Treating Infertility in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Song Xuan Ke EJOM Vol. 6 No. 1 (2008)
This article presents the aetiology and pathology of infertility from a TCM point of view, and outlines how it can be treated with Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture. The final section focuses on the use of TCM to support biomedical assisted reproduction techniques and gives the author's recommended strategies for treatment before, during and after IVF.
Psoriasis: A Case Study
Mazin Al-Khafaji EJOM Vol. 5 No. 5
In dermatology, in addition to the usual methods of diagnosis available to us by questioning the patient, and examining the pulse and tongue, close observation of the morphology of the lesions, with all their subtleties of distribution, colour and texture, plays an enormously important role in understanding the pattern of disharmony and therefore the ability to formulate a treatment strategy. In this article, the author presents a single case of psoriasis to introduce some of these fundamental principles of pattern differentiation and treatment, as experienced in a clinical setting.
