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10 Sep 05

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients: Treating diseases of the teeth and mouth with acupuncture

  • Disease causes: The teeth are the surplus of the bones and pertain to the kidneys. However, this region is also subordinated to the yang ming. [Therefore,] the causes of most tooth pain, not including dental caries pain, are heat in the yang ming and wind cold raiding. It may also pertain to yin vacuity with yang hyperactivity.

The concept of inflammation and its relationship to acupuncture

  • Dr. Bao says that when the yang ming becomes depleted and vacuous, it is not able to nourish the sinews and bones and disinhibit the joints. Zu San Li is a point on the foot yang ming stomach channel, and needling it is able to promote the strengthening and securing of the body's latter heaven root. Thus the righteous qi is able to obtain banking and nourishment. This then results in the disinhibition of the joints and the outward expulsion of evils. According to the Nei Jing (Inner Classic), "If the righteous qi exists internally, evils cannot strike." As to why the acupuncture is effective in the early stage and less effective in the middle and late stages, Dr. Bao says that, although acupuncture can disperse inflammation, its effect is poor when adhesions have caused freezing and binding of the joints. In such cases, tuina is able to break up those adhesions as well as disperse inflammation. Therefore, acupuncture should mainly be used in early stage cases, and tuina should mainly be used in late and middle stage cases.
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