Up your nose

Hi, long time no see! I'm sure there are many sessions I could have written about last year; I will see if I remember them someday. But lately, I'm very excited about 2 achievements in one patient: ACHIEVEMENTS I have been treated for allergies for 2 years, and each year/spring I have only needed one session to help for a month. I have been duplicating this treatment on the patients that come to me for allergy relief. It involves more points than I would have used on my own, but I know how desperately miserable allergies can be...throw it all in there! Between the relief from acupuncture alone, and an herbal formula to keep the symptoms down later on, my patients don't use the drugs or shots like they did. One female patient reported instant relief from allergies, and then another benefit I wasn't even working on. She had been experiencing a 21 day cycle for the past 2 years or so, and wasn't very worried about it. The allergy treatment incorporates points that are also used in menstrual-issue treatments. Her last 2 cycles have been 28 days exactly. Hormones are SO responsive to acupuncture. DISAPPOINTMENT I have a patient with serious chronic nasal congestion. She has felt better after acupuncture, but just short term. She recently went to see her doctor after a few days of not being able to breathe through her nose, a worse than usual experience. As they couldn't get the tools/scope up her nose, they told her the passage was full of scar tissue, due to her previous "passage opening" surgery (removing a polyp). She would need more surgery to scrape the tissue back. She came to see me before doing anything else, and while lying on the table, she had some new relief. But I can't do much else if there is truly scar tissue. At least we learned there is inflammation as part of the equation, and acupuncture at the sinus cavity brings it down. They could probably get the scope in there now. I really don't know if she needs more acupuncture and herbs, or if there is scar tissue, which they never really saw. But she will talk more with her doctor about it. Until next time!