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Experience-Based, Body-Anchored Qualitative Research Interviewing.

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Experience-Based, Body-Anchored Qualitative Research Interviewing.

Qual Health Res. 2010 Mar 10;

Authors: Stelter R

Two theoretical constructs that lay the foundation for experience-based, body-anchored interviewing are presented: the first-person perspective and the concept of meaning. These theoretical concepts are concretized, first, by means of a methodological framework for experience-based, body-anchored interviewing, and second, by an interview guide that explores a research participant's personal experience with mindfulness meditation. An excerpt from an interview is discussed to illustrate the advantages of this interview form, namely its value as a methodological instrument for qualitative research in areas such as traditional and holistic medicine, Western alternative and complementary medicine, nursing, psychotherapy, coaching, physiotherapy, movement arts, and physical education.

PMID: 20220152 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Treatment of fibromyalgia at the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centre in Norway. A six-month follow-up study.

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Treatment of fibromyalgia at the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centre in Norway. A six-month follow-up study.

Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2009 Sep-Oct;27(5 Suppl 56):S46-50

Authors: Rasmussen LB, Mikkelsen K, Haugen M, Pripp AH, Førre ØT

BACKGROUND: Treatments offered at the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centre in Norway are based on Maharishi Vedic medicine, which is also known as Maharishi Ayurveda. It is a consciousness based revival of the ancient Ayurvedic medicine tradition in India and is established by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique. OBJECTIVE: To conduct a pilot study of the effect of the treatment program at the Health Centre on fibromyalgia patients. METHODS: Thirty-one women with diagnosed fibromyalgia received an individually designed Maharishi Vedic physiological purification therapy. All subjects received personal advice on diet based on Ayurvedic principles, including a novel approach to food into-lerance, and daily routines. In addition they were offered instruction in TM (for stress and pain management and personal development) (four subjects started), and recommended Ayurvedic herbal food products for home treatment. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: A modified Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire included a visual analogue scale for each of the seven outcomes: working ability, generalised pain, tiredness, stiffness, tiredness on arising, anxiety and depression. Pre-treatment scores were compared with scores at six-month follow-up for levels of statistical significance. RESULTS: Twenty-eight subjects (90%) completed the follow-up. The outcome measures were reduced by 25 to 46% by the study's endpoint: working ability (p<0.002), pain (p<0.001), tiredness (p<0.001), morning tiredness (p<0.001), stiffness (p<0.005), anxiety (p<0.136), and depression (p<0.001). A group of five excellent responders including all four participants who started to practise TM, had almost no symptoms by the endpoint. Compared to the non-meditating control group the TM-subgroup showed statistically significant improvements for all outcome measures except depression. CONCLUSIONS: In this pilot study fibromyalgia patients undergoing treatment at Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centre in Norway showed significant improvements six months post treatment. Because fibromyalgia is considered a treatment-resistant condition, these encouraging results warrant further research.

PMID: 20074439 [PubMed - in process]

[Multi-target therapeutics and new drug discovery]

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[Multi-target therapeutics and new drug discovery]

Yao Xue Xue Bao. 2009 Mar;44(3):226-30

Authors: Xu Y, Li XJ

Drugs acting on individual molecular targets usually exert unsatisfying therapeutic effects or have severe toxicity when used in diseases of complicated causes such as tumor, diabetes and inflammation. Multitarget therapeutics which regulates multiple nodes of the disease network simultaneously shows synergistic effect, is unlikely to induce resistance and provides optimal clinical use. This review summarized the characteristics, classification, development strategies and screening models, current multi-target therapeutic drugs used in clinic and also explored the potential of TCM in multi-target therapeutics.

PMID: 19449518 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Multifunctional Merkel cells: Their roles in electromagnetic reception, finger-print formation, Reiki, epigenetic inheritance and hair form.

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Multifunctional Merkel cells: Their roles in electromagnetic reception, finger-print formation, Reiki, epigenetic inheritance and hair form.

Med Hypotheses. 2010 Feb 26;

Authors: Irmak MK

Merkel cells are located in glabrous and hairy skin and in some mucosa. They are characterized by dense-core secretory granules and cytoskeletal filaments. They are attached to neighboring keratinocytes by desmosomes and contain melanosomes similar to keratinocytes. They are excitable cells in close contact with sensory nerve endings but their function is still unclear. In this review, following roles are attributed for the first time to the Merkel cells: (1) melanosomes in Merkel cells may be involved in mammalian magnetoreception. In this model melanosome as a biological magnetite is connected by cytoskeletal filaments to mechanically gated ion channels embedded in the Merkel cell membrane. The movement of melanosome with the changing electromagnetic field may open ion channels directly producing a receptor potential that can be transmitted to brain via sensory neurons. (2) Merkel cells may be involved in finger-print formation: Merkel cells in glabrous skin are located at the base of the epidermal ridges the type of which defines the finger-print pattern. Finger-print formation starts at the 10th week of pregnancy after the arrival of Merkel cells. Keratinocyte proliferation and the buckling process observed in the basal layer of epidermis resulting in the epidermal ridges may be controlled and formed by Merkel cells. (3) Brain-Merkel cell connection is bi-directional and Merkel cells not only absorb but also radiate the electromagnetic frequencies. Hence, efferent aspects of the palmar and plantar Merkel nerve endings may form the basis of the biofield modalities such as Reiki, therapeutic touch and telekinesis. (4) Adaptive geographic variations such as skin color, craniofacial morphology and hair form result from interactions between environmental factors and epigenetic inheritance system. While environmental factors produce modifications in the body, they simultaneously induce epigenetic modifications in the oocytes and in this way adaptive changes could be passed onto the next generations. Merkel cells are multisensorial cells that can receive almost all environmental stimuli including electromagnetic and ultraviolet radiations, temperature, humidity and food type and they seem to transfer the environmental information to oocytes by affecting nuclear receptors in oocytes. (5) Hair form is categorized as straight, wavy and spiral. Merkel cells found at the bulge region of hair follicles may determine the hair form with their different paracrine secretions related to hair cycle producing variations between populations. In conclusion, Merkel cells are multifunctional cells which may close the gap between orthodox medicine and complementary medicine such as acupuncture and Reiki.

PMID: 20189724 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Stress: Seven steps to an inner calm - Times Online

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Needles and Low Libido: How New York City's Top Acupuncturist Treats Libido ... - I-Newswire.com (press release)

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Toogoolawa School students start the day with meditation - Newcastle Herald

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The school caters to some of the region's most challenging 13- and 14-year-old boys and starts each day with meditation, which teachers say settles the ...

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Senior menus and activities - Columbus Telegram

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Tuesday: Seniors Free Coffee Day; 9-11 am wood carving; 10 am Mind benders; 10:30 am Tai Chi; Noon, Diners; 1:30 pm Tai Chi. Wednesday: 8 am TOPS No. ...

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Tibetan Culture Week planned before Dalai Lama visit - Oxford Press

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First drive: Citroën DS3 – on sale now - AM-online (blog)

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Breathing 'as good as massage'

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Massage is no more effective at cutting anxiety than deep breathing and soothing music, say US researchers.
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New York City agrees to pay up to 657m US Dollars (437m Sterling) to thousands of rescue and clean-up workers at the 9/11 attacks site.
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