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Treating Autoimmune Disorders with Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

Autoimmune diseases are a group of disorders in which the immune system attacks the body and destroys or alters tissues. There are more than eighty serious chronic illnesses in this category including rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, lupus, thyroid disease, inflammatory bowel disease, Addison’s disease, pernicious anemia, celiac disease, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis and Guillain–Barré [...]

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Mind-body interventions during pregnancy for preventing or treating women's anxiety.

Mind-body interventions during pregnancy for preventing or treating women’s anxiety. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011;7:CD007559 Authors: Marc I, Toureche N, Ernst E, Hodnett ED, Blanchet C, Dodin S, Njoya MM Anxiety during pregnancy is a common problem. Anxiety and stress could have consequences on the course of the pregnancy and the later development of the [...]

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Acupuncture’s Molecular Effects Pinned Down

Scientists have taken another important step toward understanding just how sticking needles into the body can ease pain. In a paper published online May 30 in Nature Neuroscience, a team at the University of Rochester Medical Center identifies the molecule adenosine as a central player in parlaying some of the effects of acupuncture in the [...]

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Pain Modulation by Meditation and Electroacupuncture in Experimental Submaximum Effort Tourniquet Technique (SETT).

Pain Modulation by Meditation and Electroacupuncture in Experimental Submaximum Effort Tourniquet Technique (SETT). Explore (NY). 2011 July – August;7(4):239-245 Authors: Choi KE, Rampp T, Saha FJ, Dobos GJ, Musial F CONTEXT: Although acupuncture and meditation are widely utilized in the clinical treatment of pain, trials to evaluate their efficacy and modes of action under experimental [...]

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Moxibustion is hot

From China Daily USA

    The traditional Chinese medicine therapy using moxa, or mugwort herb, is once again becoming fashionable. Liu Zhihua reports. No matter how busy she is, a 43-year-old Beijing-based entrepreneur regularly visits Guo Ai Tang, a moxibustion center near her home. Xi, who declines to give her full name, established the weekly routine early this [...]

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Acupuncture Makes Strides in Treatment of Brain Injuries, PTSD (VIDEO) | Armed with Science

Military field physicians are using the practice of acupuncture to treat cases of mild traumatic brain injuries (mild TBI), including concussions, and cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). “We think it’s important to work on these as a team and address both issues at the same time to try to get a Marine back on [...]

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Prednisolone and acupuncture in Bell's palsy: study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial

There are a variety of treatment options for Bell’s palsy. Evidence from randomized controlled trials indicates corticosteroids can be used as a proven therapy for Bell’s palsy. Acupuncture is one of the most commonly used methods to treat Bell’s palsy in China. Recent studies suggest that staging treatment is more suitable for Bell’s palsy, according [...]

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Acupuncture Helps Cancer Survivors – EmpowHer

Acupuncture Helps Cancer SurvivorsEmpowHerAcupuncture is part of the program at a number of cancer centers in the United States, including Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, … and more »

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Don't Dismiss These Treatments as Placebos

David Freedman’s article “The Triumph of New-Age Medicine” provides a thoughtful commentary on the complexities and controversies surrounding integrative medicine. At the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a component of the National Institutes of Health, our mission is to define, through careful scientific research, the usefulness and safety of complementary and alternative medicine [...]

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The Triumph of New-Age Medicine

Medicine has long decried acupuncture, homeopathy, and the like as dangerous nonsense that preys on the gullible. Again and again, carefully controlled studies have shown alternative medicine to work no better than a placebo. But now many doctors admit that alternative medicine often seems to do a better job of making patients well, and at [...]

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