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https://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/publications/esp/acupuncture-evidence-map.pdf

“Low back pain is the leading cause of years lived with disability globally, but most interventions have only short-lasting, small to moderate effects.” “It has been clear for decades that back pain is influenced by not only physical factors such as strength and posture...

https://www.wired.com/story/machine-learning-chinese-medicine-acupuncture-study-design/

Using drugs like ibuprofen and steroids to relieve short-term health problems could increase the chances of developing chronic pain, new research suggests.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/11/short-term-use-of-ibuprofen-may-increase-chance-of-chronic-pain-study-suggests

https://www.cochrane.org/CD003928/PREG_moxibustion-turning-baby-breech-position“We found moderate-certainty evidence that moxibustion plus usual care probably reduces the chance of non-cephalic presentation at birth, but uncertain evidence about the need for ECV.”“Moderate-certainty evidence from one study shows that moxibustion plus usual care probably reduces the use of oxytocin before or...

A recent systematic review shows acupuncture be more effective than sham acupuncture for nasal symptom (He et al 2022). A high-quality study carried out in Germany concluded “Acupuncture appeared to significantly reduce the number of days of antihistamine use while improving RQoL and SAR...

A refutation of the pressure propulsion premise of heart function.http://trigunamedia.com/The%20heart%20is%20not%20a%20pump.pdf A great article on the heart.

https://www.healthline.com/health/acupuncture-for-sleep

Bamboo and Silk is a peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the Center of Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts of Wuhan University. Based on unearthed Chinese bamboo and silk manuscripts from the Warring States period (476–221 BC) and Qin (221–206BC), Han (206BC–220 AD), Wei (220–265 AD)...

Uitgeverij AnkhHermes stelt de hele inhoud van het boek “Geneeswijzen in Nederland” gratis ter beschikking voor consumenten. Dit is een compleet handboek/naslagwerk over de mogelijkheden van natuurlijk geneeswijzen bij lichamelijke, mentale en emotionele klachten. Het handboek omvat de volgende methodes: “Geneeswijzen in Nederland” biedt...

Jordan Peterson’s thoughts on ADHD. If we live in a society that is not normal or healthy, should we use drugs to make children adept to it, or should we change schools to allow for more playful exploration, creativity and physicality?

There is a paradigm shift underway, from analytical thinking to systems thinking. In time, it will transform the way business is done.A similar paradigm shift is badly needed in medicine. How long will it take, until medicine will be done from a systems point...

The Broken Science Initiative is calling attention to the current state of modern science. It’s broken. It’s void of validation. Its deductivist approach stimulates results that cannot be replicated and its scientists are stuck in a publish or perish purgatory, finding “significance” at all...

Webinar on Acupuncture-cost-effectiveness – April 4, 19:30 pm (GMT +1). The ETCMA Research Task Force will be holding an event webinar on the Cost Effectiveness of Acupuncture. Sign up here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-HETk17HdvCoE6Szrl_UXp3cQpltPCGZyj9zM9Cegb_HB9w/viewform?usp=sf_link Upon registration, the ZOOM codes will be sent to you.

This paper summarizes the current status of acupuncture in the treatment of gynecological diseases and summarizes the progress of functional magnetic resonance imaging research related to acupuncture in the treatment of gynecological diseases in the past 10 years, mainly including the common types of...

acupuncture #evidence

https://bizof.mykajabi.com/iwd-registration In this ground breaking film you will… Viewing Available on Wednesday, March 8th at 9am PST and ends on Sunday, March 12th at midnight PST.

EvidenceHunt is a new way to search for clinical evidence, using artificial intelligence. https://evidencehunt.com/ research #evidence #medicine #artificialintelligence

Een implantaat kan bijwerkingen veroorzaken. Koperspiraaltjes, knieprotheses en rimpelvullers zijn voorbeelden van implantaten. Net als onderstaand lijstje:🔸 Borstimplantaten🔸 Tandimplantaten🔸 Hart- en vaatimplantaten zoals hartkleppen, pacemakers en stents🔸 Heupprotheses (zie afbeelding)🔸 Gehoorimplantaten🔸 Oogimplantaten🔸 Bekkenbodem-, liesbreuk- en littekenbreukmatjes Bijwerkingen zijn ongewenste effecten op de gezondheid. Voorbeelden...

