In the year of 2004, I was diagnosed with 'nerve tinnitus' by my ENT
doctorS.  Up to this moment I am still not quite sure what it exactly
mean by 'nerve tinnitus'.  All I could guess is when the T all of a
sudden comes out of the blue and the cause is nowhere to be found, the
T is called 'nerve tinnitus'.

Against the background of my nerve tinnitus, various 'modern'
treatments were used, which included locking me up in a hyperbaric
oxygen chamber for 2 hours a day for many days.  Frankly, I resent
that experience.  But then again, some patients in the oxygen chamber
reported improvement.  One guy who was going through a combination of
intravenous infusion and oxygen chamber even reported a cure in a
week.

I was finally released of my suffering by a couple of acupuncture
treatment in Vancouver.  My ENT doctorS or doctors practising Western
or 'conventional' medicine in China, Hong Kong and Vancouver all
expressed disbeliefs.  After all, having studied abroad (in the west)
and regimented by the conventional medical establishment, it is
difficult for them to accept that other schools of training or medical
philosophy can do a better job for some types of T patients than the
conventional one, and it is their professional duty as noble warriors,
the purest of knights, to defend the last bastion of the conventional
medical school against the onslaught of millions of disgruntled T
patients all over the world.

I used to think of my 'cure' as being lucky, until I ran into the
following:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/p00r28551745x271/

He Qing-young 1 and Zhang Ji 1

(1)  School of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Beijing University of
Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, 100029, P.R. China

Received: 10 May 2006

Summary  Thirty-three cases of nerve tinnitus were treated mainly by
needling acupoints Baihui(GV 20), Tinggong(SI 19), Tinghui(GB 2),
Yifeng(TE 17) and Zhongzhu(TE 3). In the presence of kidney
deficiency, Shenshu(BL 23) and Mingmen(GV 4) were added; in the
presence of liver-gallbladder fire preponderance, Taichong(LR 3) and
Qiuxu(GB 40) were added; in the presence of exogenous wind heat,
Waiguan(TE 5) and Hegu(LI 4) were added. After 6-course treatments, 6
cases were cured, 22 cases improved and 2 cases failed, with the total
effective rate of 93.9%.
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If I were a T patient who has tried everything including habituation
and had not found an end to my suffering, I would download this page
and go up to the department in this university