I was diagnosed with cancer in 1998 at the age of eleven. The cancer was a grade-two fibrosarcoma on my left thigh. It was a rare kind of cancer for a child of my age. I went through sessions of strong chemotherapy, had surgery to remove the tumor, and follow-up radiation treatments. I have been cancer-free for fifteen years now. My ongoing problem was lymphedema on my lower left leg. Since lymph nodes were removed during my surgery, circulation in my left leg had not worked properly. Extreme swelling of the toes and lower left leg happened over the years.
 
I've tried many different treatments, but nothing worked. I did sessions of bandaging and massage. I wore a prescribed, custom-made leg garment. I also went to a lymphedema specialist at Northwestern. No good news from him. He said not much could be done due to the lack of money for drainage and other treatments. So, basically, I had to live with the lymphedema.
 
In December of 2011 I broke my left femur. My healing process was slow and I started walking with a cane. In September 2012, a friend recommended that I get acupuncture from Lok-Kwan. I said I would try it, since I’d tried everything else. In October 2012, I walked into Lok-Kwan's office with my cane and started weekly acupuncture treatments.
 

I have treated this condition several times. Dr. Niemtzow's protocol works like a charm.

One off-street parking space behind the Oakdale Avenue office building is guaranteed for patients with disabilities but otherwise available on first come first serve basis.
 

"The new structure shows that, like a wrench in the works, halofuginone jams the gears of a molecular machine that carries out "aminoacylation," a crucial biological process that allows organisms to synthesize the proteins they need to live. Chang Shan, also known as Dichroa febrifuga Lour, probably helps with malarial fevers because traces of a halofuginone-like chemical in the herb interfere with this same process in malaria parasites, killing them in an infected person's bloodstream." (Science Daily Dec. 23, 2012)

 
A large-scale controlled clinical trial showed that TM81 is safe and effective in controlling blood glucose level in patients with early-stage type 2 diabetes. The traditional Chinese medicine TM81 (糖敏灵丸 or Tang-Min-Ling-Wan) contains the herb Rhizoma Coptidis and is derived from a classic formula described in the Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases over 1,000 years ago.  (Diabetes Obes Metab. 2013 May;15(5):448-54. doi: 10.1111/dom.12051. Epub 2013 Jan 27.)

 
"Women in China who drink 2 to 3 cups of tea daily over many years have a reduced rate of cancers of the digestive system, according to a study by researchers at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. Researchers in the division of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, led by Sarah Nechuta, PhD, MPH, surveyed participants in the Shanghai Women's Health Study, a population-based prospective cohort study of approximately 75,000 middle-aged and older Chinese women who were recruited from 1996 to 2000." (Contemporary Ob/gyn Women's Health. Nov. 28, 2012)

I personally have obtained amazing results treating xerostomia (dry mouth), loss of taste, and loss of smell using a similar protocol as reported here. "This study is the largest reported randomised trial of acupuncture for the amelioration of radiation induced xerostomia in patients treated for head and neck cancer. Results show that a course of group acupuncture was useful in relieving symptoms of dry mouth, and provided greater benefit than oral care alone."  (Oxford Journals > Medicine > Annals of Oncology > Volume 24, Issue 3 > Pp. 776-783)