The National University of Natural Medicine and the Helfgott Research Institute have created the Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Health and Medicine COVID-19 Support Registry to "capture key cases, treatment/supportive care, and outcome variables related to the use of traditional, complementary, and integrative health products and practices, in response to issues related to COVID-19."
You can visit the international registry (click here) and contribute case data by answering questions based on "de-identified data from patients/clients who have been treated for COVID-19 exposure or prevention."
The American Society of Acupuncturists, Society for Acupuncture Research and other organizations collaborated to ensure questions include East Asian Medicine treatment approaches. In its press release, the ASA noted several key benefits for the EAM profession:
Registry contributions have already been made by a broad range of institutions including National, the ASA, the SAR, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, NYU Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Univ. of Toronto, Univ. of Texas, New England School of Acupuncture at MCPHS Univ., Ontario College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern California University of Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, Immanuel Hospital Berlin, Univ. of Sydney, and others.
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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.
