The past summer was really chilly. I would like to give some advices to person who suffers from pain such as knee pain, sciatica, low back pain.
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First of all, keep warm is the most important thing for human being even in summer time. Secondly, doing reasonable exercises. I usually suggest my patients walking 30 - 40 minutes a day, at least three days a week. Thirdly, sleeping earlier. Go to bed before 11pm. Last, drinking at least 500ml warm water when you wake up.
2014-10-05
2014-09-01
Free Traditional Chinese Medicine Consultation Event by Tzu Chi.
In August 23, Tzu Chi Foundation of Canada invited me to give people Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) consultation in TaiwanFest in Toronto.
The event holded from 12p.m. to 6p.m., many people came to ask some medical advice for helping their health. I was really happy, because not only Taiwanese but also a lot of Canadian love Traditional Chinese Medicine! People asked me many questions and I gave them suggestions as much as I can.
At the end of the dat, this event helped many people. I believe Tzu Chi will hold the event next year, and I definitely will join the meaningful event again.
Full story: http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_tor_14/25667184/article-台灣文化節義診-中醫師望聞問切?instance=to_bull_left1
The event holded from 12p.m. to 6p.m., many people came to ask some medical advice for helping their health. I was really happy, because not only Taiwanese but also a lot of Canadian love Traditional Chinese Medicine! People asked me many questions and I gave them suggestions as much as I can.
At the end of the dat, this event helped many people. I believe Tzu Chi will hold the event next year, and I definitely will join the meaningful event again.
Full story: http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_tor_14/25667184/article-台灣文化節義診-中醫師望聞問切?instance=to_bull_left1
2014-07-04
Cough treatment
Cough is a really annoying symptom. It is some time lasting for a long period of time, and you can not get rid of it. Many patients tell me they have suffered this terrible symptom for a long time. They ask me why we cough and what the causes of coughs are? Now I will use an easy way to talk about cough in Western Medicine and Chinese Medicine.
Coughing is the body's way of removing foreign materials or mucus from our lungs and upper airway passages or of reacting to an irritated airway. Coughs have distinctive traits you can learn to recognize. A cough is just a symptom, not a disease. A productive cough produces phlegm or mucus (sputum). The mucus may have drained down the back of the throat from the nose or sinuses or may have come up from the lungs. A productive cough generally should not be suppressed because it clears mucus from the lungs.
There are many causes of a productive cough, such as: Viral Illnesses, Bronchospasm, Allergies, Asthma, Blockage of the airway by an inhaled object, such as food or pills.
Coughing indicates abnormal Qi activity inside the lungs. Tradition Chinese Medicine (TCM) believes that the lungs are not only responsible for respiration, but also dominate the qi (vital energy) of the whole body. It inhales pure qi from nature and exhales the impure qi. It also receives nutrient qi from the spleen, combines the nutrient qi with the inhaled qi to form pectoral qi which then enters blood and then is distributed over the body. In a normal situation, the different types of qi flow in a specific and coordinated manner. When the qi flows inside the lungs are interrupted, symptoms like coughing, shortness of breath, weakness and even excess sweating will happen.
Patients ask me why they feel tightness in their chest after taking western medicine to stop cough. Actually, cough is one of our body reaction to clean airway. You can imagine you are on your way to Blue Jays game, and you feel really urgent because the game almost begin. However, there is a really terrible traffic jam in front of you. Many police are trying to flow the traffic. The police are the action of cough.
But, something weird happens. Some really powerful people ask these police to leave. The traffic is still clogged, and you are really angry about this because it does not make sense. This is the reason why you take pills to stop cough, but it turns to chest tightness. The really powerful people are the pills. Most of the cough pills are central inhibition, but the stock thing is still there. That is why you can not get rid of cough. That is why my patients like acupuncture and TCM to treat their cough.They can stop coughing and getting better.
Cough In Western Medicine
Coughing is the body's way of removing foreign materials or mucus from our lungs and upper airway passages or of reacting to an irritated airway. Coughs have distinctive traits you can learn to recognize. A cough is just a symptom, not a disease. A productive cough produces phlegm or mucus (sputum). The mucus may have drained down the back of the throat from the nose or sinuses or may have come up from the lungs. A productive cough generally should not be suppressed because it clears mucus from the lungs.
There are many causes of a productive cough, such as: Viral Illnesses, Bronchospasm, Allergies, Asthma, Blockage of the airway by an inhaled object, such as food or pills.
Cough In Traditional Chinese Medicine
Coughing indicates abnormal Qi activity inside the lungs. Tradition Chinese Medicine (TCM) believes that the lungs are not only responsible for respiration, but also dominate the qi (vital energy) of the whole body. It inhales pure qi from nature and exhales the impure qi. It also receives nutrient qi from the spleen, combines the nutrient qi with the inhaled qi to form pectoral qi which then enters blood and then is distributed over the body. In a normal situation, the different types of qi flow in a specific and coordinated manner. When the qi flows inside the lungs are interrupted, symptoms like coughing, shortness of breath, weakness and even excess sweating will happen.
