Anne Harrington
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 Even as efforts were made on one front to thoroughly secularize and disentangle one mind-body practice from its Eastern associations, the public was being offered a different, thoroughly exotic new vision of mind-body healing from the East: one grounded in previously little known principles of traditional chinese medicine.
A critical catalyst here came in 1993, when the Public Broadcasting Service broadcast a five-part documentary titled Healing and the Mind. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Its special chemical makeup was thought to be a tonic for a long and healthy life. In traditional chinese medicine, reishi is still considered to be among the highest class of tonics.
Now we're finding out that they may have been on to something. One study at Cornell Medical College found that reishi reduced side effects during chemotherapy while improving the quality of life. Its beneficial components—specifically ganodermic acids classified as triterpenoids, plus a number of polysaccharides—seem to benefit everything from blood pressure to liver detoxification to adrenal function. |
Anne Harrington
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| In 1957, new colleges of traditional chinese medicine were founded in Chengdu, Shanghai, Gaungzhou, and Beijing. The doctors assigned to these hospitals worked with officials to sift through the teachings of a range ot previously autonomous schools and sects. Their aim was to extract the most sensible elements in order to create a single tradition stripped of all "feudalis-tic superstitious" beliefs and made consistent with modern science and Marxist-Leninist principles. "Chinese medicine," Mao proclaimed, "is a grand cache of knowledge that we should actively bring to light and further evolve. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Scutellaria barbata, commonly used in traditional chinese medicine for its purported antitumor properties, was shown to inhibit the proliferation of uterine smooth muscle cells and act as an aromatase inhibitor contributing to
Scalzo's Protocol
Scudder's Alterative
CorydaLis tubers (Dicentra canadensis) Black alder bark (Alnus serrulata) Mayapple root (Podophyllum peltatum) Figwort flowering herb (Scrophularia nodosa) Yellow dock root (Rumex crispus)
Add 30-40 drops to a small amount of warm water and take 3 times daily. |
| Other botanicals used in traditional chinese medicine that show some promise in treating fibroids in vivo include poria and cinnamon.32
Traditional herbalists have developed various botanical uterine fibroid protocols and report modest success in reducing the size and number of uterine fibroids. I have used many herbs and herbal formulations over the years in an attempt to shrink fibroids, and I present the protocol below from one of the traditional herbalists, Rick Scalzo, as an option for your consideration. (See the Resources for a listing of herbal companies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I could write an entire article just on that, but here's something to get you started on what to investigate: The best modalities for liver cleansing are, in my opinion, traditional chinese medicine and rainforest herbs (Amazon herbs). I'll be writing a lot more about Amazon Herbs in the next day or two, so come back to read more about that if you want to learn about which herbs and herbal products are best at removing toxins from your liver (and restoring healthy liver function).
In my opinion, there is no such thing as a cancer recovery without a healthy, functioning liver. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Naturopathic physicians and traditional chinese medicine practitioners, on the other hand, will listen to their patient's symptoms but not necessarily treat those symptoms directly. Sometimes they even appear to ignore the symptoms completely, even though they are in actuality looking beyond them and treating the fundamental causes of the disease. There are really only a few basic causes of all disease. Conventional medicine has over ten thousand names for various diseases, but these are merely symptomatic descriptions. |
Anne Harrington
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| Applying the above theory and combining [it with] the curing theory of channel acupuncture in traditional chinese medicine, this product uses both magnetic acupuncture and mechanical acupuncture to activate the important acupoints around the eyes and harmonize the blood, Qi, thus improving the adjusting functions of the eye muscles and eye nerve, and curing nearsightedness and all kinds of eye-related diseases. . . . This equipment is designed accurately by computer to accord to the shape of the eyes and the distribution of acupoints. |
| Since the second half of the 1990s, I have also been involved in efforts to facilitate dialogue between Buddhism and the neurosciences, through my involvement with the Mind and Life Institute; and I have taken research trips to China to see what I could learn about the potential relevance of traditional chinese medicine and qigong for Western understandings of mind-body interactions. |
| It was also in 1979 that the authorities in China made a further move in their construction of traditional chinese medicine by adding qigong to the arsenal of officially recognized therapies. Qigong (the word itself was coined only in 1953) was a medicalized and secular extraction of a range of diverse practices that had originally been associated more with martial arts, advanced Buddhist meditative practices, and Taoist longevity rituals. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Yo San University
How Chinese Medicine Views Insomnia
In conventional Western medicine, two insomniacs who come to a physician with the same complaint—restless sleep—in all likelihood would leave the physician's office with the same prescription for the same sleeping pills. In traditional chinese medicine, however, the practitioner might took at one person and determine the restless sleep to be caused by a deficiency of heart yin energy, for example. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Indeed, chlorophyll-containing plants—such as spirulina, chlorel-la, and wild blue-green alga—are an essential part of the healing armament in traditional chinese medicine and other Eastern practices.
