The National Hospital of Traditional Medicine in Hanoi, Vietnam, will mark its 50th anniversary with this year's scientific conference June 6 through June 7. The Hanoi conference will be comprised of more than 400 scientists, professors, medical doctors and speakers from China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Canada, Italy and, of course, Vietnam. The main topic of the event, "Integrative Medicine in Community Health Care," will cover the general orientation of research and development of integrative medicine; research on products and research in therapeutic methods for chronic diseases, as well as newly emerging diseases.
Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) affects more than 15% of the U.S. population but evades most practitioners’ radar. Just five years ago, it wasn’t even on my radar, despite already having 20 years of experience as a clinician at that time. The more I dug (similar to leaky gut and post-COVID syndrome), the more I found my patients were suffering from this disorder.
Research supports the effectiveness of selecting the distal acupuncture points for the treatment of microtrauma and for relieving pain, particularly in cases of chronic shoulder pain. But to make the treatment results long-lasting, clinical experience and research suggest that instead of treating the most painful structure first, we identify the inhibited driver, restore reliable recruitment, confirm it with immediate re-testing, and only then address the painful area as a branch of a deeper pattern.
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The motivation behind our practice of medicine is important, impacting not just our experience but also the experiences of those we treat. It is perhaps for this reason that the aspiration to help not just some, but all beings heal, has historically been an important part of the medical tradition. To explain this, we need to consider how medicine is interwoven with other social domains.