CAM Practitioner News and Research June 2009

The Treatment of High Cholesterol with Chinese Medicine and the Tam Healing System
by Chad J. Dupuis, L.Ac.
Many patients who seek help from Chinese Medicine practitioners are coming for high cholesterol treatment or have already developed related complications. High cholesterol, or hyperlipidemia, is a significant risk factor (along with smoking, high blood pressure, inactivity and obesity) for cardiovascular disease and related issues. While public health efforts and natural health practitioners of all persuasions have encouraged dietary and lifestyle change to remedy the situation it continues to be a significant problem, particularly in developed countries... Read More...

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Among our forum posts this month we received a question about the treatment of stuttering with acupuncture. My response to the reader describes our treatment methods for this condition and related speech disorders... What Are Your Views?

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Scorpions, Centipedes, and Hornets Nests: Chinese Herbal Medicine History
by Chad J. Dupuis, L.Ac.
Even though Chinese Medicine is new to many of us, it is far from a new medicine, a new "alternative", or any other relationship to "new" that it may gain in popular media. The theories and methods utilized within Chinese Medicine are drawn from thousands and thousands of years of collective human experience. When people ask "does it really work?", this question always amazes me. This is not because I'm surprised that they are unfamiliar with some of the techniques, but because of how much sense it makes when people stop and think about it. We are surrounded by medicine (plants, fruits, meats, drinks, etc.) and we've been naturally massaging, poking, and proding ourselves since the beginning of time. Chinese Medicine is simply an ongoing culmination of our human experience, what helps us, what doesn't, what regulates imbalances, and what creates them... Read More...

Current CAM Research
by Chad J. Dupuis, L.Ac.
Our monthly research synopses contain select research articles from a variety of sources that are of interest to the public and practitioners of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. This month we discuss a survey studying exploring the awareness of CAM among neurosurgeons, a large scale study exploring modifiable lifestyle factors and pancreatic cancer, acupuncture for migraines, effects of acupuncture during labor and delivery, auricular acupuncture in the treatment of vascular dementia, and the use of motherwort in the treatment of breast cancer. Research The Details...