As far as chlorophyll's reputation as a "blood builder," there may be some scientific basis for this. The molecular structure of red blood cells and chlorophyll is virtually identical except for the center atom—in red blood cells it's iron, in chlorophyll it's magnesium. Chlorophyll is sometimes called "the blood of plant life."
Then there's the issue of acidity and alkalinity. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 The reason is that eighteen of the twenty-one adaptogens we discuss have been used as medicines in either ayurvedic practice or traditional chinese medicine. Because these traditions are thousands of years old, there is both a rich history and strong credibility as to their use and effectiveness. Table 1.2 lists the adaptogens with their Chinese and ayurvedic names and some additional common names.
Many popular books and Web sites refer to adaptogens by a variety of common names. For instance, different sources might refer to lycium as gogi berries, goji berries, or wolfberries. |
| Safety Issues: In traditional chinese medicine, tonic herbs such as astragalus should not be taken when someone has an acute infectious illness such as colds, flu, bronchitis, or pneumonia, because it can cause stagnation and "feed" the illness.
Herb/Drug Interactions: Animal and human studies show that this herb enhances the effects of recombinant interleukin 2 and recombinant-alpha interferon 1 and 2 immunotherapy. It also reduces side effects and enhances the effects of other types of chemotherapy and radiation therapies. |
| TRADITIONAL HERBAL MEDICINE
Traditional systems of medicine such as ayurveda from India, traditional chinese medicine, Tibetan medicine, Greco-Arabic medicine (Unani-Tibb), Eclectic medicine, and kampo from Japan have a long and impressive history of effectiveness. Lesser-known traditions, including Physiomedicalism and Native American, African, and Siddha (Sri Lankan) medicine, also contribute a wealth of knowledge and experience that we can glean. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| You will learn how to correct hormonal imbalances through traditional chinese medicine, diet, lifestyle modifications, and stress reduction.
Step 7: Correct structural imbalances.
In chapter 9, Correct Structural Imbalances, you will learn how physical disharmonies in your body can rob you
Use feng shui to restore harmony to your bedroom. of sleep. We discuss the therapeutic effects of regular exercise and explore of how gentle forms of exercise such as qigong and yoga can be especially effective for reducing stress and restoring deep sleep. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Throughout his research, he had been drawing heavily from his knowledge of traditional chinese medicine, which designates the orbs of the body—its major organs—as both generators of the energy that powers the physical body and reservoirs where that energy is stored for later use. However, he didn't blindly accept the wisdom of the traditional Chinese system. He preferred to perform his own matching experiments to determine how the body-field works. Over his decades of testing, he was able to detetmine not only how many Energetic Drivers there are in the body but also their preferred order. |
Marshall Editions
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 For acute conditions, the treatment will focus on skin rashes. traditional chinese medicine sees all itchiness as the result of pathogenic wind. To let go of the "wind" poison, the practitioner will use needling techniques that release toxins to stop itchiness and prevent the condition from becoming chronic. At a chronic stage, the treatment will be to regulate your immunity, or rebuild your internal balance, by tonifying some of your deficient organs or reorganizing energy. |
Dan Buettner
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 Often encountered today in spicy curries and mustard, turmeric has a long history of use as a culinary spice and an herbal medicine; the Ayurvedic, Unani, and Siddha systems, as well as traditional chinese medicine, advocated its use. Research has shown this spices most active component, curcumin, has antioxidant properties and may help ease inflammatory ailments.
We arrived at Oku in early evening. I passed a convenience store on the outskirts of a very small town and stopped to buy some snacks. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 According to the theory of traditional chinese medicine, the human body has a meridian system running deep in the tissues of the body through which flows an invisible energy which the Chinese term 'the qi, or life force. The qi supposedly enters the body through these acupuncture points and flows to deeper organ structures (which do not correspond to those of Western human biology), providing energy (and thus the life force). Illness occurs when there is a blockage of this energy anywhere along the pathways. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Acupuncture from the Tri-State Institute for traditional chinese medicine and also did special studies in China. Besides being in private practice for years, she also consults and holds rejuvenation workshops. She teaches doctors at the Botanical Medicine in Modern Clinical Practice Conference at Columbia's Rosenthal Center. She is adjunct faculty for the New York Botanical Garden.
