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September Issue Of Natural Alternatives
September 01, 2007
Natural Alternatives for Your Total Health


September 2007

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Nature is the Physician of all Disease ~ Hippocrates
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IN THIS ISSUE:

1) ACUPUNCTURE IS NOW BEING USED BY MEDICAL DOCTORS

2) YOGA AND HYPERTENSION

3) SMOKING TEETH VIDEO

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1) ACUPUNCTURE IS NOW BEING USED BY MEDICAL DOCTORS
Written by EditorsChoice, pr-pg.com,Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Many people find it difficult to locate a medical group that treats the whole person: mind, spirit and body. Many medical groups focus solely on traditional western health care and others provide only alternative care or body work. Luckily, a new type of integrative health care center is becoming popular. Using the best knowledge and techniques from a wide variety of alternative medicine disciplines, integrative health centers provide care for the whole person.

One of the more effective treatments offered by alternative and integrative medical centers is acupuncture. Acupuncture is a system of healing based on balancing the body's life force energy known as Qi. Qi flows along channels throughout the body known as meridians, channels similar to the nervous and circulatory systems. An imbalance in the body's energy may result in distress signals in the form of symptoms. Treating the person's basic constitution as well as alleviating the symptoms is part of the treatment plan. Using thin, sterile, disposable needles, the acupuncturist inserts the needles along specific points of the meridian pathways to help balance and unblock the flow of Qi.

Acupuncture treatment is beneficial for many ailments including many types of back pain (general pain, lower back pain, upper back and shoulder pain) and headaches (migraines, cluster headaches, sinus headaches). Visiting an integrative health center, like the Integrative Health Center of Chapel Hill, will allow you to try acupuncture in combination with other alternative medicines, such as Chinese Herbal Therapy, and of course the best of western medicine. This combined care provides patients with a complete solution that respects the interconnectedness of the body and the mind.

Most people are not trained doctors or alternative medical practitioners. The lack of complete knowledge on all the available treatments can lead to a health plan that neglects potentially life altering and greatly beneficial treatments, like acupuncture. The power of an alternative health center is how they integrate all of the possible options and use their knowledge to craft a health care plan that is complete. A complete plan may include movement classes, meditation for stress reduction, acupuncture, a disease medical management.

By attending to the whole person and respecting the interconnectedness of one’ s body and mind, alternative medicine and integrative health care doctors, practitioners, and class instructors believe they can help you achieve significant improvement in your overall health and well-being. Visit the Integrative Health Center of Chapel Hill to see how working in partnership can lead to optimal health care.

If you are seeking alternative medicine for Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill be sure to visit the Integrative Health Center of Chapel Hill. While there are many acupuncture doctors serving Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill the medical professionals at the Integrative Health Center of Chapel Hill are truly leading the health care profession.


2) YOGA AND HYPERTENSION

The review and synthesis of 12 published randomised trials also showed that yoga was the most effective among the three.

A systematic review to assess the efficacy of mind-body therapies (MBT), such as meditation, yoga and guided imagery in the treatment of hypertension, has shown that such complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches significantly reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressures.

The review and synthesis of 12 published randomised trials also showed that yoga was the most effective among the three therapies studied in reducing hypertension.

The researchers involved in the study reviewed randomised, or quasi-randomised, controlled trials comparing mind-body techniques (meditation, yoga, and guided imagery) alone or in combination with conventional treatment to conventional treatment alone or no intervention/waiting list control.

Participants in these trials were adult men and non-pregnant women who were suffering from hypertension, defined as a systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure 90 mm Hg.

Relevant trials were identified in the register of trials maintained by the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field Registry, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Medline, EMBASE, PsycInfo, and CINAHL.

It was found that mind-body therapies significantly reduced systolic blood pressure (SBP) by a mean 11.52 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) by 6.83 mm Hg. The study also showed that yoga therapies demonstrated results of the greatest magnitude, with mean SBP reductions of 19.07 mm Hg and DBP by 13.13 mm Hg. Significant results were seen in SBP reductions by yoga and meditation therapy, while only yoga therapies demonstrated significant reductions in DBP.

The absolute reductions in blood pressure were comparable to pharmacologic monotherapy in both effect size and temporality. Additionally, reductions in systolic and diastolic blood pressure to the degree found in yoga interventions were associated with reductions in vascular death rates as well as decreased overall cardiac risk.

This review shows that there is some high quality scientific literature supporting the use of mind-body therapies as a treatment for hypertension, and the magnitude of effect is clinically significant,” says lead author of the study, Dr. Ather Ali of the Prevention Research Center, School of Medicine, Yale University. Despite the limitations of a review, he suggests mind-body interventions may be prudent choices for adjunctive treatment for motivated patients.
Source: The Times of India


3) SMOKING TEETH VIDEO

Here is a powerful and informative video I want to share with you, about 8 minutes long showing mercury vapour being released from a 25 year old amalgam filling:

www.iaomt.org

If the link is not active, copy and paste it into your browser.


PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE!


Thank you for reading!

Namaste

Livia
www.natural-health-and-healing.com
Bbrampton, Ontario, Canada

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