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Chinese Medicine Practitioners will combine several herbs into specific formulas, based on the individual’s symptoms to achieve a beneficial therapeutic effect. ² This does not suggest the exclusion of GP prescribed medications if required.

Research shows that herbal medicines can modulate a broader spectrum of cellular pathways and processes to relieve depression.

The pathophysiology of depression is regulated by the biosynthesis, transport and signalling of neurotransmitters [e.g., serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine, or γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)] in the central nervous system ¹, all of which Acupuncture has been shown to affect.

Clinically, depression is defined as having persistent feelings of sadness, despair, fatigue, and loss of interest.

Acupuncture and Chinese herbs can assist with the effects to health stress may induce. It affects the parasympathetic nervous system, allowing muscles to relax and physical tension to ease assisting with sleep and digestion, and lowering cortisol (the ‘fight flight’ hormone) to reduce anxiety.

Stress can trigger a cascade of hormones that produce physiological changes such as digestive issues, sleep disorders, cardiovascular problems, weakened immune function, or simply muscle tension and headaches. Anxiety and depression can increase, causing social withdrawal.

Sadly, moxa techniques are given short shrift in our TCM education. This is tragic. Please join this seminar and invest in your practice and your patients’ health.

Saturday, Jan 24; 6 – 10 PM UK time;
Saturday, Jan 31; 6 – 10 PM UK time;
Saturday, Feb 7; 6 – 10 PM UK time;

In Europe and the USA we speak mostly of “acupuncture”, but really to be true to the Chinese phrase (zhen jiu) we should speak of needle-moxa, which would put moxibustion in its rightful place alongside acupuncture.

Merlin and Yuki are the principles in Moxafrica, a research organization that has added a feather in our profession’s cap by publishing moxa studies in peer-reviewed journals.
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Lean More about Dr. Neal: neijingstudies.com

Dr Neal explains how the understanding of modern diseases, and even the modern human existential condition itself, can be reframed and experienced through the stories from which we create meaning and understanding in our world, sharing examples of practical application with oncology patients.

He shares how his understanding and practice of East Asian Medicine has been informed by an ever changing and deepening understanding of the Inner Classic, through a process of Text Archaeology.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Monday that it agrees with a recent proposal made in the National Assembly to increase the participation of traditional medicine doctors in public health care amid a decline in the number of public health doctors.

We propose that the situation could be improved by encouraging scientific communication and the redistribution of the scientific treasure of knowledge in the form of “mind-sized” memes.

Similarly, scientists seem to be content with accumulating knowledge, doing little or nothing to use it outside their restricted domain of expertise. We argue that this attitude is one of the elements causing the ongoing decline of science as a way to produce innovative knowledge.

We start from an analogy: science can be seen as one of the dragons of Western mythology, described as sitting on their hoard of gold but not using it for any useful purpose.