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 |
