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"Often encountered today in spicy curries and mustard, turmeric has a long history of use as a culinary spice and an herbal medicine; the Ayurvedic, Unani, and Siddha systems, as well as traditional chinese medicine, advocated its use. Research has shown this spices most active component, curcumin, has antioxidant properties and may help ease inflammatory ailments. We arrived at Oku in early evening. I passed a convenience store on the outskirts of a very small town and stopped to buy some snacks." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Used for more than 3,000 years as a health remedy in traditional chinese medicine, maitake mushrooms are gaining popularity in the West for their ability to help prevent and treat cancer. While maitake's superior health benefits and taste earned it the title as the "King of Mushrooms" in Japan, until recently in the West, maitake mushrooms have taken a backseat to the more well-known shiitake mushroom. However, the development of cultivation methods now ensures a steady supply of maitake, allowing researchers to study its medicinal properties and bring it to the forefront of cancer research." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"That's the way we are supposed to feel. traditional chinese medicine calls this concept of internal energy "Chi." It is also known as "Ki," "Qi," or "Vital Life Force." Oriental medicine has known for thousands of years that a subtle energy field exists in the body, and that when the energy pathways are open, a person is in superior physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. ENERGY IS EVERYWHERE As explained in chapter 2, the energy in our bodies is actually electricity, or polarized energy. We learn from quantum physics that everything in the universe is an expression of energy." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Readers who are motivated to review this long history can start with traditional chinese medicine and the Indian ayurvedic system. There are scores of individual pioneers and visionaries, both ancient and modern, who have devoted themselves to furthering our understanding of the underlying energies of the body. The modern physicians, scientists, and researchers include Edwin Babbitt, Harold Saxon Burr, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Ryke Geerd Hamer, Royal Rife, Samuel Hahnemann, Reinholdt Voll, Helmut Schimmel, Wilhelm Reich, Ida Rolf, Robert O." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "Our findings have applications to many complementary practices, especially traditional chinese medicine, homeopathy, and acupuncture, providing them with an explanation that is based in physics instead of what amounts to metaphysics. Just what is this quantum physics we keep talking about? It's time we introduced you to the fundamental tenets of quantum theory." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "Of course, alternative and complementary medicine and science have a rich, and ancient, history of viewing the body in terms of energy, which is fundamentally what physics is about. traditional chinese medicine and Indian ayurvedic medicine have long explored the energies of the body. Acupuncture and homeopathy are practiced widely in Asia and Europe (Britain, for example, has at least four exclusively homeopathic hospitals) and are slowly gaining acceptance in the United States and elsewhere." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Modern acupuncture charts show up to 2000 treatment points along the meridians, although traditional chinese medicine only indicated 365. The Chinese consider good health to be a state of balance and harmony, and that in everything that lives there is an interaction between two polar energy forces: yin and yang. There is no absolute yin and no absolute yang, only a mixture of the two, although the balance may swing. Neither can exist without the other—they are constantly interacting and changing." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Examples include mind-body medicine, homeopathic medicine, naturopathic medicine, traditional chinese medicine, herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, chiropractic and osteopathic manipulation, and biofield therapies. These interventions are considered to be complementary medicine when they are used together with conventional medicine (as when meditation is used to reduce a patient's pain following surgery)." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Thus, voices from within the major medical heterodoxies—particularly homeopathy, chiropractic, osteopathy, acupuncture, Ayurveda, 'traditional Chinese medicine', and herbal medicine—are calling for regulation or the legal right to self-regulate. And governments are debating the same issues, while increasing funding for 'scientific' research into the efficacy of heterodox practices (to the disgust of many in the biomedical community). In 1991, Congress mandated the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate 'unconventional medicine'." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"According to the theory of traditional chinese medicine, the human body has a meridian system running deep in the tissues of the body through which flows an invisible energy which the Chinese term 'the qi, or life force. The qi supposedly enters the body through these acupuncture points and flows to deeper organ structures (which do not correspond to those of Western human biology), providing energy (and thus the life force). Illness occurs when there is a blockage of this energy anywhere along the pathways." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Acupuncture from the Tri-State Institute for traditional chinese medicine and also did special studies in China. Besides being in private practice for years, she also consults and holds rejuvenation workshops. She teaches doctors at the Botanical Medicine in Modern Clinical Practice Conference at Columbia's Rosenthal Center. She is adjunct faculty for the New York Botanical Garden. PHILIP JAY HODES, ED.D., has spent three decades learning about holistic health, detoxification, and orthomolecular nutritional therapies." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"I realized that integrating it with traditional chinese medicine would combine the best of both systems, so I obtained certification as a doctor of traditional chinese medicine. [Then} I became a disciple of Dr. Zhi Chen Guo. Under Master Guo's rigorous training...my spiritual channels were opened, and I became a medical intuitive."1 A healer may have studied a particular modality but not have the experience to treat you in depth; in such cases ethical practitioners recognize the limits of their expertise and will certainly refer you to a highly competent specialist." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"For more than two thousand years, practitioners of traditional chinese medicine have used ginseng root to treat various ailments. It has largely been valued as a way to boost the immune system and as an adaptogen, which means it helps increase the body's resistance to stress. Today it is still used for this purpose, but it also is proving helpful in supporting metabolic health and healthy blood sugar levels. At the University of Toronto, a group of researchers found that Asian ginseng, when compared with a placebo, improved glucose and insulin control in people with type 2 diabetes." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Weschler encourages women to spend more time outside during daylight hours, and to try traditional chinese medicine practices like acupuncture, which has proved very helpful both in reducing stress and in resolving the hormonal imbalances that can lead to infertility. After an ectopic pregnancy and two miscarriages in just two years, I felt doomed. No matter what I did, I simply couldn't have that baby my husband and I had dreamed about for so long. I was only twenty-eight years old—what was wrong with me?" - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The closest model is that of traditional chinese medicine. However, for all its detail, even the Chinese system does not make clear connections to the modern biochemical understanding of the body. The NES model of the human body-field provides the first truly comprehensive and coherent link between biochemistry and bioenergetics. NES is a system that is holistic in the best sense of that word. We don't reject the very real biochemical processes of the body. We don't reject the value of allopathic medicine, which is built upon that biochemical framework." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"For centuries, traditional chinese medicine doctors have recommended celery for high blood pressure. It makes sense for anyone with this serious condition to include celery in their diet on a daily basis. Celery also contains silicon, an important nutrient for bone health. Because of its silicon content, celery can help renew joints, bones, arteries, and all connective tissue. It also contains acetylenics, which have been shown to stop the growth of cancer cells, as well as phenolic acids, which block the action of compounds in the body known to encourage the growth of cancerous tumors." - 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.)

"The Amomum species is used extensively in traditional Indian medicine. traditional chinese medicine uses cardamom for treating stomachaches, constipation, diarrhea, and other digestive difficulties. Cardomon has been traditionally used as an antispasmotic. Throw Me a Lifesaver! DIGESTIVE HEALTH: Cardamom possesses the ability to kill harmful H. pylori bacteria associated with ulcers. It also exerts a calming effect on the rest of the digestive tract and has been used to treat dyspepsia and gastritis." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Other botanicals used in traditional chinese medicine that show some promise in treating fibroids in vivo include poria and cinnamon.32 Traditional herbalists have developed various botanical uterine fibroid protocols and report modest success in reducing the size and number of uterine fibroids. I have used many herbs and herbal formulations over the years in an attempt to shrink fibroids, and I present the protocol below from one of the traditional herbalists, Rick Scalzo, as an option for your consideration. (See the Resources for a listing of herbal companies." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Scutellaria barbata, commonly used in traditional chinese medicine for its purported antitumor properties, was shown to inhibit the proliferation of uterine smooth muscle cells and act as an aromatase inhibitor contributing to Scalzo's Protocol Scudder's Alterative CorydaLis tubers (Dicentra canadensis) Black alder bark (Alnus serrulata) Mayapple root (Podophyllum peltatum) Figwort flowering herb (Scrophularia nodosa) Yellow dock root (Rumex crispus) Add 30-40 drops to a small amount of warm water and take 3 times daily." