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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Chronic pain afflicts over 20% of the adult population. Sadly, most MDs have essentially no education in treating pain, beyond offering a few toxic medications. Then they tend to steer people with pain away from those health practitioners who are trained. This puts the acupuncture community on the front lines for addressing this epidemic.
When the body is going through a stressful event, the sympathetic system is activated. This activation will help the body with a life-threatening situation. If this state is activated for prolonged periods of time, it starts to consume energy. These traumatic events that generate stressors in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) will eventually become internalized.
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One of the things that makes acupuncture so difficult to measure is that the medicine actually does contain some esoteric aspects. There have been numerous studies that demonstrate the neurochemical reasoning behind why acupuncture points stimulate the autonomic nervous system to enact change However, not all the benefits of TCM can easily be measured by randomized, controlled trials. But does that make them fundamentally and definitively untrue?
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