This will come as no surprise for those who have studied traditional Chinese Medicine.

The book “infant feeding matters” by Maureen Minchin, about infant feeding & immune disorder, 800 pages of solid information, is available for free (donation appreciated) here: https://infantfeedingmatters.com/ and highly recommended.

I am feeling very ambiguous about Amazon Clinic. On one hand, the healthcare marketplace could really benefit from a disruptive player. On the other, the concentration of power, data collection, data mining and other consequences of extremely large players is worrisome, more so when...

Great to see these simple, non-pharmacological interventions getting traction. It would be a bit of a strech to say that this is “based on Traditional Chinese Medicine”, but it is certainly true, that a similar understanding of the body, as a self-healing, dynamic whole,...

An increasing proportion of people in countries like Britain are recognising that the way we live is environmentally unsustainable. Most people hope, however, that a combination of a political response (albeit belated), science, and technology can allow us to live in a manner not...

Suggesting a mechanism for acupuncture as a global percutaneous needle fasciotomy that respects tensegrity principles for treating fibromyalgia – Shiloh Plauthttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2022.952159/full

Gisteravond was er een uitzending van Pointer: “https://pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/geestelijke-gezondheidszorg-moet-op-de-schop”. Daarin gesprekken over een nieuwe benadering van psychisch lijden en welke ondersteuning daar voor nodig is.Interessant genoeg ook van belang voor de complementaire zorg. In een artikel over deze benadering en de experimenten die momenteel plaatsvinden...

Today we unite the global cancer communityToday we raise awarenessToday we inspire changeToday we fight for fairnessToday we help #CloseTheCareGap So that everyday, everyone, everywhere has access to cancer care. ✨ https://www.worldcancerday.org/ WorldCancerDay #cancer #acupuncture

The healthcare we want focuses on the whole person, is participative, respects individual choices as well as cultural diversity and integrates clinical experience and patient values with the best available research information. The People’s Declaration calls for the respectful collaboration between traditional, complementary and...

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In 2009, Doug Dearth produced the famous documentary “9000 Needles” about this brothers recovery from a stroke with the help of acupuncture in Tianjin, China. In 2021, Doug completed another documentary, called “Return to Live”, about the treatment of very difficult neurological #diseases by...

A great fighter is not just one who wins, but one who does so well, with masterful control of themselves and their actions as they engage in something most people actively try to avoid. Dr. Sin connects this multifaceted understanding of fighting to how...

Sheldrake gave a talk entitled The Science Delusion at TEDx Whitechapel, Jan 12, 2013. The theme for the night was Visions for Transition: Challenging existing paradigms and redefining values (for a more beautiful world). In response to protests from two materialists in the US,...

Written by Brook Cheng Dry needling, also known as trigger point dry needling and intramuscular stimulation (Dommerholt J et al, 2006; Zhou K, et al, 2015), a therapeutic technique mainly used for treatment of muscle pain by various healthcare practitioners, including physical therapists, physicians,...

So I tried ChatGPT. Q: write on japanese acupuncture in the style of a haiku A: Needles in skin deep Easing pain and tension away Nature’s healing sleep

So I tried OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence. Q: how to research acupuncture A: Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that involves the insertion of thin needles into specific points on the body, called acupoints. To research acupuncture, one can follow these steps:...

Sperm counts are declining fast, and this is a global trend. Endocrine Disruptors, common chemicals that severely alter your hormones are probably a major factor.

#acupuncture#Nepal#ARP#compassion

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) now has a whole section on acupuncture, which includes guidance on clinical trials, economic analysis, and development of clinical practice guidelines. Acupuncture is now recommended in many countries as a viable treatment strategy for the management of various conditions...

Long Covid is a new condition and the best way to treat it is not yet understood. Evidence like this from Hong Kong suggest that the benefits of acupuncture for people with long covid in the UK should be investigated. Acupuncture is recommended in...

https://www.webmd.com/arthritis/acupuncture-joint-pain-relief acupuncture #jointpain #pain #webmd

‘Indeed, when we can drink from our rivers, it means that a whole ecosystem is healthy and in balance. Rivers can only be drinkable when all actions and relations in an entire watershed contribute.This could be a guiding principle for our societies,as a replacement...

