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STOP Treating Menopause and Aging Like a Disease!

So the title of this presentation is to Stop Treating Menopause and Aging like a Disease. And so this is really about embracing the wisdom of East Asian medicine and that holistic perspective of menopause.

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Hi welcome. I’d like to thank the American Acupuncture Council for producing these lives. My name is Tsao-Lin Moy, and I’m a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist located in New York City union Square. Practicing now for 21 years. And today I’m gonna be talking about a hot topic, which is Menopause.

And so we can go to the slide.

By 2030, the world population of menopausal and postmenopausal women is projected to increase to 1.2 billion. This is about one fifth of the world population. So if we’re looking at menopause as a disease, this makes it look like we’re in another pandemic. What this is an opportunity to improve how you help your patients, and particularly women before they actually reach that point of menopause.

So since 2021, we’re looking at half of the US female population is age 40 and older. So this is a mark. This is a whole group of people that are gonna be looking for natural ways to heal and not just go the route of hormones. As practitioners, we really wanna be mindful of what cultural influences are affecting our own beliefs and acting out of the fear of getting old and decrepit because this is all around us.

We see it in social media, we see it on the cover of magazines. Really all the TikTok and, all of the. The Instagram, and I don’t know what else there is because I try not to personally get onto any of those platforms other than to share information. Hopefully the people who need to hear it can actually find it.

But menopause is really, it’s a complex phase that involves biology, physiology, metabolic shifts, emotional, and also social changes in life. Puberty is very similar. It’s biological changes, physiological, metabolic, emotional, neurological, and also social right. We see this in young people finding their group.

And while we don’t call a growth cycle for puberty to be considered a disease, it is often treated with hormonal birth control. And this is the first sign of, painful period or pimples or something young women are giving are given hormonal birth control. And this is very problematic in my opinion.

I don’t think that women should be and young women should be on hormones from the time they’re 14 all the way till through to their seventies. This is also something that shows up in fertility problems with fertility. So just as a review in case you’re not somebody who reads the classics chapter one, my favorite chapter of the Yellow Webber Classic, also known as the Universal Truth, discusses Female Development that follows a seven year cycle.

And while males follow an eight year cycle, So when we start to look at each one of the cycles we see, okay, around 14 years old the fertility arrives or they consider the menses flows and the woman can have can start to bear children. And then we’re also looking at, as we’re moving through to around the age of 35, there starts to be a decline face wrinkles, hair begins to fall out.

So we start to see some of those, so those signs of aging. And it also co corresponds with. The, the struggles with fertility, right? Actually the slide might be out of order, but one of the things that I wanna address is, for most of the time with women’s health, the approach is not changed.

New tools, but basically the same attitude. And that is like hormones, hysterectomies, and antidepressants. Now, what really surprised me, Was to find out that the hysterectomy is the second most common surgery for women in the US after cesarean section. These are estimated to be one in nine mil nine women are gonna undergo a hysterectomy during their lifetime, basically would only be one time, and that’s about 600,000 procedures each year in the us.

So the question is, what does that mean for that connection? The heart and the uterine connection, the bowel line also. Research has found that over a third of women, when they go to their general practitioner with symptoms of menopause, they’re often offered antidepressants and this is really considered inappropriate.

So this is an area where we as Chinese medicine practitioners as acupuncturists can really help women’s health and in fact, women’s health is quite advanced in terms of Chinese medicine. A little review. How does blood yin and yang and chi interact with menopause? We start to look at yin and yang balance becoming a little irregular.

The blood and yin, which we could look at as estrogen becomes depleted compared to the yang and the chi, progesterone, testosterone. And really, so when you start to see the hot flash fluctuations, it’s really this kind of, the way the balance starts to be flipping from one side to the next. Now, until recently in the western world, perimenopause was thought to be around 45 or 50 years of age.

Right before menses would stop because that’s when the hot flashes were occurring. Mood swings. So we look at that, liver chi, night sweats, yin leaking, palpitations, heart blood deficiency. So we, when we look at these symptoms that we can actually look at what kind of patterns are emerging and no, in a women know, women are not quite the same.

Of course there are always. Formulas and recommendations for particular things we still need to look at personalizing. Now, in reality, trans transition into menopause is more accurately beginning 10 to 15 years earlier, and as I mentioned before, around the age 35. Some hormonal fluctuations might start to happen.

Maybe a little bit of irregular hormones and can impact getting pregnant, with fertility. So in terms of, what is that fertility cliff that is talked about a lot I don’t really believe it. And at the same time, if we’re looking at the long view, we’re starting to really look at.

You know what is happening really early on, shifts are happening over time. When it comes to our awareness, that’s when the symptoms are much stronger. So the idea here is that you wanna start treating your patients, talking to them, educating them, especially early on. Also if you have younger patients or your.

Female patients have daughters to really also talk about women’s health, about periods and things that they can do, especially if they’re having painful periods or bleeding or. Other things like acne that we can do a lot for naturally with diet and meditation. Like all of those tools that we have.

So here’s interesting. Studies actually show that even before puberty, which would be around age seven to nine, that there are hormonal surges that are happening, right? It’s just not one day your pubescent and then the next day you get your period. No, actually, Shifts are happening several years beforehand and this is, gives us an opportunity to really help shift the attitude towards menopause.

So this is about this yin and yang dynamic. Really as we’re shifting, just like the season, right now we’re in the summertime, so it’s much more yang compared to, daylight compared to yin of winter. With more winter and darkness, and yet at some point it’s gonna shift again. And of course we see as there are the transitions that there’s a tendency for certain kinds of illnesses to come up for people like allergies or, some colds, winter colds.

So this is to be aware, we’re always in some kind of cycle, a yin and yang cycle. I really like this particular slide because it talk it like shows where, you know, both the hormone levels, where we’re looking at yin and yang, estrogen, progesterone actually follow together, right?

So eventually those fluctuations are going to. Even out, right? So we’re always looking at, our body’s always looking to go into balance. So when one thing looks like, oh, it’s too much yang or too much yin we’re actually really looking at how the body is trying to reach that state of homeostasis.

And so it makes corrections. And eventually though, as you see, like where the blue part is really where most, like a lot more symptoms are happening as the body is shifting and transforming. So here are some of the unwanted symptoms that we find with menopause is, brain fog, hot flashes.

Weight gain, hair thinning, skin sagging, bleeding, emotional ups and downs, palpitations, poor sleep. Really what also starts to happen is like the weaker knees foot problems may occur. This is also because the connective tissue gets affected by hormones. And so you might start to, to see some of that coming in like the and know that.

That can be also addressed with some herbal formulas and acupuncture. But it’s not a disease. Not a disease. So the question is, why? Are menopausal symptoms less prevalent in Asia and other countries, and I’m really comparing like the US and some of the Western European countries.

And, what’s happening, believe it or not, what makes a difference in how women experience menopause? And I also believe puberty, coming of age is the cultural attitude towards health. And aging. So oftentimes we talk about getting a period as the curse or the shame around it.

