Consuming the placenta after giving birth, usually after encapsulation, is a nice practice that is nonetheless popular in some new age circles. Quite often, this is unfortunately promoted as if it is rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and that it would have beneficial properties for the new mother.

However, nothing could be further from the truth: eating the placenta is very clearly, documented, *not* part of Traditional Chinese medicine, or any other traditional practice, and it can even be harmful. These kinds of myths where modern invented "traditions" are falsely attributed harm the treasure trove that traditional medicine truly is.

(1) https://www.happygoatproductions.com/blog/2016/5/11/placentophagy-and-chinese-medicine
(2) https://www.happygoatproductions.com/blog/2017/9/6/a-lactation-consultants-perspective-on-placenta-encapsulation
(3)

#placenta #placentophagy #birth #TCM #FalseInformation #acupuncture

Adele Framer, is the founder of https:/survivingantidepressants.org , a critical and comprehensive peer-support website that features several thousand case histories of psychiatric drug withdrawal. The site is a hub of information on the topic, highlighting methods of safe drug tapering and recovery and underscoring the humanity of those in the grips of withdrawal.

Here is an interview with her:
https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/11/surviving-antidepressants-adele-framer/
#antidepressants #ssri #depression #sideeffects

There are different acupuncture styles out there. College acupuncturist Boaz Colodner talks about differences in diagnosis in Japanese acupuncture style vs Chinese acupuncture style.

“Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving the body 'uncontrolled' is spoken of, what is meant is simply allowing the body to remain in an authentic, uncorrected condition, in which it is not necessary to modify or improve anything. This is because, since all our attempts at correcting the body come from the reasoning mind, they are all false and artificial.”
― Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

After Chiso brought acupuncture to Japan from Wu (China) in the sixth century, it has progressed in unique ways within the various historical milieus of the past 1500 years. Ishitsu-rei, the first medical law of Japan established in 701, explains the medical system of acupuncture in detail showing that acupuncture was being administered under the authorization of the national government. For the next 1200 years, acupuncture continued to be an important facet of public health in Japan.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2887322/
#acupuncture #japan #hari #history

This 40-minute online training session, hosted by Evidence Synthesis Ireland and presented by Julie Glanville, will teach participants techniques for effectively searching PubMed. Julie will explain how to find and use Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and will demonstrate restricting searches to specific fields, truncation for searching word variations, phrase searching for multi-word concepts, the new proximity searching feature, creating saved searches, and exporting results. The final 20 minutes will be a question and answer session where participants can ask about any other PubMed search techniques they are interested in learning. Overall, the webinar aims to equip attendees with core skills for searching the PubMed database effectively.

https://evidencesynthesisireland.ie/conference/webinar-julie-glanville-how-to-search-pubmed/

🥳🤩🥰✨Happy World Acupuncture Day 2023, on which we celebrate and rejoice the 13th anniversary of UNESCO recognizing Acupuncture as Intangible human cultural treasure.


#acupuncturechangeslives #Acupunctureworks #etcma #acupuncture

The latest study, which has been published in JAMA (formerly The Journal of the American Medical Association), represents one of the first times that a traditional Chinese medicine has been tested in a large-scale, Western-style clinical trial.

The authors of the study, who include researchers from several Chinese universities and hospitals, in collaboration with experts from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW)—found that tongxinluo reduced the risk of heart attacks (known as myocardial infarctions), deaths and other major cardiovascular complications for at least a year after a first heart attack.
https://www.newsweek.com/traditional-chinese-medicine-proves-effective-modern-clinical-trial-1842799

#acupuncture #tcm #research #jama #cardiovascular