Qigong may help individuals with osteoarthritis
Qigong therapy, a form of traditional Chinese medical practice, including a variety of Chinese energy exercises can offer alternative treatment for people with osteoarthritis, suggest researchers.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) suggests the existence of a subtle energy (qi) circulating throughout the body and in the surrounding environment
Acupuncture treatment eases headaches
Acupuncture may bring some added pain relief to people with chronic headaches, according to new research.
The study by German researchers is one of the largest to date on using acupuncture to ease headaches.
The researchers said acupuncture patients reported greater pain improvements than those who stayed with their usual care only. At the start of the study, they reported an average of 8.4 headache days over three months, which dropped to 4.7 by the time the study ended.
Acupressure can be good for your immune system:
The philosophy behind traditional Chinese medicine is that it works with the channels of energy (meridians) that run throughout the human body. In theory, when we suffer an illness or injury, the flow through these channels is disrupted. During a change in seasons, moving from summer to fall for example, our immune systems are often compromised, resulting in colds or the flu. Acupuncture and acupressure work to restore the flow of energy along the meridians, restoring the natural balance of body, mind and spirit.
One person’s experience with acupuncturist:
Carole Stutz has had degenerative disk disease for years and endured a lot of discomfort. Throw in getting older, she says, and “sometimes I was struggling with keeping going.”
She ran into Clark at a class she and her husband were teaching, helping small business owners come up with a business plan. He was just opening Lotus after several years in Salt Lake City. He came over to her and asked if she’d like help with the pain she was carrying in her neck and shoulders. “You can’t,” she said. “I have to take pain medication, muscle relaxants, hot and cold packs, ibuprofen.”
He moved his thumbs down her back, working on her pressure points, and she felt immediate relief. She decided to schedule a regular appointment. The first thing she noticed was an increase in energy, she says. “I still didn’t feel my best but was accomplishing more than I had been.”
These days, the Highland resident is a regular, stopping in if her sinuses are clogged or if she simply doesn’t feel good. She’s found she can reclaim at age 61 activities she’d once given up. For instance, she often had migraines and as a result stopped driving. Recently, she shared driver duties during a trip to St. George.
She’s been enjoying guasha, which she describes as having an oil- based liquid applied to the skin, then stroked with a spoon to draw the blood to the surface to release toxins. She’s felt strong enough to resume gardening, she says.
But most of her sessions are half acupuncture, half acupressure massage. “I go in feeling so tight and come out great. I’m able to move.” And her need for appointments has diminished to monthly unless she has a particular problem they’re working on, she says.
To determine what someone needs, an acupuncturist takes a detailed history, often asking what seem like odd questions, Ottley remembers. During her visit, Clark checked multiple pulse points, including her wrist, neck, head, stomach, each correlated with a different organ. He looked at her tongue and checked three pulse areas on her wrist.
If you’d like to make an acupuncture appointment at DAAN, drops us a note or call Susan Yen at 1-877-322-6168.
What is alternative medicine, and who needs it?
Alternative medicine provides just what its name implies, an alternative when standard treatments fail, or when innovations fall outside the box of the usual bent of research. Alternative medicine looks at traditions from around the world, and this has led to the discovery of treatments now vital to our drug industry. For example, digitalis is an herb used in traditional herbal medicine for heart problems, and is now a vital part of modern heart medicines, and the Yew tree provides taxinal, an important cancer-fighting drug. There are just two of the examples of folk herbal medicine that have found their way into the mainstream.
The main value of alternative medicine is its focus not on disease but on the person, not on sickness but on health, not on overcoming illness but on creating wellness. Because fighting illness and creating wellbeing are both necessary components of a good health plan, the term “complementary medicine” has been coined. Complementary medicine includes and integrates treatments of many modalities and from many traditions.
Alternatives enable us to benefit from various points of view and provide healing from different systems: nutritional, structural, energetic, as well as pharmaceutical and surgical. This type of care can be provided by one person, or a team of individuals, or in a clinic.
Live, from Hollywood, is the Wellness Event of the Year
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug 20, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — New Earth, a 501(c)(3) charity, announced today its annual all-day health and wellness immersion Good Medicine will feature a keynote speech by bestselling author Byron Katie, and special musical guest, award-winning composer/recording artist Steven Halpern.
When doctors told Mark Goodremote, of New Auburn, his kidney stone was too large to pass without surgery, he prepared to spend the next two weeks in pain.
Goodremote, a private contractor, didn’t have health insurance when the stone incapacitated him Aug. 3. Dr. Michael Rentzepis, a urologist at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire, estimated the stone was three millimeters in size and told Goodremote the likelihood of passing it naturally was less than 10 percent. He recommended putting in a stent and undergoing a procedure and prescribed narcotics to control the pain.
New York College of Health Professions, a premier undergraduate and graduate College of Holistic Health, has developed and released a proprietary line of personal AromaTherapy products that has had a remarkable effect on many patients suffering from Migraine Headaches and other common ailments.
Syosset, NY, August 18, 2008 –(PR.com)– New York College of Health Professions, a premier undergraduate and graduate College of Holistic Health, has developed and released a proprietary line of personal AromaTherapy products that has had a remarkable effect on many patients suffering from Migraine Headaches and other common ailments.
This unique Dry Personal AromaTherapy System can often bring relief in seconds from a single puff! “While Aromatherapy has been used for centuries in Eastern Medicine, New York College, with its unique and patented system, makes it easy for millions of people suffering from a variety of ailments to benefit immediately, with virtually no side effects, from this inexpensive, simple to use, painless system,” says Dr. Robert Duarte, MD, Director of the Long Island Jewish Pain & Headache Treatment Center.
Changing one’s lifestyle can lead to weight loss
The ultimate weight loss key is changing eating habits. Even if you spend all your time trying to lose weight, if you don’t change your eating lifestyle, there is a little chance that you will be able to achieve your weight loss goal.
Chinese way of life is good for your health
CHINA is currently playing host to the strongest, fastest and fittest athletes in the world.
The Beijing Olympics is showcasing just what the human body can achieve when pushed to its absolute limits.
So it’s fitting that Chinese foods, drinks and martial arts once unheard of in the West are now helping thousands of us ward off disease and live longer.
Acupuncture, for example, was once considered hocus pocus by mainstream doctors.
