Common Diseases List – Pages for You!

Common diseases listed here cover those that people often ask about.

It doesn’t cover all common diseases, by any means! We add them as and when we have time, or when patients of our clinic need them.

For example, it doesn’t include infectious diseases by name, although people ask about them. Often we treat infectious diseases with experience based on the theory of the 4 levels: you’ll see it listed below.

Notice that there are some strange words, like ‘Qi Stagnation‘, ‘Yang Excess‘, and ‘Yin Deficiency‘. Actually, these are ‘syndromes‘ in Chinese medicine, but we’ve included them because they’re becoming well-known. You might have encountered them, and if you haven’t – well, you’ll certainly know people who have: they’re worth knowing about!

But first, Is acupuncture medicine feasible for your problem? On that page there’s a link to the research being done.

Then, in case you thought acupuncture was just ‘stick a needle where it hurts’ and secretly think the rest is placebo: –

• for bacterial or virus infections, known as ‘warm diseases’, click on 4 levels as ‘warm’ disease overcomes your defences
• for many other conditions, especially if caused by ‘Cold’, click on Six Stages of ‘Cold’ Disease

It may help you realise that Chinese medicine has a huge body of theory, fundamentally different to that of Western medicine, about how your body deals with disease.

Common Diseases List

Please note that some items are listed several times under different descriptions.

(That’s because a book’s index irritates me when it says, for X, see Y! The downside is that you may click on several descriptions of the same thing in hope that you are getting something different, when you’re not.)

A-B

• Abdominal masses, dysmenorrhoea, from Liver Blood Stagnation
• Accumulation of Food in babies and children, a form of constipation
• Acne from Lung Heat
• Acupuncture Safety
• ADD/ADHD
• Antibiotics – problems from taking too much
• Anxiety
• Asthma
• Atrial Fibrillation – when your heartbeat goes crazy fast or arrythmic

• Back pain
• Bags under the eyes 
• Beauty care and skin health via TCM
• Belching, burping, distension – from Stomach Qi stagnation problems
• Birth control side-effects
• Bladder Damp Heat and the NEED TO PEE!
• Breathless with palpitations from Heart qi stagnation
• Breathlessness
• Breech presentation, foetus malposition
• Bright Yang Stage, also called Yangming stage
• Buergers syndrome (thrombo-angiitis obliterans – TAO) as a cause of cold hands, see Cold Hands

C-D

• Calf cramps
• Chest pain, cold hands, cyanosis, palpitations from Heart Blood stagnation
• Chesty mucus from Lung Phlegm Cold
• Chronic disease – some of the problems
• Chronic fatigue (CFS) and Post viral syndrome
• Circulation poor – how to Warm Up if You’re Always cold!
• Cold foods and foods that cool you
• Coldness as a cause of disease
• Cold and Always Need to Warm UP?
• Cold Belly
• Cold Feet meaning poor circulation in feet?
• Cold Hands
• Constipation and Bowel problems
• Cool? Lost it? Probably it’s your Lung Yin
• Cough including from coronavirus
• Covid – food for
• Curcumin – how to take Turmeric

• Damp
• Damp Foods – foods that cause and clear Damp
• Damp Heat foods to avoid, and which may help!
• Damp-Heat
• Defensive Level Damp Heat illnesses like influenza
• Defensive level Damp-Heat illnesses like influenza
• Deficiency from age: some examples and causes
• Depression
• Diabetes as a source of Cold Hands, see Cold Hands
• Diarrhoea, urgent, foul and painful
• Digestive problems from Gallbladder Damp Heat
• Dreaming to excess during sleep
• Dryness
• Dryness in the Lungs
• Dry Skin

 

E-F

• Epilepsy seizures – ‘fits’
• Erectile Dysfunction in Chinese medicine (difficulty with erections)
• Erection Difficulty Treatment Foods and Supplements
• Excess dreaming
• External causes of disease – what makes you ill!
• External Heat and Cold as causes of disease

• Fertility – can you conceive?
• Fertility Treatment with Acupuncture (this page is not ready yet)
• Fever and febrile disease
• Fibromyalgia and acupuncture theory
• Flushes and anxiety from Heart Yin deficiency
• Food Accumulation, a form of constipation in children and babies
• Foods for Kidney Yang deficiency
• Food retention – the stuffed gut syndrome
• Foul-smelling stools and Damp Heat in the Large Intestine