Patients ask me why they feel tightness in their chest after taking western medicine to stop cough. Actually, cough is one of our body reaction to clean airway. You can imagine you are on your way to Blue Jays game, and you feel really urgent because the game almost begin. However, there is a really terrible traffic jam in front of you. Many police are trying to flow the traffic. The police are the action of cough.
But, something weird happens. Some really powerful people ask these police to leave. The traffic is still clogged, and you are really angry about this because it does not make sense. This is the reason why you take pills to stop cough, but it turns to chest tightness. The really powerful people are the pills. Most of the cough pills are central inhibition, but the stock thing is still there. That is why you can not get rid of cough. That is why my patients like acupuncture and TCM to treat their cough.They can stop coughing and getting better.
2014-05-24
About My Clinic
My Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic is located in Hamilton.
Treatments
- Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Acupuncture
- TuiNa massage
Equipments
- Massage Table
- Infrared Lamp
- Disposable Needles
2014-04-02
Why Acupuncture Can Help Me?
There are many questions that my patients
ask me every day, and the common question are why acupuncture can help me and
what does acupuncture do? Now I would like to use simple way to make explanation
acupuncture theory.
First of all, you can imagine that your
body likes a country, and there are many important roads go through your body,
from your head to feet, from your head to hands or from chest to feet and so
on. In the Chinese Medicine, these roads are known as meridians. Secondly, there
are a lot of cars running on these driveways, and these cars are known as chi. When our body is balance, the chi can go
really smoothly and gently, and that means our body basically is okay. This is
the basic theory of Traditional Chines Medicine Physiological (T.C.M. Physiological).
Now you can imagine that one of these roads is
blocked by a really huge rock, and cars are not able to go through. Therefore, many cars would be forced to stop and the car drivers would feel anger, because
they cannot do their jobs. The anger from these car drivers is like pain. It is the Pathology of T.C.M.
At
this time, the car drivers would really hope that someone can help them to
finish their jobs. Needles are playing as police officers. Needles put into specific
points likes I send police officers to the scene of the accident to deal with
incident. When the police officers come to the accident, the first thing they would
do is calming down these car drivers. That is why after acupuncture, you would
feel pain relief. The police officers can only regulate traffic, but not remove
the rock. They need tow cars help them to clean the rock, and the tow cars are
worm water. So after acupuncture, I would ask my patients to drink a lot of
warm water.
2013-11-29
What Does the TCM Think about Endometriosis and How Do We Treat It?
What is Endometriosis?
Endometriosis is the abnormal growth of cells (endometrial cells) similar to those that form the inside or lining the tissue of the uterus, but in a location outside of the uterus. Endometrial cells are cells that are shed each month during menstruation. The cells of endometriosis attach themselves to tissue outside the uterus and are called endometriosis implants. These implants are most commonly found on the ovaries, the Fallopian tubes, outer surfaces of the uterus or intestines, and on the surface lining of the pelvic cavity. They can also be found in the vagina, cervix, and bladder, although less commonly than other locations in the pelvis. Rarely, endometriosis implants can occur outside the pelvis, on the liver, in old surgery scars, and even in or around the lung or brain.Who is Affected by Endometriosis?
While most cases of endometriosis are diagnosed in women aged around 25 to 35 years, endometriosis has been reported in girls as young as 11 years of age. Endometriosis is rare in postmenopausal women. Endometriosis is more commonly found in white women as compared with African American and Asian women. Studies further suggest that endometriosis is most common in taller, thin women with a low body mass index (BMI). Delaying pregnancy until an older age is also believed to increase the risk of developing endometriosis.What Causes Endometriosis?
The cause of endometriosis is unknown. One theory is that the endometrial tissue is deposited in unusual locations by the backing up of menstrual flow into the Fallopian tubes and the pelvic and abdominal cavity during menstruation. The cause of retrograde menstruation is not clearly understood. But retrograde menstruation cannot be the sole cause of endometriosis. Many women have retrograde menstruation in varying degrees, yet not all of them develop endometriosis.Another possibility is that areas lining the pelvic organs possess primitive cells that are able to grow into other forms of tissue, such as endometrial cells. (This process is termed coelomic metaplasia.) It is also likely that direct transfer of endometrial tissues during surgery may be responsible for the endometriosis implants sometimes seen in surgical scars. Transfer of endometrial cells via the bloodstream or lymphatic system is the most likely explanation for the rare cases of endometriosis that develop in the brain and other organs distant from the pelvis.
Finally, there is evidence that shows alternations in the immune response in women with endometriosis, which may affect the body's natural ability to recognize and destroy any misdirected growth of endometrial tissue.
What are Endometriosis Symptoms?
