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'Indeed, when we can drink from our rivers, it means that a whole ecosystem is healthy and in balance. Rivers can only be drinkable when all actions and relations in an entire watershed contribute.This could be a guiding principle for our societies, as a replacement of economic growth. Drinkable rivers as an ancient and new compass, guided by the following, simple question: “Does this behaviour, this measure, or this innovation contribute to drinkable rivers?”'

In medicine, the idea of smooth-flowing rivers is very old, going back to the Huang Di Nei Jing, the classic book of Chinese medicine, which lays out the traditional ideas and techniques of acupuncture.

https://drinkablerivers.org/

#drinkablerivers #acupuncture #neijing

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Acupuncture Big Evidence Global Research Collaboration

Dr. Yair Maimon, President of the ETCMA (1), discusses the global One Voice Big Evidence Project (2) in detail (3): the goals, objectives, challenges and opportunities for the TCM profession in the near future as the World health Organization (WHO) deploys the new ICD 11 codes which include Traditional medicine (TM) codes as well.
This project has for goal to provide integration of ICD-11 coding of disease with the WHO ICD-11 Chapter 26 (TM) Traditional Medicine Coding of Chinese medical pattern differentiation.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGZBF5O8CfQ
(2) https://etcma.org/
(3) https://www.acupunctureonevoice.org/

#acupuncture #etcma #onevoiceproject #tcm

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Thanks, Mel Hopper Koppelman for the find!

Few people realize how long acupuncture has been practiced by physicians in the West. Here is an article published in the Lancet in 1837 by a Dr Wansbrough on the immediate effects of acupuncture for low back pain in a patient who had been bedridden for 6 weeks and unresponsive to other treatment.
He wonders if acupuncture is not more widely used within the medical profession because the practice is beneath them or because it doesn't pay well...

"LUMBAGO TREATED BY ACUPUNCTURATION.
To the Editor of THE LANCET.
SIR:-Mr. J. H., of Dartford, was confined, during six weeks, to his bed and room, by a severe attack of lumbago, for which he was treated secundem artem, i.e., leeched, cupped, and blistered, taking calomel, opium, colchicum, &c.,&c.,&c.,in all legitimate forms, but with none effect.
I found him suffering from a fixed pain in the longissimi dorsi, extending to one-third of their length from the sacrum, the almost invariable seat of lumbago. I waited some time for the medical gentleman who was attending Mr. H., and on his arrival proceded to perform the following operation:
- Three needles were introduced into the left muscle, (where the pain was greatest), and suffered to remain during about five minutes The right muscle was operated on in the same manner. Very little pain was experienced I should say, comparatively none.
Mr. H. immediately afterwards dressed himself, and walked a distance of upwards of seven hundred yards, to the great delight and astonishment of himself and his relatives, who were amazed at the wonderful effect of this simple remedy ; and its effects certainly are wonderful; they require the evidence of ocular demonstration to be accredited to their full extent. Why, I would ask, is this simple remedy not more resorted to in those chronic, fixed, muscular pains, (and often in acute cases), which defy the power of medicaments, and often compel the puzzled practitioner to pass his paralyzed patients, if not to the "Houris,' at least to « Mahomed's paradise of steam and shampooing," to soothe their sufferings in the saline sudatories of the sable prophet 66 with what benefit they may?" Is it because the remedy of acupuncturation is infra dig., or is it because it does not pay? I cannot for a moment indulge in the latter supposition, and the former is unjust. I can only say I was so well paid by Mr. H., that I should have no objection to a few such patients "prore nata."
In former papers* I directed the attention of the profession to acupuncture; I also published several consecutive cases, in which 6 6 the crooked were made straight, and the lame to walk." In one case the sight was restored. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
T, W. WANSBROUGH.
Fulham, April 22, 1837."

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AMR Awareness Week (Day 5): MDR-TB, the existing anomolous AMR pandemic

The emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) represents one of the most daunting challenges to disease control worldwide let alone to controlling AMR.

