tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9992199799776373362024-02-07T03:53:28.167+00:00Acupuncture in LondonAcupuncture in London in the 21st century: a thousand year old medicine from China, practised in a thousand year old city of London.
bringing you a mix of classical Chinese medicine theory and current evidenced based acupuncture research, blended with recent news on acupuncture and tcm with a flavour of my own interpretation through practice.needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925673141592802403noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999219979977637336.post-23061325676154690432013-03-10T12:36:00.001+00:002013-03-10T12:36:04.594+00:00more local putney shrooms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925673141592802403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999219979977637336.post-70112215756325238532012-12-09T09:09:00.000+00:002012-12-09T09:09:00.160+00:00your mushroom pics - Iceland fungi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">been hearing lots of good stories about Iceland recently, the country not the store, so i thought it appropriate to share with you some cool lil' mushroom pics from Iceland that <a href="http://well4ever-clinic-putney.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/evelyne-riddle-counsellor-at-well4ever.html" target="_blank">Evelyne</a> took when she was there in the summer, </span></div>
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<br />needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925673141592802403noreply@blogger.com0well4ever51.467242469819112 -0.2183854579925537151.46476946981911 -0.22332095799255372 51.469715469819114 -0.2134499579925537tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999219979977637336.post-65217351091913271092012-11-05T08:30:00.000+00:002012-11-05T19:15:32.188+00:00your mushroom pics - Vermont, USA <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">its been a long while yo, but here are some of your excellent fungi photos :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so we start with some cool looking polypores from Newfane, Vermont in the States, courtesy of mr. greenthumb himself on his last visit to his backyard mountain forests, cheers Jamie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and a shout out to all our brothers and sisters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in the five boroughs, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shankbone/8145644583/in/photostream/lightbox/">nyc</a>, the garden state </span><br />
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needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925673141592802403noreply@blogger.com0well4ever51.467255837130914 -0.2183747291564941451.466019337130916 -0.22084222915649415 51.468492337130911 -0.21590722915649413tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999219979977637336.post-86729068275328266832012-02-27T08:33:00.036+00:002012-02-27T11:18:09.883+00:00acupuncture awareness week<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So its acupuncture awareness week! If you're reading this blog you'll know its always acupuncture awareness week for us, cos needles is what we do :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any questions you may have about acupuncture and chinese medicine i'll be glad to answer, and if you're free friday lunchtime come down to <a href="http://well4ever-clinic-putney.blogspot.com/2012/02/free-nutritional-talk-for-mums-babies.html" target="_blank">clinic for a talk ange and molly are organising</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and as a special treat you can get a free taster ear acupuncture at the end of the talk. woohoo!</span>
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<br />needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925673141592802403noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5081289 -0.1280050000000301251.364427400000004 -0.37787450000003009 51.6518304 0.12186449999996987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999219979977637336.post-16530695740845697172011-11-28T08:24:00.014+00:002011-11-28T09:20:15.919+00:00Putney Christmas Lights and Market<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx86q6QWUhNI6V_S_Em36iMhyZUZwrwiDqUN7PPruaEzQt9ZZM8br2Q2JYx0b6EgBgTb9JaIFuXrMSl-TxpMdOWo8unbTFvbjY79Docn_Tf8_NwHoUbYOYVC781QAS6wWsqb-08czvGLvR/s1600/Web+Banner+SMALL+FINAL+185x90.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx86q6QWUhNI6V_S_Em36iMhyZUZwrwiDqUN7PPruaEzQt9ZZM8br2Q2JYx0b6EgBgTb9JaIFuXrMSl-TxpMdOWo8unbTFvbjY79Docn_Tf8_NwHoUbYOYVC781QAS6wWsqb-08czvGLvR/s1600/Web+Banner+SMALL+FINAL+185x90.gif" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Come join us on Friday, December 2nd at the <a href="http://www.putneysw15.com/default.asp?section=info&page=evxmasmket011.htm" style="color: #296695; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Putney Christmas Market</a> for an afternoon of children's entertainment, live music, food, mulled wine and an opportunity to buy some Christmas gifts.