PHILIP JAY HODES, ED.D., has spent three decades learning about holistic health, detoxification, and orthomolecular nutritional therapies. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| One way to explain these healing effects is through the movement of sound at the quantum level through the orbs—as traditional chinese medicine would call the organs or resonant cavities—of the body.
It is no great leap of logic, then, to think that the cavities of the body—the organs, microtubules, and the like—might create their own fields. According to the NES model of the human body-field, they do. These fields are called Energetic Drivers—the "gas tanks" of the body-field. For most people, the first inkling that they might be getting ill is that they feel tired. |
Marshall Editions
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| Acupuncture: An experienced acupuncturist will perform a traditional chinese medicine differentiation diagnosis, finding the cause of the problem by gathering information on your overall health. For example, if the patient with psoriasis is also suffering anxiety and/or high stress, the treatment will involve treating anxiety and stress in addition to treating the skin itself. Usually 12 acupuncture sessions makes up one course of treatment. It takes one to three courses to treat chronic psoriasis. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| Traditional herbal preparations account for 40 to 60 percent of medicines consumed, and traditional chinese medicine is the second most used medical system in the world after Western (also called allopathic or conventional) medicine. More Westerners are turning to Chinese herbs and medicines because of the vast experience and effectiveness available in this type of natural medicine.
In India, 60 percent of registered physicians are involved in nonallo-pathic systems of medicine. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 Examples include mind-body medicine, homeopathic medicine, naturopathic medicine, traditional chinese medicine, herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, chiropractic and osteopathic manipulation, and biofield therapies. These interventions are considered to be complementary medicine when they are used together with conventional medicine (as when meditation is used to reduce a patient's pain following surgery). |
Marshall Editions
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| Chuan Xin Lian: This traditional chinese medicine has heat and fire toxicity cleaning actions. Take 9 g of the powder three times a day for three to five days. The herb has an extremely bitter taste, and you may prefer to take it in capsule form.
• Niu Huang Shang Qin Wan: Take this patent Chinese herbal pill according to instructions for one week. If your condition does not improve, see a doctor.
Acupuncture: This will reduce the infection and eliminate pain. You may see immediate relief after one or two treatments, but for acute pain you may need daily treatments. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| Practitioners of traditional chinese medicine say that qi or blood tonics nourish the organs and strengthen the protective energy of the body. Russian scientists say that adaptogens increase the resistance within the body to a wide range of stressors and normalize functions. Western researchers and scientists look at how adaptogens regulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and sympathoadrenal system. (These terms will be discussed in chapter 5. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| Over many decades of original research, and expanding on the knowledge of traditional chinese medicine (TCM), Peter has come to identify three main systems of the human body-field: Energetic Drivers, Energetic Integrators, and Energetic Stars, as well as the Energetic Terrains and the body-field's relation to natural Earth and cosmic energies and fields that we call the Big Field influences.
Energetic Drivers
The Energetic Drivers are the powerhouses of the body-field. There are sixteen individual Driver fields, which together power the full body-field. |
Marshall Editions
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| Consult with a practitioner of traditional chinese medicine for advice on using herbs.
Herbs: The herbs used to make the following decoction are available online or from a Chinese herbalist or pharmacy. Combine 12 g of Chi Shao (red peony root), 12 g of Haui Niu Xi (achyranthes root), 12 g of Dan Shen (salvia root), and 15 g of Ji Xue Teng (millettia root) in a ceramic pot. Add 3 cups of water and bring to the boil. After simmering the mixture for 30 minutes, strain the liquid and drink 1 cup two to three times a day. |
| Stronger herbal decoctions than those described below can be prescribed by an experienced traditional chinese medicine doctor.
Herbs:
• Yin Chen tea: Yin Chen Hao (artemisia shoots and leaves) and capillaries have proven to be effective herbs for treating jaundice. Since the plant tastes bitter, you can take it with Jin Qian Cao (lysimachia), which has a sweeter taste. To make a tea put 5-6 g of each (one day's dose) in 2-4 cups of boiled water. Drink the tea three or four times a day.
• Long Dan Xie Can Wan: You can take this patent Chinese medicine pill with the Yin Chen tea. |
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