Physician uses alternative medicine, acupuncture
Written by Duane Ramsey | | news@toledofreepress.comAfter other doctors failed to treat his condition successfully, Mitchell researched alternate methods of treatment on the Internet and asked his doctor about acupuncture.
When he came to Tausif, Mitchell could not open or close one eye or move the left side of his face, including that side of his mouth.
Tausif began treating Mitchell’s facial paralysis with acupuncture three months after it first occurred. She said it required 18 treatments and took longer to help him due to that time lapse.
Tausif placed needles in Mitchell’s ears, face, scalp, both arms and legs to treat his facial paralysis.
“You feel it but it’s not painful,” Mitchell said about the acupuncture. “It was really relaxing once I got used to it. It worked very well and now I can blink both eyes.”
Tausif said that most insurance won’t pay for the acupuncture treatment. She has been providing care to patients through the Toledo/Lucas County CareNet Program for low-income residents who don’t have health insurance.
Tausif said she believes that health insurance companies should add acupuncture as an alternate treatment so it would help more patients and be covered by insurance.
“We want people to become aware that acupuncture is an alternate treatment when other medical methods don’t work,” Tausif said. “We want to create awareness of the benefits of auricular medicine for problems requiring long-term medication for symptom control with little or no benefit.”
Being skeptical of her claims, this reporter allowed Tausif to examine my ears and was amazed when she diagnosed all of my current and past medical conditions in a few minutes.
“Auricular medicine is one of the most widely used micro systems in eastern medicine,” said Tausif and it is effective for treating conditions including:
- mental and emotional problems such as anxiety, depression and insomnia;
- physical pain such as arthritis, headaches and tendonitis;
- digestive problems including colitis, indigestion and irritable bowel syndrome;
- respiratory and sinus conditions, asthma and seasonal allergies;
- neurological disorders, facial tics, paralysis and fibro myalgia;
- skin disorders such as psoriasis, urticaria, and eczema;
- obesity and drug addiction.
Tausif has treated a 32-year-old male and 36-year-old female for acute lower back pain who were given pain medications that did not resolve their conditions. She treated the male patient with acupuncture and completely relieved his pain with four treatments.
The doctor said she examined the female patient’s ear and determined her back pain was due to her Intra Uterine Device causing irritation in the pelvic area. Tausif advised her to see her gynecologist who removed the IUD, resolving her pain.
Tausif also operates an acupuncture clinic where first treatments cost $200 with additional visits ranging from $100 to $150, depending upon the extent of the treatments, she said.
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