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#oldmoviestars #TCM #oldHollywood #oldmovies #GWTW #GONEWITHTHEWIND #TCMparty #vintageposter #ClarkGable #HedyLamarr
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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/
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
Generally, three scholarly traditions can be recognised in medicine (1):
- Greek
- Ayurvedic
- Chinese
These great achievements of humankind represent medical systems that over centuries have grown by academic discourse. Other medical practices have served patients round the world as well, yet these have not had the enrichment of continued use and critical appraisal by specialists.
However, no system is pure in itself, and while for example Japanese and Korean medicine fall under the heading of Chinese medicine, and have their roots in the classical Chinese literature, practitioners from these countries object against being seen as merely part the influence sphere of Chinese politics.
Also within the country of China, a rich and varied landscape of medical methods presents itself. Especially notable are hybrid systems that have some of their origins in Traditional Chinese Medicine, but other roots in very different schools of thought. Uyghur Medicine is a combination of Unani, Ayurveda, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tibetan Medicine is a combination of Ayurveda, Bon and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Mongolian medicine is a combination of shamanism and Traditional Chinese Medicine. (2)
It is good to recognize the commonalities as well as the differences between these three systems of medicine within the borders of modern China. (3) China is a vast country, with many different beautiful traditions.
(1) Don Bates - Knowledge and Scholarly Traditions
(2) Elaine Yu - China’s Other Medical Systems: Recognizing Uyghur, Tibetan, and Mongolian Traditional Medicines (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26937317/ )
(3) Zhen Gao - Emergence and development of Uyghur medicine from the perspective of Chinese traditional medicine DOI: 10.1142/S2575900019100037
#tcm #traditionalchinesemedicine #tibetanmedicine #uyghermedicine #mongolianmedicine #medicine #uyghers
The Savior of Heat Stroke: Gua Sha
Summer has indeed arrived! We all like to use this great opportunity to enjoy exciting outdoor activities. All too often, we forget to protect ourselves from the strong summer sun. After long exposure to a warm environment, we may suddenly feel dizzy, nauseas and tired; this condition is generally described as a light degree of “heat stroke.”
Heat stroke is a type of heat-related illness, defined as a body temperature greater than 40.6°C due to environmental heat exposure. Heat stroke, under certain conditions, may be a life-threatening emergency. The reason being excess absorbed or produced heat in the body that cannot be efficiently dissipated. This could result in tissue injury, loss of normal organ function, or even brain damage if fainting is experienced.
Traditional Chinese Medicine uses the term “heat stroke” often not in an emergency condition, but as a common diagnosis with symptoms occurring during the summer and autumn seasons. For example, walking through a parking lot with your body exposed to a high heat environment causes the hair follicles to open to release the extra heat; then, upon entering an office building with air conditioning, the hair follicles will close suddenly to preserve heat. In such a short transition period, the excess heat absorbed outdoors was not released completely. Trapping this excess heat on the surface of the body can lead to the possibility of “heat stroke.” Other symptoms may be related, such as headache, sore throat, running nose, coughing, or even tightness in the neck and shoulders. These may be treated with a technique called Gua Sha. The discomfort caused by this treatment can be immediately relieved.
The word “Gua” means scrape, and “Sha” refers the so-called “heat spot” or “fever.” When using this scraping technique a red or purple spot will appear on the neck and upper back region. Scraping Therapy not only releases the heat from the surface of the body, but an also relieve blood flow, improve blood circulation and promote metabolism. Usually, a higher severity of “heat stroke” is made apparent by a deeper color of the red or purple spot that occurs from the scraping treatment. After the treatment you should feel relaxed and the pain or discomfort from the scraping should be released. Under normal circumstances, the heat spots will slowly disappear in one to three days, for some elderly people it may take up to seven to ten days due to slow blood circulation and metabolism.
The best prevention of heat stroke is to keep your body in a cool environment, and avoid often going from hot to cold or cold to hot temperatures too quickly. Your body needs time to balance its temperature. If the symptoms of “heat stroke” are severe, and fainting occurs, emergency attention is needed immediately.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25098257/
#heatstroke #guasha #acupuncture #tcm #chinesemedicine #heat #summer #treatment #scrapingtherapy #hot
If traditional acupuncture seems very different from what you know, then that is because it is! It was developed by a very different people, people that saw the world like this, and who thought different as well.
That does not mean that we cannot use insights from classical China in the modern world. Indeed to deal with the frustrations and disappointments of Industrial Medicine, we can turn to the basic text book that has inspired over two millennia of doctors: The Huang Di Nei Jing. It is still relevant as ever today, and can be a guide to improve health and treat disease. Differently, but effectively.
https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2021/03/sanxingdui-culture/#
(Kudos to Edward Neal)
#tcm #acupuncture #china #tradition #insights #neijing #neijingnaturebasedmedicine
In the EU parliament, a meeting has been held bout the use of Integrative Medicine for Covid and Long Covid. Among the speakers were a neurologist/acupuncturist, an oncologist/homeopath and other medical experts.