With young girls, they’re, oh, they don’t wanna talk about it. They get made fun of. It’s something to hide and really not something celebrated in other cultures. It’s really this. Time where you recognize that you’re moving from one stage of your life into the next, and this is a beautiful thing.

So really what studies have shown is that the collective cultural attitude towards menopause plays a major role in emotional distress and physical symptoms. So why do I bring this up? Because. We have to take into consideration, we’re living in a culture that has very negative attitudes towards women’s health reproductive health.

And so the western culture, and then they find that plays a high importance on fertility and also place value on youthfulness in these cultures. Menopause reflects this age progression and loss of youth. And also loss of sexual attractiveness and leads to this negative attitude towards menopause.

There’s so many negative words that are used to describe menopause, such as fertility failure, ovarian failure versus, this is a natural progression as we shift into the next stage, of course You’re not gonna be producing children, this is, there is a window for it, but that’s normal.

There’s, we’re not part of the Handmaid’s Tale. To tell you this, I think. In my personal opinion, that that series like really normalized abuse, that it like the, in fiction becomes real, but that’s a whole other story. But what this is, it’s implying that a natural, something is a natural part of life is really a flaw or a disease.

And when your patients are coming to you, Understanding that the holistic perspective is not going to, or I would say, should not adopt this, cultural idea that it’s bad as you start to get older and mature. KO or Conki means in Japanese renewal season and energy. So in Japan, menopause is looked upon as a natural life stage, and the very word for menopause, the conki means renewal, season and energy.

So why do we have such a negative view of a natural process? While women in Asia eat more fish, less processed and refined foods less sugars, caffeine, sodas, and they walk more, et cetera, et cetera, compared to the average American. There’s also a level of respect for elders, and this is something that I think really need to examine is how we treat older people as they get older.

And one of the things that I would say is this last week I was at a conference and there were indigenous people from the Amazon and they were talking about the experience in terms of indigenous practices, of how much wisdom that elders hold, stuff that is not in a book. And when an elder actually dies.

It’s like the equivalent of the library of Alexandria burning down, right? Because what they hold wisdom that people hold within them is not something that can be reproduced. And because it’s experiential. And I think we have to really look at, as people are aging, that they also are holding a lot of experience and information.

So studies actually show menopause and menopausal symptoms are really tied to a woman’s cultural environment. So if a woman is in unhealthy environment, they’re gonna feel guilty. Shame experience for experiencing something that’s really natural. And leading to. Heightening of their physical symptoms.

It could be like flashing. It could be like poor sleep and also mental, like really heightened anxiety, depression and other countries that positively view aging and I’m repeating. And menopause such as Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, positively, similarly experience fewer unpleasant effects.

So not only does an optimistic and positive environment allow women to feel more comfortable when their cycles come to an end, but it also correlates with an easier transition with menopause. And that is where you as practitioners come in with support and really look at a paradigm shift. Chinese medicine is a paradigm shift, however, We do live in a culture that is constantly intruding on our views and beliefs.

So what can we do? Empowering your patients to cultivate their health and wellness and longevity. So this is really like the long, a long view, which. There aren’t really the quick fixes, right? If you get into hormone therapy, there’re always, there are consequences and side effects with that, such as increased risk of cancer.

So here what I’m encouraging is, To check in with your patients and find out how they’re feeling emotionally with their overall health and really address like, Hey, this. Transition that’s happening. It’s a very, it can be jarring identity, right? Your identity is changing the way cult, the culture, your society is gonna regard you.

And really don’t underestimate the impact that stress and anxiety has on health, and especially around aging and menopause. I think it’s really important to have a, To talk about that in other countries, the viewpoint is very different and we can actually adopt that viewpoint in the way that we actually treat our patients.

So again, intensity of menopausal symptoms will indicate that there might be un underlying imbalances, right? And we call those root causes that are not being addressed. So you’re, if you’re not treating the root C, you know what I wanna say is you’re treating a root cause, not the disease. All right?

If somebody is having flashing, we know that we need to balance their nervous system, like all of that, it’s not a disease. Self-care practices I give my patients homework. Really look at, what you can empower your patients with in terms of. Food, focusing on sleep. Sleep is a huge issue, right?

Because the circadian rhythm is also gonna influence reproductive hormones and overall health. Exercise and movement. Those are things that actually will help with like brain fog, but also movement is something that helps with depression. You start moving, just move your body clear out, clear the stuck energy.

Teacher patience techniques such as breath work for calming calming the nervous system and also I. Those tools, techniques, and tools are really good for managing the vasomotor symptoms, which come with the hot flashes, right? So body flashes and then get excited or anxious about it. That really calming the nervous system is actually gonna help to regulate that part.

Focus on relieving inflammation by eating, eliminating certain foods, eating other foods. I also teach my patients a kind of a self lymphatic kind of practice to help them move the lymph from their body, help to move, swelling, inflammation out. It takes. 40 seconds.

And the patients that do it can’t believe how the swelling in their overall body goes down, right? Because of all of the inflammation weight gain. One of the side effects with hormonal fluctuations is this weight gain. And things like lowered estrogen are attributed to what’s known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Or, con like liver congestion. So really looking at eating foods that are considered, that have more phytoestrogens such as flax seeds, sesame seeds, soybeans, right? Actually dried apricots and pr. And the studies show that an increase in soy actually helps reduce fatty liver.

Now there are always these concerns around consuming soy products that maybe it’s going to affect cancer it’s gonna affect the, negatively affect hormones, but those are actually really unfounded. Just discussing possible dietary Suggestions to help with symptoms could be its own presentation.

So I’d like to just, thank everyone who’s listening and please leave your comments in the bottom. And if there are any questions, you can also leave those and contact me and I will, answer what I can. Thank you.

Formulas for the Season – Moshen Herbs

I’m gonna be speaking about formulas for this season.

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Hello, my name is Moshe Heller and I’m from Moshen Herbs. And I wanted to thank the American Acupuncture Council for letting me host this talk this morning. I wanted to I’m gonna be speaking about formulas for this season, and so let’s go right away and start with the first slide.

I wanted to talk about two formulas that are associated with this coming season, this spring season. So as we all know, it’s officially started. Two days ago, so we’re at the beginning of spring, and I wanted to mention or talk about or discuss two formulas. One is the the first formula is called shield.

It’s a formula, again, by Moshen herbs that I created to support and boost the immune system. And then the other formula I wanted to, I’ll be speaking about today is react, which also is another formula by Moshen herbs for that I created for allergies, which is really at beginning of the season of allergies.

As we all know, everything starts to be itchy and irritated a little bit as the pollen levels rise. I wanted to start first with the SHIELD formula. And I I th this formula I created based on NG san, which we all know as Jade Windscreen and I combined it. With WA tongue, which is cinnamon, twigg, decoction.

