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Acupuncture a Powerful Tool in Complementary Cancer Care
Our colleagues over at Mesothelioma.com contacted BIOM to share an article which makes the case for what we’ve been saying for years: Oriental Medicine has a role to play in the broad range of health care.
More people worldwide use acupuncture than any other type of health care or treatment.
Key points include:
Doctors have been increasingly integrating acupuncture into their palliative cancer treatment programs.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that more people worldwide utilize acupuncture than any other type of health care or treatment.
The WHO recognizes acupuncture as an effective method for helping individuals deal with side effects like pain and fatigue stemming from chemotherapy and other cancer-related treatments.
Doctors are using acupuncture to offset the side-effects of chemotherapy and other cancer-related treatments.
So it’s interesting to see that doctors, nurses and other health professionals are using acupuncture as part of their everyday cancer care.
You can read the full article below.
Acupuncture a Powerful Tool in Complementary Cancer Care
Complementary therapies, while not given the attention that more traditional cancer therapies may receive, are perhaps equally important while undergoing treatment for certain types of cancer. Patients diagnosed with difficult to treat malignancies will often use these types of therapies in conjunction with traditional surgical, chemotherapeutic, or radiology techniques to form a more comprehensive and effective treatment regimen. Among the most important and effective alternative therapies utilized by those diagnosed with cancer is acupuncture.
Reclaiming The Yin - Update
Starting this past September Kitty has been leading a group in a year-long, online seminar which she calls Reclaiming The Yin: An Eastern Journey of Self-Exploration & Discovery.
This multiple-intelligences learning experience combines a monthly face-to-face, group meeting over the Internet, where we learn about and discuss how your health can be affected by what the seasonal Energy or Chi is doing that month.
When we’re in sync with Nature, we’re in sync with what we need to stay balanced, grounded, and healthy. Reclaiming The Yin teaches you how to do this: the first session of each season we discuss and experience the 5 Element health aspects, in the second session we learn and practice Chi Kung, and in the third we delve into Diet and Nutrition — The Five Element Way.
Short demonstration videos that we produce at BIOM are used to support our discussions. They bring this ancient wisdom right down to today’s ‘street level.’
Women and Yin
Women especially, are called upon to Reclaim their Yin, since Yin is the Nature of the woman. Women are the foundation of Yin among people, but we’ve long ago lost our experience and understanding of what Yin is. It’s time to Reclaim the Yin, and bring our lives into balance. And by becoming more balanced as individuals we automatically bring more Yin energy into our time, so the energy of the planet can benefit too.
Then, to build on these concepts and make them a practical part of day-to-day life, everyone schedules a half-hour of phone or live chat time with Kitty to ask questions and receive personalized feedback regarding how to apply these ancient tools for the 21st century.
Add to that the buzz of insights and understanding that get expressed and discussed in the BIOM Community Forums, and that’s the recipe for the nourishing experience we call: Reclaiming The Yin. Learn more.
Acupuncture Eases Back Pain More Than Usual Care
Key Points
- Almost half the patients treated with acupuncture needles felt relief that lasted months. In contrast, only about a quarter of the patients receiving medications and other Western medical treatments felt better.
- “Acupuncture represents a highly promising and effective treatment option for chronic back pain,” study co-author Dr. Heinz Endres of Ruhr University Bochum in Bochum, Germany, said in an e-mail. “Patients experienced not only reduced pain intensity, but also reported improvements in the disability that often results from back pain and therefore in their quality of life.”
- “We don’t understand the mechanisms of these so-called alternative treatments, but that doesn’t mean they don’t work,” said Dr. James Young of Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center, who wasn’t involved in the research. Young often treats low back pain with acupuncture, combined with exercises and stretches.
- Funding came from German health insurance companies, and the findings already have led to more coverage in Germany of acupuncture.