CATCH YOUR BREATH!
In 1979 the World Health Organisation (WHO) listed 40 diseases for which acupuncture is considered to be beneficial. Diseases of the respiratory tract, including asthma and bronchitis, are included in that list.
"This (Acupuncture) is excellent for a mild attack
and remarkably well accepted even by children."
- Dr Mike Whiteside
"This (Acupuncture) is excellent for a mild attack and remarkably well accepted even by children." - Dr Mike Whiteside |
Acupuncture has traditionally been successfully employed in China to treat most illnesses and research in the past decade has shown that acupuncture can be very effective for respiratory diseases including asthma. There are many studies relating to the success of acupuncture treatment for asthma which have been reported in the medical journals.
This view is certainly supported through the international medical literature and the published controlled studies.
In a study conducted at the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care in the University Hospital of Vienna revealed:
Over 70% of patients with long-standing asthma reported a significant improvement of their ailments after 10 weeks of acupuncture treatment.
Remember traditional acupuncturists treat the whole person rather than a disease. We focus on the root cause of the problem rather than treating the symptoms. Like other holistic natural healthcare practitioners, your acupuncturist will consider all lifestyle and environmental factors before commencing treatment.
Scientists at the Department of Acupuncture, Second Municipal People's Hospital, Kaifeng City, Henan Province studied 192 patients suffering from bronchial asthma.
The results: An immediate total effective rate of 98.9%, and interestingly, the rate of clinical remission dropped and there was a marked improvement in 76.5% of the patients.
The results of the treatment did not differ significantly in patients of varying ages and even the duration of the disease was not found to be significant.
Acupuncture treatment of bronchial asthma was considered very effective, and particularly useful for those patients who have a history of drug allergy.
The clinical observation revealed that the asthmatic symptoms in most of the patients began to be improved after several acupuncture treatments with the dosage of the drug gradually reduced.
Generally, the dose of cortisone per oz was decreased by 2 mg every 10 days, while that of aerosol was controlled by the patients themselves according to the condition of the disease.
The symptoms in most of the patients were markedly improved after 15 treatments, but the treatment should be continued for another 10 times to consolidate the curative effect. Thus, each asthmatic patient needs to receive approximately 30 sessions of acupuncture treatment, lasting about 3 months.
Thereafter, in order to prevent its relapse, the treatment should be administered 10 times each year in the summer season. It is worthy to be mentioned that, in this series, there was a female patient who suffered from anaphylactic asthma induced by dog's hair. She received 10 sessions of acupuncture treatment with no improvement. In this case, the acupuncture treatment should not be given any longer.
There were another two children patients aged 5 and 7 years respectively, for them the above method of acupuncture treatment was difficult to be used. Therefore, the auricular pressing method combined with cupping was adopted instead.
The 25 cases of hormone dependent bronchial asthma were treated by acupuncture, yielding a markedly effective rate of 56% with a total effective rate of 96%, indicating that good therapeutic results can also be expected in the western countries for those cases who have already been treated with hormones.
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