Most women who have endometriosis, in fact, do not have symptoms. Of those who do experience symptoms, the common symptoms are pain (usually pelvic) and infertility. Pelvic pain usually occurs during or just before menstruation and lessens after menstruation. Some women experience painful sexual intercourse (dyspareunia) or cramping during intercourse, and or/pain during bowel movements and/or urination. Even pelvic examination by a doctor can be painful. The pain intensity can change from month to month, and vary greatly among women. Some women experience progressive worsening of symptoms, while others can have resolution of pain without treatment. Pelvic pain in women with endometriosis depends partly on where the implants of endometriosis are located. Other symptoms that can be related to endometriosis include:- Lower Abdominal Pain;
- Diarrhea and/or Constipation;
- Low Back Pain;
- Chronic Fatigue;
- Irregular or Heavy Menstrual Bleeding;
- Blood in the Urine.
What Does the TCM Think about Endometriosis and How Do We Treat It?
In TCM, we do not have this name “Endometriosis,” we deal with the symptoms such as dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, infertility,and recurrent pelvic pain. Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) it attributed to dysmenorrhea, infertility, pelvic mass, irregular menstruation and other symptoms category. TCM's position is concerned, the disease mostly due to qi and blood stasis, qi and blood deficiency, cold in uterus. In TCM, the endometriosis is sperated to many types such as Qi and blood stagnation, Damp-heat and blood stasis, Qi deficiency and blood stagnation,Yin deficiency and blood stasis, Yang deficiency and blood stasis. The basic of these types are blood statsis, therefore, we have to circulate blood and relieve pain. In my experience, pain can be relieved in next period, and after three months treatment (usually the menstruation kinds of diseases should treat three months), most of my patients would feel much better.2013-05-28
Sciatica Treatment
Recently, there are many patients suffer sciatica and that really bothers them. So today I would like to explain why Acupuncture and Tuina(Massage) can treat people who suffer from sciatica pain.
Firstly of all, what are causes of sciatica? The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the body and begins from nerve roots in the lumbar spinal cord in the low back and extends through the buttock area to send nerve endings down the lower limb. Sciatica pain is typically felt from the low back to behind the thigh and radiating down below the knee. While sciatica is most commonly a result of a lumbar disc herniation directly pressing on the nerve, any cause of irritation or inflammation of the sciatic nerve can reproduce the symptoms of sciatica. This irritation of nerves as a result of an abnormal intervertebral disc is referred to as radiculopathy. Aside from a pinched nerve from a disc, other causes of sciatica include irritation of the nerve from adjacent bone, tumors, muscle, internal bleeding, infections, injury, and other causes. Sometimes sciatica can occur because of irritation of the sciatic nerve during pregnancy.
Sciatica causes pain, a burning sensation, numbness, or tingling radiating from the lower back and upper buttock down the back of the thigh to the back of the leg. The result is lumbar pain, buttock pain, hip pain, and leg pain. Sometimes the pain radiates around the hip or buttock to feel like hip pain. While sciatica is often associated with lower back pain (lumbago), it can be present without low back pain. Severe sciatica can make walking difficult if not impossible. Sometimes the symptoms of sciatica are aggravated by walking or bending at the waist and relieved by lying down. The pain relief by changing positions can be partial or complete.
Acupuncture can calm the irritate nerves down and combine with Tuina that can relax muscle very well. During the acute period, the irritation nerves would cause huge pain and abnormal sensation, such as burning and numbness. So nerves should be allayed immediately to prevent causing further damage. After treatment most of my patients would feel relaxation. That is why acupuncture can treat sciatica well. Acupuncture is a really good treatment for sciatica.
What are causes of sciatica?
Firstly of all, what are causes of sciatica? The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the body and begins from nerve roots in the lumbar spinal cord in the low back and extends through the buttock area to send nerve endings down the lower limb. Sciatica pain is typically felt from the low back to behind the thigh and radiating down below the knee. While sciatica is most commonly a result of a lumbar disc herniation directly pressing on the nerve, any cause of irritation or inflammation of the sciatic nerve can reproduce the symptoms of sciatica. This irritation of nerves as a result of an abnormal intervertebral disc is referred to as radiculopathy. Aside from a pinched nerve from a disc, other causes of sciatica include irritation of the nerve from adjacent bone, tumors, muscle, internal bleeding, infections, injury, and other causes. Sometimes sciatica can occur because of irritation of the sciatic nerve during pregnancy.
What are sciatica symptoms?
Sciatica causes pain, a burning sensation, numbness, or tingling radiating from the lower back and upper buttock down the back of the thigh to the back of the leg. The result is lumbar pain, buttock pain, hip pain, and leg pain. Sometimes the pain radiates around the hip or buttock to feel like hip pain. While sciatica is often associated with lower back pain (lumbago), it can be present without low back pain. Severe sciatica can make walking difficult if not impossible. Sometimes the symptoms of sciatica are aggravated by walking or bending at the waist and relieved by lying down. The pain relief by changing positions can be partial or complete.
How dose Acupuncture and Tuina(Massage) do?
Acupuncture can calm the irritate nerves down and combine with Tuina that can relax muscle very well. During the acute period, the irritation nerves would cause huge pain and abnormal sensation, such as burning and numbness. So nerves should be allayed immediately to prevent causing further damage. After treatment most of my patients would feel relaxation. That is why acupuncture can treat sciatica well. Acupuncture is a really good treatment for sciatica.
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