Archive for September, 2011

Treating Female Infertility with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

September 30th, 2011

It is easy to believe that infertility treatment is strictly a modern day science made possible through the application of state of the art reproductive techniques. Many couples however are now turning to acupuncture and Traditional Chinese medicine for help. At the same time many high tech reproductive specialists are looking to the world of Chinese medicine to help patients especially when western techniques cannot get results.

The benefits of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of infertile couples can be found in early Chinese medical literature dating back to around the 11th century A.D. Although this system of medicine dates back many thousands of years it is as effective as any other medical techniques used in the world today.

With one in eight couples finding themselves unable to conceive many women nowadays ultimately consider in vitro fertilization in their attempts to start a family. Recently research has shown that the chances of having a successful and healthy pregnancy can be maximized by combining Western medicine and Chinese medicine. In fact a recent German study found that using acupuncture in conjunction with In Vitro fertilization (IVF) achieved a 42% clinical pregnancy rate compared to the control group that achieved 26%. The study consisted of giving acupuncture shortly before and after embryo transfer.

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Vibrational Medicine

September 29th, 2011

Vibrational medicine attempts to treat people with various forms of pure energy. The influence of alternative medical systems such as Chinese, Ayervedic or Tibetan medicine have led in part to the development of machines that can ‘image energy’. Heat energy imagers are an accepted part of our technology. We readily accept imaging heat, even though we can’t see it, because heat is something we can sense through touch. With the ‘energy body’ it is not so straightforward. Very few of us have experienced this for ourselves and there is apparently no sensory backup to tell us it is there.

Experiments in ‘electro-acupuncture’ and Kirlian photography have led to an energy map of the body identical to that shown in traditional Chinese medicine. The meridian system is seen as an interface between the physical body and the energy body. Applications of resonant energy to the meridian system promote healing in a number of dis-eases, by altering the energy of the ‘root system’ concerned in the dis-ease. Much of this work seems to be ‘undercover’ and information and the manufacture of equipment for treatments of this nature is actually suppressed through legislation.

The etheric body, acupuncture meridians, chakras and nadis and other multi-dimensional aspects of the human are described by ancient schools of healing throughout the world. Western medicine in its reductionist stance, ignores these aspects because they can’t be studied under a microscope. Only now, at the beginning of the 21st century are some doctors starting to catch on.

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