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Acupuncture for Varicocele: A Case

  • Writer: Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
    Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
  • Nov 3, 2014
  • 1 min read

Documenting the Varicocele

A while back, I blogged about the use of acupuncture to reduce the size of gallstones in a patient. (link) Right now, we present another case with documentation. I was approached by a patient some weeks ago with a diagnosis of varicoele. Here is the first ultrasound.


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Acupuncture for varicocoele

Four weeks and eight acupuncture sessions later, we see this:


According to the scan, the varicocoele has gone down a lot. The patient told me that the medical staff had to keep on rechecking because they couldn’t believe it!

Is this proof? Perhaps, perhaps not. What’s important is that something happened and it was documented.

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