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"Where did you study chinese medicine? " Dr. Shyler L. Neveaux, AP: "I went to the Pacific Institute of Oriental Medicine in New York City and then graduated from the Florida Institute of traditional chinese medicine. After that, I attended the Texas State University for 2 years to become an acupuncture injections therapist." "How about honors and awards? " Dr. Shyler L. Neveaux, AP: "I hold an Acupuncture Injection Therapy Certification and a Laser Acupuncture Certification. As well, I have a certificate for the National Certification Commission for Acupunctures and Oriental Medicine." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Modern scientific medicine is only 200 years old and therefore has not been put to the test, as has chinese medicine. The word science has become so second rate that nearly anyone can attach it to their technology." "Is there any proof that chinese medicine heals a person?" Dr. Shyler L. Neveaux, AP: "The proof is within ourselves. No doctor can ever give us a hundred percent guarantee that he can heal someone. The body heals itself. Medicine is there only to support that healing." "Have you seen it in the work that you do? " Dr. Shyler L. Neveaux, AP: "Yes." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"A similar study was carried by out researchers at the National Yang Ming Medical College and National Research Institute of chinese medicine in Taipei, Taiwan. In this instance, the Qigong master alternately sent positive and negative intention to boar sperm cells and human fibroblast cells, which make up the connective tissue of the body. After 2 minutes of negative intention, the growth rates and protein synthesis of the cells decreased dramatically by 22-53 percent." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"There are twelve groups in chinese medicine as well. That fact alone does not mean it has any relevance in the reality of the body. It could simply be a coincidence, but I suspected otherwise. By matching and measuring and trying to find a sound reason for a pattern, I found that the ninety-six individual inner meridians could be transformed into twelve main groups." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "This turn of events brought back memories of Peter's own training in chinese medicine. He remembered that during his studies he had been told that there are two systems for ordering the main meridians and that the one that was most widely known contained errors. The errors had been inserted into the system intentionally by the ancient teachers. The mark of mastery of the practice, he was told, was when a student recognized the errors and so could, on his or her own, discover the proper order." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Most people give little thought to the connection between their digestion and their overall health, but the two are inescapably intertwined (similar to the concept in chinese medicine of yin and yang). And if we ignore these signs that something in the body is amiss, we set ourselves up for much more serious health issues down the road." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"In the West, modern neuroscience describes the movement of energy from the brain, down the spine, through the peripheral nervous system, and then from the extremities back to the spine and brain through a series of nerve centers or "bundles and branches" (energy centers) in the spine. chinese medicine describes the flow of energy from the brain through the body in a series of meridians, or energy pathways, as well as areas in the body where energy ("chi") is concentrated. The rishis of India developed a scheme of bodily energy flow based on chakras." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"The three that I have explored are Five Element chinese medicine, the Chakra system, and the Medicine Wheel. Each of these healing modalities is an entire course of study within itself, and I urge you to explore deeply the ones that speak to you. I present them here to help you understand the many layers of Plant Spirit Healing. These modalities are structures within which therapeutically use plant spirits. However, the healing comes through your co-creative partnership with the plant spirits." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "Others use clear quartz crystals to extract the squatter while others may perform a particular ritual. In chinese medicine there are seven acupuncture points on the front of the body and seven on the back of the body that are the release points for a disembodied soul who has attached to a person's central nervous system. When these points are opened they become a gateway through which the squatter can leave. In Plant Spirit Healing these points are stimulated with the help of Mugwort." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "Of course, moxibustion has been used in chinese medicine for centuries. This is the fuzzy part of the leaves rolled into cones that are burned on acupuncture points to help stimulate them. Mugwort is by far my most favorite herbal beer. There is debate about whether her common name is associated with her being a main ingredient in alcoholic brews, and it is quite likely given the great taste and pleasant shift that occurs when we partake of her as a drink." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"I ate dairy, had digestive problems, angered easily, and was a student of chinese medicine and herbology. I studied German electro-acupuncture. I lived in Italy for many years and am a trained psychologist but have a defensive anger. I joined a support group to learn the protocol for myself and my patients. My eating patterns have improved by being vegan and by juicing. I feel a stronger vitality. Boundaries are easily set. I will not tolerate abuse. I've developed insight into my former behavior and my tendency to get angry." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"CHOLESTIN Cholestin is an ancient remedy that has been used in chinese medicine for centuries for the treatment of heart problems. Derived from yeast on red rice, it is called red rice yeast extract. It has eight statin compounds that are HMG coenzymeA reductase inhibitors, just like statins, that have been shown to reduce cholesterol. Because they are chemically identical to statins, they therefore have the same risks as the statins. FISH OIL Studies of fish oils and fish-oil extracts in the form of pills and formulas for the prevention of heart disease have not been uniformly promising." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"According to chinese medicine, sour foods help the liver. Drinking lemon water (juice of one-half lemon in eight ounces of water in the morning and/or evening) helps liver flow and can improve fat metabolism. It has the added benefit of enhancing weight loss. Some Science about Liver Metabolism Understanding the science behind things can help to motivate you to eat and do the right things. For this reason I usually show my patients charts about how hormones break down inside them and how certain vitamins and foods can help hormones metabolize more safely." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "As seasons changed so did the foods we ate, thereby rotating our antioxidants and other nutrients. chinese medicine recommends rotating foods to fit the season. For my patients who can't or won't stick to a well-balanced diet, I provide the following list of antioxidants and ask that they pick one or two to rotate every two to three months. • Vitamin E 400 U daily (Use a mixed source with alpha and gamma tocopherol." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Disease as we see it is merely the end product of prolonged imbalance and deficiency of nutrients and energy. In chinese medicine, age is seen as a gradual decline in kidney qi (pronounced "chee") and, though inevitable, this decline can actually be made more gradual and much more comfortable. With great enthusiasm I began using acupuncture on my geriatric patients. I noticed that my stroke patients could move more freely and that their moods and bowels improved." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Cordyceps is one of the most valued medicinal fungi in all chinese medicine, and also one of the most expensive (costing as much as $249 per kilogram). Cordyceps is widely employed to treat upper respiratory problems, impotence, weakened immune systems, and by athletes to increase endurance. Garlic Garlic is one of the best infection fighters available for both bacterial and viral infections. One of its many ingredients, allicin,1 is a natural antibiotic that does 'The same component that gives garlic its strong odor is the one that destroys, or inhibits vatious bacteria and fungi." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "According to chinese medicine, restriction in its flow is the ultimate cause of all disease. Exercise stimulates and helps move this "energy" through blocked areas of the body. Biochemical Changes Exercise produces "happy" biochemicals called endorphins. Sometimes called "the runner's high," these endorphins drive away stress and depression and stimulate the immune system. In addition, exercise increases levels of human growth hormone (the youth hormone) in the body. Aerobic exercise can increase HGH levels by as much as 200%. Weight training can inctease HGH levels an astounding 400%." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"In so many of the cases using chinese medicine there is proof that it supports healing. I have seen it in the cases I work with. You could say that if it works, it must be right." "Do you have any experience with pharmaceutical drugs?" Dr. Shyler L. Neveaux, AP: "Yes. But first permit me to say this: Pharmaceutical drugs are the 4th leading cause of death in the country due to the side effects of the medication. I treat a lot of older people and there is always the fear of interaction with the medications they are taking." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"In some traditions, for instance chinese medicine, that's called the chi. In homeopathy, we call it the vital force. It relates to chronic fatigue because chronic fatigue, as well as many other conditions, represents a disbalance in the person's system, particularly on their energy level. When that is corrected, many things fall into place. "I treat chronic fatigue and Candida together, since many of their symptoms overlap. Although the cause of chronic fatigue is not known, the Epstein Barr virus, a member of the herpes virus group, is often involved." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Also known as yin yang huo, epimedium has a long history in chinese medicine as a tonic for the liver, joints, and kidneys. But in the United States, its principal use is as an aphrodisiac. What Do the Chinese Know That We Don't? Horny goat weed is loaded with flavonoids, polysaccharides, sterols, and an alkaloid called mag-naflorine, according to herbal medicine expert Chris Kilham, author of the Hot Plants: Natures Proven Sex Boosters for Men and Women. This time-tested aphrodisiac "increases libido in men and women, and improves erectile function in men," Kilham says." