In recent years, it is very popular in the Chinese mainland and Taiwan to apply “san fu tie” to cure the winter diseases in summer.  It is known that in Beijing last year, nearly 500 hospitals and medical institutions had applied dog day sticker therapy. It has been derived many benefits. In recent years it has become popular in New York. Dr. Decheng Chen had practiced dog day stickers therapy since six years ago, has come to a good result.

  "Winter Disease point sticking" referred to as "dog day stickers", is the application of effective herbal medicines to make into a paste that is sticking to the back of body points to treat the symptoms of a recurring or worsening chronic, intractable respiratory diseases and pollen allergy. Because the dog days are the hottest time of the year and the highest point of yang in the human body, the medicine can run very well in the hot weather. The opening pore of skin can be well absorbed medicine to help the body's yang, thereby the body's immune system enhanced.

With the progress of industrialization and deterioration of ecological environment, asthma population has a substantial growth rate of 50% each year.  According to statistics, patients with allergic asthma increased from 0.8% in 1980 to 30% in 2000 while the prevalence of allergic rhinitis has raised up to 53% and patients with nasal allergies took about a quarter associated with asthma.

The dog day sticker therapy has the source from the Qing Dynasty and also is known as day moxibustion. The principle of dog days sticking is posted daily in the summer dog day, the nature's most productive time for Yang. According to Chinese medicine "Heaven corresponding" theory, when the body's most exuberant yang and  meridians blood injection reach the highest,  drugs stimulate the body to warm yang, thereby prevent the winter-prone diseases.

Dog days of summer time in 2013
The beginning (chufu): July 13 - July 22 (10 days)
The middle (zhongfu): July 23 - August 11 (20 days)
The end (mofu): August 12 - August 21 (10 days)

Dr.  Chen said that, in fact, dog day sticker’s treatment can begin at any time from the dog days. You do not have to start from the first day of dog days of the summer time. There is no evidence to show that there are significant differences in the efficacy of the treatment if there are a few days’ differences.
Dog day posted indications: mainly respiratory diseases such as bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pulmonary heart disease, as well as pollen allergy, recurrent colds, allergic rhinitis and chronic pharyngitis, and other lung diseases.

Dr. Chen has practiced this dog days therapy in the past six years, with the treatment, the patients have met satisfactory effect. Mr. Yuan was working in a restaurant, his frequently had asthma due to the characteristics of his working condition. After 3 years of taking dog days sticker’s treatment, his asthma did not recur. 

Another Mr. Tang, who has been suffering from pollen allergy more than 10 years, had the severe symptoms and every spring from April to May attack. Even injections and medicine cannot control his situation. After he used the dog day sticker last year, he did not use the drugs during the pollen allergy days, the symptoms were very mild this year. Later, he calls us all the time and asking when the dog days sticker begin this year.

Another 72-year-old man has been suffering from chronic bronchitis and emphysema for more than 30 years. It is recurred every winter, usually from November due to the cold.  It lasted and eased until the second year in April and May, during this period, he could not go out and move when it recurred. The only thing he could do is staying indoors. He took a variety of anti-inflammatory drugs and cough medicines, but it did not get improved during this period. The year before last summer, he began to use dog day stickers and surprisingly found that he only had a slight cough in winter. After taking the herbal medicine for two weeks, that is ever better. Last year, he took the therapy again, as a result, the asthma did not attack the whole winter.

 A seven-year-old boy, often had a cold repeatedly, almost once a month at least.  After using the dog days stickers, he get less cold.
HOW to use the dog days sticker: From the beginning of the first day of Chu Fu, 3 times in the Chu Fu and 3 times in the Mofu period, once every three days. Because there are 20 days in 2013, 6 times should be used, a total of 12 times, 3-5 years continuously.   Usually 4-6 tablets every 8-10 hours for adults, children 4-6 hours.  The points of the paste sticker are illustrated with the picture.

 Dr. Chen said the paste is easier because it does not blister the skin and contaminate the clothing.
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.

In addition to the treatment of winter diseases, Dr. Decheng Chen also provided the treatment of facial paralysis, neck, shoulders, waist, and other kinds of pain, gastrointestinal disease, prostate disease, urinary incontinence, difficulty urinating, diabetes, numbness in the hands, cough asthma, menstrual, menopausal gynecological inflammation, women infertility, dizziness, tinnitus, cancer, eczema and hay fever and other diseases. Acupuncture also has unique treatment of acne, warts, alopecia, vitiligo, wrinkles, and facial elasticity.

Dr. 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