And together these two formulas strengthen the exterior and harmonize the functioning of the way and ying chi so that when we, when our patient encounters pathogen, the body’s able to resolve it quickly. And that’s a really important. Thing I wanted to stress is that we, it’s not about not getting sick because we, especially when we’re treating children they do encounter pathogens and also as adults we also.

Are able to, or supposed to get sick. The issue is that we need to resolve it completely and quickly and exactly that’s what this shield formula is will help. So in this encounter with this pathogen, whether it’s a pediatric patient or an adult patient, The body of our patient is learning to deal with this pathogen that they encountered.

In a sense every time we get sick, it’s a learning opportunity. And it’s important to remember that because the more we learn, the more we are able to ward off. And I think SHIELD is an extremely helpful formula for this situation. So I wanna break it down a little further and how we how I created this formula.

We, I first wanted to make sure that the CHI is strong. And also that the CH Chi transformation, or what we call sometimes chia is complete. And so on top of this two formulas I mentioned before Jade Windscreen and cinnamon Twigg Decoction, I also, and I also combined. Urchin tongue CIA and CEE mostly as the two main herbs of that formula.

And those herbs will help to transform dampness and and otherwise if the dampness accumulates, it will hinder the functioning of the spleen. And that’s why it’s important. These. Two formulas. Th this formula two cured Decoction helps in that transformation and keeping the transformation going.

And so on top of that, I added another herb Tchen, which is a really amazing herb. I really love that. And you’ll see I use it. A lot in other formulas. Also, the advantages of it is that Tchen strengthens the spleen chi, but also works on regulating the water pathways and the transformation pathways of the spleen.

It, and it helps in generating fluids, generating pure fluids, not not. Turd fluids pure fluids will help to nourish and move and will move freely in your body. Whereas turbid fluids, if the transformation is not complete, will create dampness and then fle. I really Tchen to support the, this transformation.

The, in addition, I also added wwe, which helps the formula. Consolidate the exterior, but also bringing the kidney chip support to the lung. So there’s a better relationship or communication between the lung and the kidney. That the kidney supports the lung functions in both moving fluids, transforming fluids, and keeping the way chi secure.

Finally we also added Gagan. It’s a really also another one of my favorite herbs because it works on two levels. One, it supports digestion and helps with the normal function of the spleen. And on the other hand, it really helps to support the exterior. So in harmonizing the muscle layer in our what we call the muscle layer, which is this kind of relationship or is connected to the relationship between the ying and the weight level functioning.

We also, I also added the lastly linger which is, as we know, a really good adaptogenic mushroom that cons con is considered a really potent immune system tonics. So we have All the herbs that I mentioned yeah, are structured in this way. Our main main formula is NG with the addition of Tchen.

Then we have with the audition of. Greg and also I added to help clear and clear any heat and also support exterior and and as the third layer being urchin tongue transforming that potential phlegm and making sure that cheat transformation is complete together with w weights and linker.

So this is the structure of shield. It’s as I said, it’s a really great formula. I’ve been not only using it in my office, but a lot of practitioners have been purchasing it from me with really great results on. Supporting various kinds of conditions between just as a immune tonic, especially during the pandemic.

And then also as spring, as a spring preparation. Formula because a lot of times, as we know, when we see seasonal allergies, it’s all about harmonizing the ying and the wait chi and making sure that the immune system is functioning normally and therefore will not react to the Poland as as sometimes happens.

So the next formula I wanted to discuss is react, and it’s actually a very interesting formula, I believe so at least. And it’s based on the formula, whoe one, which is an anti parasitic formula or a formula associated with the in level. It’s sometimes curious why we might use that for allergies anyway the theory and we, I’ll show you some research that’s been done on that to support it.

Is that anti parasitic herbs. Inspire. Inspire is maybe not ex the exact word, but promote the body to regulate the immune sss the immune response and specifically the allergic immune response, meaning mast cell, histamine response, et cetera. So this formula. Combines hot and cold herbs and to address the Chinese perspective of of of allergies, which is common that we have both heat and cold concurrently in in the, usually the patterns of allergies.

Classically we’ll see this kind of the nasal, let’s say discharge is usually clear which represents a cold condition, but a lot of times this kind of hyperactivity and and hyperresponsiveness is a sign of heat. So this, there’s this kind of both heat and cold symptoms that manifest in the same time.

So reacts, react takes W one as the basis of the formula, and then adds herbs that are commonly used for food environment and environmental allergies like Fei Ang, Yuin, Bechen, and gj and also Zi and fun are. Commonly used. And and then added some adaptogenic herbs like Wrenchen and Tchen, as I mentioned before in, in shield to focus the formula on recalibrating and harmonizing the way she functions.

If we look, this is the research I was referring to. It comes from Dr. Lee from Mount Sinai, but this is the the link to the article if you’re interested in reading. And you should be getting the slides. So you could. Access it. If you wanna read more about this research.

Fascinating. About the use of. WME one. And so I also put here the original formula of WME one. So if you look up WME one pills these are the ingredients. You’ll see that there’s one of the herbs I had to change it’s called a hin or her Citis. And. It, this is a herb that I had to eliminate because it’s not available.

I think FDA Rev removed it from being used or, so I had to change that. And I also, I wanted to show you that this is the finalized formula. In in that Dr. Lee used. And so the original formula fui and hin were eliminated in the in the Research formula. I kept the f the fui in the formula.

This is the React formula. That’s the breakdown. Here’s WME one. You see we have wme and instead of hin I added Sisu. Yeah. As a substitute for it. But I did keep the the aconite fu in, in, in the formula. And again, here on the right, you’ll see all the herbs that I added for known to help in regulating food and environmental allergies and as well as the adaptogenic herbs I mentioned before.

So this is the form now react is really great for seasonal and environmental and food allergies. So it, it addresses a lot of the different manifestation of aisle allergies and it’s a great formula. And I’ve used it. For many of my patients from food allergies all the way to environmental allergies and whether it manifests with eczema and or other signs and symptoms of different allergies or even gastrointestinal if it’s a food allergies.

I also mentioned mast cell activation disorder. So this is another Manifestation of an allergic or allergy syndrome. So it’s getting a lot of attention. And it’s a very interesting syn syndrome that you can look into. And react works really well. I’ve had a few mast cell, quite a few mast cell activation disorder.

Patients that were really helped by react. What I want to add is a caution. When you react, if somebody shows or manifests anaphylactic shock or anaphylactic allergic response you have to be very careful about prescribing this formula and working. And it’s really Really important that you work with the patient’s doctor for testing reduced sensitivity for those anaphylactic results and or anaphylactic causes.

And also I wanted to mention that we have a very specific dosage suggestion. This formula is not, both the both of these formulas are not formulas. You take. Necessarily symptomatically to resolve a symptom, but rather you take it long term. Both of them need a minimum phase of three months before you, before they come to their full effect.

And so there’s a three months. Minimal period. Sometimes you need longer individually, so three months is an average. Some people, some patients will respond faster and some people, some patients will respond more slowly. And it also depends on how much acupuncture is concurrently administered and how many, and how they’re responding to all the other guidelines you might give them as part of the treatment.

Excuse me, but generally speaking, it’s really important to understand that this is not a short, both of these formulas are not short term formulas. There’s an accumulating effect that happens while taking them these formulas for a few months before considering considering the results.

These were the two formulas I wanted to discuss. I I encourage you to visit our website, Moshen herbs.com and I wanted to thank you very much for listening. And I also wanted to thank again, the AAC for letting me do this presentation. Thank you very much and have a wonderful day.

The Lymphatic System and Aging – Shellie Goldstein

Today we’re gonna talk about the lymphatic system and aging. Is your lymphatic system working?

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Hi everyone. How are you? My name is Dr. Shellie Goldstein and I am delighted to be here. Thank you to the American Acupuncture Council for hosting today’s presentation. I am a cosmetic facial acupuncturist. I’ve been practicing for over 30 years. In addition to lecturing internationally, I work with the Pacific College of Health and Science.

We run the facial applications for cosmetic enhancement of the face program, and at the end you’ll see my links to obtaining more information about me and other programs. I’m the author of Your Best Face Now and created the Touch and Glow facelift kit. So there’s a lot out there. Today we’re gonna talk about the lymphatic system and aging.

Is your lymphatic system working? Let’s go through these questions. How do you feel physically? Are you feeling tired or stiff or swollen? Do you feel, does your body feel inflamed? Um, are your muscles fatigued? Is your body contained fatigued? Do you have allergies? How do you feel mentally? Are you experiencing brain fog?

Do you feel depressed, stressed, anxious for no reason? Reason? Maybe you have headaches, you can’t remember, things can’t concentrate, or just simply not motivated? Uh, how does your skin look and feel? Does it look dry? Are you having acne or blemishes? Rashes, some type of irritations or itchy, tingling skin, maybe thi thick, leathery.

And then how does your body look? Do you look puffy? Do you look different than you would normally think that you look? Or how does your metabolism work? Uh, how is your bowel movements you, are they regular? Do you have stomach aches? Gas, bloating, any type of abdominal bloating, difficulty losing weight even though you’ve made dietary changes and you’re working out, all of these can be symptoms of poor lymphatic drainage.

So it’s not your fault that you feel these ways if your lymphatic system isn’t working. So let’s take a look at the lymphatic system. What does the lymphatic system do? It maintains fluids, so all of the fluids that, this is the lymphatic system, the image on the right, so all of the fluids in the skin and in the tissue that drain from the cells.

And circle in this kind of bathing interstitial tissue. So the. The fluid goes through the circulatory system, comes out into the interstitial tissue if it doesn’t continue in through the venous system, and then it gets reabsorbed back into the lymphatic system, and then the lymphatic system takes that.

Fluid in and circulates it through the body and puts it back into the bloodstream. It also filters through the digestive tract, so fats, proteins, anything that falls out or comes out of the digestive tract, the lymphatic system takes it, puts it back in, circulates it through, cleans it out, puts it back into the bloodstream.

It also helps to protect ab against foreign substances. Lymphocytes, it’s gonna produce them. It’s gonna release them, and we know that lymphocytes, white blood cells are responsible for maintaining proper immunity to help destroy bacteria viruses. Parasites, fungus, and it also is a purifier. So the lymphatic system takes all of the waste, all the impurities from our system filters.

It gets rid of it, breaks it down, gets rid of it. So it’s kinda the clean. Part of our body that cleans things, purifies things, keeps the fluid moving. So imagine if it’s not working, what happens? You get backup, you get swelling, you get breakdown of the entire body. And this is why you feel bad without even understanding your realizing why.

The lymphatic system is part of the circulatory system, and it’s also part of the immune system. So as part of the circulatory system rather than blood, the lymph system carries that clear fluid, we call it lymph throughout the body. It’s in a unilateral direction, which means it takes it from the capillaries, from the interstitial tube.

Tissue moves it through the lymph, the vessels, through the lymph nodes into the thoracic duct, and back into the circulatory cy system. It’s a one-way track here. The extracellular fluid, what is this fluid? So we think of the the arteries and the heart pumps, the arteries, and then that this blood moves, th and fluids runs through the arteries and then back through the venous system where it goes into the lungs and it gets oxygenated and then back to the arterial system.

When this pressure, there’s a gradient ion, the heart is pumping. It creates a pressure when the pressure reaches what we call the capillaries or this little area. In here it starts to shift and it moves into the venous system. There’s not the pressure in the venous system to keep moving things, so there’s a pressure gradient, which means it’s coming faster in through the arterials.

As it going out through the venous system, so some of the fluid gets lost, it goes through that interstitial tissue, and then this, the green, this is the lymphatic system. It’s gonna suck it up and transport it and push it back into the system through the nodes. Here are the vessels. So this is the surface of the skin that’s picking.

The circulatory system runs parallel to the circulatory system, and the lymphatic system right here starts to grab all of the fluid that gets pushed out of the. The vessels, picks it up, cleans it through these ducks, and then sends it back. So these ducks are, no, they’re called lymphatic nodes and they look like bean shaped glands.

They look like this. And they store, they have a number of different properties and this is where. The lymphatic system interfaces with the immune system, the lymphatic system stores lymphocytes and other immune system cells that are designed to attack and destroy and filter bacteria and other harmful fluids.

Substances in the fluid. There are about 600 lymphatic nodes scattered throughout the body. Some of them are single nodes. And if you look at this image, you can see some that are single. Others are closely collected. And this is a chain. So a few of the most familiar locations of the lymph nodes are in the armpits along the clavicular area, right below the clavicle in the groin.

Area and behind the knee. So we’re gonna look at a massage later to help move that lymphatic system. And then as the fluid moves through, the vessels gets cleaned and filtered through the nodes, it comes back right at the clavicle and empties into the right lymphatic duct and the left lymphatic duct.

And these ducts, what they do is they connect to the subclavial vein, which returns the limb to the bloodstream. And then helping to do this not only helps to maintain normal blood vessel. Blood volume and pressure, but it also helps to prevent the excess of buildup of fluids and tissues, which we call edema or puffiness or swelling in the body throughout the body.

What’s interesting for us as acupuncturists is along the face, these lymph nodes gather along the jaw area. The neck and the clavicle area. And if you look at the acupuncture points, it’s around stomach five, stomach six triple warmer, 17 down the S scm triple warmer, 16 small intestine 1716 large intestine 18 large intestine 17 through stomach 12, and here it empties into.

Kidney 27. So right below kidney 27 is the primary area of drainage back into the circulatory system on the body. These lymph nodes gather again at the armpits in the elbow area, the abdominal region, the groin, and the knees. So once again, what we’re doing is we’re looking at the vessels, the flow from the venous to, from the arterial system into the venous system.

We lose a lot of the fluid here and the capillaries, and this is the interstitial tissue. So this is the blood flow, this is the loss of tissue of fluid coming out into the interstitial tissue and then gets absorbed into lymphatic capillaries. The lymphatic capillaries are more like the venous system in that they don’t have a pump, like the heart to pump the fluid.

So it really relies on an external manual manipulation to move that fluid through the vessels. There are similar to the the venous system, there are little valves. So this is the lymph, it’s the lymph gathers through the interstitial. Tissue. The fluid comes in through the limb system. There are some little nodules or valves that help to prevent back flow, but if it’s not flowing properly, what happens is you just get a buildup.

So there’s no place to go. So they, it starts to swell. The flu can’t get in, and that’s how you get swelling. And when that happens, we start to see. Decreased lympho tissue swelling, it results in pain and it feels like physical and mental fatigue, and then all sorts of illnesses related to the inability for our immune system to function properly.

It looks like this. Think of it as a fishbowl. Here’s a bowl with fish in it. And all of these fish are our cells. And when the system is working cleanly, the water is nice and clear and pure. But what happens when the lymphatic system isn’t working problem? Then you properly, then you get this, it looks like that gray, yucky, murky stuff.

So which do you want in your system? Do you want nice, healthy, clean lymphatic system or this yucky, dull, putrid lymphatic system? And it’s amazing how easy it is. To make that transition. And also how easy it is to not have poor lymphatic drainage. And so there are things that you can do on a daily basis to help have this instead of that.

So let’s take a look at some information with regard to aging, because it’s a two double-edged sword. If you have a good lymphatic system and your flow is nice and healthy and effective, then aging slows down. If you don’t, then you actually age more on the other end of that sword. As we age, our lymphatic system does slow down a little bit, and so it’s even more important as we are aging to maintain the integrity of the lymphatic system.

In this research by Shang and Capron and others what are they saying in terms of the lymphatic system aging, the diverse etiologies of age related disease from osteoarthritis to Alzheimer’s disease, all share an impairment or slow loss of tissue functioning. Aging tissue homeostasis shifts toward progressive low grade inflammation and a dampen immune system.

So this is saying that as we age organically, things start to slow down. The lymphatic vascular is the key regulator of tissue homeostasis and health and disease. So in order to maintain health, you need to have a healthy lymphatic system. Lymphatics, transports, antigens, and other macromolecules excess.

Interstitial fluid in activated immune cells during inflammation. We know this. This is what its job is according to she and colleagues. Detrimental molecular changes occur in lymphatics with age and reduced lymphatic function is a key component regulating numerous age related diseases. Interesting. Because when we look from our T C M perspective, our team perspective, traditional Eastern Asian medicine, when we look at some of these illnesses, what we’re calling this is phlegm and blood stasis.

So you think of the lymphatic system, it’s job is to clear infection and keep the fluids in balance. And when it’s not working properly, those fluids build up in tissues and cause swelling or lymphedema. And then what happens is it starts to back up. This is what we’re calling our phlegm. It’s that inability of fluid to move that gathers and gets stuck.

It’s also when things don’t move. Think of the yin and yang chiam blood, the blood moving with cheek. She blocks can’t move. The blood starts to stagnate and then you get blood stasis. And when you look at some of the top aging conditions in Chinese medicine, hearing loss, cataracts, macular degeneration, dry eyes, Alzheimer’s, poor memory, brain fogginess, dizziness, maculas, dry skin, itching, numbness, and hair loss.

These are all from both a Chinese medicine perspective, but also an Western medical. Perspective Western medicine being portly, drainage, Chinese medicine, phlegm and blood stasis. They’re all the same. And so one backs up the other here there are a number of different techniques for making a difference for moving lymphatic drainage.

Remembering that it needs some type of manual manipulation, either acupressure. Massage or manual lymphatic drainage. And when you look at the manual lymphatic drainage research, because that seems to be the most prevalent there’s a great literature search of 30 years starting from 1989 to 2019, so 20 years.

Of study 20 studies that met inclusion criteria of identifying different effects of manual lymphatic drainage. What research has found was that the manual lymphatic drainage has been shown to help with symptoms and conditions beyond edema and lymphedema. Mainly fatigue and pain tolerance. So isn’t that interesting that a lot of our idiopathic pain symptoms could actually be related to the lymphatic system and a number of brain fog and fatigue could also be related to poor drainage.

And according to the authors, this study suggests that mld or manual lymphatic drainage can be used INSYS symptomatic treatment of various diseases like. Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and a number of other various systems. 2022 study explored the integrative therapies for managing fatigue associated with long covid.

So here we go. Here’s another one. Long Covid found that the student that study participants who had face-to-face treatment sessions with parent technique practitioners, along with daily self massage and gentle mobility exercises. An approximate 50% reduction in subscale scores of fatigue. The parent technique is based on the theory that different stress factors, whether they’re physical or allergies or emotional.

Or infections lead to an over strain in the sympathetic nervous system. So their job is to as manual lymphatic drainage with this particular system. They use, they look at the nervous system. And the overload of the nervous system and the buildup of toxins and fluids around the brain and the spinal cord.

So a lot of their techniques work on massage in the brain area and also along the spinal cord, as well as opening up the lymph nodes. So again, here we go again. Look at the symptoms related to long covid fatigue, palpitations, dizziness, sleep disturbances, fever. Pain, joint and muscle pain, chest pain or tightness, stomach pain, nausea, diarrhea, loss of type, brain fog again, headaches, numbness and tingling delirium.

We look at that in terms of dizziness, not dementia. Depression or anxiety, sore throat, loss of taste or smell earaches are tend, so all of this information is leading to the same thing that whether it’s on a physical level, a mental level, or an emotional level or pain related on all of these levels.

Are all affected and affect the lymphatic system. There are, we are gonna go through a small lymphatic drainage technique. So just to general safety, although it’s generally safe, if you have a high risk of blood clots, congestive heart failure, kidney disease, any type of active lymphatic infection or swelling of a night cause.

You may just wanna watch, not participate. And again, I would check this out with your physician to see if these would be precautions or contraindications or actually helpful for some of these conditions. So when we look at supporting the lymphatic system with massage, let’s just do this. We’re gonna start with the points right below kidney 27 and stomach 10.

So if you place your fingers on the chest bone right at these right below the clavicular head, We’re gonna find this area and we’re just gonna massage it with our hands. So medium pressure. Just massage this area. So what are we doing? We’re opening up the flow in the Subclavial area. The big filtering system because if this is clogged, you’re not gonna be able to move things through.

Interestingly enough, when you’re massaging this area and keep massaging ’em, I notice that because I get spring allergies and here we are is, I’m starting to swallow a little, I feel like a little fluid building up in my throat, which is good. That’s a good sign. And then just give this little tap.

Okay. Tap and then we’re gonna move to the jaw line. So I’m actually gonna take my fingers and just massage around the jaw area like this, moving from CV 23 and four, and then five, stomach, five and six. So along the jaw, just give it a little bit of massage with medium pressure so that we can stimulate that fluid so you can go from back to front.

Front to back, let’s go from front to back and then you can just slide down the SM back to that clavicular head area. And then we’re gonna try the neck area. So let’s just put our fingers at the back of our neck from reaching from bladder 10, gallbladder 20, amnion triple heater, 17, and just massage.

Along the neck area. Good. Great. Good massage. See if we can get that fluid to move and then I always slide back, bring it back to that area below, kidney 27. Okay. And then armpits. So we’re gonna lift our arms. You can do it at the same time or under, or one at a time. Just take your thumb and put it in the lung one, lung two area, and then reach under the armpit like this and just give it a little massage.

Good. And do one side

and the other. Lung one, lung, two, heart, one, spleen, twenties, stomach, small intestine. 19, this whole area. Great. Good job everybody. And little tap. Now we’re gonna go to the elbow so you can bend your elbow and a 90 degree angle. And we’re just gonna give it a little bit of a massage. At the large intestine.

11 part three, lung five, pericardium six.

I’m gonna do both sides.

There you go,

Okay, now you’re not gonna be able to see this, but in the inguinal groove, in the groin area, same place. So the large intestine, 11 lung five heart sorry. Spleen 12, stomach 30 to 31. Liver, 10 to 11 area. Just gonna give it a little bit of a massage.

Great. And then behind the knee bladder 54.

Good job. All right, so you can do this several times a day. I know that I come from Florida and drive to New York and imagine you think of these point, these areas where the joints are. So yeah, I’m sitting in a car with my knees bent in a 90 degree angle. So bladder 54 is locked. My in green groove area is locked, and I have my hands on the steering wheel and I’m clenching my.

Neck area because I’m constantly paying attention to driving and you’re just sitting there. But after three days of driving, I’m exhausted. And then I remember, oh gosh, my lymphatic system didn’t really flow because you don’t really. Drink too much in case you have to pee. You don’t wanna have to keep stopping.

This is just a really quick for me, A reminder was, oh, lymphatic drainage. Or if you’re sitting at the desk and you are worse studying or doing a lot of computer work, guess what? You’re in the same position. You’re in, Guino area is locked, your knees are bent, your arms are up. You probably, are hyper focused.

So your jaw area might be a little tighter. Again, this is such a simple thing. It took us less than five minutes, and it makes a huge difference on your physical health, your mental health, your emotional health, and just remembering that when you feel good, you look good. And. When you feel good, you’re also nicer person.

And so I think, just a five minutes of lymphatic drainage a day makes a better you and a better world. I hope this helps and thank you very much for being a part for paying. Listening to this, thank you again to the American Acupuncture Council. If you want more information about me, Instagram at Shellie Goldstein, and then my website is hampton acupuncture.com.

You can learn about me more, things that I do, classes that I teach, and programs that I’m involved with. So have a wonderful day. Don’t forget to do your, I’ll do your little lymphatic drainage massage, and we will see you again. All righty. Bye-bye.

Super Foods – Helping Patients Get Better Results with Small Changes

And today I’m gonna be talking about super foods and this is how you can get better results for your patients.

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Hi and welcome. My name is Tsao-Lin Moy and I am a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist with a brick and mortar practice in Union Square in New York City. I would like to thank the Acupuncture Council for creating this opportunity to livestream information to you. And today I’m gonna be talking about super foods and this is how you can get better results for your patients.

By informing them about making these small changes and you’re gonna have, to their diet and some of their lifestyle. So we are going to go to the slides. . Okay, so super foods, and this is about getting better results for your patients and really it’s about being smarter about eating and doing it.

So they’re going to get these results. Now, every year people gain between seven to 10 pounds of weight between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and that’s a lot because what happens is in the new year, We have everyone that makes resolutions that they wanna lose weight, they wanna get healthier. But after about six weeks, maybe two months, most people give up because it’s too difficult.

So if they’re not seeing the fast results, if they’re not getting encouragement, , they’re gonna stop. So here is an opportunity to give your patients these tools. Now, the US is one of the most unhealthy countries in the world with an almost the highest in healthcare cost. And as we know as practitioners that for the most part, many of our services are not covered on insurance, and patients have to pay out of pocket.

And it looks like the cost value is like, 4 trillion right, is spent on healthcare, but the quality of people’s lives is not getting better, and in fact, it gets worse. Oftentimes the solution from allopathic medicine is to end up being on multiple medications. And one of the. Main causes of death in the US is heart disease with a lot of the comorbidities of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, right?

And looking at the simple things that I’m gonna cover, that it’s gonna support your patients and yourself, they’re gonna be really easy to incorporate and help to cultivate a healthier lifestyle. . So the topics the topic is food is medicine, and I’m, we’re looking at super foods. I’m gonna talk a little bit about mushrooms.

Mushrooms have a lot of magical properties, including magic mushrooms, which I won’t talk about. Magic mushrooms just at the magic that they can produce with health. I’m gonna do an example. Different greens. I’m gonna cover also a little bit about sugar and just dairy. So this is going to be an overview.

It’s gonna stimulate you guys to do more research on your own and maybe take a look at, where you can make improvements so that the food that you have and that you’re consuming is gonna be the highest quality and nutrient dense. . So mushrooms. Mushrooms and their medicinal magic. Okay, so in this picture we’re looking at there’s Lions Main, there’s Cortis, there’s Turkey Tail, there’s Rei Chaga Maya Taki, and Shiitake mushrooms.

Mushrooms are actually from the Fungi Kingdom. Genetically we are closer to fungi than we are to other plants and so I’m not gonna go over the whole Fungi Kingdom. My suggestion is, if you haven’t already watched it, is to go and watch the movie. Fantastic fungi. There’s gonna be so much information about how mushrooms and mycelium interconnect us throughout the world and how much that we and the environment really relies on mushrooms.

There’s something called micro remediation. And this is where the mushrooms are able to clean out toxic waste. Really helping to be help our environment, right? And for us does the same thing. Mushrooms are extremely helpful and medicinal for with their properties. So most mushrooms, they have many healing properties.

One, we know they boost the immune system. They lower cholesterol, regulate blood sugar, improve memory have cancer fighting properties they contain. Proteins, minerals and are packed with antioxidants. Now the seven strains, which are highly beneficial, are often found in a mushroom powder supplement.

And I put together, I just said STAT seven. Paul Stat is a very well known mycologist and he has a company and. He has different packaging is where will contain the Cortis, the Turkey tail, REI, makihiki, and Lions Main. Now, Cortis is also known as Caterpillar fungus, right? And it’s good for energy, for memory.

The Turkey tale research is done used for. Cancer. Also REI we know is the Lingerer in Chinese medicine, which is also used for immune and also helping with cancer. Myat. Taki this mushroom is good for blood pressure, cholesterol also blood sugar. And again, the same with shiitake mushrooms, also very healthy.

You can cook with them. Lions. is one that’s known for memory and they look at neuro regenerative properties. So maybe looking towards how it can help with motor neuron regeneration brain with like dementia Parkinson’s many issues that we’re having right now with brain fog, right post or during with from viruses and pandemics.

And then we have chaga, I put a little asterisks with Chaga because you. All of these have healing properties, but there’s also a tendency for let’s say western people to think more is better. And the one thing with the Chaga, you have to be careful because in super large quantities it can cause problems with the kidneys.

So we’re always looking at moderation and. Best way is if you can cook with the mushrooms. So most mushrooms, they’re gonna work through the middle j the spleen, the stomach, the liver. They’re also good for the lung and the heart channel. They’re good for gut health and help to regulate blood sugar and cholesterol.

And in turn, heart. With mushrooms, you really have to break them down, like cook ’em because they contain something called chitin, which is protein. They’re also very high in fiber. So we don’t really want to eat raw mushrooms. I think the little button mushrooms are okay to eat raw in a salad, but for the most part, you really need to cook.

So here what I’ve highlighted is Mya Taki mushroom. So I’m just gonna go through the Maya Taki mushroom, also known as Hen of the Woods. Now, this mushroom is known to reduce cholesterol. , it helps to clean out the blood. It’s anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and also helps with type two related diseases, other kinds of problems that show up from type two diabetes.

And I put on the bottom of this the different references for the research that’s done. I actually have a friend who. He had done some research, he had diabetes, he had high cholesterol, hypertension, like all of those three that we see so prominently in here in the west because of our diet.

And he had read about the benefits of the myat Tai mushroom and decided he was going to just intake more my Taki mushroom. And he. He made. So about one third of his diet was coming from mushrooms and ended up losing like 60 pounds and then got off, was able to get off the cholesterol, the high blood pressure medication, and also reverse his diabetes, right?

So this is really huge. This is a huge thing. So if we can avoid or minimize the amount of medication, That we’re taking this is gonna be a good thing, right? Because as we know, medication actually can cause inflammation in the liver and also cause problem with the kidneys. So oftentimes the medicines that we take and the pharmaceuticals, they have a lot of side effects, right?

And so if we can, whatever we can do on our own that’s simple would be maybe start eating some mayak mushrooms. So are there certain foods that are better to eat along with mushrooms for enhanced nutrition? Absolutely. Onions, garlic, shallots, leaks, chives. They’re excellent accompaniments for cooking with mushrooms.

So in Chinese medicine, onions and garlic are used in soups, right? We know like a miso soup cuz they open up the sinuses and the lungs. They also belong to the album genus, and those properties are also filled with vitamins, minerals, plant compounds, and antioxidants. Great for supporting immune fun immune function.

right? And reducing. They also reduce cholesterol and blood sugar. And also garlic and onions are great for flavoring. So if just in case the theme is , reducing your cholesterol, your blood sugar blood pressure and improving The your gut health. So all of these things that if we can do this, will be just, even one food that you can add in to your diet, make some changes.

It’s gonna make a really big impact and. From what I notice is that you have to give your patients really simple things that they can do. If they’re given a really complicated eat this in the morning, this in the afternoon, you have to something, then they’re gonna give up. So really like an easy thing is, have them start eating mushrooms, right?

Just say, start eating mushrooms, not with butter. But really give them a couple of easy recipes. You can roast mushrooms, right? With just a little bit of olive oil and salt in the oven. And they’re very TAs. So one of the problems in the US is sugar. So this is a, the US is the biggest consumer of sugar on the globe, and according to sources, the country’s per capita, sugar consumption is about.

30 teaspoons a day, right? And that translates into more than 10 times what the lowest recommended in intake is, which is about three teaspoons. And this translates into as it converts from grams to pounds to ounces, about over a hundred pounds of sugar per year, per person, right? Of course some people eat less.

But if you start looking at how much sugar is in like drinks and different kinds of foods that we really don’t realize, like how much that we’re consuming, right? So why do we need to cut sugar out of our diet? In the US we’ve got a lot of diabetes, 10% at least, of the adult population, which is about 34 million, has diabetes.

And then we’ve got. 34, almost 35% have pre-diabetes. So we’re already we’re trending, right? This is trending sh insulin resistance and sugar. Problems regulating sugar affect the endocrine system. We see this with a lot of problems with fertility. , a lot of women or a lot of people overall, obesity is a big problem in the us.

So we start to see problems with metabolism. The standard American diet known as the SAD diet, is really high in like animal products. A lot of animal fats dairy meat processed. Sugars and a lot of sugars and so we start to see like we need to make changes, but then all, so it’s not just stopping eating those foods or curbing it is really, we need something to help to clear out the system.

Sugar plays a role as a stimulant and it increases inflammation, right? And it can actually cause problems with yeast. It will cause problems with imbalances in mood and reproductive hormones. With a fertility. Polycystic ovary syndrome is a really big problem and we see more and more women are being diagnosed with it and often they have insulin resistance and this is what interrupts their endocrine system and reproductive hormones.

So we really wanna look also can we make substitutions? So there are a few things you can do, of course, like cutting out sugar as much as possible is really you. Is gonna be the best thing that we can do to go on like a sugar fast. But oftentimes people are looking for a substitution.

So if we compare sugar to maple syrup, I know that there are a lot of recipes that say, oh, use maple syrup. So maple syrup. Comparably in calories and carbs. It has a lower glycemic index than sugar. And it also tends to be a little bit sweeter. So this is something that maybe you’d end up using less of if you use that as a substitution.

But I also looked at a comparison of something like how’s molasses, what is molasses in terms of compared to. Maple syrup, because sugar has empty calories, sugar it’s processed. It doesn’t really offer anything other than the sugars. So when we look at maple syrup, because it comes from a tree, it’s going to have other.

Properties from the tree plants like antioxidants but then looking at what does molasses contain because molasses is also sweet. It has a sweet it’s also very bitter. But it can be used as a sweetener and things like, Coffee if you want to, or even hot chocolate. Black strap molasses is like really high in iron.

So if you have people that tend towards anemia, this would be like maybe a spoonful of the black strap molasses. And looking at in this slide how it contain, Calcium, right? Iron very high in iron, molasses, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, copper, b3, B five, b6. If you’re going to have a little bit of a sweetener itch, this could be like to really kinda look at, am I gonna have some healthy things that are gonna come with it.

So not just the sweet. And again we’re looking at maple syrup also has. , right? So if you, if we’re gonna choose something to suite, we’re gonna look at not just the fact that it’s gonna be low on the glycemic index, but really what else can it offer? . Now getting to greens. So all greens are full of antioxidants, right?

But they’re not all equal. And I actually came I was in actually a Asian. Food market. And I happened to pass by this, sea of green and I saw these little flowers and I, wow, these are really beautiful flowers. And it happened to be like the flowers from the Chinese broccoli tips.

