| Find The Cure : Chinese Medicine
Increasing knowledge for better health is also expanding the desire to find the correct cures for the problems. A variety of problems that are directly linked to health in the world today, everything from mental ailments to physical diseases to problems reflected by other more serious problems, are becoming better known. Not only is Western medicine striving to find solutions, but traditional Chinese medicine is also working towards making ancient solutions more widely available. Chinese medicine is known to help cure common ailments, but in other ways it is now being proven that they are working towards finding alternatives. Many are approaching Chinese medicine to help alleviate addictions such as obesity, smoking and hard drugs. Not only is this a continuation of Chinese medicine, but is also increasingly evident of the influence of this alternative.
Understanding The Benefits Of Acupuncture For You
Acupuncture is an ancient practice that has become further acknowledged in recent years, but is still a procedure that is not completely understood. Scientific societies are upbeat on the benefits of acupuncture and, by understanding how the method is undertaken, the possible side effects and the outcome, you can determine if this ancient Chinese medical practice is right for you. Acupuncture is a form of complementary and alternative medicine and involves the technique of inserting thin needles through the skin at certain points on the body to control pain and other symptoms This practice of piercing specific sites on the body, called pathways or meridians, in an attempt to relieve pain associated with some chronic disorder is an ancient Chinese medical system over 5000 years old.
Acupuncture OK in workers’ comp
Sacramento, California, USA - In a boost for alternative medicine and patient choice, new guidelines for approving acupuncture as a treatment have been OK'd in workers' compensation cases in California.
The ancient Chinese therapeutic technique using fine needles was incorporated back into the state's workers' compensation system ... by the California Division of Workers' Compensation. .
Web site teams Western doctors with alternative medicine
When Jason Gordon battled cancer, he received treatment not only from a surgeon and an oncologist, but also experts in Chinese medicine, yoga, a cross-cultural nutritionist, a psychotherapist and an energy healer. Encouraging these practitioners to work together in coordinating his care helped put the cancer into remission, Gordon said. Now healthy, the Miami resident has set up Yellow Courtyard, a Web site that creates teams of both traditional doctors and alternative medicine practitioners to set up health care strategies for individual patients. The approach is rare, but growing. Both the University of Miami and Nova Southeastern University teach medical school students about alternative practices, such as acupuncture, massage and Eastern herbs. .
One more year... and counting
There's still a year to go before the 2008 Summer Olympics open in Beijing, but the guessing games have already begun for Team Canada. Who's going? How many medals can we win? And, how will our athletes ever be able to cope with the host city's horrendous smog problem? About one in six summer athletes use asthma inhalers to help open up breathing airways in the lungs. But because the pollution in Beijing is so foul, many athletes who never before had trouble breathing may suddenly find themselves slightly short of breath -- a small reduction, but one that may mean the difference between winning a medal or failing to. "There's no doubt this is the most polluted place in the world," said the Canadian Olympic Committee's environmental physiologist, Jon Kolb. "The thing that causes it is obviously the massive population growth and increase in automobiles.
Botanicas offer herbal remedies and a sense of home
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's the ultimate in one-stop shopping: a place to pick up advice, get your aura cleansed, or find the right herbs to flush out both evil spirits and your colon. The botanica, part shopping center and part cultural center, provides a haven for new immigrants finding their way in the nation's largest city. Long a staple in Hispanic culture, botanicas are flourishing in New York neighborhoods with large immigrant populations. The shops are home to the sacred and the mundane: homeopathic herbs and fragrant soaps, magic potions and religious artifacts. Gloria Rivera has owned the Botanica San Lazarito in Queens for nearly 23 years, and she specializes in cleansing auras and reading tarot cards. But she also counsels her clients -- many are recent Hispanic immigrants -- on families, jobs and life in a new country.
Ecologic Tourism Project in Hainan
Qixian (Seven Fairies) Mountain State Hot Spring and Forest Park is located in Baoting Li and Miao Ethnic Group Autonomous County that is in the central and south part of Hainan and at the foot of the south of Wuzhi Mountain. Being 76 kilometers away from the international tourism city Sanya in the south and 39 kilometers away from the famous mountain city Wu Zhishan City in the north, it is a preferential project for development of hot spring recuperation tourism determined by the general planning of Hainan's tourism industry. There are rare hot spring groups in the country with high temperature and sodium silicate water is a kind of ideal mineral water for medical use. The 1126m-high Qixian Mountain can be seen in the cloud sometimes and is just like seven fairy maidens coming down to earth.
Vaccine lab link to foot and mouth
A GOVERNMENT laboratory based two miles from where foot and mouth disease was discovered in a herd of cows is being investigated as the possible source of the outbreak. Fears were yesterday raised that there is a possibility the disease may somehow have been transferred from vaccines at the Institute for Animal Health in Surrey. .
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