Contrary to many people's belief, on a high political level, steps are being taken to integrate proven, effective and safe natural therapies back into mainstream medicine, after they had been excluded because they did not seem to fit into the Industrial Medicine's model.
Will this development change the practice of medicine itself? Hopefully. Many people suffer from chronic illnesses, for which traditional natural medicine has good treatment options.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNMpih0MmVI
#medicine #acupuncture #eu #integrativemedicine #covid #longcovid #treatment #eurocam #alternativemedicine #tcm #integration
New research proves benefits of TCM. https://www.studyfinds.org/traditional-chinese-medicine/
#tcm #children
Cold baths and cold showers, even plunging into ice baths, have become very popular lately, as a suppositiously healthy way to “boost the immune system” and for general health.
In traditional medicine, we see this very differently: Cold is one of the main problems that can invade the body, and it can cause much harm. The Huang Di Nei Jing (the Yellow Emperor’s handbook of internal medicine) describes how to treat damage caused by cold with acupuncture needles. The later classic Shang Han Lun (Treaty on Cold Damage) focusses more on herbal medicine. Protecting the body from cold, by covering it up adequately according to the weather, and eating warm instead of salads and juices, is important to stay healthy.
The longing of modern man to reconnect with his body, to feel viscerally, is understandable in this age where we are pushed towards experiencing life through screens, personal relationships have been taxed and artificial foods (highly processed foods and “meat substitutes”) are supposed to nourish our bodies. However, cold is not your friend.
To really support our body and mind, long brisk walks, being in nature, genuinely connecting to another human being, prayer or meditation are much better.
https://anncecilsterman.com/cold-plunge-cold-shower-hot-mess-by-ann-cecil-sterman/
#cold #tcm #traditionalmedicine #notyourfriend #icebaths #health #immunesystem
In our hubris, we often think we are the centrepiece of the world, with everything else on the planet being set pieces as the background for our performance. This view is the basis for fantasies about humans able to control nature, to prevail over the uncertainties of life, and it has grown more and more strong in recent years and lead to much suffering. However, the opposite view is, slowly, discretely gaining traction as well. The world is alive, and nature enforces her own patterns. Even the soil is brimming with life, and even making sounds at it! (1) The earth is not a passive place where we were dropped unwinkingly, but the pulsating, breathing overflowing cradle that is sprouting humans, and taking them back in her lap once their time is up.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) works with these natural graining patterns, rather than against them. There are many branches of TCM, including traditional acupuncture, but a rather recent sprout of TCM, Neijing Nature-Based Medicine (2), deserves a special mentioning because it embraces these principles explicitly.
(1) https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2022/life-soil-was-thought-be-silent-what-if-it-isnt
(2) https://neijingstudies.com/
Thank you for this interesting essay, Charles Buck.
Biomedicine struggles to find safe painkillers. Chinese medicine's treasure chest has some answers. More people should know about valid and researched choices such as acupuncture and chinese medicine.
https://charliebuck.medium.com/chinese-medicine-and-the-challenge-of-pain-a7522c760239
#tcm #biomedicine #pain #solutions
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Thanks for this, Igor Simonov!
Chinese Medicine uses carrots to inhibit viral infection due to increasing of interferon levels in blood which inhibits viral mRNA after consumption of decoction of carrots . Two carrots (200g) chopped in pieces and boiled for 15 min in 1/2 litre of water. Take warm as prevention and treatment of viral infections.
Virus uses viral mRNA which translates into the viral protein. This translation of viral information through viral mRNA is stopped by our own interferon. Interferon inhibits translation and viral protein is not created. Similar reaction happens during use of antibiotics. Carotinoids and especially carrots tea boost production of interferon, making carrot tea to become antiviral drink which inhibits viral mRNA.
Research about immunological properties of carotinoids, polymers of carotin produced during boiling, which is a pigment giving an orange colour to the water. These carotenoids enhance lymphocyte blastogenesis, increase the population of specific lymphocyte subsets, increase lymphocyte cytotoxic activity, and stimulate the production of various cytokines. In addition, carotenoids also stimulate the phagocytic and bacteria-killing ability of blood neutrophils and peritoneal macrophages. The action of these carotenoids is widely accepted to be independent of their provitamin A activity.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030293776195
Increase of interferon and anti-inflammatory factors during intake of carotinoids
https://www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S0271531717307510
Research about interferons inhibiting viral mRNA
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/JVI.01784-07
Research about antiviral property of carrots with human DNA
https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?=antiviral+effect+of+carrot&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3DZqZwd_1ASAoJ
Research about mice fed with carrots
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10408224/
#tcm #virus #carrots #research
Cupping is one of the auxiliary techniques that we use. Scientific research is not only done into acupuncture, but also into techniques like cupping. This is an MRI image of a suction cup applied to the skin, showing how muscle and fascia is pulled up and stretched by the cup.
#acupuncture #tcm #cupping #mri #alternativemedicine