Prostate healing?

Hello to all,
Can you tell me if there are any known accupuncture or moxa routines for prostate problems? My patient complains of prostate pain, what do I look for to find out the exact problem?
Thanks for the help,
Rob
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Geezer

Please take course G, there's a special chapter therein for the prostate gland problems.

Hello Tutor,
Thanks for the reply. Good sales pitch for course G. This leads me to believe that the answer to my question is, no, there are no needle or moxa routines for prostate.
Thanks,
Rob
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Geezer

There is, however, a new research about acupuncture for chronic prostatitis which says it might be effective: Lee SW, Liong ML, Yuen KH, et al. Acupuncture versus sham acupuncture for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain. [i:5d34e1cc2d]Am J Med[/i:5d34e1cc2d]. 2008;121:79.e1-7.

[quote:5d34e1cc2d]ABSTRACT

[b:5d34e1cc2d]Acupuncture versus sham acupuncture for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain[/b:5d34e1cc2d]

Country: Malaysia

Institute: School of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Science, Malaysia.

Author(s): Lee SW, Liong ML, Yuen KH, Leong WS, Chee C, Cheah PY, Choong WP, Wu Y, Khan N, Choong WL, Yap HW, Krieger JN.

Journal: Am J Med. 2008 Jan;121(1):79.e1-7.

BACKGROUND: Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) afflicts 2%-10% of adult men. Available therapies offer little or no proven benefit. Because acupuncture represents an attractive "natural" therapy, we compared the efficacy of acupuncture to sham acupuncture for CP/CPPS.

METHODS: Participants met US National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus criteria for CP/CPPS, were aged > or = 20 years old, and had a total score > or = 15 on the NIH Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) and symptoms for at least 3 of the preceding 6 months. They were randomized 1:1 to acupuncture or sham acupuncture. Treatment consisted of twice-weekly 30-minute sessions for 10 weeks (20 sessions total) without needle stimulation, herbs, or adjuvants. The primary response criterion was a 6-point decrease from baseline to week 10 in NIH-CPSI total score (range 0-43).

RESULTS: Thirty-two (73%) of 44 participants responded in the acupuncture group compared with 21 (47%) of 45 sham group participants (relative risk 1.81, 95% confidence interval, 1.3-3.1, P = .02). Long-term responses 24 weeks after completing therapy without additional treatment occurred in 14 (32%) of 44 acupuncture group participants and in 6 (13%) of 45 sham group participants (relative risk 2.39, 95% confidence interval, 1.0-5.6, P = .04).

CONCLUSIONS: After 10 weeks of treatment, [b:5d34e1cc2d]acupuncture proved almost twice as likely as sham treatment to improve CP/CPPS symptoms[/b:5d34e1cc2d]. Participants receiving acupuncture were [b:5d34e1cc2d]2.4-fold more likely to experience long-term benefit[/b:5d34e1cc2d] than were participants receiving sham acupuncture.[/quote:5d34e1cc2d]
For the detail on the acupuncture protocol used please see the full text of the article.

I'm not saling course G!!!

In fact there's indeed a chapter for the prostate in course G!

At least you could know the ways how we differentiate the problem.

To do acupuncture, I think in course D we have told a lot about how to prescribe the acupoints, to treat all the disorders, you might follow the basic principles first, and if they don't work, maybe you could try the other ways. Very often the simple one is the best.

Thanks to all for the replies. The information is appreciated.
Rob
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Maybe this would be of some help: AN ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT PROTOCOL FOR CHRONIC PROSTATITIS from the article: Capodice JL, Zhezhen Jin, Bemis DL, Samadi D, Stone BA, Kaplan S, Katz AE. A pilot study on acupuncture for lower urinary tract symptoms related to chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain. [i:52b09074d9]Chinese Medicine[/i:52b09074d9] 2007, 2:1 doi:10.1186/1749-8546-2-1. The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.cmjournal.org/content/2/1/1

[quote:52b09074d9]The protocol consisted of a standardized set of acupuncture points given twice weekly for 30 minutes over 6 weeks based on traditional Chinese medicine organ (zang-fu) and meridian theory. Points were selected based on standard texts, informal practitioner query and expertise, and selected points from previous studies. (...) Acupuncture needles were single-use, sterile and disposable. Full body acupuncture needles were 25 mm or 40 mm (34 gauge) and auricular needles were 15 mm (36 gauge). The needling protocol consisted of first needling auricular points, followed by full-body points. Needles were inserted to the proper needling depth as determined by standard point locations and a de qi sensation was obtained. De qi is defined as a feeling of soreness, numbness, distention, or heaviness around the point after the needle is inserted to a certain depth, meanwhile, the practitioner may feel a sense of tenseness around the needle. The needles remained in situ for 20–25 minutes during which time the acupuncturist returned to stimulate the needles once utilizing scraping (defined as scraping the handle of the needle up to six times) and even needle technique (defined as lightly rotating the needle back and forth up to six times) in order to re-elicit the de qi sensation. The body acupuncture points given at each visit included SJ 5-wai guan (alternate name TB 5), GB 41-zulin qi, LR 3-tai chong, LI 4-he gu, SP 8-di ji and SP 6-san yin jiao. The auricular acupuncture points needled at each visit in one ear and alternating ears with each treatment included shen men, kidney, liver, lung and spleen. There were no additional co-interventions.[/quote:52b09074d9]
The picture of the points used can be found here (direct link for downloading): http://www.cmjournal.org/content/download/figures/1749-8546-2-1-1.PPT

Thank you Sergiy,
You always make some useful information pasted herein.

An article on traditional Chinese acupuncture (and herbal medicine too) in benign prostatic hyperplasia, by Giovanni Maciocia:

Maciocia G. Benign prostatic hyperplasia. [i:79b4a1bd80]Chinese Medicine Times[/i:79b4a1bd80] 2007 Dec; Vol 2, Issue 5.

The link to the article: http://www.chinesemedicinetimes.com/section/250/1/benign_prostatic_hyperplasia/

But I think it is very important to make sure it's benign hypertrophy, not malignent space-occuying diseases.