{"id":4425,"date":"2012-03-19T17:11:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T23:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2021-02-10T23:40:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T06:40:20","slug":"man-delivers-10-pound-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/2012\/03\/man-delivers-10-pound-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidney Stones – Man Delivers 10 Pound Baby?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Man<\/a>Last week I received a phone call from a frantic wife, asking if I could help her husband with acupuncture. She claimed that he was experiencing labor pains!<\/p>\n

Okay, so he wasn’t REALLY<\/em><\/strong> having a baby, but he WAS<\/em><\/strong> passing a kidney stone. From his description, the kidney stone was at least as big as a “10 pound baby.”<\/p>\n

I get phone calls on a daily basis from potential patients asking if I can help with certain ailments–many of which, I treat all the time. The things I treat regularly become second nature.<\/p>\n

I’ll be honest, I don’t get very many calls from patients who are in the acute phase of a kidney stone attack. I knew that this was something I had learned about in college and that acupuncture could help, so I told her to bring him right in.<\/p>\n

Case Study:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chief complaint:<\/strong> Acute onset of kidney stone attack<\/p>\n

The patient, a 57-year-old male, had worked all day at his office experiencing dull aching pain in his lower back, on the right, and hourly urination. Urination was not painful. As the day progressed, the pain became more intense and radiated into his groin and testicles. He went to the emergency room because the pain continued to increase to a 9 out of 10.<\/p>\n

The doctors tested him for blood in the urine, which was positive, even though it could not be seen with the visible eye. A CT scan confirmed that he had a “small” kidney stone which had progressed three quarters of the way down the ureter. He was given medication to dilate the ureter and relieve pain. Then his doctor sent him home to wait it out.<\/p>\n

The patient continued to experience pain for the next 24 hours. At this point, his wife called me for an emergency appointment. He had an important business trip the next day and the stone was not progressing. His pain was a 5 out of 10 while he was on heavy doses of hydrocodone, and it increased if he did not stay on top of his medication.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have time to go back into my college notes for treatment suggestions. Nor did I have my book on Western medical diseases according to Chinese medicine on hand because it was at my other office. Three resources were available for my use at the moment:<\/p>\n

My Brain<\/strong><\/p>\n

AcuGraph<\/strong><\/p>\n

Auriculo 360<\/strong><\/p>\n

#1: Balance the graph.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

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The BASELINE<\/strong><\/span> graph sho<\/span>wed a belt block, so I made note in the chart that I wanted to treat the Dai Mai.<\/p>\n

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Next I clicked on the YIN\/YANG<\/strong><\/span><\/span> g<\/span>raph to se<\/span>e which meridians that I wanted to treat. I treated the deficient yin meridians first, and then the excess yin meridians. I ignored what was happening on the yang meridians because for the most part they would be taken care of by treating the Dai Mai.<\/p>\n

The points that I used to balance the graph were:<\/p>\n