Drug-resistant TB is the only antimicrobial resistant infection that is airborne so is by any defnition the hardest AMR problem to contain.
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/amr-awareness-week-day-5-mdr-tb-the-existing-anomolous-amr-pandemic

#acupuncture #tuberculosis #WAAW #moxibustion #moxafrica

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Today is the second day of ‘World Antimicrobial Awareness Week’ and Moxafrica is publishing a series of blogs posts.
Antimicrobial Medicine Resistance is unquestionably a growing problem and indeed was endorsed as such by the World Health Organization (WHO) at the Sixty-Eighth World Health Assembly in May 2015. It's also no coincidence that the year before that, in 2014, the then UK prime minister David Cameron had commissioned a review regarding what he was being advised was a worrying global phenomenon. “If we fail to act,” he warned at the time, “we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine.” His doom-laden warnings were undoubtedly being stoked by his then Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies, who (since leaving office in 2019) has become the UK’s official ‘special envoy on AMR’.

https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-november-18-26-day-2-the-nature-of-the-threat-of-amr
#acupuncture #moxafrica #moxibustion #WAAW #AntibioticResistance

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Today is the first day of ‘World Antimicrobial Awareness Week’ and Moxafrica will be publishing a series of blogs during the week, intending to appropriately promote better awareness by discussing what this week is all about (and it's a complex and multi-facetted issue that demands much better public understanding). They plan to relate it to tuberculosis control at some point, but will also examine what can be done by politicians, global authorities, farmers, doctors and vets etc. and offer some advice about what people can do about it themselves.
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-waaw-november-18-26-part-1

#acupuncture #moxafrica #moxibustion #waaw #antibiotics

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What are the Acupuncture Channels? (1)

Vivien is an acupuncturist and anatomist who lives and works in Anglesey. For 10 years, She has been researching the idea that the original acupuncture texts describe the physical human body rather than something more esoteric based on energy.

The anatomist’s job is to look at the body, and then share that knowledge more widely. Vivien has used her unique combination of skills in both acupuncture and anatomy to first find out, and then show what the original acupuncture texts are describing.

Her work demonstrates the strong scientific basis for acupuncture that was developed through dissection and anatomical examination by early Han dynasty anatomists over 2,000 years ago.

Vivien's Research Publications: (2)
(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gltCHzY4oRM
(2) https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-anatomy-of-acupuncture(3f945934-2eba-41f7-9f09-e560580fa90c).html

#acupuncture #research #anatomy #vivienshaw #acutrack

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Long Covid: an article by Martin John on its treatment with Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Martin John is a member of the Jade Screen Project and keen to transmit the knowledge that was gathered over the course of the pandemic by herbal practitioners worldwide into the treatment of COVID and Long Covid.

"What studies have shown is that Long Covid can affect a spectrum of patients regardless of severity and duration of the initial infection. This debilitating condition continues to confound Western medics although many theories are emerging from the thousands of research papers that have been written about SARS Cov-2 and its after effects. Chinese Medicine, however, has a long history of treating epidemic diseases and has numerous diagnostic models to explain their progression and treatment. Whilst I will be exploring what we are learning about Long Covid I will try to draw some parallels with traditional understandings of its patho-physiology. Detailed explanations of Chinese medicine theory are however beyond the scope of this article."

https://rchm.co.uk/getting-to-the-root/getting-to-the-root-of-long-covid-article
#longcovid #traditionalmedicine #acupuncture #tcm #alternativemedicine

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An overview of guidelines from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2) composed by the Society for Integrative Oncology (2), which gives an overview of the current evidence base for therapies like acupuncture in the care of oncology patients.

(1) https://integrativeonc.org/
(2) https://www.asco.org/practice-patients/guidelines/patient-and-survivor-care

#acupuncture #cancer #oncology #alternativemedicine #evidence #research #asco #integrativeonc #medicine

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October 24th is World Acupuncture Day.
Acupuncture is a beautiful method of treatment to heal diseases without medicine. No medicine, no side effects and cost is minimum.
We celebrate to educate and raise influence of acupuncture.
Our purpose is this international day of acupuncture to spread by the whole world acupuncture society.

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Moxafrica is a British charity set up in 2008 to investigate the use of moxibustion therapy for the treatment of tuberculosis, particularly drug-resistant TB, in resource-poor environments.

Next week, they are going to the ‘Bellhaven Harm Reduction Centre’ in the centre of Durban, to come and introduce (and train, of course) their staff to moxa.

https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/moxafrica-arrives-in-kwazulu-natal-south-africa

#moxafrica #acupuncture #moxa #tuberculosis #medicine

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A common criticism of acupuncture is that the acupuncture channels or meridians don't exist and are metaphysical concepts. Dr Vivien Shaw argues quite the opposite. Her research compared the original descriptions of the meridians in the Mawangdui medical texts (300–200 BCE) with dissections to reveal that these texts were describing real anatomical structures. This work has various important implications for:
• Improving the perception of acupuncture by conventional medicine
• Further research into acupuncture mechanisms of action
• Refining channel and point location in clinical practice
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24503
#acupuncture #meridians #research #medicine