ABOUT TONGUES

A funny web page about tongue diagnosis.
http://www.acumedic.com/flash/tongue/index.htm

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year.

TONGUE

What do you thing about this tongue?

MULTI-BED ACUPUNCTURE CLINICS

Here you have an article about multi-bed acupuncture clinics, that is a recent successful phenomenon in the United Kingdom. A practitioner treats more than one patient per hour in the same room, like in China.

What do you thing about it?

http://www.jcm.co.uk/media/cms/File/Multibed.pdf

ELECTROACUPUNCTURE AND MEMORY LOSS

A study done by the Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of Beijing’s China Academy of Chinese Medical Science has investigated whether electroacupuncture could improve learning and memory which was typically impaired in diabetic rats with cerebral ischemia.
After electroacupuncture treatment, the long-term potentiation (LTP) impaired by both diabetes and cerebral ischemia was restored significantly. These results suggest that electroacupuncture can ameliorate learning and memory capacity impaired.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0G-4T4J888-3&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6c5b092a7c0ef2cf53aa517c16815ebb

Moxibustion

Here is a very interesting article about moxibustion from "Chinese Medicine Times". You can't miss it!

http://www.chinesemedicinetimes.com/section/290/1/the_forgotten_art_of_moxa_needling

INFORMATION FOR PACIENTS

I give you a website where patients can watch informative videos about acupuncture. They offer video content on various aspects of acupuncture: the purpose, the procedure itself, the dangers or the biological effect.
http://www.videojug.com/tag/acupuncture

HUMAN ANATOMY

I recommend you an interesting 3D model of human anatomy. I think it can be very useful!
http://www.anatomy.tv/home.aspx#

MEETINGS AND COURSES

Here are British Medical Acupuncture Society courses and other forthcoming meetings.
http://www.acupunctureinmedicine.org.uk/servearticle.php?artid=667

ENDOMETRIALGIA

Here is an article about mechanisms in the nervous system responsible for the endometriosis pain or endometrialgia.

http://www.acupunctureinmedicine.org.uk/servearticle.php?artid=661

Anatomy

Two interactive atlas of human anatomy useful for clinical practice:

http://www.apuntesdeanatomia.com/

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

Spring

Spring is paired with the wood element in Chinese Medicine and the organ that represents it is the liver.

Wood exemplifies the energy of growth and change and is very active and allows for a lot of movement and progress, both internally and externally. When constrained, it is the energy of frustration, anger and stress.

The Liver governs the muscles and tendons, the eyes, and the fingernails, and is important in the functioning of the reproductive system. It is also responsible for the smooth flow of mental and physical energy, and assists all the other organ systems in functioning properly. Liver qi allows for the appropriate movement of emotions, and has an especially strong connection with the feelings of anger and frustration.

At this time of year, we may have more energy to get moving on projects. At the same time, areas of frustration can be especially apparent.

Problems that bothered us in the winter often start to feel better, and we find we have more energy and vigor because liver qi flows easily. Spring can be a hard time for health issues that are related to qi stagnation, but is a really good time to work with these blockages, and get things moving so we can have access to all that great energy.

Acupuncture and public health insurance

British Columbia will become the first Canadian province to cover acupuncture on the provincial Medical Services Plan. The move is effective since April 1.

Cupping Therapy

I recommend you an article published at Chinese Medicine Times where you can find ten cupping methods to be used on therapies.

http://www.chinesemedicinetimes.com/section/185/1/cupping_therapy___part_one

http://www.chinesemedicinetimes.com/section/201/1/cupping_therapy___part_two

Acupuncture Treatment for Obesity

A study edited at the Medical Acupuncture journal suggests the effectiveness of acupuncture treatment in weight loss in patients already following a diet and exercise regimen.

The study is limited because of the number of patients (n=30) recruited and the acupuncture treatment used (PC6, ST36 and auricular acupuncture). Thus, large-scale studies are required to confirm this preliminary finding.

http://www.medicalacupuncture.org/aama_marf/journal/vol17_2/article_6.html

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Western Science Meets Eastern Wisdom

That was the title of a conference organized last year in Italy. Even though the kernel of discussions was not only Chinese Medicine, I believe that the theme is interesting enough. We need a starting point to investigate the dynamic interactions between spiritual insight and scientific analysis to create a new paradigm of modern science. This is the goal of medical acupuncture, isn't it?

http://ecam.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/5/1/51

Acupuncture and dysmenorrhea

A german study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology found that patients with dysmenorrhea who received acupuncture in addition to routine care had significant pain relief and reported a better quality of care than did those women who just received routine care.

Read the stydy here:

http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0002-9378/PIIS0002937807009209.main-abr.pdf

Chinese medicine books: online shop

If it interests you to be on the day of the last novelties about Chinese medicine you can look at this Australian web page.
http://www.chinabooks.com.au/ChinaBooks/index.cfm

Heart channel for uses other than for shen problems

I propose you a very interesting article of Giovanni Maciocia where he explores the clinical use of the Heart channel for uses other than for mental-emotional problems. He talks about itching, sexual function in men, its connexion with uterus and nausea, for example.

http://www.giovanni-maciocia.com/articles/heart.html

How to contact me

If you'd like to make any suggestions about this site or send me a private comment via email, I can be reached at:
acupuntmedica@gmail.com

About Medical Acupuncture

Blog on medical acupuncture where information of the last studies turned up, dates of congresses, as well as technical datum of points or channels is given. It is a blog in which the collaboration of everybody will be very welcome.
Writer:
Dr Ruiz Morilla is a Family Medicine specialist, is a graduate of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, she completed a Master of Acupuncture at the University of Barcelona and a postgraduate course in Western Asia for the Open University of Catalonia

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