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"Neuro-acupuncture is believed to improve the chi flow between neurons in the brain, which then helps patients improve communication, speech and behaviour." - Acupuncturist and herbalist Leong Hong Tole

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The cells of the immune system work in various ways in skin disease. The rash that occurs after being stung by some insects happens within minutes of contact. It is due to the release of chemicals such as histamine by immunity cells within the skin layers. This is known as ‘immediate hypersensitivity’.

Slower acting forms of response by the immune system occur because the population of cells that react against the invading substance or organism (allergen) needs to be built up from a small number of ‘memory’ cells that recognise the allergen.

Two or three days these cells give rise to others that in turn switch on other defense mechanisms such as the release of chemicals that attract the scavenger cells of the immune system. Because of the lag between initial contact and subsequent reaction, this is called ‘delayed hypersensitivity’. The skin reactions underlying allergic contact eczema are of this type.

It is not known why some substances are particularly prone to causing contact allergy, but common culprits are:

• nickel - a white metal often used in jewellery, belt buckles, jean studs, metal watch straps, bra fasteners. Many other metals can also cause reactions.
• perfumes - Balsam of Peru is a component of fragrances that can cause contact allergy. rubber and
• related chemicals - shoes, tires and clothing.
• potassium dichromate - cement, leather and matches.
• hairdressing chemicals (paraphenylenediamine).
• medications - lanolin, neomycin (antibiotic), fusidic acid (antibiotic), steroid creams and cetearyl alcohol (used in emollient creams).
• epoxy resins - in glues used in hobbies, woodworking and glass fibre construction.
• colophony - resin from spruce trees, used in sticking plaster adhesive.
• plants - both by direct contact and by contact with airborne particles.

In the food industry a wide variety of foods are known to potentially cause skin reactions. These include:

• sugar
• flour/dough
• citrus fruits and their peel
• other fruits and vegetables
• spices, herbs, seasonings (eg horseradish, mustard, garlic)
• fish and seafood’s
• meat and poultry.

These are the most common of all possible allergens that can cause contact eczema.

Some of the materials known to potentially cause skin reactions are themselves components of common treatments for eczema (eg lanolin in moisturizers and hydrocortisone in steroid creams). Therefore if the condition is worsening or proving resistant to treatment, the possibility that the treatment itself is contributing to the skin problem should be stop immediately.

Rashes first appear only at the site of skin contact with the allergen. Later it often spreads out and may involve skin well away from the contact site. This is because the immune cells become activated and migrate out through the bloodstream to other parts of the body.

When allergic contact eczema is suspected, it can therefore be important to remember where it first started when taking the medical history behind the development of a rash finding the cause.

Sometimes the cause and effect relationship is obvious, with a red scaly reaction around an earring or under a watch strap. At other times, especially if a long time has passed since the initial exposure and sensitization, it can be impossible to identified contact allergic from other types of eczema.

It may also be difficulties distinguishing allergic contact eczema (which is an immune response) from irritant eczema (which is a direct skin reaction against an irritant substance). In practice, this difference is not so important because the same lines of treatment are required for both.

It can be treated with CHINESE MASTER'S NEURO Acupuncture and special herbal medicine for most kind of allergy contact eczema. The length of treatment depends on the individual patients of others organ's Qi lever and the severe of the attack.

Hay fever or seasonal allergic rhinitis, is an allergic reaction to airborne substances such as pollen that get into the upper respiratory passages - the nose, sinus, throat - and also the eyes.

Hay fever is the most common of all the allergic diseases - about 15 per cent of the population in industrialized cold countries suffer from this condition. Symptoms usually appear in childhood first and then lessen by the age of 30 or 40.

Perennial allergic rhinitis is a similar allergy that occurs all year round and is caused by things such as house dust, mites and pets. However the predominant allergen changes from time to time.

Frequent sneezing is characteristic of hay fever.

Different microscopic substances get into the nose and cause the body to produce antibodies and release histamine.

Histamine irritates the upper respiratory passages, making them swell and producing the typical hay fever symptoms.

A tendency to suffer allergies is often hereditary. The most common causes of hay fever are:
tree pollen such as elder, elm, hazel and especially birch (spring hay fever).
grass pollen (any flowers, plant or trees).
mugwort and hybrids such as chrysanthemum (autumn hay fever).
house dust mites and mould fungus - particularly associated with perennial allergic rhinitis.

• Itchy and watery eyes
• Frequent sneezing, runny nose
• Itching on the roof of the mouth
• Coughing
• Wheezing or a burning sensation in the throat.

• The pollen to which you are allergic.
• Genetic predisposition associated with other a topic diseases, eg eczema or asthma.

CHINESE MASTER'S herbal medicine has proven to be very effective to Treatment Hay Fever, the course usually takes 4 weeks, you may need one or more course to take away all the problems and unconvinced .

Acupuncture is one of the oldest, most commonly used systems of healing in the world. Originating in China some 5,000 years ago in the last three decades has it become popular in the whole world. And now, Acupunture and Herbal Treatment Centre in KL is one of the oldest and well-known acupuncture centre in Malaysia.

Acupuncture is the insertion of very fine needles, ( sometimes in conjunction with electrical stimulus ), on the body's surface, in order to influence physiological functioning of the body.

Traditional Chinese medicine hold that there are more then 2,000 acupuncture points on the human body, which are connected by 20 pathway ( 14 main, 6 secondary ) called meridians. Ear, hands, feet, scalp acupuncture and now CHINESE MASTER's Neuro Acupuncture. These meridians conduct energy, or qi (pronounced "chi" ), between surface of the body and its internal organs. Each point has a different effect on the qi that passes through it. With the different combination it will gives different magical effects.

Qi is believed to help regulate balance in the body. It is influenced by the opposite forces of yin and yang, which represent positive and negative energy and forces in the universe and human body. Acupuncture is believed to keep the balance between yin and yang, thus allowing for the normal flow of qi throughout the body and restoring to the mind and body.