There are different acupuncture styles out there. College acupuncturist Boaz Colodner talks about differences in needles used in Japanese acupuncture styles vs Chinese acupuncture styles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ZLhBQTBEQ
#acupuncture #needles #japanese #differences #tcm
Journal of Chinese Humanities
Journal of Chinese Humanities, a Diamond Open Access journal, is an English-language extension of Literature, History and Philosophy (Wen Shi Zhe 《文史哲》), a famous Chinese journal published by Shandong University. The content is not restricted to one aspect of Chinese culture but rather spans important topics within the fields of Chinese history, philosophy, and literature. It covers both traditional and modern areas of re-search. Importantly, as opposed to most English language journals that treat on Chinese studies, this journal aims to represent the current research coming out of mainland China. Thus each issue will be composed primarily of articles from Chinese scholars working at Chinese institutions, while at the same time including a small number of articles from foreign authors so as to provide opposing perspectives. This way, top scholars in China can be read in the Western world, and our Western readers will benefit from a native perspective and first hand material and research coming out of China.
https://brill.com/view/journals/joch/joch-overview.xml
#china #humanities #tcm #brill
The special issue of Chinese Medicine and Culture, volume 7, discusses the global cross-cultural integration of TCM in the mainstream healthcare, medical education and the practice of medicine. It describes how TCM was established in the west, how schools were formed, how regulation was put together, and what is the future of the profession. With interviews of some of the key pioneers in the field, Ted Kaptchuk, Peter Deadman, Will Morris, Nigel Wiseman, Peter Eckman, John McDonald , Judy James, Felicity Moir, Edward Neal, and Mel Hopper Koppelman. You can access the journal through this link: https://journals.lww.com/CMC/pages/default.aspx
Ioannis Solos was kind enough to also uploaded the pdf of the entire issue on Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fT4BSSEJ5uH8wqeWbry38NoLz2lo4nFJ/view
#tcm #china #healthcare
Acupuncture treatment for Hashimoto's thyroiditis: An exploratory randomized controlled trial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10899034/
#acupuncture #hashimoto #thyroiditis #thyroid #tcm
Just because we practice traditional Chinese medicine, doesn't mean we condone animal cruelty, so we are happy that African Heads of State and Government recommend a continent-wide ban on the slaughter of donkeys for their skin.
There are many alternatives to animal products, including different herbal medicines, foods, qi gong, moxa and even acupuncture. Chinese medicine has a very long and very noble history, and has always adapted to the needs and customs of the times. It can do without products that are not ethical to use in the 21st century.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68335851
#donkey #Ejiao #chineseherbalmedicine #chineseherbs #herbalmedicine #sustainability #TCM #acupuncture
A traditional treatment for black eye using an egg and herbs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fVX9TSrXR0
Three excellent interviews with Ted Kaptchuk, Peter Deadman and Will Morris just became available online at the website of the Chinese Medicine and Culture. These interviews were conducted by Charlie Buck and Ioannis Solos.
https://journals.lww.com/cmc/pages/default.aspx
#tcm #acupuncture #interview #culture #china
Thomas Leung – Radically Rooted: The Influence of Ancient Chinese Therapies in Modern Medical Science
https://radicalremedy.org/podcast/chinese-therapies-in-modern-medical-science/
#acupuncture #TCM #medicine #science
Consuming the placenta after giving birth, usually after encapsulation, is a nice practice that is nonetheless popular in some new age circles. Quite often, this is unfortunately promoted as if it is rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and that it would have beneficial properties for the new mother.
However, nothing could be further from the truth: eating the placenta is very clearly, documented, not part of Traditional Chinese medicine, or any other traditional practice, and it can even be harmful. These kinds of myths where modern invented "traditions" are falsely attributed harm the treasure trove that traditional medicine truly is.
