OBJECTIVE To evaluate the therapeutic effect and applying value of Hegu (LI 4) for inertia of uterus. METHODS In three centers, 276 cases enrolled were randomly assigned to a western medicine group and an acupuncture and western medicine group. The western medicine group were treated with intravenous drip of oxytocin, and the acupuncture and western medicine group were treated with electroacu...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a medical science and cultural heritage empirically applied reserved by people for thousands of years. The fact that TCM has been used in China years shows the value reason why it must exist. Although or being questioned, there no doubt about its importance terms efficacy. education "Western medicine practitioners learning medicine" mode continuing with cha...

BRIDGE # # Bridge = 1 week introduction to the clinical blocks. (Dotted lines denote 4 week segments within a block) Other than the two week vacation period over the Christmas and New Years Holidays vacation period each year, students are expected to assume the professional responsibilities of the service on which they are rotating. There will be no set days off for Memorial Day, July 4, Labor ...

in recent years, some in the West have begun to recognize traditional chinese medicine (tcM) as a potential source of new drug candidates (corson & crews, 2007; Efferth et al, 2007; Li & zhang, 2008; Schmidt et al, 2007). at the same time, the practice of tcM in Western countries has been increasing (institute of Medicine, 2005). as tcM is usually thought to have evolved independently of Wester...

Mindfulness as a clinical and nonclinical intervention for a variety of symptoms has recently received a substantial amount of interest. Although the application of mindfulness appears straightforward and its effectiveness is well supported, the concept may easily be misunderstood. This misunderstanding may severely limit the benefit of mindfulness-based interventions. It is therefore necessary...

The objective was to study how integrated therapy with Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine regulated the immune function of the body by analysing its effects on lymphocytes and T-lymphocyte subpopulations in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Forty-seven patients with SARS were randomly allocated to either the integrated treatment group or the group trea...

The chronology of the component processes subserving working memory (WM) and hemodynamic response lags has hindered the use of fMRI for exploring neural substrates of WM. In the present study, however, participants completed full trials that involved encoding two or six letters, maintaining the memory set over a delay, and then deciding whether a probe was in the memory set or not. Additionally...