Chinese Herbal Formula Has Anticancer Activity
Zuo Jin Wan has been shown to fight colon cancer. In Chinese medicine, it is a small, wonderful herbal formula. It clears and drains liver fire, downbears counterflow and checks vomiting. 'Liver fire' is a Chinese medical diagnosis that has does not have an exact bio-medical correlate, but as it happens, manifests symptoms seen in many kinds of cancer. Not surprisingly, the underlying biochemical mechanism of ZJW has been shown to the reverse the effect of multidrug resistance on colorectal Read more...
Read MoreMeditation Benefits the Brain
Scientists say that meditators benefit from changes in their brains. The researchers report that those who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray-matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. The findings will appear in the Jan. 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. M.R.I. brain scans taken before and after the participants’ meditation regimen found increased gray matter in the hippocampus, Read more...
Read MoreDry Needling Acupuncture Combined with Sports Medicine
The sports world was skeptical when New York Knicks shooting guard Allan Houston announced that he was receiving sports acupuncture treatments for an ankle injury. Then he started playing better, and doubt turned into a mixture of surprise and curiosity. However, according to Matt Callison, a faculty member at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and licensed acupuncturist in San Diego, CA., traditional Chinese medicine has been an extremely helpful and growing trend in athletics for quite Read more...
Read MoreAcupuncture Gets Diabetic Basketball Player Back in the Game
Acupuncture is becoming more and popular with professional athletes. Oriental medicine maximizes your potential, and all the training in the world is going to still have limitations if you have an internal disharmony, imbalance, or simply an unresolved injury. Among a Colorado basketball roster of lanky, wiry-built players, 6-foot-5, 220-pound Jeremy Adams and his muscles stand out. "He's the strongest guy on the team, by far," sophomore Spencer Dinwiddie said. "It's ridiculous what Jeremy Read more...
Read MoreThe Quiet Mind and Kototama Pulse Reading
I recall a conversation I had with oriental medicine elder Dr. Daniel Altschuler, who learned Chinese acupuncture in Taiwan, in Mandarin Chinese language medium. When he was hired as a professor the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine, he had to first study the standard acupunsture and Chinese herbal medicine textbooks used in American curricula, i.e., CAM, Deadman, etc., in order to learn how to communicate Chinese Medicine in English - for example, the numbering system of points along Read more...
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