Benefits of Acupuncture to Medicine and Care Knowledge and Experience in the World

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Benefits of Acupuncture to Medicine and Care
Knowledge and Experience in the World

by David Alimi, Thomas Burgoon, Chin Chan, Tomás Dawid, Silvia Elenkova, Francisco Lozano, Hedi Luxenburger, Carlo Moiraghi, Chun Lee Oei-Tan, Petja Piehler, Paola Poli, Patrick Sautreuil, Karin Stockert, Konstantina Theodoratou, Marcia Yamamura (ICMART – International Council of Medical Acupuncture and Related Techniques)

All the authors of this book are medical doctors, colleagues who have worked together for many years in ICMART, the International Council of Medical Acupuncture and Related Techniques, in a beneficial exchange of experiences, practices and how they apply Medical Acupuncture in their own various environments. ICMART was founded in 1983 in Vienna and now represents over 80 medical member organizations, with more than 50,000 individual doctors. In this book, the authors present a selection of the wide variety in medical acupuncture applications, and its purpose is also to advance its further insertion into integrated healthcare systems.

Contents
PREFACE by Hedi Luxenburger

1 / AURICULOTHERAPY, THE MASTER OF PATHOGEN CIRCUITS by David Alimi

Auriculotherapy in France
Pain management in France
Pain
Auriculotherapy strategies
2 /THE ROLE OF ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION IN THE MODERN TREATMENT OF ASTHMA by Thomas Burgoon

Asthma in the United States
Asthma treatment in the United States
The modern medical understanding of asthma
Modern research into the mechanisms of acupuncture’s action on the pathophysiology of asthma
The understanding and treatment of asthma in traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medical theory and asthma
Asthma – Essential pathophysiology according to TCM
Asthma – Main syndromes for Traditional Chinese Medicine
Asthma – General principles of treatment according to traditional Chinese medicine
Acupuncture treatment of asthma
3 /PHYSIOLOGY OF ACUTE PAIN by Chin Chan

Altered perception of pain
Acupuncture
Pain modulation
4 /GASTROCOLIC SYSTEM by Silvia Elenkova

Short presentation on the Bulgarian Society of TCM
Gastritis and gastric ulcers
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
5 / ACUPUNCTURE FOR DYSMENORRHEA – TONG JING by Francisco Lozano

Modern pathophysiology
Pathophysiology of dysmenorrhea
TCM differential diagnosis according to pain and type of menstrual cycle
TCM syndrome differentiation (pattern discrimination)
Treatment based on syndrome differentiation
Other complementary techniques for treating dysmenorrhea
Chinese auriculoacupuncture for dysmenorrhea
Clinical research into the treatment of dysmenorrhea in china
Acupuncture points with effect on the synthesis of prostaglandins in dysmenorrhea
Clinical cases reports on dysmenorrhea
Overview of the situation of medical acupuncture in Mexico
6 / ACUPUNCTURE AS PART OF AN INTEGRATIVE MEDICAL HEADACHE TREATMENT by Hedi Luxenburger

Introduction
Treatment of chronic headache
MIDAS (pain disability assessment score)
Therapy migraine – guidelines by the german society of neurology
Therapy of tension-type headache (TTH) – Guidelines by the German Society of Neurology, 2015
Acupuncture treatment of primary chronic headache
7 /ONCOLOGY ACUPUNCTURE by Carlo Moiraghi and Paola Poli

Recognition and acceptance of acupuncture in Italy and Europe
Tumours in ancient archaeological discoveries and in the Neijing
Basic notions of acupuncture in oncology
Etiopathogenesis of cancer
Oncology therapy with acupuncture
The value of acupuncture in oncology
8 /NEURAL THERAPY AS A TECHNIQUE CONNECTED TO ACUPUNCTURE by Petja Piehler

Neural therapy and the anti-inflammatory concept in chronic diseases
Neural therapy: effective, sustainable and with few side effects for headaches of different genesis
Neural therapy in gastroenterology
Final comments
Eidelberg Charter for Neural Therapy 2016
9 /ACUPUNCTURE IN NATURAL DISASTER EMERGENCIES by Paola Poli and Carlo Moiraghi

Acupuncture in Italy today
Civil Protection in Italy and acupuncture practice
Acupuncture in secondary emergency care
The path of acupuncture
A few personal experiences
PTSD – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Scientific medical research
Acpuncture in an emergency in PubMed
Helping with needles in an emergency
Mission to Amatrice 2016 in practice
The value of acupuncture in an emergency
10 /NEURO-ACUPUNCTURE, A LEVEL IV ANTALGIC? by Patrick Sautreuil

Introduction
From trigger points to deqi
Different indications for neuro-acupuncture in physical medicine and rehabilitation
Semi-permanent subcutaneous needles
Psycho-subjective dimension of pain and neuro-acupuncture
Training and transmission
Synthesis
Conclusions
11 /ALLERGY: ALLERGIC RHINITIS by Karin Stockert

Acupuncture in Austria
Allergies
Allergic rhinitis
Allergies in Chinese medicine
12 / STRESS DISORDERS by Konstantina Theodoratou

Acupuncture in Greece
Common treatment in Greece
Description of the disease according to Western medicine
Stress disorders and Chinese medicine
Diagnosis according to TCM syndromes
Therapeutic principles
Acupuncture therapeutic strategies
Clinical cases
13 /LOWER BACK PAIN by Marcia Yamamura

Emotional factors and lower back pain
Influence of the Extraordinary Meridians yangqiaomai, yinqiaomai, dumai, daimai and yangwei
Diffuse lower back pain
Conditions affecting the pangguang (Bladder) tendino-muscular meridian and lower back pain
Posterior muscular path affection and lower back pain
APPENDIX 1 / THE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES IN THE NETHERLANDS by Chun Lee Oei-Tan

Introduction
Practice-based trial of acupuncture in tennis elbow, short- and long-term effects
RCT on chinese herbal medicine at the medical university of Nijmegen
Acupuncture in copd, for moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Living lab for acupuncture during chemotherapy (Acu-Chem). A pragmatic implementation and evaluation programme
APPENDIX 2 / BLOOD DONATION AFTER ACUPUNCTURE: A JUSTIFIED DEFERRAL? by Tomás dawid

Introduction
Term definitions
Actual reality
Collateral facts
Facts, final conclusions and recommendations
Proposals