Dawson Church
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 I realized that integrating it with traditional chinese medicine would combine the best of both systems, so I obtained certification as a doctor of traditional chinese medicine. [Then} I became a disciple of Dr. Zhi Chen Guo. Under Master Guo's rigorous training...my spiritual channels were opened, and I became a medical intuitive."1
A healer may have studied a particular modality but not have the experience to treat you in depth; in such cases ethical practitioners recognize the limits of their expertise and will certainly refer you to a highly competent specialist. |
Anne Harrington
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 Traditional Chinese medicine, he announced, was to be cultivated and celebrated as a "national treasure." 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. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 The Amomum species is used extensively in traditional Indian medicine. traditional chinese medicine uses cardamom for treating stomachaches, constipation, diarrhea, and other digestive difficulties. Cardomon has been traditionally used as an antispasmotic.
Throw Me a Lifesaver!
DIGESTIVE HEALTH: Cardamom possesses the ability to kill harmful H. pylori bacteria associated with ulcers. It also exerts a calming effect on the rest of the digestive tract and has been used to treat dyspepsia and gastritis. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 As practiced by licensed practitioners who undergo extensive training and are often trained in traditional chinese medicine (TCM) as well, it is completely safe and quite effective for a number of conditions.
One of those conditions is infertility.
The Yin, the Yang, and Baby Makes Three
Acupuncture, like TCM, is based on a concept of the body as a balance of forces—yin (the cold, the slow, and the passive) and yang (the hot, the excited, and the active). |
| The bark, seed, twigs, and leaves from the horse chestnut trees are used in traditional chinese medicine. Horse chestnut extract is helpful for improving circulation, which makes it also useful for relieving leg cramps. The German Commission E, which is responsible for testing herbs and supplements, approves horse chestnut for "venous insufficiency," meaning lack of blood flow through the veins.
Those Delicate Veins
Varicose veins are almost always related to a weakness in the walls of the veins, which are fairly delicate structures to begin with. |
| BODY, HEAL THYSELF
Natural medicine—in fact, all traditional systems of healing from traditional chinese medicine to shamanism to herbalism—subscribe to a basic philosophy that seems to be curiously absent in conventional Western medicine, and it's this: The body has an almost wondrous ability to heal itself. My friend, naturopathic physician Sonja Petterson, N.M.D., points out that in sanatoriums they used to put people on fasts, hose them down, and make them walk around in the cold clean air. |
| For centuries, traditional chinese medicine doctors have recommended celery for high blood pressure. It makes sense for anyone with this serious condition to include celery in their diet on a daily basis.
Celery also contains silicon, an important nutrient for bone health. Because of its silicon content, celery can help renew joints, bones, arteries, and all connective tissue. It also contains acetylenics, which have been shown to stop the growth of cancer cells, as well as phenolic acids, which block the action of compounds in the body known to encourage the growth of cancerous tumors. |
| He went to China to interview traditional chinese medicine practitioners for the Discovery Channel, and was told by Diao Yuan Kuang, M.D., that horny goat weed "... gives you back your sexual strength." Chinese doctors use it to treat erectile problems, boost libido, and recapture the sexual vitality of youth. Herb traders in China estimate that they sell more than 100 tons of the stuff every year.
Little research has been done on horny goat weed and libido, but it has a long history of successful use, and many health practitioners, not only in Asia, but over here, endorse it. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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Ine thyroid plays a key role in a i „ nT:,, j ¦ traditional chinese medicine the interaction between REM and non-REM sleep cycles and patterns ¦ Homeopathic remedies of hormone secretion from the endocrine system during the night. Both
TSH and T4 show a definite circadian pattern, and levels of TSH directly affect the onset of REM sleep periods.1 Researcher and enzyme specialist Lita Lee, Ph.D., says that people with low thyroid function generally also have low blood sugar. |
| Darren decided to get a traditional chinese medicine (TCM) diagnosis. In TCM, the practitioner considers the flow of vital energy (qi) in a patient through close examination of the patient's pulse, tongue, body odor, voice tone and strength, and general demeanor, among other elements. Darren's tongue was flabby and slightly pale with a red tip; he also had scalloped "teeth marks" on the sides of his tongue and his pulses were "slippery." All of these signs indicated that Darren's spleen and stomach were deficient in energy, meaning he was not producing enough blood or digestive power. |
| Jahnke sees are from yin deficiencies, although he does see some people with insomnia caused by digestive problems. of traditional chinese medicine. For intestinal parasites, purgative herbs are usually used. Pumpkin and quisqualis seeds are two common remedies. The pumpkin seeds are eaten raw, while the quisqualis seeds are usually roasted. Both are taken every morning on an empty stomach, approximately 10 to 12 seeds of each, for about two weeks. "Quisqualis and pumpkin seeds are mild and safe enough for adults and children to take daily as a preventative measure as well," says Dr. Ni. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 The Chinese, for whom cupping was also a popular remedy, theorised that it rid the body of unwanted or perverse chi by drawing it to the surface and diffusing it. traditional chinese medicine still uses cupping to treat asthma, as well as boils or abscesses, arthritis, rheumatism, bruising, colds and chills.