(1) https://www.happygoatproductions.com/blog/2016/5/11/placentophagy-and-chinese-medicine
(2) https://www.happygoatproductions.com/blog/2017/9/6/a-lactation-consultants-perspective-on-placenta-encapsulation
(3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzIvjz-bhqw
#placenta #placentophagy #birth #TCM #FalseInformation #acupuncture
The latest study, which has been published in JAMA (formerly The Journal of the American Medical Association), represents one of the first times that a traditional Chinese medicine has been tested in a large-scale, Western-style clinical trial.
The authors of the study, who include researchers from several Chinese universities and hospitals, in collaboration with experts from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW)—found that tongxinluo reduced the risk of heart attacks (known as myocardial infarctions), deaths and other major cardiovascular complications for at least a year after a first heart attack.
https://www.newsweek.com/traditional-chinese-medicine-proves-effective-modern-clinical-trial-1842799
A recent systematic review shows acupuncture be more effective than sham acupuncture for nasal symptom (He et al 2022). A high-quality study carried out in Germany concluded "Acupuncture appeared to significantly reduce the number of days of antihistamine use while improving RQoL and SAR symptoms; it can therefore be considered a valuable, additional treatment option for patients with SAR" (Adam 2017).
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/01/pollen-bomb-six-ways-to-fight-hay-fever-this-spring-from-vitamin-d-to-making-new-friends
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9036742/
#tcm #acupuncture #hayfever
Clinical study finds scalp acupuncture effective for treating autistic children
The School of Chinese Medicine (SCM) of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) conducted a clinical observation of scalp acupuncture treatment for 68 children with autism. The findings indicated that 66 patients have shown improvements after treatment, resulting in an overall efficacy rate of 97%. The treatment was found to be more effective in younger children. Ms Yau said that after the treatment the patients showed more notable improvements in social interaction and verbal communication than in behaviours, noise sensitivity and food selectivity. Moreover, the earlier the children receive acupuncture therapy, the higher the effectiveness. This therapy is also more effective for natal autistic patients than patients with regressive autism.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-10-clinical-scalp-acupuncture-effective-autistic.html
Here you can find the original article: https://cmjournal.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s13020-018-0189-6.pdf
#autism #acupuncture #children #tcm #research
A great article by Charlie Buck about the importance of taste in Chinese food therapy and traditional Chinese herbal medicine.
https://www.herbalreality.com/herbalism/chinese-herbal-medicine/sweet-sour-importance-taste-food-energetics-traditional-chinese-medicine/
Ancient books from Chinese Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaKubM8Hz4E
#books #chinesemedicine #acupuncture #tcm #healing
#oldmoviestars #TCM #oldHollywood #oldmovies #GWTW #GONEWITHTHEWIND #TCMparty #vintageposter #ClarkGable #HedyLamarr
Long Covid is a new condition and the best way to treat it is not yet understood. Evidence like this from Hong Kong suggest that the benefits of acupuncture for people with long covid in the UK should be investigated. Acupuncture is recommended in NICE guidelines for fibromyalgia which is also potentially triggered by a virus.
#research #tcm #evidence #acupuncture #longcovid #fibromyalgia
This article takes the “A Medical Handbook” as an example to try to reveal how Western missionaries and Chinese translators jointly translated Western medical knowledge when it was introduced into the East during the 19th century. In this process, the fusion of Chinese and Western medical knowledge led to the Chinese version of A Medical Handbook. Not only did Western missionaries unilaterally promote their medical knowledge, but Chinese local elites also played an indispensable role in the dissemination of Western medical knowledge. In the early days of Western knowledge spreading into China, Western medical knowledge was incorporated into the knowledge pedigree of traditional Chinese medicine to a certain extent, which enabled the Chinese public to accept the use of Western medicine. The collision between Chinese and Western cultures at the level of medical knowledge affected the integration of Western medical knowledge systems into the local Chinese medical knowledge system.
https://journals.lww.com/CMC/Fulltext/2022/03000/Confucian_Medicine__A_Medical_Handbook_of_19th.2.aspx
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/