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/why-do-we-always-seem-to-catch-a-cold-or-flu-in-cold-weather-a-new-study-explains

“Sir William Osler, one of the fathers of modern medicine, is widely quoted as having said that objectivity is the essential quality of the true physician. What he actually said is different and far more profound than that. The original quote was in Latin...

Here’s some very good info about preparing pumpkin and it’s value, by French man Lokmane Benaicha, who’s been studying in China for over a decade. Thank you Bruce Bentley to bringing it to my attention!It’s about treating COUGH. There’s another recipe with ginger, turnip...

Paracetamol, also called acetaminophen, should be used only when medically indicated during pregnancy and at the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time, according to a Consensus Statement published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-021-00553-7

Philosopher Charles Eisenstein with yet another great essay.He discusses the problem that in medicine, as in agriculture, the focus is often on details: specific treatments or diseases, that offer specific challenges. While that may or may not be true, such a discussion ignores the...

Few people are aware that Gua sha has been used to treat some of the symptoms of the effects of Covid-19 in China. In this podcast, Clive Witham explains how it is being used in hospitals in China and details the protocol used and...

People with Parkinson’s disease who combine standard medication with various types of acupuncture treatments may see improvements in their motor function and quality of life, a review study from China suggests.However, its researchers noted that additional clinical trials are necessary to validate these findings.The...

Pulmonary fibrosis will become one of the complications of COVID patients. It is clinically observed that most patients have different degrees of post-inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis when discharged from the hospital. The post-inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis of severely ill patients is particularly significant. Therefore, the rehabilitation...

Het orgaan waarmee we ons het meest identificeren is ons brein. Spijtig, vindt farmacoloog prof. Aletta Kraneveld (UU), want het zijn je darmen die je bacteriehuishouding regelen, je afweer trainen en de buitenwereld verbinden met je hersenen. Wie de darmen als centrum ziet, benadert...

Now on NATURE Podcast: How electric acupuncture zaps inflammation in mice.The neurons behind acupuncture’s effect on inflammation, and how antibiotics affect gut bacteria.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02806-x

New free Chinese herbal database launched called SuperTCMSuperTCM is an online resource that connects data from multiple scientific sources and languages. Drug information from published TCM databases and the official Chinese Pharmacopoeia as well as specialized meta-websites such as Kew’s Medicinal Plant Names Service...

“Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015—16% of all deaths worldwide— three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence. In...

The “Tiger Warmer” is a very useful tool to use at home. In essence, it is an incense holder, that is used to heat areas on the body. My friend David Euler shows how it can be used in children and adults to treat...

A cure for chronic fatigue syndrome? No. But a study showed that moxibustion relieves chronic fatigue syndrome, which is already very good for this crippling condition.Conclusions: Based on limited evidence, moxibustion might be an effective and safe complementary therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome, which...

Thanks for this, Igor Simonov!Chinese Medicine uses carrots to inhibit viral infection due to increasing of interferon levels in blood which inhibits viral mRNA after consumption of decoction of carrots . Two carrots (200g) chopped in pieces and boiled for 15 min in 1/2...

In this podcast, dr. Sebastian Rushworth talks to dr. Seamus O’Mahony about his three books and what motivated him to write them.Seamus O’Mahony is an Irish physician who’s written a trilogy of books that explore the varied ways in which modern medicine is broken.The...

Wonderful to see this wise doctor highlighting cupping on her road to improvement, and who’s now helping others with such a difficult problem for biomedicine to come to terms with.This is the often tragic story of EDS, which is the internal and external ineptitude...

