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Acupuncture Eases Urination and Bladder Pain

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[retweet][facebook] Acupuncture needling combined with moxibustion improves the condition of patients with refractory interstitial cystitis, a urination bladder disorder. Interstitial cystitis involves chronic bladder region pain that is often accompanied by urinary urgency, frequency and the need to wake at night to urination. Moxa needles were applied to acupuncture points over the sacrum and patients […]

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Acupuncture Benefits Heart & Reduces Angina

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[retweet][facebook] Research concludes that acupuncture is effective for the treatment of heart pain, angina pectoris. This condition, commonly referred to as angina, is chest pain due to ischemia of the heart muscle wherein blood supply is restricted resulting in concomitant oxygen and glucose deprivation to the heart.  A major cause of heart pain is coronary

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Acupuncture Lowers High Blood Pressure

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[retweet][facebook] Acupuncture can reduce blood pressure. The study discovered that patients taking antihypertensive medications benefitted from further reductions in blood pressure by adding acupuncture to the treatment regime. As a result, the researchers concluded that “acupuncture should be in the hypertension treatment guidelines and widely used for blood pressure regulation. Acupuncture subjects chosen for the

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Acupuncture Beats Drugs for Low Back Pain Herniations

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[retweet][facebook] Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) therapeutic techniques are effective treatments for lower back pain due to lumbar disc herniations. A new randomized, controlled clinical trial demonstrates that acupuncture and TCM therapy reduces back pain and restores motor functionality for patients with herniated lumbar discs. A sample size of 408 patients receiving a traditional

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Acupuncture for Treatment of Chronic Lower Back Pain

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[facebook][retweet] Acupuncture is effective for the treatment of chronic lower back pain. Researchers studied back pain patients in an inpatient rehabilitation clinic in Germany. Two groups of patients were compared. Group 1 received acupuncture plus conventional rehabilitation services. Group 2 received only rehabilitation services. The researchers discovered that patients willingly accepted acupuncture as a means

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Acupuncture & Herbs Protect Pregnancy, Prevent Miscarriage

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[facebook][retweet] Research published by the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine demonstrated the efficacy of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for the treatment of recurrent pregnancy losses. A team of acupuncturists combined Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) therapies in a clinical study of a 42 year old female in Bellevue, Washington suffering from chronic, recurrent pregnancy losses.

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Chinese Herbal Formula Has Anticancer Activity

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[facebook][retweet] Zuo Jin Wan has been shown to fight colon cancer.  In Chinese medicine, it is a small, wonderful herbal formula. It clears and drains liver fire, downbears counterflow and checks vomiting. ‘Liver fire’ is a Chinese medical diagnosis that has does not have an exact bio-medical correlate, but as it happens, manifests symptoms seen

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Acupuncturist Treats 40 N.F.L. Players in 4 Cities

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This is from a New York Times article, about a skilled acupuncturist and her work with pro football players. If it can do this for NFL athletes, what can acupuncture do for you?

Jets fullback Tony Richardson recently had an acupuncture session at his apartment that included 120 needles.

Stretched out on a massage table in his Long Island City condominium, Jets fullback Tony Richardson closed his eyes. Over the next hour, he groaned and grimaced and eventually fell asleep, as Lisa Ripi, the traveling N.F.L. acupuncturist, went to work.

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The Flu… An Oriental Medicine Perspective

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[retweet][facebook] INFLUENZA A (H3N2) A new strain of influenza A (H3N2) is sweeping through the USA and Europe. The spectrum of clinical manifestations caused by the current influenza virus infection ranges from non febrile, mild upper respiratory tract illness to severe or fatal pneumonia. Most cases appear to have uncomplicated, typical influenza like illness and

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