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Acupuncture for Long Covid - Case 2

Posted by Peng Zhang on Monday, February 8, 2021, In : Respiratory system

49-year-old Andrea caught Covid-19 in March. She had a history of asthma for many years. When Covid hit her, the symptoms were mainly in her respiratory system. She had bad cough with phlegm, short breath with wheezing, high temperature and extreme fatigue. The symptoms stabilized after a month's treatment of antibiotics and steroid. But six months on, the lung infection and fatigue were still stopping her from living a normal life. At the time when she came to see me, she was coughing and...
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Effects of acupuncture on nutritional state of patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): re-analysis of COPD acupuncture trial, a randomized controlled trial

Posted by Peng Zhang on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, In : Respiratory system

Masao Suzuki,corresponding author1,3 Shigeo Muro,2 Motonari Fukui,3 Naoto Ishizaki,4 Susumu Sato,5 Tetsuhiro Shiota,6 Kazuo Endo,7 Tomoko Suzuki,1

Tadamichi Mitsuma,1 Michiaki Mishima,8 and Toyohiro Hirai5

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/4/e004590

Abstract

Background

There are an increasing number of evidences that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a systemic illness and that bodyweight loss is its prominent

manifestation. We focused on the nutritional outcomes to find out the effec...

Acupuncture for Cough

Posted by Peng Zhang on Friday, August 17, 2018, In : Respiratory system

34-year-old Sharon had a bad cough for over 2 months. She'd actually had a similar sinario 2 years ago, which lasted 4 months. This time, after a cold, it kept on and on again, bothering her day and night. It was a dry cough, which could be triggered by change of temperature, speaking or unknown reason. Sometimes it could be a paroxysmal spasmodic fit. It was her physiotherapist who noticed her stubborn problem then recommended she come to see me. At the time, I wasn't feeling too confident a...
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Acupuncture in Patients with Allergic Asthma: A Randomized Pragmatic Trial

Posted by Peng Zhang on Wednesday, February 7, 2018, In : Respiratory system

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28287818 J Altern Complement Med. 2017 Mar 13. doi: 10.1089/acm.2016.0357.

By Brinkhaus B, Roll S, Jena S, Icke K, Adam D, Binting S, Lotz F, et al.,

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Although the available evidence is insufficient, acupuncture is used in patients suffering from chronic asthma. The aim of this pragmatic study was to investigate the effectiveness of acupuncture in addition to routine care in patients with allergic asthma compared to treatment with routin...

Acupuncture for Cough - Typical Case

Posted by Peng Zhang on Friday, January 6, 2012, In : Respiratory system

Angela started having a bad cough one and a half years ago. She also had breathlessness and often brought up phlegm. The symptoms were worse when she went upstairs or rushed around. These made 35 year-old her feel like an old lady. X-ray and blood tests didn't show anything positive so the doctor couldn’t make a diagnosis. She had been given antibiotics and several other medications, which didn’t help. Recently she had been trying homeopathic remedy and it didn’t seem to be helpful eith...