So what is medicine for? Andrew Miles explores this, among with the question of the relationship between medicine and science, in this essay “Medicine of the Whole Person: away from scientistic reductionism and towards the embrace of the complexin clinical practice”https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43022670_On_a_Medicine_of_the_Whole_Person_Away_from_scientistic_reductionism_and_towards_the_embrace_of_the_complex_in_clinical_practice

https://charliebuck.medium.com/chinese-medicine-and-the-challenge-of-pain-a7522c760239

Interessant nieuws voor acupuncturisten en andere zorgprofessionals in de TCM: een moxabehandeling op de navel lijkt het darmmicrobioom te versterken, zo blijkt uit onderzoek. Dit onderzoek werd verricht bij patiënten met een Damp-constitutie. https://www.vnig.nl/nieuws/wetenschap/het-effect-van-moxa-op-het-darmmicrobioom-bij-een-damp-constitutie

Tijdens haar studie kreeg Sofie Peeters voor het eerst last van angstaanvallen. Een week later kreeg ze weer een aanval, en de week erop ook. Jaren later, en heel wat consulten bij experts en therapiesessies verder, realiseerde ze zich dat dit door de pil...

This talk debunks Orientalist myths of holism using archeological findings, traditional close reading of texts, novel large-scale textual analysis techniques, and work in contemporary evolutionary anthropology and cognitive science.It describes how early Chinese views of mind-body relations are different from some modern Western conceptions,...

In our hubris, we often think we are the centrepiece of the world, with everything else on the planet being set pieces as the background for our performance. This view is the basis for fantasies about humans able to control nature, to prevail over...

Opinie: ‘Alternatieve therapie kan bijdragen aan kostenbeheersing zorg’Door meer aandacht aan preventie te besteden kunnen we de almaar stijgende zorgkosten beter in de hand houden. Toch moeten we niet vergeten dat ook op het terrein van de behandeling winst valt te boeken, stelt Kees...

Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) is actively organizing support for people being forced to flee Ukraine, including Ukrainian citizens, students and migrants from other countries, andrefugees from Africa and the Middle East who once again have to find safe haven.Currently, in the Netherlands we are:

In Chinese medicine, acupuncture dates back more than 2000 years. The Military Health System has developed a modern modification of this ancient practice, known as Battlefield Acupuncture, or BFA.Military health care providers are finding that ear acupuncture, which involves inserting small needles into different...

This poem is from Cathay, the volume of Chinese poems translated by Ezra Pound from the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa. It is about the misery of a soldier conscripted to guard the Great Wall of China, far from home. Song of the Bowmen of...

After undergoing a CT scan and being diagnosed with myositis of the jaw muscles, Bassoon received localized anti-inflammatory injections and then began physical therapy and acupuncture treatment. https://www.fox5dc.com/news/sea-turtle-gets-acupuncture-treatment-at-national-aquarium

Research on acupuncture has been extensive, and so far, robust evidence supports its effectiveness for some, but not all, conditions. According to one analysis published in February 2022 in the BMJ that analyzed more than 2,000 scientific reviews of acupuncture therapies, the science is...

Thank you, Sandro Graca and Evidence Based Acupuncture!The past decade have witnessed the rapid development of acupuncture research about migraine, and many high-quality papers have been published, especially after 2016 (He et al., 2022).Acupuncture research has grown markedly in the past two decades, with...

A case report of immediate effects of acupuncture on neuropathic cancer breakthrough pain, by dr Matthias Huemer.Highlights:• Acupuncture can have immediate effects on neuropathic cancer pain.• Acupuncture may be a fast way to improve the pain management of neuropathic pain.• Acupunctures analgesic effect seems...

Using anti-inflammatory drugs and steroids to relieve pain could increase the chances of developing chronic pain, according to researchers from McGill University and colleagues in Italy. Their research puts into question conventional practices used to alleviate pain. Normal recovery from a painful injury involves...

The Gut-Brain axis is a very important one, and often overlooked.And as a treatment option for this, acupuncture is often overlooked. Instead of using supplements, or dietary changes, acupuncture changes the blood flow in the gut itself, thereby giving the gut the ability to...

A crisis in pain management persists as does the epidemic of opioid overdose deaths, addiction, and diversion. Pain medicine is meeting these challenges by returning to its origins: the Bonica model of multidisciplinary pain care.The 2018 Academic Consortium White Paper detailed the historical context...

We need new stories. Our society so badly needs new stories.Here is a link to a crowdfunding campaign for a documentary film that explores birth beyond the industrial model and restores the mystery and miracle of birth. The way our culture does childbirth is...

