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What the acupuncture technique of "wet cupping" can do to heal eczema and related forms of acute and chronic inflammatory dermatitis.

Blood-letting cupping reduces eczema Objectives: To explore the clinical effect of Yang's pricking-cupping therapy and its central mechanism in treatment of eczema-induced pruritus using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). Methods: Fifty patients with eczema-induced pruritus were enrolled in the observatio

Re-introducing natural flooding and natural fire into wilderness landscapes has enormous healing potential for all creatures, large and small. As in greater Nature, so in the smaller natures of human persons.

In the Praise of Floods – Luce Lecture with James Scott James Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, will deliver the final bi-annual Facing the Anthropocene Luce Lecture, entitled “In ...

Forget about AI! Our minds, hearts and brains are organs of resonating, interacting intelligence(s, the integration and integrity of Heart/Mind (xin), Consciousness (shen) and Essence (jing), which contribute fundamentally to the healing power of acupuncture.

Acupuncturist and patient brains synchronise during treatment The effectiveness of acupuncture is greatly influenced by the interaction between the patient and the acupuncturist, yet the underlying mechanism is not well understood ...

Recent research reports demonstrate effectiveness of Chinese herbal formula Tong Xin Luo for cornary artery disease,

Traditional Chinese Medicine Tongxinluo May Help Heart Attack Recovery According to a new study, the traditional Chinese medicine compound Tongxinluo demonstrated beneficial effects on patients who had a heart attack.

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Efrem Korngold | Healthy Seminars Efrem Korngold is one of the leading traditional Chinese medicine teachers and practitioners in America. He is co-author of the widely read Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine as well as many articles. He began his studies at the College of Traditional Acupuncture in England in 197...

Excellent Chinese study shows significant benefit of herbal medicine for CAD.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Compound (Tongxinluo) and Clinical Outcomes of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: The CTS-AMI Randomized Clinical Trial - PubMed ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03792035.

Acupuncturists: read the section about the effectiveness of acupuncture for tension headaches.

What's New in Brain Health? Hans-Christoph Diener, MD, PhD, discusses brain health, from headaches and COVID-19 to dementia and Parkinson's disease.

Eating potatoes could be very beneficial for your health, contrary to advocates of low carb dietary models. Potatoes might be a medicinal food for harmonizing and supplementing the Qi of the Spleen, Stomach and Liver.

Eating Potatoes Is Healthy Contrary to common belief, potatoes do not have a negative effect on blood glucose levels and can actually help people lose weight.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/987737?src=WNL_trdalrt_pos1_230204&uac=20205PG&impID=5140904

The latest research suggests that that eating potatoes is actually beneficial for healthy glucose management, improving insulin sensitivity and attaining optimal weight and body mass. Potatoes might be a really good tonic food that harmonizes and supports the Qi of Spleen, Stomach and Liver...

Eating Potatoes Is Healthy Contrary to common belief, potatoes do not have a negative effect on blood glucose levels and can actually help people lose weight.

Let the buyer beware - "caveat emptor". Kratom could be an effective remedy for all manner of pain syndromes, and very little is known about its interaction with Chinese herbal analgesics.

Perianesthetic Implications of Kratom This article summarizes the relevance of the herbal extract kratom to perioperative anesthetic care, including its complex pharmacologic activity and potential for adverse drug interactions and abuse.

Always good to have alternative therapies for managing chronic pain, especially those that are non-toxic, non-addictive and don't rely on non-human technology....

Two Traditional Chinese Therapies Better Together for Neck Pain Combining tuina therapy with yijinjing exercise is associated with greater improvement in nonspecific chronic neck pain and anxiety than tuina therapy alone, new research shows.

First international conference highlighting Chinese medicine pediatrics. Of special interest are presentations by Stephen Cowan, MD, Elisa Rossi, MD and Sabine Wilms, PhD.

Hub of Paediatric Acupuncture Conference | The Hub of Paediatric Acupuncture (HOPA) | The Hub of Paediatric Acupuncture (HOPA) Buy tickets International Paediatric Acupuncture Online Conference 2023 Details of the Conference WhenSaturday 14th to Saturday 29th January 2023. What … &l...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35419729/

Acupuncture research update: acupuncture helps to prevent development of Crohn's Disease (CD)

Acupuncture and Moxibustion Inhibited Intestinal Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Patients with Crohn's Disease Induced by TGF- β 1/Smad3/Snail Pathway: A Clinical Trial Study - PubMed Moxibustion at 43 °C combined with acupuncture may suppress TGF-β 1/Smad3/Snail pathway-mediated epithelial-mesenchymal transition of intestinal epithelial cells in Crohn's disease patients by inhibiting the expression levels of TGF-β 1, Tβ R2, Smad3, and Snail. (Registration No. ChiCTR-IIR-1600...

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Efrem Korngold | Healthy Seminars Efrem Korngold is one of the leading traditional Chinese medicine teachers and practitioners in America. He is co-author of the widely read Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine as well as many articles. He began his studies at the College of Traditional Acupuncture in England in 197...

Cupping enhances immune response to vaccination.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj0611 #

Novel suction-based in vivo cutaneous DNA transfection platform Suction-mediated cutaneous DNA uptake yielded high in vivo efficiency and thus provides an alternative transfection platform.

Empirical confirmation of effectiveness of acupuncture for relieving chronic constipation.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34907924/

Efficacy of Electroacupuncture Compared With Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation for Severe Chronic Constipation: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial - PubMed For the treatment of severe chronic constipation, EA performed better than TES in long-term follow-up and improving the quality of life. TES could be a better choice for patients with severe chronic constipation who are afraid of acupuncture because it is noninvasive. Well-designed and more rigorous...