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.well4ever.com/" style="color: #296695; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Well4ever</a> will be there selling gift vouchers for massage, reflexology and rejuvenating facials and other treatments. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we'll talk about Chrysanthemum flower (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">flos chrysanthemi)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, or Ju Hua as it is known in China. In traditional Chinese medicine this herb's properties are bitter, sweet and slightly cold, and it goes to the Liver and Lung channels. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yellow Chrysanthemum has a beneficial action on headache and eye complaints. It has long been used as an eye tonic and can help relieve red, painful, dryness or excessive watering of the eyes. It is also used for blurry vision, dizziness and spots / floaters in front of the eyes. Combined with Goji berry (Gou Qi Zi) and Rehmania Six to make a great formula called Qi Ju Di Huang Wan.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chrysanthemum is also used to clear headaches and fever associated with colds and flu. It is known to aid in releasing toxins from the body. Great together with Mulberry leaf (Sang Ye) in a great common cold / cough formula called Sang Ju Yin.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its actions are antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and anti-inflammatory. It also may help lower blood pressure and relaxes blood vessels.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some practitioners say, yellow chrysanthemums, the Golden Flower, are symbols of long life and will bring you good luck.</span><br />
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<br />needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925673141592802403noreply@blogger.com0Putney, Wandsworth, Greater London SW15, UK51.4626199 -0.2163078999999470423.7136114 -59.981932899999947 79.2116284 59.549317100000053tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999219979977637336.post-47799371756478650422011-10-26T10:26:00.003+01:002011-10-26T10:26:01.061+01:00Mushrooms in London - mushrewsbury picsAll of these mushrooms from Shrewsbury taken and sent in by Frances, have a look:<br />
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You don't get to see acupuncture, herbs and Chinese medicine feature in too many movies unless like me you're partial to Kung fu films, Hong Kong cinema and Chinese historical epics. So I feel I must share with you this acupuncture documentary that I seen recently, its called <i style="color: blue;"><a href="http://9000needles.com/9,000_Needles/Welcome.html" rel="nofollow">9000 Needles</a></i>, and I'll let you know why later though I think you can guess.<br />
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This isn't a Jet Li joint, a Jackie Chan day in a life or anything like that, but a real story of a real guy called Devin Dearth, a 40 year old father of 3, who has a brain stem bleed and is told he'll probably never walk again.<br />
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The American health care system being broken, his insurance company wont pay for his rehab and the only option left for his family is to take him to China and try a rehab program in a Teaching Hospital in Tianjin, China.<br />
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This is an emotional story of a family going through some really tough times, and shows the sheer determination and strength of the human spirit to cope and fight thru. You'll cry with his family and cheer him on as he makes progress, and you get a chance to see him go thru the treatment which includes lots of acupuncture, Chinese herbs, cupping, bleeding, herbal soaks, tui na, physical therapy and more.<br />
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His Chinese doctors are absolutely brilliant, they kinda remind me of some of my teachers, and they poke him with 9157 needles in his 3 months stay, there or thereabouts, hence the name.<br />
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You can see <i>9000 Needles</i> on the big screen at the <i style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.colchesterartscentre.com/film/9000-needles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Colchester Arts Centre</a></i>, for one night only! Friday July 8th 2011 at 19:30 for £10 Check it out!<br />
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Here is a 5 minute cut from the film and thanks to Devin and the entire Dearth family for the inspiration.
