The News Review:
- Iraq returns to its alternative medicine roots
- Hypnosis Might Help Hot Flashes
- Combination Of Alternative, Traditional Cancer Treatments Get …
- POTENTIAL HEALTH BENEFITS OF FLAX
- The best alternative?
- Alternative Medicine Pioneer and Author, Nancy Lonsdorf, MD, Helps …
- Pentagon researches alternative treatments
Iraq returns to its alternative medicine roots
USA Today
Insurgents and weapons poured in from neighboring countries. So, too, did illegal pharmaceuticals, says Sayed Kathem Khawasiya, the Ministry of Health’s inspector general. Unlicensed medicine companies and sidewalk stands sprung up around Iraq, selling unregulated drugs from China and elsewhere. Today, 70% of drugs on the Iraqi market are illegal, and one in five are total fakes, such as starch pills pawned off as legitimate antibiotics, Khawasiya says. “The demand for herbal remedies has skyrocketed because of fake pharmacies and counterfeit medicines that don’t work,” says Faris Kadhem, director of the Health Ministry’s herbal medicine center. The government has raided and closed 120 illegal pharmacies across Iraq in the past two months, Khawasiya says. Many more continue to operate, she says.
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Hypnosis Might Help Hot Flashes
HealthNews, CA
Hypnosis—to the general public—seems to be nothing more than an entertaining, off-the-strip Las Vegas act for a few bills in the hat that’s passed around. In ancient ayurvedic medicine or Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) however, hypnosis is much more than a sidewalk act. Hypnosis is a trance-like state of focused attention in which the subject isn’t unconscious, just concentrating on a deep mental image that takes them out of their present awareness. Usually done using a pattern of organized verbal suggestions, hypnosis is a way to invite a person to relax without using drugs. The practice of hypnosis can alter your experiences and bring changes in emotions or behaviors and can also alter the state of your body. Hypnosis has long been used to treat irritable bowel syndrome as well as skin conditions and is sometimes used instead of traditional anesthesia.
Combination Of Alternative, Traditional Cancer Treatments Get …
AHN
Karan’s foundation is donating $850,000 to the year-long treatment trials. Karan is the well known founder of the DKNY clothing line. About one-third of Americans use alternative medicine treatments, which are often misunderstood or frowned on by the American medical profession. Such treatments are usually not covered by insurance plans either. In the United States, an estimated 16 million people practice Yoga and millions more practice some form of meditation, including hundreds of thousands who practice transcendental mediation. Because of concerns that the alternative treatments will be dismissed, Karan’s yearly-long trials include a research component to verify any results, the New York Times reports. Researchers will be looking for evidence that the treatments reduce cancer symptoms such as pain, nausea and anxiety and are thereby able to cut down on hospital stays and costs, the Times reports.
POTENTIAL HEALTH BENEFITS OF FLAX
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
There isn’t enough reliable data yet to support all of the claims, according to organizations such as the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, which is also funding studies on flax. ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS
Flax is high in alpha-linolenic acid, which converts to an omega-3 fatty acid, an essential fat. Healthy fats such as those in flaxseed are healing and beautifying, according to author Ann Louise Gittleman. They can improve hair, skin and nails. They’re good for the brain and can help with attention or concentration difficulties and mood swings, she said.
The best alternative?
Johns Hopkins News-Letter, MD
substring(0, thispageresult. Alternative medicine has been proven to be a safe and effective form of treatment for some conditions, and the attractiveness of this more natural form of medicine has propelled it into the realm of mainstream Western medicine including at Hopkins’s own Hospital and medical school. Homewood’s Health and Wellness Center has followed this trend by recently incorporating alternative medicine as part of its services. Although we supported the Hospital in taking the progressive step of creating a branch for alternative medicine, we feel that hiring a clinical herbalist for the Center for Health and Wellness is an unnecessary and ill-conceived move on the part of the University.
Alternative Medicine Pioneer and Author, Nancy Lonsdorf, MD, Helps …
MarketWatch
com is pleased to
announce that Nancy Lonsdorf, MD has joined its Scientific Board of Advisors. Lonsdorf is a leading expert in Ayurvedic Medicine and other
alternative approaches to health care and herbal prevention therapies. She has
been named by the Chicago Tribune as “one of the nation’s most prominent
Ayurvedic doctors. ”
Dr. Lonsdorf received her Medical Degree from Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine and her residency training in psychiatry at Stanford University. She
is the author of A Woman’s Best Medicine and The Ageless Woman: Natural Health
and Beauty After Forty.
Pentagon researches alternative treatments
USA Today
About one third of sailors and Marines use some types of alternative therapies, mostly herbal remedies, according to a survey conducted last year. A recent Army study shows that one in four soldiers with combat-caused PTSD turned to herbs, chiropractors, acupuncture or megavitamins for relief. Although the Pentagon’s study of alternative medicine for combat diseases is unique, research into such therapies for broad public use is not new, said Richard Nahin, a senior adviser for the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The NIH spends about $300 million a year on similar research.