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During a recent Q&A session of a Presidential Town Hall meeting in St. Louis, one licensed acupuncturist and massage therapist in Florissant, Mo., got to ask President Barack Obama what must certainly be one of the most important questions in the minds of all alternative health practitioners.
Read the transcript of the question and President Obama's answer, which does appear to be positive toward the inclusion of alternative therapies into health care reform. via acupuncturetoday.com
With the recent surge of interest in Eastern healing solutions to illnesses, it often seems like the east and western medicinal practices are at odds with each other. This is not always the case. Now more and more osteopaths are recommending that clients do both: a combination of Western osteopathy and Eastern acupuncture.
Originating from the Far East, acupuncture takes a holistic approach to health and encompasses a practice which has been refined over the past 2000 years. Its underlying philosophy holds that health is dependent on the free flow of our bodys energy " known as Qi " through a system of pathways that lie beneath the skin. All pathways are linked to the vital organs, so if the flow of Qi is upset in some way (i.e. by emotional turmoil or physical injury), the bodys health and harmony is disrupted.
The research in many prestigious medical journals and studies by medical institutions like the Mayo Clinic and Harvard University
is rapidly accumulating evidence that acupuncture can be quite
effective for certain medical conditions," says Kim, "especially for
pain conditions like fibromyalgia, low-back pain and headaches." These
conditions can be treated by acupuncture alone, or by acupuncture in
combination with standard treatments.
Read more on what Dr Charles Kim, a physician and certified
acupuncturist and the director of medical acupuncture in the Department of Anesthesiology
at Mount Sinai has to say via nydailynews.com
Part of the philosophy of traditional Chinese methods of healing, such as acupuncture, is to keep the whole body in balance, so such a soothing atmosphere is important, says Fluhart, who has been an acupuncturist for more than a decade and has been in the current location for about a year. To practice the craft, acupuncturists must attend an accredited school and complete 3,000 to 4,000 service hours.
Read more about acupuncture and how it works via kentucky.com
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