Has anyone had any success treating gout with just acupuncture alone? If so, how long did it take for improvements to show. My patient has had pain at the base of his first metatarsal for over 12 years.
Acupuncture & Gout
Mon, 2009-11-02 09:58
#1
Acupuncture and Gout
I have treated gout a few times using only acupuncture. The most success I have had is during acute painful episodes to bleed the associated areas.
Making diet and lifestyle changes will help over time but it is a difficult condition to treat.
The most common pattern I have seen is damp heat with blood stasis. Treat the pattern !
Best of Luck
Mon, 2009-11-02 16:52
#2
gout
HI -I suspect eventually all realise that we actually can't treat anything by just inserting needles - as we are not the person undertaking that particular life journey.
Just as the kings of old were struck down and wanted to keep doing what created it whilst having their pain alleviated by others- there is a case for calling 'acupuncture' patient education.
In this case I think of someone I had years ago who was walking past my shop entrance to the chemist next door to fill a script for a gout drug from the GP. He paused, and thought as I had been so helpful with his anxiety/ depression, maybe I would know what to do with his sore/excruciatingly joint..
So he wandered in - as usual when these things happen, although booked out there was just been a cancellation - and we got talking.
How was now (when he was in agony) different to any other day/month/ year of his life? On reflection - it was the mandarine tree and GREAT fruit - and him eating SO MUCH of it - so stopping this meant that he just needed some chemist medication for alkalising his urine -as with women and cystitis sometimes - and there he was NOT on this medication for the rest of his life as the GP had said he would ,..I did put needles in also - but this wqs an acute - and all he had to do was stop doing what caused it - obviously still true if 12 years of it - just more entrenched behaviour . .. in that case - look no further than diet . . .
So as to what to do - there was book written by a GP over 20 years ago called 'Arthritis:The Allergy Connection" - Dr John Mansfield I think. A great introduction to undoing all that case of heat and damp you are trying to knock off with needles - they keep CREATING it and where are we as clinicians?
Educating them hopefully - as in times past old doctors wold have in our culture , . . ., as our medicine has answers and it is not always needles . . .
Heather Bruce www.easybabies.com.au www.sharpen-up-your-results.com
Tue, 2009-11-17 16:00
#3
Gout
A syndrome founded in Applied kinesiology, and one that my teacher wore out so completely that I have not used it in a while, is the Illeo Cecal Valve syndrome.
This little one way valve between the small and large intestine can become stuck either closed or open, the blockage in feacal matter then causes inflammation, both in the local area and acidosis in other areas of the body. the most common physical symptoms of this are lower right abdominal pain or tenderness on palpation (if this is acute it should be differentiated from appendicitis) and a sore inflammed right big toe ( it can sometimes be the left).
Just to reiterate on the previous comments, this again is caused by diet, most often too much of refined sugar, artificial sweetners, painkillers and antibiotics, allergic foods or overconsumption of any one type of food.
Other than stopping the problem foodstuffs, an acidophilus supplement will help to restore the intestinal balance, and an abdominal massage will help to reset the position of the valve. After 12 years he will probably still need some physical treatment to the area, and probably his back.
It's worth checking, I have seen acute pain dissapear very quickly with this treatment.
Hope this helps
Lisa.
Sun, 2010-03-14 23:36
#4
Acupuncture & Gout
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Thu, 2010-05-20 23:47
#5
A good Treatment
Acupuncture is a good way of treatment moreover it is spreading quickly at large scale. I have problem in my head which was cured due to acupuncture treatment.