[NEW YORK] winter is over and spring is coming and getting warmer. However, in a large snowy winter with low temperature variability, temperature changes within a week, resulting in many people infected with the respiratory system diseases.  Initially nasal congestion is caused by a cold, runny nose, sore throat and coughing.  Through the western medicine treatment, cold can be cured, but coughing and shortness of breath are still not healing. Although long-term use of antibiotics and cough medicine, it still has no effect. It results in chronic bronchitis and asthma and difficult to recover. Dr. Chen Decheng treatment of cough with acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine has achieved significant effect.

Chronic bronchitis is a common disease and has serious harm to people's health, especially common in the elderly, up to 15 % in 50 years of age. Chronic bronchitis refers to the trachea, bronchial mucosa and surrounding tissues of chronic non-specific inflammation and has a higher incidence in autumn and winter. The cause of chronic bronchitis are still not entirely clear. According to surveys and researches, it is the result of multiple factors which interact in the long-term. Viruses and bacteria caused by infection is an important factor in chronic bronchitis. And secondary infection exacerbates the disease development. The chronic stimulation of dust, air pollution, irritating fumes, long-term smoking is one of the major causes. Cold weather, as well as allergic factors,   also is the incentives. The disease is particularly prominent in North America. The weakened body resistance and lower local defense function are the internal reason that cause chronic bronchitis. Chronic bronchitis has a slow occurrence, long duration and recurrence and severe symptoms. The main symptoms are cough, sputum, wheezing or shortness of breath, especially early in the morning or at night for heavy, increased sputum volume. When emphysema, in addition to cough, phlegm, wheezing and other symptoms, it develop to the gradual emergence of breathing difficulties. Shortness of breath occurs only while working. As it develop, the patient often feel short of breath at rest.

Dr. Decheng Chen, a licensed acupuncturists of NY state and MD (Acupuncture), has the Western academic background and bachelor's, master's and doctor’s degree. He has more than 11 years of formal medical education and nearly 30 years of clinical experience. As an acupuncture famous scientist Professor Qiu Maoliang doctoral students, he graduated from Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and was former deputy director of the Beijing Academy of Traditional Chinese physicians. He has published "Chinese acupuncture point therapy alone" and other 15 monographs and hundreds of articles. He has visited Egypt on behalf of the country to provide the treatment of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Dr. Chen Decheng said chronic bronchitis, asthma is mainly due to the body's immune dysfunction, upright weakness, plus in addition to bacterial infection and other allergenic factors or risk factors, such as feeling cold heat induced, causing tracheal - bronchial mucosal edema and spasm and causes coughing and asthma.

Western medicine treatment of chronic bronchitis and asthma mainly focus on coughing and anti-inflammatory. Cough medicine has more central inhibition, while anti-inflammatory use of antibiotics is not long-term use and short-term use is often less than the therapeutic effect. An anti-inflammatory drugs are usually ineffective and the cough and asthma are not seen well. At the same time, the side effects of antibiotics damage the body and cause the body's immune function lower. In addition of the long-term use of antibiotics, it results in extremely low body resistance and that is why asthma is prolong and difficult to heal even in a long-term treatment.

Dr. Chen’s application of acupuncture and Chinese medicine to cough and asthma has achieved better effect. Prescription medicine dialectical therapy is combined with medical subtraction, acute exacerbation of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine use, and Herbal therapy in the relief period. Chinese medicine has different emphases on cough, phlegm, asthma. Acupuncture can be effective once and the traditional Chinese medicine prescription treatment is taken twice a day continually.  According to the patient's symptoms, the prescription can be adjusted once a week. Usually in 1-2 weeks, cough disappears. And then the patient can take Chinese herb physical conditioning in 3-4 weeks to improve immunity and prevent recurrence.

About the therapy of acupuncture on cough and asthma medicine, Dr. Chen Decheng indicated, acupuncture in some of the characteristics of points on the human body can relieve nervous tension while increasing the excitability of the sympathetic nervous system. On the other hand, it also can reduce blood content of acetylcholine and histamine, improve the content of adrenaline and lift the trachea - bronchial spasms, thus relieve breathing difficulties, increase pulmonary ventilation and make cough, asthma symptoms immediately reduced. The whole process is through neuro-humoral regulation accomplished. According to traditional Chinese medicine, formula is somewhat different between exacerbation and remission. In the exacerbation, the treatment focuses on enhancing lung function and improve immune function basically. These are achieved through different herbal formulations.

In terms of treatment techniques, Dr. Chen Decheng said the main treatment in the exacerbation stage focuses on cough, phlegm, dyspnea three main symptoms in order to clear the phlegm and relieve the cough. In the stage of remission, it focus on improving immunity and enforcing the function on the lungs, spleen, and kidney. Also the patient's cooperation is required, such as quitting alcohol, spicy ban, and anti-cold, avoid fatigue and so on. Therefore, after a period of treatment, they can solve the recurrence of cough, asthma.

Yuan, 35 years old and working in a restaurant, suffered cold and flu due to the physical weakness in the childhood. It causes cough and asthma every time he had a cold and. He has taken antibiotics for two months, but still coughed.  As well as the smoke irritation in the restaurant, cough was getting worse. He has been visiting doctors all the time and taking a long-term medicine use, but the effect is mild. Condition gradually worsened when he could not even work.  It extended to the chest and he often coughed yellow sputum, sometimes bloody sputum or big mouth vomit blood. Western medicine has been diagnosed with chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis. He only took acupuncture twice and found the cough ease.  Later he was serving traditional Chinese medicine treatment for two months and was healed.

A patient, female, 78 years old had suffered from chronic bronchitis since her childhood, often cough all the time. Sometime she coughed without sputum and felt throat itchy. Cold weather, cold, smell the pungent odor are major predisposing factors that cause chronic bronchitis. She has seek for the treatments and medicine seemed effective from the beginning and then invalid, finally then invalid or barely control his condition and gradually worsened. 10 years ago, she found her cough relieved, but accompanied with chest tightness, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing. She often felt lack of oxygen, palpitation and insomnia. The past three years these symptoms got worse. She can only stay at home sitting, lying motionless, but even so, after a cold always took her a long time at hospital.  Western is diagnosis as "chronic bronchitis" and "obstructive pulmonary emphysema." Her treatment started with acupuncture to control cough and asthma attacks, and then taking the medicine treatment and conditioning. Four months later, the symptoms completely disappeared and did not recurred in the two years.

In addition to the treatment of chronic bronchitis and asthma, Dr. Chen Decheng also provide the treatment of facial paralysis, neck, shoulders, waist, knee pain and other pain, gastrointestinal disorders, cough, asthma, prostate disease, urinary incontinence, difficulty urinating, diabetes, numbness in the hand, cough, asthma, menstrual, menopause, gynecological inflammation, uterine fibroids, women infertility, dizziness, tinnitus, cancer, eczema and hay fever and other difficult diseases. He also has specialize in acupuncture treatment of acne, warts, alopecia, vitiligo, wrinkles, and facial elasticity.
Decheng Medical Center accepts United Health Care, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Aetna, Oxford, and the first health insurance card for elderly.

Dr. Decheng Chen’s Medical Center Address:
Midtown Manhattan: 161 Madison Ave suite 2N (between 32/33 Street). New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212-564-3324
Long Island: 1334 5th Ave, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Website www.acupunctureland.com