DAAN Chinese Herbs and Acupuncture

The School of Medicine has recently committed to power a business venture that will provide researchers, consumers and physicians in China with information about advances in Western medicine.

Doctors seeking answers beyond Western medicine have packed a year-long course offered by the Singapore College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a published report said Sunday.

There’s nothing wrong with trying to look younger. But if the effort has you frustrated, we may have a new solution, one now available in Wichita for the first time. 60 year old Judy Weber is about to get a facelift. It sounds like surgery, but she’ll never see a knife. There’s no operating room, just a comfy bed, an acupuncturist and lots of quiet

Many families will experience cancer and want to do everything they can to help patients heal. Most people today with cancer seek the best of conventional cancer care and the best of complementary medicine. Acupuncture can ease many of the side effects of cancer and is increasingly becoming part of an individual’s comprehensive treatment program.

The Dalai Lama’s personal physician acknowledges Western medicine’s importance but still prefers Tibetan medicine and believes in its effectiveness.
“Only Tibetan medicine is not sufficient,” Dr. Dawa Dolma said. “We don’t have facilities for emergencies.”

When it comes to pumping up the flavor of food without adding excess fat and calories, herbs are always a good bet.

When you need healing or prevention, Jenny Dull is on the Central Coast to provide all of the alternatives you could imagine. But what she provides isn’t the latest and greatest health craze, and it is quite older than the several months that the Licensed Acupuncturist, Chinese Herbalist, and Diplomate of Oriental Medicine has been locally practicing.

An interesting story about a woman who used acupuncture to cope with cancer :
“Her family doctor told her there was nothing more they could do for her short of surgery, which would come with no guarantee that it could help.

She’d heard of an acupuncturist and traditional Chinese medicine doctor, Stanley Gwo-Wuu Shyu, who had formerly practised in her area, and she got in touch with him. He got back to her in February 2001 and she started to see him weekly, then twice a week. This involved a three-hour trip each way to his office in Scarborough.

“Dr. Shyu taught me exercises to push the lymphatic fluid through my body and relieve the pain. I was getting acupuncture, green tea, Chinese herbs and being taught exercises, which I did at home.”

MacKinnon had acupuncture treatments weekly for the first month, twice a week for the next seven months, and back to once a week until summer 2002. After that, she cut back to once every three weeks or so. Early in 2003, she started to feel sick again, and returned to weekly acupuncture treatments.

“All the while I’ve been seeing Dr. Shyu I’ve continued to work full-time, play baseball twice a week from May to September, and raise my children, who are now 7 and 9.”

Over the past three years the frequency of her treatments has fluctuated depending on how she is feeling. Now they are only monthly.

“I’m feeling fine now,” she says. “I know deep down, that between Dr. Shyu and me, we saved my life. (In) December I had blood tests done at a walk-in clinic, and they showed that all my red and white blood cells are back in the normal range.”

An inspiring story about a man who’s paralysis has been helped by acupuncture:

“Today, after Chinese herbs to strengthen his body and eight years of acupuncture from traditional Chinese medicine doctor Jia Li, Teepell communicates clearly. He can produce some movement in both arms and both legs, and can push himself back in his wheelchair.
He can write a little with his left hand, and use it to turn book pages. He operates his wheelchair with his left hand. He gets in and out of bed with the use of elbow canes and his wife’s help.
He can stand up with her support, and walk the length of his house with the support of his trainer, Chris Brownell.
“I’m going to be able to feed myself, too,” says Teepell. “That’s on its way. I need to have patience and never give up.”
He believes Brownell’s three years of work with him have been of some help, as well as two years of treatments from reflexologist Anne DeSouza.
But Li has worked with him since the first months after his fall and his successes have come gradually through steady progress over those entire eight years, Teepell says. “I could never have come this far without Dr. Li’s acupuncture.”
Adele Teepell says the couple believe in natural health approaches, which first led her to research acupuncture options in Mississauga. Teepell has had acupuncture treatments from Li every two weeks since. Over the years, Teepell says, he has had acupuncture needles placed at various points on his legs, shoulders, neck, head and across his abdomen.
“There was one point on my abdomen, and when he put the needle in there, I felt a real flow of sensation right away.”
Thanks to the continuing acupuncture treatments, says Teepell, he can now move all the fingers on his left hand. “My arms can move further back all the time, and I can raise my arms over my head with a little help.”
His progress has been slow but sure, Adele Teepell says.
“He has so much more movement now than we were told he ever could have,” she says. “Look how far he’s come. I think it’s wonderful.”"