Eastern Therapeutics 

April 29, 2011 — The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a website for healthcare providers offering evidence-based information on complementary and alternative medicine and treatments, according to an AHA News Now report.

The website offers information on the safety and efficacy of natural products, chiropractic treatments, acupuncture, massage and more.

For those who continue to do things right and are not discouraged, for those who are persistent, rewards will follow.

This beautiful video was forwarded to us from a patient. Everyone should watch it and feel a little encouraged by it!

Anya became familiar with HypnoBirthing after her son Boris was born in 2004. The experience was traumatic and, after becoming pregnant with a second child, she looked for a way to have a calm, gentle birth. That is when she found HypnoBirthing®, which had a very dramatic positive effect on the rest of  her pregnancy and the birthing itself.

Acupuncture has long baffled medical experts and no wonder: It holds that an invisible life force called qi (pronounced chee) travels up and down the body in 14 meridians. Illness and pain are due to blockages and imbalances in qi. Inserting thin needles into the body at precise points can unblock the meridians, practitioners believe, and treat everything from arthritis and asthma to anxiety, acne and infertility. As fanciful as that seems, acupuncture does have real effects on the human body, which scientists are documenting using high-tech tools.

If headlines are any indication of what's hot and what's not, it's easy to believe that infertility treatment is strictly a modern day science, made possible solely through the courtesy of high-tech medicine.

But as good as modern science is, many couples trying to get pregnant find themselves turning to an age-old treatment for help -- one so steeped in tradition it's about as far from life in the 21^st century as one can get.

That treatment is acupuncture, and today, even high-tech reproductive specialists are looking to the somewhat mysterious world of Chinese medicine to help those fertility patients for whom western science alone is not quite enough.

While cupping is a form of acupuncture, the special technique has been honed for centuries through Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and is now becoming more popular in Europe and the United States.

Cupping uses suction to draw blood to a specific point on your body, allowing the circulation of that blood to heal certain organs and body parts related to “meridian lines” running along your neck, legs, hands, and back. This three-thousand-year-old therapy has been called many things and each technique has been a little bit different.

When they get acupuncture, mice release a natural pain-relieving molecule that scientists have never linked with the treatment before.

While it’s not clear yet whether the finding will apply to humans, unraveling the biological secrets of acupuncture could help the therapy become a mainstream way to tackle pain.

“I think it’s important that the Western world take acupuncture seriously,” said Maiken Nedergaard, a neuroscientist at the University of Rochester in New York. “Many patients have unnecessary pain. I hope this can improve pain treatment.”