Japanese Acupuncture Newsletter
Volume 1, No. 7: May, 2007
Dear Readers,
I thank all the members of Arizona Enlightenment Center in Goodyear who came to my presentation on April 21, 2007. It was really nice meet- ing you and I hope you enjoyed the information. Please read my other newsletters by entering my website written above.
My Shin-Do (鍼道 = The Way of My Acupuncture)
Nakama (仲間 = The Circle of Friends) is a Japanese word for a friend or friends, but it has a connotation of a group or a circle of friends. I write about it because of a recent incident compelled me to a rm how impor- tant my nakama is and it is time that I state my mode of practice. My patients are my nakama and the circle of friends. I will protect and help them no matter what my personal circumstance is. It is in the spirit of the circle, I function and heal people. No one will take away my heal- ing right, for there are so many people who need help. As long as I am healthy and capable, I will protect and heal my nakama. This is my Shin-Do, the way of acupuncture.
Acupuncture Is Good For
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine have been existing for over 2000 years and has been dealing with many more ailments than western medi- cine has. Acupuncture is good for almost every ailment, yet as soon as I finish my talking, people ask me if acupuncture is good for this or that, or if I am specialized in this or that. I have decided to list an old index of some ailments a Japanese master treated.
From an index of Bunshi Shirota (below is an incomplete listing):
Ear problems: tinnitus, earache, discharge, tympanitus, etc.
Eye problems: decreased vision, eye pain, etc.
Digestive problems: colitis, dysentery, duodenum ulcer, diarrhea, morning diarrhea, etc.
Genital problems: hernia of testicles, testitis, etc.
GYN problems: endometriosis, uterine fibroid, irregular menstruation, leukorrhea, etc.
Heart problems: pericarditis, angina, myocardial infarction,
Kidney problems: nephritis, nephrosclerosis, spermatorrhea, bed wetting, etc.
Liver problems: hepatomegaly, cirrhosis, hepatitis, etc.
Sinus problems: sinusitis, sneezing, empyema, etc.
Spinal problems: herniated disk, lower back pain, etc.
Stomach problems stomach pain, ulcer, spasm, ascites, prolapse, inflammation, acid reflex, cancer, bloating, coldness, etc
Teeth problems: upper and lower toothache, gingivitis, jaw, etc.
Throat problems: laryngitis, nasopharyngitisx, laryngopharyngitis, etc.
Urination problems: UTI, etc.
Achilles tendinitis
Anemia
Appendicitis
Aphasia
Aphagia
Apnea
Ascites
Asthma
Basedow's disease (Graves' disease)
Beriberi
Bitter taste
Body order
Breathing problem
Chest pain, fullness
Cold and flu
Cough
Constipation
Convulsion
Detoxification
Diabetes
Di cult delivery
Di cult to produce milk
Diphteria
Dry mouth
Encepharitis, brain hemorrhage
Facial paralysis
Fatigue
Finger pain
Foot problems
Gallbladder stone, kidney stone, bladder stone
Headache, head pain
Hemoptysis
Hemorrhoid
Hernia
Hypertension, lower blood pressure
Hysteria, mania
Infertility
Insomnia
Irregular pulse
Jaundice
Joint pain
Knee pain and dysfunction
Lacrimatory
Malaria
Neuralgia
Neurosis
Oketsu (Stagnation Blood)
Over weight
Paralysis
Peritonitis
Periostitis
Pleuritis
Poisoning
Polio
Prostatitis
Raynaud's disease
Rheumatism
Skin disease
Shoulder pain
Spinal caries
Sprain
Stroke
Sweating
Syphilis, gonorrhea
TB
Thumb pain
Thyroid
Tonsilitis
Trachoma
Tumor
Typhoid
Vomiting
etc.
Again, this is an incomplete list. Dr. Shirota treated many more ailments than what I could list here.
Acupuncture Is Not A Specialization
A few people asked me if I was specialized in something, i.e., infertility. My answer to the question is that I do not know of any master who was and is specialized in something for an acupuncture treatment. Speciali- zation belongs to western medicine and not to Oriental Medicine. Orien- tal Medicine deals with the balancing of the whole body, and so doing, it treats the Tai Chi. Acupuncturist should not be afraid of any ailment a patient may bring. In my humble opinion, specialization by an acupunc- turist only exposes weakness of his or her skill. Learn from ancient Chi- nese. They treated everything with courage, stubbornness, and audacity: this is why we benefit today.
© 2007 Dr. Y. Frank Aoi/Japanese Acupuncture
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