Herbal, Nutritional Healing & Health Guide

Treatment 1. Shi type Method: To disperse pathogenic cold, spread lung Qi and soothe asthma by selecting the points of the Hand-Taiyin and Foot-Taiyang channels with the reducing method or with moxibustion on points of back or with fire-cupping for wind-cold type illnesses.

Differentiation 1. Shi type It occurs mostly in winter due to an invasion of exogenous pathogenic wind-cold, causing the cold-humor accumulation in the lung and obstruction in the respiratory tract. Manifestations are dyspnea, wheezing noises, cough with little white and thin sputum or with foamy sputum expelled with difficulty, fear of cold, little or no sweating, and headaches and general aching, white and slippery tongue coating, tense or superficial-tense pulse.

The causative factor of this disease is due to invasion of exogenous pathogenic wind-cold or wind-heat, and the smelling of paint, smoke or pollens; or due to emotional disturbance or overstrain leading to the affection of the lung.

Asthma Asthma is a common and recurrent disorder of the respiratory system. Asthma in Chinese is "xiaochuan." "Xiao" and "chuan" are differentiated by different symptoms. "Chuan" indicates dyspnea. "Xiao" indicates sputum gurgling in the throat. Because "xiao" and "chuan" have similar etiology and pathogenesis, so they are always described together in ...

The World Health Organization Interregional Seminar drew up the following provisional list of diseases that lend themselves to acupuncture treatment. The list is based on clinical experience, and not necessarily on controlled clinical research: