In the July 2005 issue, Acupuncture Today reported that a study on green and black tea and diabetes had appeared in an issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Research. The study actually appeared in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Also in the July 2005 issue, we reported that five acupuncture colleges in the U.S. offer doctoral programs in acupuncture and Oriental medicine. In fact, as of this writing, seven schools have been approved to offer doctoral programs from either the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine or the National Oriental Medicine Accreditation Agency - the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Bastyr University, Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, Five Branches Institute, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, and South Baylo University.
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Structured water (H3O2) can be considered a fourth state of water between liquid and solid. It has the hexagonal structure of ice; however, missing a critical bond, it behaves more like a gel than a solid, but retains some of its crystalline structure.
In the past five years of my clinical practice, I have seen an astonishing upsurge in the chronic use of proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) medications for the gastrointestinal issue diagnosed by allopathic medicine as GERD. It is not uncommon to encounter patients taking these prescriptions for five-plus years.
Working with chronically ill patients entails acknowledging the reality that not all patients will survive their diagnosis. Chinese medicine and acupuncture play a crucial role in palliative and end-of-life care, addressing medication and disease side effects, alleviating pain associated with death, reducing anxiety and stress, and helping patients find peace during the dying process.
