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 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

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 

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