Cookbook Points for Post-Chemotherapy Nausea

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Hi Everybody!

 

Are there a set of Cookbook Points for Post-Chemotherapy Nausea? I am

aware that the NIH determined that Acupuncture is effective for

Post-Chemotherapy Nausea but I never did get a look at the protocol that

they used in determining this.

 

Doing a google search I did find one note here:

 

" Acupuncture is increasingly regarded as a useful adjunct to treating

nausea. A growing body of literature shows that acupuncture is effective

in treating nausea associated with pregnancy, surgery, and chemotherapy

for cancer. The most effective acupuncture point for nausea appears to

be PC-6.

 

A few patients, however, may experience temporary nausea as a side

effect of acupuncture. It is not considered a serious side effect. "

 

<http://encyclopedias.families.com/nausea-1435-1438-gea2>

 

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And another link says P 6 and St 36:

 

<http://www.acupuncturetoday.com/archives2002/oct/10electroacupuncture.html>

 

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Here is a copy/paste of a whole protocol:

 

Acupuncture treatment for nausea and vomiting

Back to the Table of Contents

 

Basic treatment: Neiguan P-6, Zusanli ST-36, Gongsun SP-4, Zhongwan REN-12.

 

All nausea and vomiting is the clinical sign of Stomach qi ascending

counterflow, which can arise from a variety of Stomach disorders. Each

of those conditions requires a different variation of acupuncture point

prescription. TCM holds that when the analysis of the condition is more

accurate, the practitioner has more choices to render a safer and more

effective treatment. Understanding the root cause of a condition and

differentiation of branch symptoms can add both to the practitioner's

arsenal of treatment tools and to insight into the prognosis of the

condition

 

* Spleen-Stomach vacuity cold (pi wei xu han)

Signs include reduced food intake, vomiting of un-transformed

food or of clear water without acid taste that gives a sense of relief,

cold limbs, fatigue, dizziness, distention and fullness after eating.

Tongue: pale, soft enlarged tongue, with thin tongue coating. Pulse:

forceless (mai huo da wu li), moderate (huan), fine (xi). Add to basic

treatment: Dadu SP-2 or Sanyinjiao SP-6.

* Dual vacuity of Stomach qi and yin (wei qi yin xu)

Signs include dry lips and mouth, desire for fluids, inability to

drink sufficient amount of fluids, reduced food intake, dry bound stool,

short voiding of scant urine, sometimes hiccup and dry retching, heart

palpitations, spontaneous sweating, hot flushes. Tongue: red without

coating or peeling tongue coating. Pulse: Rapid (shu), vacuous (xu),

fine (xi). Add to basic treatment: Zhaohai KID-6 and or Tianshu ST-25.

* Liver- Stomach disharmony due to qi congestion (gan wei bu he)

Signs include pain in both ribs sides, belching, oppression and

fullness in the upper abdomen, stomach pain, swallowing of up-flowing

acid, bloating, indigestion, poor appetite, vomiting of acid fluid or

food. Tongue: normal pink or slightly purple, with moderate coating.

Pulse: moderate (huan), slippery (hua). Add to basic treatment: Taichong

LIV-3 and Hegu L.I.-4 or Tianshu ST-25.

* Phlegm-heat accumulation (tan re ji)

Signs include gurgling sounds in the stomach, heart palpitations,

dizzy head, flowery vision, vomiting of phlegm with or without bitter

taste, oppression and fullness in the chest. Tongue: red or purple

tongue, yellow slimy tongue coating. Pulse: rapid (shu), string-like

(xian). Add to basic treatment: Yanglingquan GB-34.

* Debilitation of the life gate fire (ming men huo shuai)

Signs include bright white complexion, aversion to cold, lack of

warmth in the extremities, dizziness, tinnitus, weak lower back and

knees, profuse urination at night or inhibited urination, vomiting of

untransformed food, weakness, lassitude of spirit, oedema. Tongue: pale

enlarged tongue Pulse: fine (xi), sunken (chen). Add to basic treatment:

Taixi KID-3 or Sanyinjiao SP-6.

 

Differentiation according to clinical symptoms and signs

 

* Vomiting and nausea with dryness in the throat and mouth: signs

include dryness in the mouth and throat, mouth sores, dry retching,

thirst. Tongue: red, no coating or peeling tongue coating, cracked

tongue. Pulse: rapid (shu), vacuous (xu), fine (xi). Add to basic

treatment: Zhaohai KID-6.

* Vomiting and nausea with bitter taste: signs include bitter taste

in the mouth or bitter vomiting, irritability, gurgling sounds in the

stomach. Tongue: red or purple tongue, yellow slimy tongue coating, or

no tongue coating. Add to basic treatment: Yanglingquan GB-34.

* Nausea and vomiting of untransformed food: signs include vomiting

of untransformed food, sense of relief after vomiting, lack of desire to

eat or drink, fatigue, fullness after eating. Tongue: pale, soft

enlarged tongue, with thin tongue coating. Pulse: forceless (mai huo da

wu li), moderate (huan), fine (xi). Add to basic treatment: Dadu SP-2 or

Sanyinjiao SP-6.

* Nausea and vomiting with acid taste: signs include belching, acid

foul taste in the mouth, bloating, reduced desire to eat. Add to basic

treatment: Taichong LIV-3 and Hegu L.I.-4 and/or Tianshu ST-25.

* Vomiting of clear fluid without acid taste: signs include cold

extremities, vomiting on exposure to cold or long after eating,

blue-green complexion. Tongue: pale, sometimes enlarged, moist. Pulse:

sunken (chen), fine (xi) pulse or sometimes string-like (xian), slow

(chi). Add to basic treatment: Dadu SP-2 and or Taixi KID-3 and or

Sanyinjiao SP-6.

* Nausea and vomiting with pain in the throat

Any of the above types of nausea and vomiting with pain in the

throat and neck. Add to basic treatment: Hegu L.I.-4 and Binao L.I.-14.

 

<http://www.cancerlynx.com/chinesemedicine3.html>

 

(End of Quoted Protocol)

 

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Does anyone know the NIH points, or have a link to the original report?

Deeply grateful for any leads, thanks!

 

Regards,

 

Pete