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.
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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