2016 21st Week New Patients

May 27th, 2016  Fri  (New open since May 13th)  3 new patients / 6 total

Young Man: Soreness in bilateral medial thigh for two days A+M
Young Woman: Painful throat / skin rashes on the back for months M
Young Woman: Cough / Lump in throat for three weeks M

May 26th, 2016  Thu  1 new patients / 13 total

Young Man: Painful right calf for two days A+M

May 25th, 2016  Wed   2 new patients / 16 total

Elderly Woman: Sleep disorder for years M
Elderly Woman: Itching skin rashes for months M

May 24th, 2016  Tue @Tingchou branch  2 new patients / 18 total
Elderly Woman: Insomnia/ oral ulcer for months M
Elderly Woman: Insomnia for two years M+A

May 24th, 2016  Tue   2 new patients / 10 total

Elderly Woman: Bitter taste in mouth for one week  M
Elderly Woman: Oral ulcer on and off for years M

*The purpose of this list is to let people know when would Taiwanese come to TCM doctors for help, since TCM might not be so popular in some countries. To protect the privacy of patients, the patients' information is altered. 

 • Elderly: >60    •Middle-aged: 40-60    •Young: 20-40    •Teenager: 13-19    •Grade-schooler: 6-12
M: herbal medicine   A: acupuncture  M: manipulation

2016 20th Week New Patients

May 20th, 2016  Fri  (New open since May 13th)  0 new patients / 2 total

May 19th, 2016  Thu  1 new patients / 9 total

Elderly Man: Ulcerative colitis for several years  M

May 18th, 2016  Wed   4 new patients / 11 total

Middle-aged Man: Neck stiffness for one week M+A

Elderly Female: Chillness for years  M

Elderly Man: Cough for one week M

Teenage Girl: Urticaria/Irregular menstruation M

Young Woman: Insomnia for one week / acne for several years M

May 17th, 2016  Tue @Tingchou branch  1 new patients / 17 total

Teenage Boy: Bad breath for half a year  M

May 17th, 2016  Tue   1 new patients / 15 total

Middle-aged Woman: Sleep disorder for years  M

*The purpose of this list is to let people know when would Taiwanese come to TCM doctors for help, since TCM might not be so popular in some countries. To protect the privacy of patients, the patients' information is altered. 

 • Elderly: >60    •Middle-aged: 40-60    •Young: 20-40    •Teenager: 13-19    •Grade-schooler: 6-12
M: herbal medicine   A: acupuncture  M: Manipulation

After Chinese Medical Nursing Lectures

After eleven lectures delivered to nursing students in University of Kang Ning, I now change one of my clinic hours back to Friday in the afternoon. Since there are few patients now, I would encourage you to come if you have any discomfort, just in case I get bored…LOL (Please come save me! Just kidding…)

It's free of charge if we decide to treat you without acupuncture or herbal medicine. Since my purpose is to promote TCM to foreigners, I only want you to come chat with me and see how we might be able to help you. 

We might not use any herbal medicine or acupuncture. One of the family member of my patient came to me after lung surgery recently. Her right upper lung collapsed after the surgery. Her chest surgeon said chances are that the lung might be collapsed forever. I taught her to do a Tao-yin to expand her chest and increase ventilation, now she feels better and the X-ray exam she received yesterday showed partial expansion of the collapsed lung. Although we can’t take all the credit, she believed we did help her a lot and expressed her gratitude to me. If you have some kind of discomfort that modern medicine might not be helpful, you are more than welcome to come give TCM a try.

I demonstrated one of the Tau-yin: “Headstand” to my nursing students, they went crazy. It’s really not easy to draw attention from teenage girls nowadays, if you don't happen to be a smart phone or a mirror. LOL

After the lectures I delivered to them, I know more about how to introduce traditional Chinese medicine to those who have no basic knowledge about it. Although it’s time-consuming to prepare for the classes, I’m thankful for experiencing all these.

In the middle of June, there will be exchange students coming from Philippine to TCM department in TSGH. I’ll give them a TCM introduction lecture in English and make them experience acupuncture. I actually did the same to the nursing students, they went extremely hyper when I go to their seat and do acupuncture on them one by one. Most of them never have that experience before and since the acupoint we use are all very safe and commonly used, they all had a good time being needled and even ask for more classes on acupuncture.

Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials

Last week, I delivered a lecture on a World Health Organization report on acupuncture in our weekly morning meeting. It's a review article published in 2002 on controlled clinical trials.

Here is the original article.

In chapter 3, some diseases and disorders that can be treated with acupuncture are listed and categorized according to their effectiveness. Here's iseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved—through controlled trials—to be an effective treatment:

}Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy

}Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)

}Biliary colic

}Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)

}Dysentery, acute bacillary

}Dysmenorrhoea, primary

}Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)

}Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)

}Headache

}Hypertension, essential

}Hypotension, primary

}Induction of labour

}Knee pain

}Leukopenia

}Low back pain

}Correction of malposition of fetus

}Morning sickness

}Nausea and vomiting

}Neck pain

}Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)

}Periarthritis of shoulder

}Postoperative pain

}Renal colic

}Rheumatoid arthritis

}Sciatica

}Sprain

}Stroke

}Tennis elbow 

2016 19th Week New Patients

May 13th, 2016  Fri  (New open since May 13th)  1 new patients / 2 total

Young Woman: Itching eyes on and off for two weeks

May 12th, 2016  Thu  1 new patients / 10 total

Young Woman: Female Infertility for body constitution adjustment

May 11th, 2016  Wed   3 new patients / 15 total

Elderly Man: Chest pain for two days caused by car accident
Grade-schooler: Itching skin and desquamation for two weeks 
Elderly Man: Low back pain for one year

May 10th, 2016  Tue @Tingchou branch  2 new patients / 18 total

Young Woman: Vaginal discharge for weeks
Young Man: Comminuted fracture of tibia and fibula

May 10th, 2016  Tue   1 new patients / 11 total
Elderly Woman: Right lower limb numbness for months

*The purpose of this list is to let people know when would Taiwanese come to TCM doctors for help, since TCM might not be so popular in some countries. To protect the privacy of patients, the patients' information is altered. 

 • Elderly: >60    •Middle-aged: 40-60    •Young: 20-40    •Teenager: 13-19    •Grade-schooler: 6-12

2016 18th Week New Patients

May 5th, 2016  Thu  1 new patients / 7 total

Young Man: Cold limbs in air-conditioned room for months

May 4th, 2016  Wed (New open since February)    3 new patients / 11 total

Elderly Woman: Chest and upper back pain / GERD for one week
Young Woman: Running nose for one day
Middle-aged Woman: Cough for three days

May 3rd, 2016  Tue @Tingchou branch  1 new patients / 20 total

Young Woman: Low back pain for weeks

May 3rd, 2016  Tue   0 new patients / 13 total
Middle-aged Woman: Sleep disturbance for years
Middle-aged Man: Insomnia for two months

May 2nd, 2016  Mon (New open since March)  2 new patients / 4 total

Young Woman: Cough for one week

Middle-aged Woman: Dizziness, headache and oral ulcer for two weeks

Young Woman: Female infertility for 2 years

*The purpose of this list is to let people know when would Taiwanese come to TCM doctors for help, since TCM might not be so popular in some countries. To protect the privacy of patients, the patients' information is altered. 

 • Elderly: >60    •Middle-aged: 40-60    •Young: 20-40

2016 17th Week New Patients

April. 28st, 2016  Thu   0 new patients / 9 total

April. 27th, 2016  Wed (New open since February)    3 new patients / 10 total

Middle-aged Woman: Itching skin all over the trunk and extremities for six months
Elderly Man: Bell's palsy for five days
Middle-aged Man: Right upper back pain for two months

April. 26th, 2016  Tue @Tingchou branch  1 new patients / 22 total

Middle-aged Man: Upper back pain and neck stiffness for weeks

April. 26th, 2016  Tue   0 new patients / 9 total

April. 25th, 2016  Mon (New open since March)  1 new patients / 5 total

Young Woman: Acne on the face for months

*The purpose of this list is to let people know when would Taiwanese come to TCM doctors for help, since TCM might not be so popular in some countries. To protect the privacy of patients, the patients' information is altered. 

 • Elderly: >60    •Middle-aged: 40-60    •Young: 20-40