Acupuncture Girl

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Chinese medicine works *and* is so much safer than even some common over-the-counter medications.

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Eating fruits and veggies may keep the blues away 

If you want to improve your outlook, produce is a good place to start.

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How ‘Bad Medicine’ Dismisses And Misdiagnoses Women’s Symptoms

When journalist Maya Dusenbery was in her 20s, she started experiencing progressive pain in her joints, which she learned was caused by rheumatoid arthritis.

As she began to research her own condition, Dusenbery realized how lucky she was to have been diagnosed relatively easily. Other women with similar symptoms, she says, “experienced very long diagnostic delays and felt … that their symptoms were not taken seriously.”

Dusenbery says these experiences fit into a larger pattern of gender bias in medicine. Her new book, Doing Harm, makes the case that women’s symptoms are often dismissed and misdiagnosed — in part because of what she calls the “systemic and unconscious bias that’s rooted … in what doctors, regardless of their own gender, are learning in medical schools.”

“I definitely believe that the fact that medicine has been historically and continues to be mainly run by men has been a source of these problems,” she says. “The medical knowledge that we have is just skewed towards knowing more about men’s bodies and the conditions that disproportionately affect them.”

Dusenbery is also the executive editor of Feministing, a website of writing by young feminists about social, cultural and political issues.

Photo: PhotoAlto/Michele Constantini/Getty Images

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Definitely check out the full interview. -Emily

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Happy first day of fall! 

8 things you didn’t know about the autumnal equinox

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Acupuncture is highly effective! yet people accuse me of providing "just" a placebo when my patients experience pain relief. It turns out that surgery has a pretty robust placebo effect. My conclusion: if your healing might be "just" a placebo, you might as well choose acupuncture instead of surgery. Acupuncture is less invasive, dramatically less painful, no "recovery" time, and much less chance of infections. No need for opiates and their tragic side effects. Plus acupuncture calms the central nervous system and helps improve the endocrine system, the circulatory system, the digestive system, and more.

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Now, there’s increasing evidence that acupuncture works. Last month, a meta-review of 12 clinical trials found that acupuncture is a moderately effective treatment for chronic tension headaches, presumably similar to the migraines Silver experienced. But how does it help? No one is really sure. In 2014, researchers at Rutgers found that when mice were given (pdf) acupuncture with electricity flowing through the needles, they produced less of an harmful inflammatory response; some scientists believe that the needles stimulate the production of healthy chemicals in our bodies. “One major hypothesis is that acupuncture works through neurohormonal pathways,” Ting Bao, an integrative oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer, told Live Science. “Basically, you put the needle through specific points in the body and stimulate the nerve. The nerve actually sends signals to the brain, and the brain releases neural hormones such as beta-endorphins.” With these extra hormones, he explained, a patient may feel less pain than they did previously. He also postulated that the tiny needles promote nerve growth and regeneration to alleviate pain. Much of the evidence has yet to be tested, and some scientists remain skeptical. “Acupuncture does not work, which means all discussions of how it does work are irrelevant,” David Colquhoun, a pharmacologist and neurologist at University College London, told Scientific American. Although there are claims that acupuncture can be effective treatment for depression, pain during cancer treatment, and other forms of chronic pain, the evidence is more limited—and possibly even biased, according to another systematic review. For patients with chronic pain, acupuncture probably won’t hurt—if you can afford it. In the US, with 18,000 licensed acupuncturists (the majority of them are in California and New York), treatments cost about $125 each (though this may vary with insurance). Silver felt better after eight 30-minute treatments over the course of a month.

Science suggests acupuncture works, but no one is sure why — Quartz

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Surgeon General uses bully pulpit to combat opioid crisis

By JOANNE KENEN

If C. Everett Koop became the highest-profile surgeon general ever by giving the AIDS epidemic a national profile, Vivek Murthy wants to be the surgeon general who united America to combat opioid abuse.

Over the last few months, Murthy went from stressing nutrition, exercise and the benefits of not smoking to a far more urgent message about the lethal painkillers. He has become a much more visible public figure as he speaks out in Washington and takes his message on the road to communities hard hit by the double whammies of opioid and heroin use.

“We need to recognize that everyone is potentially at risk,” he said. “Nobody is protected.” Every 24 minutes, someone in the United States dies of an overdose.

Practicing medicine in Boston, Murthy had grown more concerned about the prevalence and power of prescription painkillers. As he made his rounds of farewells and prepared to come to Washington after his Dec. 2014 confirmation, nurses he worked with begged him to make opioids a signature theme.

“It’s tearing our communities apart,” they told him.

Read more here

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It'd be great to try acupuncture for pain instead of addictive drugs.

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Great for boosting your immune system.

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A follow up paper published in the same periodical, “Medicinal smoke reduces airborne bacteria,” found that the research concluded that, in addition to health benefits, smudging was a powerful antiseptic. “We have observed that 1 hour treatment of medicinal smoke emanated by burning wood and a mixture of odoriferous and medicinal herbs (havan sámagri=material used in oblation to fire all over India), on aerial bacterial population caused over 94% reduction of bacterial counts by 60 min and the ability of the smoke to purify or disinfect the air and to make the environment cleaner was maintained up to 24 hour in the closed room. Absence of pathogenic bacteria Corynebacterium urealyticum, Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens, Enterobacter aerogenes (Klebsiella mobilis), Kocuria rosea, Pseudomonas syringae pv. persicae, Staphylococcus lentus, and Xanthomonas campestris pv. tardicrescens in the open room even after 30 days is indicative of the bactericidal potential of the medicinal smoke treatment. We have demonstrated that using medicinal smoke it is possible to completely eliminate diverse plant and human pathogenic bacteria of the air within confined space.”

Study Shows How Smudging Does a Lot More Than “Clear Evil Spirits” |

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"When it comes to chronic pain, researchers found one component of acupuncture treatment that was associated with better outcomes: People who attended more sessions had more significant pain reduction, meaning the number of visits appears to positively influence outcomes. This makes sense to those of us practicing acupuncture and East Asian medicine in the real world — and it’s true even for non-pain-related cases.

"In randomized comparative effectiveness trials (studies that compare different types of treatments), researchers looked at acupuncture for chronic depression and chronic neck pain. The addition of acupuncture (12 weekly sessions) to usual care for chronic depression was as least as good as the addition of cognitive behavioral therapy and superior to usual care alone. For chronic neck pain, the addition of acupuncture (12 sessions) to usual care was at least as good as 20 sessions of Alexander Technique, and superior to usual care alone. In a pilot study on temporomandibular disorder (TMD), study subjects received 20 sessions of “whole system” Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which included acupuncture along with herbal therapy, tui na and relaxation tapes as needed. The TCM approach significantly reduced TMD-related average facial pain compared to usual care or naturopathic medicine. For pain-related diseases, it seems 12 to 20 sessions is a reasonable intervention to achieve stable results."