Dr. Yiwei Wang is a veteran in the field of Chinese medicine, despite his age. He had been reciting herb poems and TCM classics since 6th grade and studying Chinese medicine for 10 years before becoming a TCM physician in China at age 25. He earned a diploma and bachelor's degree in acupuncture and tuina from Jiangsu Union Technique school and the Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, respectively; a master's degree in integrative medicine of TCM and biomedicine from Wannan Medical College; and as of 2023 is pursuing his doctoral degree at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine.
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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