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As you know, as an herbalist i use and recommend mushrooms to my <i style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://www.well4ever.com/">patients at clinic</a></i> very regularly, sometimes as a food like some of the tastier ones Shiitake and Chanterelles, other times as tinctures or powders or capsules of the mushroom mycelium like the Reishi, Cordyceps & Kombucha for their powerful beneficial effects on our immune system and as natural antibiotics and antivirals. I will discuss all of the above in detail in future posts.<br />
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I think it makes sense that this first herbal post will give props to the first species to move from the oceans to land, as the gateway species about 1.3 billion years ago. As Paul Stamets says fungi have always survived the extinction cycles on earth because they can survive in the dark, they are the grand molecular disassemblers in nature: they break down plants, minerals and animals into soil, they sequester CO2 and have an amazing healing effect not only on the human body but on the environment they inhabit on a global scale.<br />
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There is nobody better to explain this than Paul himself, who is a true visionary and greenovator, also known as the mushroom guy for his incredible work with mushroom mycelium and fungi. His work, patents, and research has huge implications in vast fields from medicine: in treatment of smallpox, pandemic avian flus, H5N1, on the one hand, all the way to cleaning up environmental brown fields and disasters such as the oil gulf spill of last year or the Japanese nuclear plant radioactive cleanup efforts right now! Note especially his work with rare Old Growth Forest's mushroom <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtwzHY-7mXo&NR=1">Agarikon</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>(Fomitopsis officinalis) - the one in the picture is about 50 years old from a forest in the pacific northwest of United States.</span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;">or read his book </span></i><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mycelium-Running-Gardening-Medicinal-Mushrooms/dp/1580085792/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304344639&sr=8-1"><i><span class="times18">Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World</span></i></a><span class="times15"><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">As for video you can find his talks on youtube, but i really like his talk on Ted: </span></span></span></i><br />
<b><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html">Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Video on TED.com</a></b><br />
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Just realized that it was <a href="http://www.worldwaterday2011.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">world water day</a> this week on march 22nd so though i usually stick to acupuncture herbs and chinese medicine i think this deserves a mention.<br />
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If you've ever been to <a href="http://www.well4ever.com/">clinic</a> you'll know we always offer you water when you come in, and encourage you to drink more water when you emerge from your acu-bubble back to your busy life :)<br />
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As much as i love acupuncture and herbs, we can actually survive without them, but a week without water and we're pretty much gone. Water is the one thing that we can't do without, all 7 billion of us. So let me give you a few interesting water facts:<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">A quarter of the worlds population is without safe drinking water.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Less than 1% of the water treated by public water systems is used for drinking and cooking.</span></li>
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the time it took you to read these first three facts another child has
just died in the developing world from unsafe drinking water.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Water makes up 75% of the human brain. 75% of trees are also made from water!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">You could live for a month without food, but you would be dead after a week without water!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Once it evaporates, a water molecule spends around ten days in the air.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If you want to know/do more have a look at <a href="http://www.wateraid.org/uk/default.asp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WaterAid's site</a>, their London office is around the way near oval and their vision is of a world where everyone has access to safe water and sanitation.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925673141592802403noreply@blogger.com0Westminster, London, UK51.5001524 -0.1262361999999939151.322796399999994 -0.39052969999999393 51.6775084 0.1380573000000061tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999219979977637336.post-15825497382796015882011-03-19T23:12:00.005+00:002011-10-16T15:49:44.113+01:00In Praise of the Lowly Clinician<a href="http://www.acupuncturetoday.com/" rel="nofollow" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtA42D-FkwaVkiPW18A0ULgyk3mwJUp1HeH_GHCPbSGTDiv9mRzPs4NyfVPBrQYDVyzIEfFxjfnseJvjPCKYTRY1lypAcoGP8Hvkv_rh2GJ1zOe_vLTM5EmyjzZCipSd5gnmpXwVNuErq8/s1600/Acupuncture+Today.bmp" /></a>been meaning to write for a while now but <a href="http://www.well4ever.com/">clinic</a> has just been choka so been busy being an acupuncturist & herbalist, running a clinic and all the rest of it or as Jake Paul Fratkin puts it a 'lowly clinician'...<br />
