Beautiful Science of Acupuncture

05/07/2022

https://counterpart.org.au/events/qi-gong-2/

Learn a gentle movement sequence to benefit body and mind

25/11/2021

Purpose: Mild cognitive impairment is a general neurodegenerative disease. Moxibustion has been shown to have remarkable effect on cognitive improvement, however, less is known about the effect of moxibustion on mild cognitive impairment and its underlying neural mechanism. This study aimed to inves

24/11/2021

Harvard scientists discovered the neuroanatomical basis for acupuncture points that trigger a specific anti-inflammatory signaling pathway, advancing the understanding of acupuncture’s therapeutic potential.The team, led by Harvard Medical School neurobiologists, found the specific type of neuro

12/11/2021

Scientists have begun to find abnormalities in the immune systems of some long-COVID patients that might help explain the syndrome, at least in some people. But there is still much more to learn.

24/09/2021

https://www.sciencealert.com/daycares-in-finland-built-their-own-forests-and-it-changed-kids-immune-systems?fbclid=IwAR3H238zTVQgyH0He3Ez6CAUT4wkuitO0-Ictryy_FZ-EIGVB32t0KdYABE

Playing through the greenery and litter of a mini forest's undergrowth for just one month may be enough to change a child's immune system, according to an experiment in Finland.

15/09/2021

❤️❤️beautiful acupuncture

Online ahead of print - DOI: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2021.101484
👉 Meta-analysis results showed that acupuncture combined with standard care was more effective in relieving anxiety and depression, reducing angina attack frequency, and angina pain intensity than sham acupuncture with standard care and standard care alone.

⏳ In addition, the effect remained until 16 weeks after acupuncture.

✅ The safety of acupuncture for CSAP-associated anxiety and depression was also high.

This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to investigate the efficacy of acupuncture on chronic stable angina pectoris (CSAP)-associated anxiety and depression.

Seven trials involving 893 subjects were included.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2021.101484
📄 Full paper available on the EBA Forum - please log in with your EBA Connect details: https://discussion.evidencebasedacupuncture.org/login

Acupuncture for treating chronic stable angina pectoris associated anxiety and depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

03/09/2021

A form of acupuncture developed for military settings is now available for the first time to members of a deployable command in the U.S. Navy.

02/09/2021

Infertility treatments such as in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are stressful and challenging to mental health and well-being. The use of alternative ther…

31/08/2021

Many people believe that when a treatment has good evidence, then it becomes recommended in healthcare guidelines and then available to the public. But there are so many hidden and subjective factors that influence these recommendations. We can see this in the history of recommendations in the UK's NICE Healthcare Guidelines.

- What evidence do the reviewers include and what do they reject?
- Who is eligible to be on the Guideline Development Committee?
- What is acupuncture compared to in order to show effectiveness?
- Are consistent criteria applied to acupuncture's evidence and those of other treatments?
- How is 'acupuncture' even being defined?
- What are the goals of the reviewers? To reduce medication over-use? To save the health service money? To get their own treatments recommended?

Even as the evidence for acupuncture for a wide-variety of conditions has steadily increased over time, it's inclusion in recommendations is never automatically assured. Being aware of all the factors involved can help us to ensure that patients have access to this effective, safe treatment.

21/08/2021

Have you seen this?
Really worth watching .. even if you think you’ve heard it all before … beautiful ❤️

Note from TED: This talk, which features health advice based on a personal narrative, has been flagged as potentially outside TED's curatorial guidelines. Vi...

13/08/2021

In case you needed another reason to support parental leave.

12/08/2021

Qi Gong is one of the pillars of Chinese medicine…
if you’d like to try it, join one of the free zoom sessions during lockdown offered by “ Life is Beautiful Qi Gong” melbourne time ❤️

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Friday 5pm
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