Success Stories

 

 

Chronic Constipation

Young boy diagnosed with Chronic constipation by medical doctors due to a lack of nerve innervation to the large intestine. Used Dulcolax suppositories on a daily basis before being able to have a bowel movement. Stools were very dry and pebble-like. Child also diagnosed with autism. Previous treatments included changes in diet (increase in fiber), homeopathic remedy (silicea) and other laxatives. Objective findings show a fast pulse, strong and bounding, deep red colour tongue with cankor sores on the lip and buccal cavity causing child to constantly salivate.

Treatment: Address the heat in the body and to moisten the intestines. Three packages of an individualized chinese herbal formula.

Result: Child was able to have a bowel movement daily with no assistance and cankor sores cleared up. Follow-up after one year, still no problems with bowel movements. 

Hyperhydrosis 

Case 1

30 year old female was diagnosed with stress related hyperhydrosis by neurologist and dermotologist. Episodes of sweating will occur during times of stress and on a weekly basis. Sweat beads will appear on hands and feet and at times some sweating all over the trunk of the body. During the episodes of sweating, patient will feel cold and shiver from the coldness she describes an "internal" coldness. Sweating is worse when exposed to water. Patient reports having this condition since birth. Objective findings show that the hands and feet are red, swollen with dimpling present and sweat beads on both the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the extremities.

Treatments: Warm the core of the body, regulate the pores and calm the nervous system. Patient underwent 15 acupuncture treatments, 23 herbal decoctions, 1 course of treatment with homeopathics and dietary changes.

Result: Treatments lasted for about 5 months with patient reporting 6 consecutive weeks of being "sweat free", no more coldness felt and no swelling of hands and feet. Patient was still learning how to best deal with the daily stresses that she is exposed to.

Case 2

45 year old female with persistent axillary (armpit) sweating for two years. Sweating during the day but will subside during the evenings. Worse when under stress at work.

Treatments: Regulate the sweat pores by supporting the lungs and calming the mind. Patient had 4 acupuncture sessions with a 2 week course of herbs and dietary changes.

Result: At the end of 3 weeks, patient reported that sweating was back to a normal type of sweating and that her clothes was no longer soaked in perpiration.  

Headaches

Case 1

30 year old client came with a complaint of weekly headaches that at times would be debilitating lasting for weeks without relief. Headaches were described as throbbing in character bilaterally at the temples and the forehead. Patient believed the headaches to be work/stress related. She also had headaches upon waking but was less intense and tension is felt in the area between the eyebrows. Other symptoms included nasal congestion in the mornings and reports having cold hands and feet.

Treatment: Client came in for 10 treatments of facial rejuventation acupuncture.

Results: Morning headaches and nasal congestion completely cleared after the 6th acupuncture treatment and by the 8th treatment, weekly headaches were no longer present.

Plum Pit Syndrome
(Chest pain, sensation of lump in the throat)

40 year old male came into my office with persistent chest pains that was described as "bruised and sore". Breathing was painful and was worse when bending forward. Other symptoms included a sensation of a lump in the throat while swallowing or drinking, persistent coldness that is not alleviated with wearing more clothes and feels as if he is "dying". Testing done at the local hospital included EKG, blood work, barium swallow (upper gastrointestinal tract) and ultra sound all had negative findings. Current medications consisted of taking Ibuprofen on a daily basis.

Treatment: Improve blood circulation by warming up the body and help move any qi stagnation and alleviate pain. 4 acupuncture treatments on a weekly basis and 15 packages of an individualized herbal formula along with dietary changes.

Results: Patient reports not needing to take Ibuprofen and no longer felt the chest pain, the coldness or the lump in the throat when swallowing. There were other health issues that the patient continue to seek treatment for and after 2 months, the chest pain, coldness and lump in the throat has not returned.