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Naturopathic therapies include dietary and lifestyle changes, clinical nutrition (nutritional supplementation), botanical medicine (herbs), homeopathy, chinese medicine and acupuncture, hydrotherapy, manipulation, physical therapies, psychotherapy, and minor surgery. We also recognize the judicious use of prescription medications when the benefits exceed the risks, integrated into a comprehensive naturopathic health-care plan. Some naturopathic physicians receive extra training and licensure to practice obstetrics and natural childbirth." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Japanese and chinese medicine and medical education also advanced in rationality and organization. The Western resurgence began with William Harvey's observation on the circulation of blood and made slow progress through the eighteenth century in terms of theory, some progress in terms of surgery, but painfully slow progress in medical therapeusis. It took Louis Pasteur's theory of putrefaction in 1861, followed shortly by Lister's principles of anti-sepsis, for modern therapeutics to gain a foothold and have promise." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"While chinese medicine goes back more than 5,000 years to the Yellow Emperor's classic treatise, modern Chinese medical training includes up-to-date chemistry. Just like medical apprentices in other traditions, Chinese medical students work with acids and metals and solvents to extract and prepare compounds. Phenols, formaldehyde and benzene are workhorse chemicals for many procedures, whether in Western or chinese medicine. The two women worked with these chemicals at metal benches affixed to sinks. There were no hoods to take away fumes." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "Li Dou is a doctor of modern chinese medicine who teaches at the Maryland Acupuncture College along with her good friend, the charismatic Yiping Hu. Trained at Shanghai Medical School, one of China's best colleges of traditional medicine, they each took the usual courses in Chinese materia medica. While chinese medicine goes back more than 5,000 years to the Yellow Emperor's classic treatise, modern Chinese medical training includes up-to-date chemistry." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"By the mid-1990s, websites had sprung up offering trips to study chinese medicine "in the style of Bill Moyers." Martial-arts centers added qigong teachers to their staff, books began to be published (a quick search in 2007 on Amazon.com turned up close to two thousand titles), and commercial videos about qigong did brisk sales under titles like "Secrets of China."51 In 1997, the city and county of San Francisco went so far as to proclaim November 20-26 "Qigong Week." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Bill Moyers, embodying the common-sense skepticism of the ordinary man on the street, travels to China in the company of David Eisenberg, a respected Western-trained doctor who also previously studied chinese medicine in China. Eisenberg functions as the cultural broker of the film, the bridge between East and West. From the opening strains of Asian music and images of temples and palaces, the Orientalist sensibility of the film is made clear." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Chinese medicine," Mao proclaimed, "is a grand cache of knowledge that we should actively bring to light and further evolve."56 This proclamation was soon reproduced on the front page of traditional Chinese medical textbooks everywhere. It was a classic exercise in the making of a tradition, and there were several reasons why it happened. Mao was looking to reduce China's dependence on the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was training most of China's doctors and providing most of its medical supplies." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"In a healthy state, life force circulates freely throughout the body. chinese medicine places a great focus on opening up energy pathways, or meridians, so the body is better able to return to health. In an unhealthy body, our natural energy can be lowered by stress, a buildup of toxins, and illness. When energy is flowing freely throughout, the body is able to regenerate and detoxify itself, and is better able to cope with the stresses and strains of life. Health is directly dependent on energy flow. ENERGY IS ALL ABOUT ELECTRICITY The human body runs on electrical energy." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"It's worth noting, however, that in chinese medicine, dong quai is almost always used in combination with other medicines and herbs. Dong quai may be one of those herbs or compounds that's used best as part of an overall treatment plan or formula, where it might have a synergistic effect. It doesn't seem to have too much of an effect on its own, though. Soy has long had a reputation as good for hot flashes. I wrote about soy in my previous book, The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth, and if you read it, you probably know I'm not a big cheerleader for the "all soy all the time" brigade." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"CHOLESTIN Cholestin has been used in chinese medicine for centuries for the treatment of heart problems. It is derived from yeast found on red rice and is marketed under the name "red rice yeast extract." This extract has eight statin compounds that are HMG coenzymeA reductase inhibitors and, just like statins, have been shown to reduce cholesterol. However, since the active ingredients of this supplement are chemically identical to those of the statins, they also have the same side effects." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

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