Japanese Acupuncture for Severe Hangover

What an extraordinary couple of weeks it has been!
Once again I have been challenged on the virtual front.
Clinically however, it has been a very rewarding period with many challenges and some positive treatment outcomes.

On Monday I treated Vivian who had a few extra champagnes on the previous Thursday night and woke up Friday morning in diabolical shape, vomiting incessantly throughout the day, a scenario that settled into a permanent state of nausea with an accompanying headache and extreme lethargy.
In the short, she spent most of Friday, Saturday and Sunday in bed.

I have been treating Vivian was several years and in the process we have managed to put the previously chronic and incessant migraine headaches well and truly into the background.
From suffering migraine headaches on an almost daily basis, Vivian now finds herself suffering from migraine headaches once or twice a year.

This was however, a very different situation.

For the majority of the time that she has been under the supervision, I have used a Liver Yin deficiency (Liv.8 – Ki.10) root treatment very successfully.
But after spending considerable time discussing her symptoms, palpating her abdomen and taking her pulse, quite almost reluctantly concluded that a diagnosis of Spleen deficiency Liver excess heat syndrome with significant deficient heat invading the stomach causing rebellious stomach qi in the form of constant nausea.

Whilst her constitutional Liver Yin deficiency required a Liver tonification root treatment. to effectively treat her current condition I needed to disperse rather than tonify the liver meridian.

Biting the bullet and performing this treatment required much clinical fortitude; if I had misdiagnosed, Vivian would more than likely have been on the receiving end of a very severe migraine headache.

Definitely not the outcome that I had in mind!

A Spleen root treatment, tonifying Pe.7 – Sp.3, dispersing the Liver meridian using the point Liv.2 and shunting the stomach meridian using the point St.44 resulted in an immediate amelioration of her headache and an easing of the nausea.

After applying the root treatment I then turned Vivian over and inserted the appropriate back shu points, including Bl.14 – 17 -18 – 20 – 23 – 40 -58 as well as GB.20 – 21 – 30.

After 30 minutes or so, Vivian’s nausea and headache had almost completely disappeared.

The following day, Vivian awoke feeling fantastic and was once again able to run her regular 6 to 7 km round the block excursion, something that she had been unable to do since Friday morning.
She ran six minutes faster than her previous personal best!
Go figure?

In this 1 ½ minute interview Vivian talks about this acupuncture stuff.

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Alan Jansson is an internationally recognized teacher and practitioner of Traditional Japanese Acupuncture. For well over a decade, independent of and in conjunction with Masakazu Ikeda sensei and Edward Obaidey, Alan has presented, convened and hosted in the vicinity of 30 Traditional Japanese Acupuncture workshops in Australia, New Zealand and USA. Driven by a strong desire to promote the consumer friendly nature, clinical efficacy and potency of Meridian Based Traditional Japanese Acupuncture, Alan is a staunch advocate of practically based workshops and draws upon his 25 years clinical experience and 14 years post and undergraduate teaching in a concerted effort to lift the bar globally in the clinical application of this most amazing medical art.

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