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A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE

Doctorate Degree in Acupuncture

Diseases Treated

Dr. Amanda employs four kind of theories---TCM's Meridian theory, Acu Neural Blockade Theory, Abdominal Acupuncture Theory and Sinew Therapy Theory---to select acupoints. For each case, she at least adopts two ways to select acupoints, which ensures your treatment result.

The following are partly lists for the diseases being treated in Dr. Amanda Clinic with different therapy:

Pain Relief

Acupuncture is very effective for chronic and acute pains. In some case, pain can be stopped on the spot.

Ankle pain
Arch Pain
Back pain
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Cervical spinalgia
Complex Regional Pain
Elbow pain
Facial pain
Foot sprain
Frozen shoulder
Hand arthritis
Headache
Heel Pain
Hip Pain
Joint Pain
Joint Pain acupuncture
Knee pain
Leg pain
Lower Back Pain
Migraine
Muscle Cramps
Muscle Pain
Muscular-skeletal chronic pain
Myofascial pain
Neck pain
Nerve Compression & Entrapment
Osteoarthritis
Post herpetic Neuralgia
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
Repetitive Strain Injury
Rheumatoid arthritis
RSD
RSI
Runner's Knee
Sciatica
Sciatica Pain
Should pain
SI Joint Pain
Side headache
Spondylosis
Sport injuries
Stomach ache
Tension
TMD
TMJD
Toothache
Trigeminal Neuralgia
Upper-Back Pain
Wrist pain

Skin Diseases

Dr. Amanda treats the following skin diseases with acupuncture and/or Chinese herbs. Another web site on skin diseases is under construction, from which you can consult and order Chinese herbs online. Currently, you have to come to her clinic or call her for your diseases.

Features of Western medicine for the treatment of skin disease

As Western medicine treats skin diseases with hormones, it has effectiveness quickly. Please remember that hormone is harmful to your body and it (skin disease) will recrudesce if stopping hormones.

Features of Chinese medicine for the treatment of skin disease

In Chinese medicine, skin diseases are divided into the following types: blood heat, blood dryness, blood stasis, damp-heat and toxic heat. Depending on the type of skin diseases you suffered. treatment principle might be clearing away heat and cooling blood, tonifying blood and moistening dryness, promoting blood circulation and remove blood stasis, transform dampness and release toxin, etc.

Chinese medicine can treat skin diseases with different kind of techniques: acupuncture, Chinese herbs, external application of Chinese Herbal Medicine, etc.

It has effectiveness slowly as no application of hormones, but its effectiveness can last forever.

Diseases can be treated with acupuncture or/and Chinese herbs:

Acne

Eczema

Herpes

Psoriasis

Urticaria

Respiration Problems

Acupuncture and Chinese herbs may help:

Improve and balance the immune system

Reduce allergic reaction

Reduce bronchial inflammation

Adjust the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system in order to expand the walls of the airways

Reduce and withdraw mucus and phlegm

Increase the capacity of the lungs

Depression

The mechanism of the treatment of acupuncture for depression can be explained as follow, which can be understood easily by public with any knowledge of TCM theory:

According to TCM theory, depression is the result of the heart, liver, spleen and kidney dysfunction. By selecting proper points, patients can reach the state with calming mind down, toning kidney, strengthening spleen, soothing liver, so that QI ( Qi is the energy of the body, of the meridians, of food, of the universe.) of five viscera can be reconciled, viscera function gradually become normal, the patient can go back to normal and healthy.

Infertility