Useful new knowledge using acupuncture to treat renal colic - pain due to passage of kidney stone.

https://www.acupuncturetoday.com/digital/index.php?i=766&s=32691&l=14&a_id=34141&pn=58&r=t&Page=58

Acupuncture Today Digital Issue

Chinese medicine for the people, in the public square. Just like getting your vaccination.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/11/04/traditional-chinese-medicine-covid-wards/

Chinese Medicine in the Covid Wards In mid-February 2020, during the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, Liu Lihong, a slight man with a wispy beard, made his way into Hankou Hospital

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Acupuncture reduced the risk of CHD/CAD linked to depression...

https://www.dovepress.com/acupuncture-treatment-reduced-the-risk-of-coronary-heart-disease-in-pa-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-NDT

Acupuncture Treatment Reduced the Risk of Heart Disease | NDT Major Depressive Disorder is a significant public health concern, which often leads to loss of productivity, functional decline, and various complications.

The Brazil Variant Is Exposing the World’s Vulnerability

Stay up to date, so that you can explain to yourself, your family, your friends and your patients the realities that are driving the COVID pandemic and COVID illness

theatlantic.com Somehow the coronavirus is rampaging through a city that was supposedly immune.

COVID-19 Deaths Plummet With Chinese Herbal Medicine

There have been many early reports on the effectiveness of Chinese herbal remedies in reducing the severity of COVID disease and promoting recovery. Here's is some recent confirmatory research from Wuhan.

https://www.healthcmi.com/Acupuncture-Continuing-Education-News/2062-covid-19-deaths-plummet-with-chinese-herbal-medicine

healthcmi.com Chinese herbal medicine reduces mortality rates for COVID-19 patients.

Herbal Medicine Mental Illness Relief

The challenge to mental and emotional health in the wake of the COVID pandemic only adds to the tragedy of our personal and social dislocation, isolation disorientation. As we believe and know, as Chinese traditional medicine doctors, our simple herbal remedies can often help with the anxiety, ennui and panic with which so many are struggling. Here's a classic example.

https://www.healthcmi.com/Acupuncture-Continuing-Education-News/2071-herbal-medicine-mental-illness-relief

healthcmi.com Researchers find Chinese herbal medicine effective for the treatment of mental illness, especially Bai He Lily disease.

Researchers receive $2+ million grant to study acupuncture in emergency departments

When we first visited Cuba for an international acupuncture conference in 2000, our host, Dr. Marcos Diaz Mastellari, a leading Cuban acupuncturist, described how acupuncture was fundamental in rescuing the Cuban health care system during the Special Period. In the early and mid 90s, when there were scarce medical resources in provincial hospitals, acupuncture was effectively and successfully harnessed to treat patients in the ER, including those suffering from pneumonia and other acute illnesses that ordinarily required pharmaceutical intervention.

A few, progressive, integrative medicine doctors are taking a small, but radical step, adding acupuncture services for pain management in the ERs of three U.S. medical centers. It's not too soon for acupuncture to become part of primary and first line emergency medical care.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201022/Researchers-receive-2422b-million-grant-to-study-acupuncture-in-emergency-departments.aspx?fbclid=IwAR27JCz8oadmfmANxygsQiRun7BEhxgQPiIvw2_P4RmylAFIXiVigD5jSTU

news-medical.net Jeffery Dusek, PhD, Director of Research at University Hospitals (UH) Connor Integrative Health Network and Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Case Western Reserve University, and colleagues were recently awarded a 3-year, $2+ million grant from the Nati...

The Social Life of Forests

Eat Mushrooms to Nurture Life and Heal the Planet

Decades of research and study about the subterranean life of old growth forests reveals, without a doubt, that the fine filaments of fungi establish and maintain a healthy, life sustaining and life promoting symbiosis with forest flora, especially trees.. The miles of extensively complex networks of fungal rhizomata live upon and connect the root systems of trees in well-established forest eco systems.

According to some biologists and mycologists, all plants and fungi may have evolved together enabling each other to “green” the terrestrial Earth. The largest single organism so far identified was the underground rhizome complex of single fungus that covered 40 acres in a Michigan forest. It turns out that fungi probably connect all living organisms that have their roots in the ground. And, so it seems, all human societies and civilizations depend utterly on the hidden lives of fungal systems.

Edible fungi have an esteemed reputation, not only among Indigenous American tribes, but also in the annals of ancient Chinese herbal healers. In fact, the earliest published article known to be written about a single herbal agent in the millennial history of Chinese Pharmaceutics – according to linguist and translator of ancient Chinese medical literature, Paul Unschuld – is a monograph on the nature, characteristics and properties of Ganoderma lucidum, AKA Ling Zhi.

One of the explanations given by ancient Chinese physicians for the valuable, life giving and life extending power of fungi like Ling Zhi, is that, because fungi are able to transform dead matter into a healthy substrate (soil) for plants, they exert the same power inside our human bodies, turning waste products and toxins into healthy raw material for generating the Qi and Blood enabling us to survive and thrive. Non-toxic, edible fungi, many with potent health promoting and medicinal properties like Ganoderma , Shiitake, Maitake , Cordyceps and Lion’s Mane - there are scores more – are readily available in your local natural food store, herbal pharmacy and maybe even popping up in your garden or neighborhood park, especially around old pine and oak trees. Wherever you find acorns, you’re likely to spot edible mushrooms. But use a good guide to identification before you eat them, just to make sure.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html

nytimes.com Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another?

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Living With COVID-19 - Chinese Medicine Works

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We're in this for so much longer than we imagined. This is our perspective on where we are with our knowledge about this virus and how to adapt and remain in tact. Be well.

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One Covid-19 Doctor’s Personal Wellness To-Do List

sane and compassionate guidelines for all....

elemental.medium.com Care for body, soul, and spirit go a long way right now