Purpose Rhythmical Massage (RhM) is an enlargement of the classical manual massage and has been created by Dr. Ita Wegman at the beginning of the 20th century according to the principles of Anthroposophic Medicine. In addition to effects on the skin and muscles, RhM is believed to have both general effects (e.g. enhancing physical vitality) and disease-specific effects (e.g. internal medicine, ...

Cheese manufacture is one of the classical examples of food preservation, dating from 6000 – 7000 BC. Cheese exploits two classical principles of food preservation, i.e. lactic acid fermentation and reduction of water activity through removal of water and addition of NaCl. Establishment of low redox potential and secretion of antibiotics by starter microorganisms contributes to the storage stab...

Purpose Classical Chinese herbal therapy uses herb combinations within formulas based upon the belief that there is a synergistic effect between herbs. Herbal pairs and combinations may change the hydrophobicity and ion concentration of the decoction. These changes may increase extraction of constituents from other herbs within the formula. Furthermore, herbs may react within the decoction medi...

It is shown that investigations in the field of microwave resonance stimulation of the acupuncture system, as well as investigations of the interactions of consciousness with microscopic and macroscopic environment imply the existence of local and nonlocal macroscopic quantum biophysical effects, with great potential implications in medicine, psychology, biology, physics, engineering, and philo...

The medical imaging is the fastest growing subject in the field of clinical medicine. It runs through the whole process of clinical medicine. This paper chooses the edge feature of brain CT image. The classical operator of pixel level edge feature extractions were compared with the Zernike moments sub-pixel level edge feature extraction. And then the edge detection of improved Zernike moments f...

Background: Progesterone induces the resumption of meiosis (maturation) Addresses: *Loeb Research Institute, Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa K1Y 4E9, Canada. in Xenopus oocytes through a nongenomic mechanism involving inhibition † Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and of an oocyte adenylyl cyclase and reduction of intracellular cAMP. However, Immunology, ‡ Department of Medicine, progesterone a...

Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Sana Al-Mutairi, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, PO Box 24923, Safat 13110, Kuwait. Tel. +965 (5) 319596. Fax. +965 (5) 338907. E-mail: [email protected] decade ago, the classical management of acute respiratory failure is the invasive ventilatory support with endotracheal intubation (ETI) at an intensive ...

introduction: citation analysis reflects the extent to which published work has been recognized in the scientific community. the purpose of this study was to characterize the most cited publications in travel medicine.methods: travel medicine articles indexed on scopus which had been published in the english language through 2016 were retrieved independently by two researchers using various sea...

as described in the first part of this article, evidence based medicine (ebm) is a growing part of medical practice which emphasizes on the best evidence. finding this evidence by formulating an answerable question and searching strategies were described in the first part of this review. in this part, appraising the retrieved article (with the main focus on the diagnostic studies) and applying ...

dry cupping is one of the main procedures in many traditional medicine systems all around the world with its root in antiquity. traditional method of dry cupping is depended on practitioner proficiency and can lead to skin burn if the practitioner is a beginner. on the other hand, zahrawi (11th century ad), the muslim physician from andulus (current spain) presented two novel forms of cup for c...