The concept of inflammation and its relationship to acupuncture.(Acupuncture and Moxibustion)

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | May 1, 2005| | Copyright

The Western medical term inflammation has very specific meanings, classically involving 'calor,' 'rubor,' and 'dolor' as part of the definition. This older definition has been expanded in recent years to include changes in blood markers such as C-reactive proteins and leukotrienes. In Chinese medicine and acupuncture, when patients present with Western medical inflammatory diseases, we must still do a pattern discrimination and treat based on the pathomechanisms described by Chinese medicine. By basing treatment upon the patterns presented, we often find that the patient's ...

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