There are two types of cupping, wet and dry. Dry cupping is by far the most common and involves heating the air in glass or bamboo suction cups and then placing the cups along energy meridian lines or affected areas of the body. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 For more than two thousand years, practitioners of traditional chinese medicine have used ginseng root to treat various ailments. It has largely been valued as a way to boost the immune system and as an adaptogen, which means it helps increase the body's resistance to stress. Today it is still used for this purpose, but it also is proving helpful in supporting metabolic health and healthy blood sugar levels.
At the University of Toronto, a group of researchers found that Asian ginseng, when compared with a placebo, improved glucose and insulin control in people with type 2 diabetes. |
Andreas Moritz
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 It has been used for centuries in Ayurvedic (traditional Indian) therapies and traditional chinese medicine to treat everything from isolated cases of the sniffles to fullblown outbreaks of influenza. Apparently, andrographis is believed to have halted the spread of the 1919 Indian flu pandemic.
Scientific evidence supports that theory. Researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth in the U.K. conducted a survey of medical databases, herbal manufacturer information and World Health Organization reports to select seven studies that met the criteria for double-blind, controlled trials. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 This was the first mass media exposure of Americans to acupuncture and traditional chinese medicine.
"I have seen the past," wrote Reston, "and it works."'
DEFINITIONS
The subject of this chapter is known by many names: "unorthodox" or "unconventional," or sometimes less accurately as "naturopathic."2 In vogue today is "complementary and alternative medicine," abbreviated as CAM. We'll use the term "alternative."
Our first problem is to decide exactly what is alternative? |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Daily Dosage: The average daily dose is 120 mg of dried extract in 2 or 3 doses orally (in clinical studies up to 240 mg were used as a daily dose); parenteral daily dose is 50 to 100 mg of the drug.
In traditional chinese medicine, the daily dose is 3 to 6 gm of leaves as an infusion.
Storage: Ginkgo must be protected from light and moisture.
LITERATURE
American Psychiatric Association (Ed.), DSM-IV. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Ed. R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company 1994.
Amling R, Phytotherapeutika in der Neurologie. In: ZPT 12(1):9. 1991. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Thus, voices from within the major medical heterodoxies—particularly homeopathy, chiropractic, osteopathy, acupuncture, Ayurveda, 'traditional Chinese medicine', and herbal medicine—are calling for regulation or the legal right to self-regulate. And governments are debating the same issues, while increasing funding for 'scientific' research into the efficacy of heterodox practices (to the disgust of many in the biomedical community). In 1991, Congress mandated the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate 'unconventional medicine'. |
| Acupuncture and moxabustion in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China (and in the 'Traditional Chinese Medicine' practised in Europe and North America today) were therapies predicated on a set of basic philosophical beliefs about the natural world (see Introduction). Chinese scholar-physicians used this cosmology to interpret their broad empirical knowledge of the human body and disease, and from this combination of experience and interpretation produced an immense pharmacopoeia, a detailed disease classification system, and a set of body-maps. |
| Indeed, Ayurveda and traditional chinese medicine (TCM) continue to be practised in Europe and in their regions of origin today, and western humoural medicine only gradually declined in popularity after the Scientific Revolution (roughly 1543-1700) with its greater privileging of empirical and especially experimental knowledge about the natural world. It persisted in orthodox practice until the mid-nineteenth century, and informed lay explanatory systems into the present. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| Modern acupuncture charts show up to 2000 treatment points along the meridians, although traditional chinese medicine only indicated 365.
