Tim Castles - Reuters
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
LONDON (Reuters)
- Prince Charles said the widespread use of genetically modified crops would
the "biggest disaster environmentally of all time" in a newspaper
interview published on Wednesday.
Articles, TCM
Prince Charles warns of GMO crops "disaster"
Acupuncture may be effective for menstrual pain
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Acupuncture can help relieve menstrual
pain and improve the quality of life for some women, a new study from
Germany shows.
Because the acupuncture patients were compared with a control group
who received no therapy, rather than a "sham," or fake, version of the
treatment, the placebo effect could have played a role, Dr. Claudia M.
Witt of Charite University Medical Center in Berlin and her colleagues
acknowledge.
Acupuncture with hypnosis looks promising
QUESTION: Do you know what would happen if you combined acupuncture with hypnosis? Would using both at the same time work better than either one alone?
DR. WEIL: You raise an interesting question -- one that my colleague Steven Gurgevich, PhD., has been investigating. Steve teaches mind/body medicine at the Program in Integrative Medicine (PIM) at the University of Arizona, and he is a faculty member of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He became interested in combining acupuncture with hypnosis through a chance personal experience. One morning, Steve was having a bad day with a headache. Elad Schiff, MD, a certified acupuncturist from Israel who was also a PIM fellow, suggested performing hypnosis with Steve. Schiff also brought out some of his acupuncture needles.
Blending the Science of Reproductive Technology with the Art of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Treating Infertility with Chinese medicine has been recorded in our ancient texts and on the backs of turtle shells for thousands of years. Western medicine has been treating disease for a couple hundred years. Reproductive medicine is one of our newest sciences. The first “test tube” baby was born less than thirty years ago. Over the recent five years, some conclusions have been made regarding the utility of acupuncture in conjunction with assisted reproductive technology. These reports come directly out of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s Fertility & Sterility Journal:
