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Recent examinations of Ötzi, a 5000 year old mummy found in the Alps, have located over fifty tattoos on Ötzi's body, some of which are located on acupuncture points that would today be used to treat ailments Ötzi suffered from. Some scientists believe that this is evidence that practices similar to acupuncture were practiced elsewhere in Eurasia during the early bronze age.
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Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was a physician who, beginning with an article he published in a German medical journal in 1796, founded homoeopathic medicine.
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Healer (1994): directed by John G. Thomas and starring Tyrone Power Jr., John Johnson and Turhan Bey. Tagline: He sees their faces. He feels their pain. He touches their lives. Plot Outline: Old-aged and ailing Russian immigrant, Igor Vostovich, effects the lives of all those he meets in a retirement town.
Source: IMDb
In three separate research surveys that surveyed the 125 medical schools offering a MD degree, the 19 medical schools offering a DO degree, and 585 schools of nursing in the United States: 60 percent of U.S. medical schools offering a MD degree teach complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), 95% of Osteopathic medical school teach CAM, and 84.8% of US schools of nursing teach CAM.
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Phytoncides are antimicrobial volatile organic compounds derived from plants. The word, which means "exterminated by the plant", was coined in 1937 by Dr. Boris P. Tokin, a Russian biochemist from Leningrad University. He found that some plants give off substances which prevent them from being eaten by insects and animals. Various spices, onion, oak and pine trees, and many other plants give off phytoncides. Oak contains a substance called greenery alcohol, and pine contains alpha-pinene and mircene. More then 1000 volatile substances make the surrounding trees defensive from insects. Phytoncides work by preventing the growth of the attacking organism. Today phytoncides are widely used in Russian, Ukrainian and Japanese medicine, including holistic medicine, aromatherapy, and veterinary medicine.
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Garlic has been found to lower total cholesterol levels, mildly reduce blood pressure, reduces platelet aggregation, and has antibacterial properties
The use of herbs to treat disease is almost universal among native peoples. Many of the pharmaceuticals currently available to Western physicians have a long history of use as herbal remedies.
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The British Medical Acupuncture Society is an anagram of Ouch, my sciatic hip... but needle art cures it!
Source: Anagram Genius
Homeopathic Medicine is listed as an oxymoron
Source: Oxymoron List
The following are all puns:
Chiropractors rub some people the wrong way.
Acupuncture is a jab well done.
My daughter's studying natural medicine and I'm rooting for her.
Source: http://punoftheday.com/
Alternative medicine is that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests (Richard Dawkins)
There must be something to acupuncture -- you never see any sick porcupines. (Bob Goddard)
Source: Creative Quotations
Most Hospitals: The country with the largest number of hospitals is China, with 67,807 (1995 figures). China is the only country in the world where Western medicine and traditional medicine are practised alongside each other at every level of the healthcare system. Traditional treatments include herbal remedies, acupuncture, acupressure and massage, and moxibustion (the burning of substances on the skin to remedy illness), and account for around 40% of all health care delivered in China.
Source: Guinness World Records
There is an herb for every kind of sickness but not for death. (Lithuanian)
Laughter is the best medicine. (Traditional)
Sleep is better than medicine. (Traditional)
Abstinence is the best medicine. (Tamil)
Time, not medicine, cures the sick. (Portuguese)
Regularity is the best medicine. (Indian)
Wine tops the list of all medicines. (Hebrew)
Source: Creative Proverbs
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