Foun very useful information

[firm believer]

Hi everybody

 

I found a very useful information in the following webpage:(IF someone can help the translation. )

http://www.pharmnet.com.cn/tcm/zjdq/zjzl/100039.html

 

Evrything written in Chinese. It discusses five different menthods of accupunctures to treat Tics and TS. It also includes detail points and other important informations. The best part of it is the healing rate is very excited. Although I'm a Chinese, but when come to medical terms, I don't even understand those terms in Chinese. So I could not help with the translation. I'm gloing to ask my daugher's doctor next week to see if he has some ideas to find a good, reliable translator, mean while I'm going to cantact some of my friends in China to see if they can help.

 

I hope everybody in this forum can pass the message around, to see who can help the translation, it might help hundreds of people here.

 

I can tell everybody the part I understand. I made a table. There's total 5 methods discuuss there.

 

Method,----numbers of patients,----- cured,-----improved,------not work

A-------------------168------------------126-----------30---------------12

B-------------------- 68-------------------21-----------40----------------7

C---------------------75-------------------38-----------30----------------7

D----------------------5-------------------- 4-------------1----------------0

E---------------------17--------------------11------------ 5-----------------1

 

All those patients were treated in 1990's. I don't know there's any new imprvment through the years or not. But certainly deserved the efforts to try. BTW some of the methods require leave the needle in for 30min. That might be challeged for the younger kids and also from I know not all the doctors were trained the traditional way of doling accupuncture.

[Claire]

You can use this google auto translate site for a very poor translation, but it gives some idea of the content. Just cut and paste in the text and convert Simple Chinese to English

 

http://www.google.com/language_tools

 

-Claire

[firm believer]

You can use this google auto translate site for a very poor translation, but it gives some idea of the content. Just cut and paste in the text and convert Simple Chinese to English

 

http://www.google.com/language_tools

 

-Claire

I tried, hey, not to bad. Thanks. Although the translation of the treatment part is poor, at least everybody can get a rough idea. But in order to be useful still need someone not only know both Chinese and Englsih, but also have traditional Chinese medicine background.

[Guest]

I don't know if you guys knew, but you can post the website address in and have it translated. Maybe that's what you did because copying and pasting the text was very choppy in my opinion. My acupuncturist has a masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine, but is not Chinese. Would the translated version of the website be something she would understand or would you still need to know Chinese to make sense of this?

 

Carolyn

[firm believer]

I don't know if you guys knew, but you can post the website address in and have it translated. Maybe that's what you did because copying and pasting the text was very choppy in my opinion. My acupuncturist has a masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine, but is not Chinese. Would the translated version of the website be something she would understand or would you still need to know Chinese to make sense of this?

 

Carolyn

Dear Carolyn

 

I can't answer your question. I pasted the webpage and let the google translates them and I compare it. I found out it is OK if it is not involves with medical term. But when comes to the medical terms, I really don't know how accurate it is. For instance, one of the points mention in the article makes by two Chinese characters. The first character is the word for four, the other is the word for sparrow. The translation for the point is "four birds" So I doubted the accuracy. Also the other chalange is: the article also mentions which point use which method to put in the needle. For instance, one of the point requre after the needle in, you need to twist at certain way. But it won't hurt to print it out and show it to your accupunturist.