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Lol, yeah it's best usually avoided. The marks on the skin is already old heamoglobin pushed past the surface of the skin, wet cupping is when you first needle the skin and then cup so lots of blood comes out. Although for this reason it is only good for certain types of people as removing...
Literally sucks it out 🙂 Yes, it has to be done correctly by someone trained. Generally speaking though if it gets rid of unrecycled blood it will have a net positive effect on the bigger system.
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If you search fibromyalgia TCM, you will find some good results. However adapted for the modern context it would still fall in this framework but more so be categorised as damp disease.
Cupping is releasing stagnant blood in TCM. Most western doctors hate it because they think it is destroying capillaries and thus leaving a bruise. However some cool information about this: The marks on your back (they look like tentacle marks from an octopus) aren't bruises at all! When...
Ah cheers, I thought what I was saying was too controversial or something..
Yes, too little or too much nitric oxide will cause cortisol levels to either drop or rise. One of the reasons why I use reducing techniques (light needling) in the beginning to lower nitric oxide.
Not necessarily...
Oh no by no means am I saying that. Acu is great for fibro, that's why I studied it!
Hmm interesting, in both northern hemisphere and southern I found this to be the case.. without looking through clinical notes I'd say somewhere around 50% (although again I was treating mostly specific types)...
For me on first glance these reactions would have something to do with excess nitric oxide causing too much inflammation. Honestly I hardly use acu at first with my patients (depending on which type) for this reason. I might do very light needling to rebalance the inflammation and nitric oxide...
Actually they do have a category for fibro and other very similar conditions. These were most prevalent in the yuan dynasty and there are famous classical books which have been written by a famous TCM doctor from that time. He had to reinvent or change the principles of Chinese medicine because...
Agreed.
Yep there have been many studies being done and are still being done. I'll link some for you sure.
👍My whole family are professors in mathematics and environmental science, and work at top labs in US and Aus. Probably the only reason I didn't take the same path was because when i got...
Might be getting caught up on this pathogen thing, (which might be my mistake for not clarifying which context I was writing it in and not structuring the sentence correctly) There are many causes, I am in absolute no disagreement here.
The answer to your questions depends on the assumptions one has about TCM and the foundations it's built on. For me the answer is very clear yes they are most definitely linked, however not always the case. You are correct in saying correlation does not equal causation, and from the stance of...