Kirjahaku

Acupuncture is one of the therapies in Chinese medicine. It has been used for thousands of years for the treatment of various diseases. It is getting known by people in Western countries that it is useful for chronic diseases, such as chronic arthritis, migraine, diarrhea, but it can actually also be used for the treatment of many severe and emergent conditions, such as shock, coma, heavy bleeding, stroke, drowning, CO toxic, etc. Though the conventional medicine is good at saving life in emergency room, but it cannot prevent a later terrible trouble, such as a persistent vegetative status of the survivor, and it needs complex equipments to work. We believe that the combination of the conventional and the traditional ways would work better to solve emergency conditions faster and more efficient. This book intends to give an introduction for how acupuncture is used in these emergency conditions....

Acupuncture is one of the therapies in Chinese medicine. It has been used for thousands of years for the treatment of various diseases. It is getting known by people in Western countries that it is useful for chronic diseases, such as chronic arthritis, migraine, diarrhea, but it can actually also be used for the treatment of many severe and emergent conditions, such as shock, coma, heavy bleeding, stroke, drowning, CO toxic, etc. Though the conventional medicine is good at saving life in emergency room, but it cannot prevent a later terrible trouble, such as a persistent vegetative status of the survivor, and it needs complex equipments to work. We believe that the combination of the conventional and the traditional ways would work better to solve emergency conditions faster and more efficient. This book intends to give an introduction for how acupuncture is used in these emergency conditions....

Acupuncture has been studied in the Western countries for more than 50 years. It is still being questioned if acupuncture has its own specific healing effect or if the observed healing effect after acupuncture treatment is only a placebo effect. Previous discussion pointed out that the failure in acupuncture studies in the Western countries is mostly due to poor acupuncture healing effect derived from the acupuncture group, not so much from influence of the sham acupuncture group. Here we analyze the characteristics and influence of the acupuncture researchers in Western countries on the results and conclusion of acupuncture studies.

Acupuncture becomes more popular in Western countries recently. This book especially tells about the application of acupuncture in medical emergency conditions, which refers to any condition that makes people rush to Emergency department for medical help. Such condition can be a stroke, heavy bleeding, trauma, but can also be a common cold with fever, or acute onset of a chronic asthma. The information in this handbook is useful for those people who work as doctors in hospital emergency departments or clinics, as physiotherapists, chiropractors, lifeguards at swimming pools or beaches, firemen, outdoor travelers, military soldiers, or any other person who may have chance to meet emergent health crisis. It is useful even for an acupuncturist who gets acupuncture education in the Western countries, because many of the techniques introduced in this handbook are much beyond the contents of acupuncture textbooks.