Attilio D'Alberto graduated from a jointly run program Beijing and Middlesex Universities with a BSc (Hons) in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Middlesex University) and an MD (Beijing University). During this time, he set up the world's largest and most active forum for Chinese medicine on the Internet. After graduating, his dissertation, titled "Auricular Acupuncture in the Treatment of Cocaine/Crack Abuse: A Review of Efficacy, the Use of the NADA Protocol and the Selection of Sham Points," was published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (volume 6, number 10).
He has a number of articles ranging from Chinese medical theory, to case studies, to new theoretical theories published on several websites and in other Chinese medicine journals. Now practicing in various busy clinics in London, Attilio specializes in addiction, asthma and infertility.
To learn more, visit https://www.attiliodalberto.com.
Fertility acupuncture sometimes gets presented as a narrow protocol: a handful of reproductive points applied uniformly across patients. What this case reinforced for me: The most powerful work happens when we read the whole picture. The hormone data, the constitutional tendency, the sleep, the digestion, and the menstrual pattern, so we can treat the environment the ovaries live inside.
For those of you unfamiliar with alpha-gal syndrome, it’s been in the news recently for causing Americans to be allergic to meat. It is an acquired allergy to galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, or alpha-gal, a carbohydrate found in mammalian meat and many mammal-derived products. A new case series on auricular acupuncture is so intriguing points toward a viable treatment strategy rather than lifelong dietary restriction alone.
The motivation behind our practice of medicine is important, impacting not just our experience but also the experiences of those we treat. It is perhaps for this reason that the aspiration to help not just some, but all beings heal, has historically been an important part of the medical tradition. To explain this, we need to consider how medicine is interwoven with other social domains.