Pregnancy back and pelvic pain – acupuncture and stabilising exercises

Over two-thirds of women will experience some degree of back pain during pregnancy, and nearly a fifth suffer from pelvic pain. Researchers from Cochrane collaboration reviewed research on various therapies available to relieve back pain during pregnancy. The researchers confirmed that stabilizing exercises and acupuncture were better than usual care alone for relieving pelvic pain. […]

Women reported reduced anxiety, depression, less cravings

Acupuncture: Reduced anxiety, depression, less cravings

A research paper on acupuncture for women with additions discovered, that auricular acupuncture shows promise as an adjunct therapy psychoeducational program. Acupuncture was a viable treatment alternative to anti-anxiety drugs anxiolytics. In this controlled trial, women who receiving acupuncture reported reduced physiological cravings for substances, felt significantly less depressed, less anxious, and were able to […]

Acupuncture for chronic knee pain

Researchers from Peninsula Medical School at the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth in the UK reviewed 13 studies and found 5 with more than 1300 patients with the knee pain. According to the analysis acupuncture was superior to sham acupuncture (pretend acupuncture) for both pain and function. The effects were also significant at long-term follow-up. […]

CT radiation risks Xray

CT scan radiation can equal nuclear bomb exposure

New Scientist reports that the radiation exposure a patient receives from a full-body CT scan is often 500 times that of a conventional X-ray and about the same as that received by people living 2.4 kilometres away from the centres of the World War II atomic blasts in Japan. Introduction: Medical technology advancements have led […]

Chinese Medicine for Polycystic kidney disease

Chinese medicine holds hope preventing polycystic kidney disease

Polycystic kidney disease is the leading cause of fatal kidney failure. It is a genetic disorder. This disease causes uncontrolled growth of cells lining the tubules in the kidneys. The result is the formation of many, large fluid-filled cysts in the kidneys. There is no cure, nor suitable drug to help this condition. The current […]

Chinese herbs ease chemotherapy side effects

Chinese herbs ease chemotherapy side effects

Chinese herbal medicine can protect the immune systems of breast cancer patients and reduce the side effects of chemotherapy,  a group of Cochrane Collaboration scientists said. Scientists analysed data from seven studies involving 542 women with breast cancer. They concluded that Chinese medicines may safely reduce the immunosuppressive side effects of powerful anti-cancer drugs. A […]

Chinese medicine provides hope to overmedicated

Acupuncture vs antibiotics – “All doctors told he was going to die”

Mar. 27- Two years ago, Ivan Toirac was admitted to Mercy Hospital in a coma following a drug overdose. “All the doctors told us he was going to die, or was going to be like a vegetable for the rest of his life,” recalled his father, Arturo Toirac. Then Patty Hutchison began working with the […]

Acupuncture for parkinson's disease - the mechanism explained

Parkinson’s disease – acupuncture helps to regulate dopamine

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, a chemical messenger that plays a crucial role in transmitting signals within the brain and other areas of the body. It is involved in many essential functions, including movement, motivation, reward, and the regulation of mood. In Parkinson’s disease (PD), dopamine-producing neurons in a part of the brain called the substantia […]