Monthly Archives: May 2012

Acupuncture: Pins and needles for good health By Donna McIntyre Medicine is something we usually turn to only when we are ill. But increasing numbers of New Zealanders are using acupuncture to maintain good health – sometimes in conjunction with traditional western medicines, sometimes as an alternative. It’s nothing new, of course. The text believed […]

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Diabetes In this article,I am going to introduce you of diabetes in which new zealand is one of the worst place that is quite prevalent. Diabetes, or diabete mellitus(DM) is a chronic metabolic disease marked by high level of sugar in the blood. WHO classifies it into 3 types: • Type 1 DM results from […]

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During my second year study in New Zealamd College of Chinese Medinine(NZCCM), we start to learn western medicine as an auxillary tool to help us make more understandable dignosis in practice. The project we learned this year is pathology which is a precise study of making specific diagnosis of diseases. Pathology addresses 4 components of […]

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Inflammation is defined as a protective response that removes the initial cause of cell injury,gets rid of the damaged tissue and generate new tissue. It is the response of body tissue to injury,immune reaction and ischaemic damage. Inflammation can be subdiveded into two types: acute and chronic inflammation. Five typical signs are shown as redness,heat […]

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