“In traditional Chinese medicine, balance is the goal. The kidneys are your source of yin and yang. When you are in excellent health, the relaxed yin state is in balance with the adrenal yang state. When you experience an excess of yin or yang influences, the problem may be in the kidneys. Any chronic imbalance can eventually cause a deficiency in the kidneys. In traditional Chinese medicine, the kidneys are your most important organs. They regulate your internal qi (chi). If you are strong physically, and sound mentally and emotionally, you have abundant kidney qi.”

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Announcing a new website dedicated to treating endometriosis and uterine fibroids with acupuncture and alternative medicine. Visit ScreamingUterus.com for more info.

For more research, news and comments on treating endo and fibroids visit the ScreamingUterusBlog

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I found this very interesting blog on weight loss as well as information on the laws of attraction.
Sound like fun. I am willing to try it!cosmicorder.blogspot.com

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Ginger and acupuncture can help reduce nausea during pregnancy.

Whether raw, in tea or in capsules, ginger noticeably lessens nausea, according to the Professional Association of Gyneacologists(BVF) in Munich.

The study showed that taking Vitamin B6 and stimulating certain acupuncture points by applying light pressure to body parts also helps. Special bands worn on the wrist can stimulate those points.

Changes in diet can also help, says the BVF. Women suffering from nausea should eat more meals, but smaller portions or eat something before they get up in the morning.

Three of every four women suffer from nausea or vomiting during the first trimester of pregnancy. It is most likely caused when hormones boost metabolic or pancreatic activity. Pancreatic function tests area recommended for especially bad problems.

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•Take a Vitamin B Complex every morning. (Rainbow Light B complex is food-based, easy to digest and a wonderful brand)
•Wear lavender or rose oil.
•Use BACH FLOWER RESCUE REMEDY if you are really stressed.
•Get some form of exercise at least 4 times a week- even if it is just walking your dog or doing laps around the house with your cat.
• Take up Tai Chi or Yoga
• Take a nice hot bath with lavender oil or bath salts. Ahhhhhhhh
•Rent fun movies that make you laugh
•Avoid watching the news before going to bed.
•Listen to a relaxation or meditation tape or CD everyday or before you go to bed. There are some great ones at www.brainsync.com

Jeanie Marie Kraft, L.Ac. MyAcuDoc.com Body & Soul Salem MA

Jeanie Marie is also keeping tails wagging on the North Shore of MA with K9 acupuncture house-calls. Visit FourPawsAcupuncture.com for more information.

What is the sound the uterus makes when a woman is suffering from fibroids or endometriosis? What are your options to treat these conditions?

Most American women are given the choice of hysterectomy or hormones until menopause to relieve the symptoms of these disorders. What most women don’t know is that there is another, healthier way. Screaming Uterus Syndrome describes approaches to treating these ailments with Traditional Chinese Medicine, including acupuncture, herbs, vitamins, along with diet and lifestyle changes. In this book you will find:

Basic anatomy and descriptions of these diagnoses
Clinical information for acupuncturists
Self-help information for laypersons and more!
Know your options before choosing a therapy. Read Screaming Uterus Syndrome and learn how to stop the shouting.

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Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:49 PM BST
By Amy Norton

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Acupuncture may offer women an alternative for easing hot flashes during menopause, preliminary research suggests.

In a study of 29 women with frequent, daily hot flashes, researchers found that those who received acupuncture began to have fewer and less severe symptoms during the night.

As nighttime hot flashes improved, so did the quality of the women’s sleep, the researchers report in the journal Fertility & Sterility.

Hot flashes are a common part of menopause, and women who get them often have difficulty getting a good night’s sleep. Hormone replacement therapy is effective at quelling hot flashes, but given the risks of the therapy — including increased risks of heart disease and breast cancer — many women are interested in alternative treatments.

The new findings offer preliminary evidence that acupuncture works, but it’s too early to recommend the procedure for hot flashes, senior study author Dr. Rachel Manber told Reuters Health.
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Sept. 22, 2006(WebMD) Acupuncture may nix nighttime hot flashes caused by menopause, according to a new study.

Researchers found seven weeks of acupuncture treatment reduced the severity of nighttime hot flashes by 28 percent among menopausal women compared with a 6 percent decrease among women who had a sham acupuncture treatment.

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After three years of trying to conceive and three failed attempts at in vitro fertilization, Tracey Carroll, 33, desperately turned to the East for help. She sought the needles and herbs of an acupuncturist.
In fact, her new in-vitro doctor insisted. After she had her fourth session of getting pricked, her menstrual cycle became regular for the first time in three years. Carroll also swallowed 18 pills of “smelly, yucky herbs” with ingredients derived from cow spleen and pituitary gland believed to regulate her hormones.

Six months later, Carroll is expecting twins, due in December — and believes acupuncture played a large role. Carroll is among an increasing number of American women who are turning to alternative, Eastern medicinal arts for problems with infertility, menopause, weight loss and even dry skin. Once dismissed as mystical quackery by many medical doctors, acupuncture treatments are now recommended by some in-vitro specialists to increase fertility. Meanwhile, other women turn to ayurveda — a 5,000-year-old practice from India that incorporates mind, body and spirit — to ensure health. Women use it to rid their bodies of toxins and dull skin.
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Acupuncture may help relieve the symptoms of fibromyalgia, especially the fatigue and anxiety that often come with the condition, a new study suggests. Fibromyalgia is a syndrome marked by chronic widespread aches and pains, fatigue and sleep problems, among other symptoms; the cause is unknown, and there are no medications specifically approved for the condition.

Instead, treatment usually involves a combination of approaches, such as painkillers, antidepressants and exercise therapy. Only two well-designed clinical trials have tested acupuncture’s effects on fibromyalgia, and these studies yielded conflicting results.

The new study was conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, and in Jackson, Florida. Fifty fibromyalgia patients were randomly assigned to acupuncture or to a “placebo” version of the therapy, where a dull surgical instrument was pressed against the skin rather than acupuncture needles. The subjects were positioned so they could not see which treatment they received. All but one subject was female. The patients underwent six treatment sessions over two to three weeks. None of the patients had been treated with acupuncture before. Overall, the fibromyalgia patients who underwent the real treatment showed a significantly greater improvement in their symptoms than placebo recipients did — particularly when it came to fatigue and anxiety, Dr. David P. Martin and his colleagues report in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Acupuncture is among the most popular and best-studied forms of alternative medicine; research suggests it can help ease pain stemming from a range of conditions, including lower back problems, migraine and arthritis. As far as the therapy’s effects on fibromyalgia, “the trend in the evidence is tipping toward a benefit,” Martin told Reuters. “I think people can try it, because there are really no bad side effects,” he said, adding that many may tolerate acupuncture better than the medications often used for the condition. It’s not clear, according to Martin, why the fatigue and anxiety symptoms in particular improved, just as it’s not completely understood why acupuncture works at all.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture points on the skin are connected to internal pathways that conduct energy, and stimulating the points with a fine needle promotes a balanced flow of this energy. Research in recent years has suggested that acupuncture may work by altering signals among nerve cells or affecting the release of various chemicals of the central nervous system. Copyright 2006 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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