in such cases? I can't seem to find any information on treating tetanus with acupuncture, so I am right to assume it is not done? Would acupuncture perhaps have an adverse effect …

I would like to ask you for any advice or suggestion on a treatment for one case of mine. The client is a female, 77, and complains of constant pain in her hands, feet, and knee. She also has signs of swelling in these areas. Her doctor has ruled out rheumatism or arthritis, and the patient is not…

Hi this is my first post so I welcome any replies or advice. I'm an acupuncture student and I would like to treat the sympoms of elbow bursitis in my father (60 years old). He plays a lot of golf so he initially thought it was tennis elbow or golfers elbow but after a bit of research we think he pr…

Hi, I have a question to Tong Ren healing. I've been diagnosed a few years back with a underfunctional thyroid. I came along Tong Ren and got the treatment for three month in which the results have been just sightly under the normal results. My doctor kept telling me to go back to Levotroxin and …

Hello, I have severe myopia accompanied by astigmatism. My vision is 20/600, meaning that how a person 20/20 vision views an object that is 600 feet away, is how it appears to me when it is 20 feet away. I have been wearing glasses since the 2nd grade, and contact lenses since the 9th grade. …

63 year old male with sudden onset of right hand tremor. Extremely spastic, intermittent, but comes on every few minutes. No numbness, no tingling, no pain. Was tested by GP who thought it might be a pinched nerve. Also was tested by neurologist for parkinsons and given MRI, with nothing remark…

To my fellow tong ren practitioners: I am trying to find a person that has ever treated a client with Hashimoto's disease with tongren. Most of the clients with this disease will have a lump on the thyroid due to underactive thyroid gland. Does this lump disapear on its own once the thyroid is fun…

Does anyone have information on treating Tourete's Syndrome?

HI Everyone, I am a massage therapist, myofascial release, but am very interested in Oriental medicine and bodywork. My question is: are there meridiam points useful for Scleroderma (autoimmune disorder) overproduction of connective tissue and hardening of the skin? Or possibly any herbs that c…