PTSD is a complex problem, for which acupuncture has a great track record for dealing with it. Let’s hope traditional treatments, like acupuncture, will be part of mainstream treatment options.https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-cross-disciplinary-team-explores-nervous-ptsd.html

https://www.studyfinds.org/traditional-chinese-medicine/

If traditional acupuncture seems very different from what you know, then that is because it is! It was developed by a very different people, people that saw the world like this, and who thought different as well.That does not mean that we cannot use...

Summer has indeed arrived! We all like to use this great opportunity to enjoy exciting outdoor activities. All too often, we forget to protect ourselves from the strong summer sun. After long exposure to a warm environment, we may suddenly feel dizzy, nauseas and...

Congratulationswith this publication, Sandro Graca and Claudia Citkovitz!“From Bench to Bedside and Back Again: Developments in the Evidence-Informed Practice (and Practice-Informed Research) of Acupuncture”https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jicm.2022.0630

(This essay can also be found at https://essays.synthesishealth.co/how-the-world-came-to-ice/)As someone fascinated by the epistemology of medicine, I frequently come across an intriguing, pervasive value judgment that Industrial Medicine inflicts on traditional methods of caring for the sick, which is that direct observation and anecdote is...

A recent overview of acupuncture systematic reviews found that of 77 diseases investigated, acupuncture showed a moderate or large effect with moderate or high certainty evidence in eight diseases or conditions: improvement in functional communication of patients with post-stroke aphasia; relief of neck and...

Acupressure for Labour Preparation by Sarah Tewhey L.Ac http://www.sarahtewhey.com/downloads A simple five-page guide to acupressure for labour preparation which hopefully birthing people and their partners, along with doulas, nurses, midwives and doctors will find useful!

Nocturnal enuresis (NE), often known as bedwetting, is a common condition in children and, as a result, they may have subsequent social impairments. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) in children with NE.https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/acu.2022.0002

The Whole Person Research Workshop by National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health discussed examples of research studies in these three areas from diverse fields and explored methodologies potentially appropriate for whole person research.https://www.nccih.nih.gov/news/events/methodological-approaches-for-whole-person-research

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2794981

Among the Seattle Storm’s players and the other sports training staff members, Melony Cable is known as “Magic Mel.” The nickname is still a little embarrassing for the Storm’s team acupuncturist. But over the years, she’s come to accept it as a sign of...

A very interesting essay by dr. Malcolm Kendrick on the risk of high cholesterol on cardiovascular disease. It’s open access, and highly recommended.Assessing cardiovascular disease: looking beyond cholesterolhttps://journals.lww.com/co-endocrinology/Fulltext/2022/10000/Assessing_cardiovascular_disease__looking_beyond.4.aspx

Moxa is one of the great pillars of traditional Chinese medicine, yet much less known in the West than its younger, more slender sister, acupuncture. It has many different forms an applications, and Felip Caudet is an expert on several of them. In this...

Drinkable rivers

Let’s hope that this essay will be used by pregnant people, birth workers and healthcare providers to help spread the word and the growing evidence about this low risk intervention!Breech (feet first) position in the latter part of the third trimester of pregnancy is...

A key feature of nature–based health interventions is that a single intervention can affect people in multiple ways and, therefore, potentially improve wellbeing across a range of domains. For example, nature prescriptions can both promote physical activity leading to many positive health outcomes, while...

Terry Shaneyfelt has a wonderful collection of materials on Evidence Based Medicine, including some very nice Youtube videos on what lead time bias is, how to critically appraise a harm study, and confidence intervals. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the subject.

Fire Dragon 10-10-21 Pulmonary fibrosis will become one of the complications of COVID patients. It is clinically observed that most patients have different degrees of post-inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis when discharged from the hospital. The post-inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis of severely ill patients is particularly significant....

10 Fascinating Facts About Your Heart 1. How many times does a heart beat during the day? On average, an adult’s heart beats: – 72 times a minute – 100,000 times a day – 36,000,000 times a year 2. What is the weight of...