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"In 1957, new colleges of traditional chinese medicine were founded in Chengdu, Shanghai, Gaungzhou, and Beijing. The doctors assigned to these hospitals worked with officials to sift through the teachings of a range ot previously autonomous schools and sects. Their aim was to extract the most sensible elements in order to create a single tradition stripped of all "feudalis-tic superstitious" beliefs and made consistent with modern science and Marxist-Leninist principles. "Chinese medicine," Mao proclaimed, "is a grand cache of knowledge that we should actively bring to light and further evolve." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Traditional Advice from the Chinese Some other worthy tips from traditional Chinese medicine: • Avoid taking too long on the toilet (don't make a habit of reading there). • Rinse the anus and perineum (area under the genitals) with warm water after each bowel movement. • Use hot compresses and light massage daily to further stimulate blood circulation. RECTAL ITCHING • An Overnight Soak of Sorts One nondrug way to combat the itching that accompanies hemorrhoid flare-ups is to soak a gauze bandage in apple cider vinegar and place in the anal area overnight." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"The Chinese, for whom cupping was also a popular remedy, theorised that it rid the body of unwanted or perverse chi by drawing it to the surface and diffusing it. traditional chinese medicine still uses cupping to treat asthma, as well as boils or abscesses, arthritis, rheumatism, bruising, colds and chills. There are two types of cupping, wet and dry. Dry cupping is by far the most common and involves heating the air in glass or bamboo suction cups and then placing the cups along energy meridian lines or affected areas of the body." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Applying the above theory and combining [it with] the curing theory of channel acupuncture in traditional chinese medicine, this product uses both magnetic acupuncture and mechanical acupuncture to activate the important acupoints around the eyes and harmonize the blood, Qi, thus improving the adjusting functions of the eye muscles and eye nerve, and curing nearsightedness and all kinds of eye-related diseases. . . . This equipment is designed accurately by computer to accord to the shape of the eyes and the distribution of acupoints." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Even as efforts were made on one front to thoroughly secularize and disentangle one mind-body practice from its Eastern associations, the public was being offered a different, thoroughly exotic new vision of mind-body healing from the East: one grounded in previously little known principles of traditional chinese medicine. A critical catalyst here came in 1993, when the Public Broadcasting Service broadcast a five-part documentary titled Healing and the Mind." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"He went to China to interview traditional chinese medicine practitioners for the Discovery Channel, and was told by Diao Yuan Kuang, M.D., that horny goat weed "... gives you back your sexual strength." Chinese doctors use it to treat erectile problems, boost libido, and recapture the sexual vitality of youth. Herb traders in China estimate that they sell more than 100 tons of the stuff every year. Little research has been done on horny goat weed and libido, but it has a long history of successful use, and many health practitioners, not only in Asia, but over here, endorse it. " - 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.) "BODY, HEAL THYSELF Natural medicine—in fact, all traditional systems of healing from traditional chinese medicine to shamanism to herbalism—subscribe to a basic philosophy that seems to be curiously absent in conventional Western medicine, and it's this: The body has an almost wondrous ability to heal itself. My friend, naturopathic physician Sonja Petterson, N.M.D., points out that in sanatoriums they used to put people on fasts, hose them down, and make them walk around in the cold clean air." - 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.) "The bark, seed, twigs, and leaves from the horse chestnut trees are used in traditional chinese medicine. Horse chestnut extract is helpful for improving circulation, which makes it also useful for relieving leg cramps. The German Commission E, which is responsible for testing herbs and supplements, approves horse chestnut for "venous insufficiency," meaning lack of blood flow through the veins. Those Delicate Veins Varicose veins are almost always related to a weakness in the walls of the veins, which are fairly delicate structures to begin with." - 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.)

"This was the first mass media exposure of Americans to acupuncture and traditional chinese medicine. "I have seen the past," wrote Reston, "and it works."' DEFINITIONS The subject of this chapter is known by many names: "unorthodox" or "unconventional," or sometimes less accurately as "naturopathic."2 In vogue today is "complementary and alternative medicine," abbreviated as CAM. We'll use the term "alternative." Our first problem is to decide exactly what is alternative?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Indeed, Ayurveda and traditional chinese medicine (TCM) continue to be practised in Europe and in their regions of origin today, and western humoural medicine only gradually declined in popularity after the Scientific Revolution (roughly 1543-1700) with its greater privileging of empirical and especially experimental knowledge about the natural world. It persisted in orthodox practice until the mid-nineteenth century, and informed lay explanatory systems into the present." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

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