Herbs get the push: no statutory regulation for western herbalists or Traditional Chinese Medicine
It makes a nice change to be able to compliment an official government report.
Ever since the House of Lords report in 2000, the governments have been vacillating about what should be done about herbalists. At the moment both western herbalists and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are essentially unregulated. Many (but not all) herbalists have been pushing for statutory regulation, which they see it as government endorsement. It would give them a status like the General Medical Council.
Chinese medicine as taught at Middlesex University
A new report has ruled out this possibility, for very good reasons...
Source: DC's goodscience - March 30, 2015 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia Chinese medicine Harry Cayton Health Professions Council herbal medicine herbalism Michael Driscoll Middlesex university Pittilo Prince Charles Professional Standards Authority University of Westminster alternative medicin Source Type: blogs
pedia notes
Acupuncture
Andrographis
Babesia
bartonella
betterhealthguy.com – Scott’s website, lots of detox info
Biodentistry
bioresourceinc.com – wholesaler for Pekana
Biotensor
Buhner herbal protocol
Chlorella – thought to provide mercury detox, many think biopure.us is best. other brands are E-lyte and Sun
Cholestapure – supposedly less difficult to handle than cholestyramine
Comprehensive Medical Center – Kirkland, Washington clinic that acts as home office in the United States of Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD (425) 823-8818. Dr. Klinghardt visits intermittently and charges $7/minute. He has two...
Source: Inside Surgery - March 21, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Women Who Serve: Who We Are
The concept of women as the gentler sex is hard to square with the military warrior culture. Husband hunter, lesbian, s., whore, manipulator, or too dumb to do anything else are the historical characterizations of women who serve and are changing far too slowly. No one is more surprised with this rancor than the young, naïve and innocent women who join the military with an eye on what the future may bring.
I wanted a chance at a better life. I wanted to be more than my surroundings dictated to me. I felt a duty to my country; to protect and preserve all the things I loved.
My time in the Army was one of the best exp...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Women Veterans Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Psychological correlates of the placebo that is acupuncture
If there’s one thing that’s become clear to me over the years about acupuncture, it’s that it’s nothing more than a theatrical placebo. Many are the times that I’ve asked: Can we finally just say that acupuncture is nothing more than an elaborate placebo? Most recently, I asked this question in 2012. What science-based medicine… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 17, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture placebo quackademic medicine Source Type: blogs
Cancer Treatment Centers of BS
If you share my vice of sometimes watching sports on TV, you have been afflicted with advertisements for Cancer Treatment Centers of America. I was inspired to write this post just by looking at the ads. I can't evaluate the quality of whatever actual cancer treatment they provide, but they do not inspire confidence by aggressively promoting quackery and fraud.One of their ads features a naturopathic "doctor" describing all the wonderful things she does for her patients. Naturopathic "training" consists of exposure to every form of nonsense known to humanity, from homeopathy to acupuncture to ayurvedic and traditional chin...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 10, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Always Err on the Side of Compassion
The best piece of marital advice I’ve ever heard came from an ex-priest, a kind and gentle man who has been married to his bride for longer than I’ve been alive.
“Always err on the side of compassion,” he told me when I called him up all upset one afternoon after my husband and I got into a fight.
I don’t even remember what the fight was about. Something stupid. But I remembered his advice and I’ve been trying to apply it not only to my marriage but to my life, in general. In fact, it has become my mantra.
Always err on the side of compassion.
It sounds so easy, but is so difficult to execute.
The mo...
Source: World of Psychology - February 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression Disorders General Health-related Motivation and Inspiration Personal Bipolar Disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intrusive Thoughts Major Depressive Disorder Mood Disorder Psychomotor retardation Seasonal Affective Dis Source Type: blogs
10 Common Reactions to Urinary Incontinence that Impede Care-Seeking
Our lives are a dynamic flurry of family and professional activities — our work, our families and friends, and duties on the home front. Some of us have additional challenges due to ill health, financial stress, elder care or marital breakdown. When small urine leaks begin to appear every now and then, they might feel like a nuisance amid the noise of everyday life. Research tells us that women wait about five to 10 years to seek assistance for urinary incontinence.
Our beliefs about the problem are important because they influence how and when we take action. The following are 10 common reactions that deter or delay...