The Chinese consider good health to be a state of balance and harmony, and that in everything that lives there is an interaction between two polar energy forces: yin and yang. There is no absolute yin and no absolute yang, only a mixture of the two, although the balance may swing. Neither can exist without the other—they are constantly interacting and changing. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| It is used in traditional chinese medicine for the treatment of high blood pressure, arthritis, and insomnia and other nervous disorders, and to increase longevity. Reishi is Willard's herb of choice for insomnia because it is calming during the day, reduces anxiety, and is helpful in regulating sugar metabolism. He typically recommends three 1-gram tablets of reishi three times a day.37
Skullcap
Skullcap {Scutellaria lateriflora), also a member of the mint family, has traditionally been used as a nerve tonic and sedative. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 It's been recommended in traditional chinese medicine for high blood pressure for centuries, and experimental evidence has confirmed its usefulness. In one study, injecting lab animals with celery lowered their blood pressure by 12 to 14 percent. If you're a human, you'd get that effect with about four stalks. Dr. Mark Houston, head of the Hypertension Institute at St. Thomas Hospital and Medical Center in Nashville and my go-to guy for all things related to hypertension, has celery at the top of his list of foods for his patients with high blood pressure. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Studies on the Antihemorrhagic and anticoagulative substances in herbs used for treatments of Bleeding and stagnant blood in traditional chinese medicine. J Pharm Sci. 76; S200. 1987
Kashiwada Y, Nonaka GI, Niskioka I, Chang JJ, Lee KH, Antitumor agents, 129. Tannins and related compounds as selective cytotoxic agents. In: JNP 55:1033-1043. 1992.
Greater Bindweed
Calystegia sepium description
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts are the whole flowering plant and the root.
Flower and Fruit: The solitary white flowers are about 5 cm long; the pedicle is quadrangular. |
| Bladderwrack has been used in a variety of herbal formulations in traditional chinese medicine (Lee et al, 1998; Liu XY, 1995).
Antibacterial Effects: An unnamed mucopolysaccharide/lectin isolated from Bladderwrack was shown to have bactericidal effects on Escherichia coli and Neisseria meningitidis but not other Enterobacteriaceae in vitro. The minimum bactericidal concentration was 10 mcg/mL. Bacteriostatic effects were observed at 5 mcg/mL. |
| A hospital clinic-based survey on traditional chinese medicine usage among chronic hepatitis B patients. Comp TherMed; 13:175-182. 2005.
Xuan W, Dong M & Dong M: Effects of compound injection of Pyrola rotundifolia L and Astragalus membranaceus Bge on experimental guinea pigs' gentamicin ototoxicity. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol; 104:374-380. 1995
Yang Y-z, Jin P-y, Guo Q et al. Treatment of experimental coxsackie B-3 viral myocarditis with Astragalus membranaceus in mice. Chinese Med J; 103:14-18. 1990
Yarnell, E. and Abascal, K: Herbs for relieving chronic renal failure. |
| Non-surgical treatment of small cell lung cancer with chemo-radio-immunotherapy and traditional chinese medicine. Chung Hua Nei Ko Tsa Chih; 33:462-466. 1994
Chen LX. Liao JZ. Guo WQ. Effects of Astragalus membranaceus on left ventricular function and oxygen free radical in acute myocardial infarction patients and mechanism of its cardiotonic action. Chung Kuo Chung Hsi I Chieh Ho Tsa Chih Mar;15(3):141-3. 1995
Chen M. Liu F. Chemical constituents of the seed oil of Astragalus complanatus R. Brown. Chung Kuo Chung Yao Tsa Chih Apr;15(4):225-6, 255. 1990
Chu D. Sun Y. Lin J et al. |
| Fifty-four patients were treated with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, and traditional chinese medicine, which included Astragalus. Chemotherapy consisted of vincristine, cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and carmustine. The overall response rate was 98.1% (Chaetal, 1994).
The effect of pure Astragalus preparation (PAP) in treating 115 patients with leukopenia was determined after 8 weeks of therapy. |
| Studies on the Antihemorrhagic and anticoagulative substances in herbs used for treatments of Bleeding and stagant blood in traditional chinese medicine. J Pharm Sci. 76; S200. 1987 Lewin L, Gifte und Vergiftungen, 6. Aufl., Nachdruck, Haug Verlag, Heidelberg 1992.
Roth L, Daunderer M, Kormann K, Giftpflanzen, Pflanzengifte, 4. Aufl., Ecomed Fachverlag Landsberg Lech 1993.
Teuscher E, Lindequist U, Biogene Gifte - Biologie, Chemie, Pharmakologie, 2. Aufl., Fischer Verlag Stuttgart 1994.
Wichtl M (Hrsg.), Teedrogen, 4.' Aufl., Wiss. Verlagsges. Stuttgart 1997. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Acupuncture and traditional chinese medicine (TCM). Many cancer patients also turn to acupuncture and TCM to help them get through the rigors of chemo.
Use herbs if you need help relaxing. Support your program by getting plenty of sleep and taking steps to cope with stress. For better sleep and relaxation, it's safe to use herbs such as valerian (150-300 mg) and passionflower (300^150 mg).
Note: Avoid St. John's wort while undergoing chemo, as it has been found to interfere with the action of some chemo drugs.
• Antioxidants. During chemo, should you or shouldn't you? |
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