De mens bekommert zich steeds meer om de gezondheid van dieren. Althans: om een klein deel daarvan, met name huisdieren en dierentuindieren. Bij ziekte kunnen ze rekenen op een uitvoerige medische behandeling, en zelfs, zo ontdekte fotoredacteur Frank Schallmaier, op acupunctuur. Afgaande op de...

An overview of guidelines from the American Society of Clinical Oncology composed by the Society for Integrative Oncology , which gives an overview of the current evidence base for therapies like acupuncture in the care of oncology patients.

Long Covid: an article by Martin John on its treatment with Traditional Chinese Medicine.Martin John is a member of the Jade Screen Project and keen to transmit the knowledge that was gathered over the course of the pandemic by herbal practitioners worldwide into the...

https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-november-18-26-day-2-the-nature-of-the-threat-of-amr

https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/amr-awareness-week-november-18-26-part-3-how-can-we-as-individuals-help-reduce-the-risks

https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/amr-awareness-week-day-5-the-lack-of-new-antibiotics-and-the-dubious-role-of-big-pharma

https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/amr-awareness–week-day-5-mdr-tb-the-existing-anomolous-amr-pandemic

A paper published last week by Levine et al in Human Reproductive Update states that sperm counts have now dropped 62.3% over a 50 year period (up from 59.3%) and are continuing to drop at a rate of 2.64% (4.7m sperm/year).https://www.focusonreproduction.eu/article/ESHRE-News-Sperm-count-decline

Acupuncture Relief Project Nepal – Episode 6: Compassion Connects: THE INTERPRETERS

Depression can be a crippling condition, and it can be hard to navigate solutions. Many patients struggle with they question if they should try taking medication for their mental health problems, and this predicament itself can produce much anxiety and increase the problem.Still, we...

Op 22 november werd een webinar Integrative Medicine gehouden door de ziekenhuizen Rijnstate, Isala en Maxima Medisch Centrum, onderdeel van het innovatieve netwerk mProve. Binnen mProve is aandacht voor dat de arts met de patiënt praat over preventie, welzijn, leefstijl en de behoeften van...

Thanks, Mel Hopper Koppelman for the find!Few people realize how long acupuncture has been practiced by physicians in the West. Here is an article published in the Lancet in 1837 by a Dr Wansbrough on the immediate effects of acupuncture for low back pain...

The answer is simple: Drink when you’re thirsty. Prioritize water, and try to avoid sugary drinks, which can cause metabolic problems. Coffee and tea are fine as well.“If you’re paying attention to your body and drinking when you feel like you need to, then...

Dr. Yair Maimon, President of the ETCMA, discusses the global One Voice Big Evidence Project in detail: the goals, objectives, challenges and opportunities for the TCM profession in the near future as the World Health Organization (WHO) deploys the new ICD 11 codes which...

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine by Dolly Yang, Vivienne Lo, Michael Stanley-BakerThis Book is open access, and free to download! https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9780203740262/routledge-handbook-chinese-medicine-vivienne-lo-michael-stanley-baker-dolly-yang

Depression can be a crippling condition, and it can be hard to navigate solutions. Many patients struggle with they question if they should try taking medication for their mental health problems, and this predicament itself can produce much anxiety and increase the problem.Still, we...

Op 22 november werd een webinar Integrative Medicine gehouden door de ziekenhuizen Rijnstate, Isala en Maxima Medisch Centrum, onderdeel van het innovatieve netwerk mProve. Binnen mProve is aandacht voor dat de arts met de patiënt praat over preventie, welzijn, leefstijl en de behoeften van...

Few people realize how long acupuncture has been practiced by physicians in the West. Here is an article published in the Lancet in 1837 by a Dr Wansbrough on the immediate effects of acupuncture for low back pain in a patient who had been...

So how much water should you drink? The answer is simple: Drink when you’re thirsty. Prioritize water, and try to avoid sugary drinks, which can cause metabolic problems. Coffee and tea are fine as well.“If you’re paying attention to your body and drinking when...

Wat betekent natuurlijk? Het is een term die tegenwoordig veel gebruikt wordt, voor zoveel verschillende doeleinden dat je bijna zou denken dat hij door reclamemakers is uitgevonden. Maar de term “natuurlijk ” slaat wel degelijk ergens op als het betekent: “Met zo min mogelijk...