Source: World of Psychology - January 31, 2015 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Paula Miceli, M.Sc Tags: Aging General Health-related Women's Issues Health Care Provider Middle Age Pregnancy Urinary bladder Urinary incontinence Urination Women's Health Source Type: blogs
The Yijing in Chinese Medicine Clinical Practice – Part 2
Part 2 – The First Two Hurdles to Successful Divination in the Clinic
Welcome to the second installment of this article series on Divination in Clinical Practice. If you’re interested in reading the first part – all you have to do is click this link.
Today we’ve got a little double-header.
Last time we introduced the idea that divination, and in particular the Yijing, might be useful in the clinic. Not just useful, in fact, but potent and transformative, as the oracle itself suggested when we asked the Yi about its own clinical potential (Hexagrams 31 and 49).
However, there are some hurdles standing b...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - January 30, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Jonathan Edwards Tags: Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities Source Type: blogs
Quackademic medicine tightens its hold on the Cleveland Clinic
It’s no secret to my regular readers that it’s highly unlikely that I’ll ever be getting a job at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) any time soon. After all, I’ve written posts about the CCF in which I’ve criticized its promotion of reiki, its establishment of a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) herbal medicine clinic, complete… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - January 26, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Quackery acupuncture Benjamin Katholi Cleveland Clinic craniosacral therapy frequency-specific microcurrenk Jr. Mark Hyman pediatrics Robert F. Kennedy Source Type: blogs
Empiric Therapy in IVF - Science vs Emotions
A number of patients who have failed an IVF cycle (either in our clinic or elsewhere) want us to try something new and different for their next cycle. The common requests are whether we can prescribe steroids, IV immunoglobulins or Intralipids for them. IVF failure can come as a rude shock, and patients are desperate to do something differently in the next cycle in order to make it succeed. Patients who have failed an IVF cycle can become quite frantic and are happy to clutch at straws. When they read about “new and latest” treatment advances, they want us to try those out for them too. The stumbling block is that a nu...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - January 25, 2015 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
The Yijing in Chinese Medicine Clinical Practice – Part 1
Editor’s Note : This is the first in a series of posts by Jonathan Edwards about the use of the Yijing (I Ching) in Chinese medicine clinical practice. A new topic for the site – it should be an interesting read!
Part 1: The Clinician’s Golden Compass
Welcome to the first in a series of articles on applying the Yijing in clinical practice. For those not familiar, the Yijing (or I Ching) is an ancient Chinese oracle, or system of divination, with close ties to Classical Chinese Medicine.
Speaking as it does in very compressed symbols, the oracle has a reputation for being hard to understand. That’s one of th...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - January 23, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Jonathan Edwards Tags: Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities Source Type: blogs
Science and the AAAS sell their souls to promote pseudoscience in medicine
The holidays are over. Time to start dishing out fresh Insolence, Respectful and, as appropriate, not-so-Respectful for 2015. I do, however, feel obligated to deal with one painfully inappropriate action by a major science journal left over from 2014. It happened in an issue that came out just before Christmas, and, with all the festivities,… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - January 5, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Biology Complementary and alternative medicine History Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Religion Skepticism/critical thinking AAAS AAAS Custom Publishing Office acupuncture advertising Alan Leshner American Association for Source Type: blogs
Adventures in bad veterinary medicine reported by the local media, year end edition
Ever since moving back to the Detroit area nearly seven years ago, one thing I’ve noticed is a propensity for our local news outlets to go full pseudoscience from time to time. I’m not sure why, other than perhaps that it attracts eyeballs to the screen, but, in reality, most of these plunges into pseudoscience… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 30, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture Chiropractic Free Press Jennifer Dixon Loren Weaver placebo Steve Wilson traditional Chinese medicine vaccines Source Type: blogs
Traditional Chinese medicine: Compare China with the U.S.
I’ve written quite a few times, both here and elsewhere, about the sham that is known as “traditional Chinese medicine” (TCM). Basically, there is no such thing as TCM per se. There were in the distant past many “traditional Chinese medicines,” various folk medicine traditions that, contrary to what is taught now, did not form… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 17, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery acupuncture Chairman Mao China Liu Yandong traditional Chinese medicine Zhong Nanshan Source Type: blogs
Old wine in a new skin: The Society for Integrative Oncology issues guidelines for breast cancer
It should come as a surprise to no one that I’m not exactly a fan of “integrative oncology”—or integrative medicine, or “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM), or whatever its proponents want to call it these days. After all, I’ve spent nearly ten years writing this blog and nearly seven years running another blog dedicated to… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 1, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture American Cancer Society Chiropractic clinical guidelines Consortium of Academic Health Centers for In Source Type: blogs