so if you'd like to know what its like and why i've been too busy to write have a read of his article in Acupuncture Today: <a href="http://www.acupuncturetoday.com/mpacms/at/article.php?id=31991" rel="nofollow">In Praise of the Lowly Clinician</a>needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925673141592802403noreply@blogger.com0Westminster, London, UK51.5001524 -0.1262361999999939151.322796399999994 -0.39052969999999393 51.6775084 0.1380573000000061tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999219979977637336.post-51484032625752755702010-11-28T20:29:00.006+00:002011-10-16T15:43:46.893+01:00Acupuncture in London-Acupuncture Research Resources Vol.III<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Acupuncture for back pain - the evidence: from NICE to NEJM</i></span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">NICE is The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)</a>, an independent body which job it is to provide guidelines to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0b5394;">NHS</a><span style="color: black;"> (the National Health Service in the UK) on the use of treatments and care of patients. The reason they are backing acupuncture for the first time is firstly and most importantly because it works, and secondly because its cost effective. Simples...</span></div>
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In the same statement NICE also: <a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/newsroom/guidanceinfocus/infocuslowbackpain.jsp" rel="nofollow">"advises against injections into the back or taking an X-ray of the lumbar spine for non-specific low back pain."</a><span style="color: black;"> So please think twice before you opt for cortisone injections into your back and consult with your GP and your Specialist to make sure it is the appropriate treatment for your condition. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What this means for you is, if you live in the UK and suffer from low back pain, and you haven't given acupuncture a try for your back pain yet, now is the time! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could even try and ask your GP, on that basis, if they would consider referring you and/or paying (your GP holds the CAM budget for the surgery's patients) for your course of acupuncture treatment. They might not but it doesn't hurt to ask, and remember to mention NICE guidelines :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This guideline will be up for review in 2012 so its up to us (patients and acupuncturists) to prove that NICE made the right decision last year and continues to back acupuncture as a treatment choice for back pain, and maybe that will open their eyes to back acupuncture treatment for other conditions as well<i>.</i></span></span><br />
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By using the most sophisticated brain imaging tech top neuroscientists and radiologists can get their hands on (fMRI, PET, MEG) they are able to see changes that occur in the hypothalamus and the amygdala, these are areas in the brain which maintain pain. </div>
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Even if these devices are not quite sophisticated enough to<i> 'see the qi' </i>yet, they are able to detect its effects in the brain. </div>
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The scientists involved are top researchers at the finest american institutions. What they are doing is very cool because it is these baby steps of true integrative medicine east and west that are paving the way torwards the 21st century medicine of the future. </div>
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<i>" Qi, meridians, yin, yang</i>. How can researchers study acupuncture, a 2,000-year-old form of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) based on foreign concepts that seem impossible to measure, let alone define? </blockquote>
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To Richard Nahin, Ph.D., M.P.H., NCCAM's Senior Advisor for Scientific Coordination and Outreach, the answer is obvious: "We don't necessarily have to understand the concepts of qi or meridians to study the safety or efficacy of acupuncture."</blockquote>
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Harvard Medical School neuroscientist (and practicing acupuncturist) <a href="http://nccam.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2010_february/bios.htm#vitalynapadow">Vitaly Napadow, Ph.D., L.Ac.</a>, agrees. "I firmly believe that everything can be studied with the scientific method. Unfortunately, we don't currently have a 'qi meter.' So, in my research, we don't focus on meridians or qi. We take a neuroscientific approach to study how acupuncture functions through the nervous system."</blockquote>
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<br /></div>needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925673141592802403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999219979977637336.post-40703562902918724182010-11-08T23:26:00.004+00:002011-10-16T15:46:21.669+01:00Acupuncture in London-Acupuncture Research Resources Vol.I<div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;">So can you show me some proof? </span></span><br />
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Acupuncture has been consistently and continually practiced in China and beyond for at least the last 2500 years for which we have very good evidence (and probably even much longer, but we'll leave that for a future post). </div>
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During most of that time the Chinese Doctors of the last 2 millennia collected many hundred of thousands of case studies as well as experiential and empirical knowledge of what worked and what didn't.</div>
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They had not though been as obsessed as we are in the West in RCTs (Randomised Controlled Trials) as the be all and end all of 'evidence' that the medicine is based on. So although there is indeed a huge mountain of evidence that acupuncture works its only in the last few decades that the Western methodology of testing what works in medicine has become prevalent.</div>
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That said there is a growing amount of good quality research done all over the world which I can point you towards. I'd like to start locally with our very own NHS, with whats become an annual update on acupuncture produced and collated by NHS Evidence which is a great little resource, follow the link below to check it out:</div>
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The 2010 Annual Evidence Update on Acupuncture aims to identify, organise and present all relevant systematic reviews and large-scale randomised controlled trials (RCTs) published between February 2009 and February 2010. </span></a><br />
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