Articles, TCM

By: Emilie Salomons
I arrived in Chapagong, Nepal with two large bags overflowing with medical supplies. Appointed as the sole available doctor for the monsoon season in the ongoing rotation of health care practitioners organized by the Acupuncture Relief Project, which provides services at the Vajra Varahi Health Centre.

Tim Castles - Reuters
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

LONDON (Reuters)
- Prince Charles said the widespread use of genetically modified crops would
the "biggest disaster environmentally of all time" in a newspaper
interview published on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Acupuncture can help relieve menstrual
pain and improve the quality of life for some women, a new study from
Germany shows.

Because the acupuncture patients were compared with a control group
who received no therapy, rather than a "sham," or fake, version of the
treatment, the placebo effect could have played a role, Dr. Claudia M.
Witt of Charite University Medical Center in Berlin and her colleagues
acknowledge.

QUESTION: Do you know what would happen if you combined acupuncture with hypnosis? Would using both at the same time work better than either one alone?

DR. WEIL: You raise an interesting question -- one that my colleague Steven Gurgevich, PhD., has been investigating. Steve teaches mind/body medicine at the Program in Integrative Medicine (PIM) at the University of Arizona, and he is a faculty member of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He became interested in combining acupuncture with hypnosis through a chance personal experience. One morning, Steve was having a bad day with a headache. Elad Schiff, MD, a certified acupuncturist from Israel who was also a PIM fellow, suggested performing hypnosis with Steve. Schiff also brought out some of his acupuncture needles.