And so I bought them and I was like, oh, it’s really interesting. I don’t always see the flowers. And they made me really curious about what are the benefits of Chinese broccoli. And what I found out is, Chinese broccoli is one of the most, most nutritious vegetables, and one of the highest calcium content has the highest calcium content of any food.

Rich in iron, vitamin A, c, and E high amounts of beta keratin, and that helps with. Eyes for as we age we get macular degeneration. And it’s also a rich source of fiber. Now, regular broccoli is also high in many nutrients, including fiber, vitamin C, vitamin K, iron and potassium.

However, having bone health, we really wanna look at if we eat a little bit of the Chinese broccoli, That, comparing it to another green, that this may be a much healthier choice. Easy to do one green, just change it right. . Another also I looked at was the celery. What is celery?

Celery contains a lot of plant compound. A plant compound a, which is a role in traditional Chinese medicine is anti-inflammatory, right? We know that. Celery is very cooling. It’s a diuretic, right? Helps remove the toxins from the body. Studies actually show it has its antioxidant and has anti-aging properties.

Actually looking at it, it also has some neuro stem cell regeneration properties too in, in some of the research papers. The aspect you can drink celery juice, right? In Chinese medicine, drinking raw green juices is not so great cuz maybe too cold. The, in terms of nutrition it’s high in vitamin K and also modest source of B, the B vitamins.

You can chop it up and saute it. Just add it into maybe some other dishes that you have really think about just adding some more of the celery and in particular the Chinese celery is a little bit stronger in terms of flavor, so you can experiment with that. . Okay, so here we are with dairy.

The American diet has a lot of dairy and cheese, right? a lot of milk, a lot of milk products. And the thing is at least 68% of the world’s population has difficulty. Digesting dairy and milk. And so what happens is it is like a point of inflammation, even if we don’t, even if it’s not acute, right?

Oftentimes people feel like, oh I can drink milk. I don’t get a stomach ache. I’m fine. , if you have an intolerance, the symptoms actually will show up later on, right? Not everyone can tolerate dairy in their diet, and in fact Being intolerant to dairy is one of the most common food sensitivities among both children and adults.

And for the most part, we consume dairy when, with in our drinks ice cream, right? Lot of desserts, creamy, creamy foods. And so an intolerance of a food usually is gonna involve a delay, a delayed biological. So a lot of patients have i b s, they get abdominal pain, gas and bloating.

Of course you can, we recommend having foods that are are fermented or eating a probiotic to help with digest with digestion. But if somebody’s still eating dairy and it’s causing irritation they may think that it has nothing to do with it because it may not be acute. , but these symptoms, because there is a delayed biological reaction.

The important thing is like maybe to cut it out of the diet we see a lot of skin problems, eczema, psoriasis, right? Rashes, just itchy skin. We can blame it on the dry weather or we can blame it on something. . But if the patient is eating milk products, that more than likely that is contributing to the skin irritation.

We also see a lot of headaches and migraines. . And that can also be attributed to sensitivity to gluten. However dairy is really sneaky, right? Because we can put it in our coffee or tea or some in some other way. And we don’t really think of it as like the problem because it could be, we had it a couple days ago.

Dairy intolerance can cause a lot of weight gain swelling, a lot of inflammation. Also things like anxiety. , right? Any kind of food intolerance creates inflammation and then can actually affect our chemistry, fatigue, joint pain, even difficulty breathing, right? Because the inflammation is going to irritate also the lungs.

All right. I’d be very interested this is the end of the slide. If have any comments or questions what are you doing with your patients if there is something that you want to learn more about. I have started to do a lot more research into all the food that I eat.

Certain things when you’re making choices to really make those switches. And so the more you, the more you research the smarter you are and you can share with your patients. So I would like to again thank the American Acupuncture Council for the live stream. And I hope to see you in the future.

And I’m not sure who the next person is gonna be on for our presentations, but I hope everyone is gonna have a really happy holiday and a very healthy 2023.

Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture with David Bomzon

Our show for today is because I became very interested in Yamato’s new Scalp Acupuncture, and I heard great things about it.

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Welcome to this week’s American Acupuncture Facebook Live podcast show. I’m your host, Poney Chiang of neuro-meridian.net. I’m joining you today from Toronto, Canada, and today my guest is David Bomzon. And David is a Chinese therapist and lecturer who specialized in acupuncture in neurological rehabilitation, and is considered to be the leading authority on rehabilitation acupuncture in.

David graduated from the East West College of Classical Chinese based in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2006, and is a former student of Dr. Toshi Kasu Yamamoto, the discoverer of Yamamoto new scalp acupuncture. David. Together with Avi Amir, established the NEMA Center in 2007, which is the largest community clinic in Israel for integrated Chinese medicine, which combines classic Chinese medicine.

Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture with Western Medicine. He also established a unique support center at the NEMA Center, which provides continued professional enrichment as well as professional guidance to new graduates and experienced practitioners in the field of complimentary medicine. David is a lead acupuncture in the rehabilitation department in the Benig Zion Medical Center in Haifa.

And David is involved in clinical. Which is investigating the benefit of Y essay in neurological rehabilitation in 2020. Together with Avi David published the book entitled Clinical Handbook of Yamamotos New Scalp Acupuncture. Throughout his career as a therapist, lectures and mentor Deborah has published, has pushed for the integral combination of acupuncture, Chinese medicine, and scalp acupuncture.

And the reason why I’ve invited, To our show for today is because I became very interested in Yamato’s new Scalp Acupuncture, and I heard great things about it. So David, welcome. Thank you for sharing your time with us today and and how are you doing in are you in high far right now?

No. Hello Pony. Thank you for inviting me. I’m I live, I’m not far from my home. I live in the Galilee. I’m 45 minutes commute from. . Okay, great. Can you tell us about Dr. Yamamoto how did he research and discover this form of acupuncture? Dr. Yamamoto is an amazing amazing European amazing person.

I learned a lot from him. He actually started at he special. He didn’t come from the field of acupuncture, and he started actually on the field of anesthesia Anology. He studied anology. He finished in Japan. But in his travels, he traveled to the United States, and then he was in Germany for a couple of years.

Years. But then he, after a few years abroad, he came back to his hometown nana, where he opened the practice and clinic for. Pain management and basically with one of the patients there, he found himself stumbling onto the world of acupuncture. Due to, he says it was an accident, the kind of an accident that he had of a patient that when his patient had a lower back pain with disc and when he looked for an sensitive area to inject the neuro block, he was injecting Lido.

He gave her injection, but he only injected the cell line to the patient. And the next day when the patient came back, he was pretty sure he would be sued for medical malpractice. Cause he only realized in the evening of that day that he never injected any medicine Okay. And act. And actually she came to thank him and say that the pain was gone and she feels amazing.

And that was his first kind of encounter with Acupunc. and then he started studying for himself acupuncture. He was very much influenced by the idea of microsystems. He learned nasal acupuncture or Rico acupuncture, suzu, which is the hand the Korean acupuncture of the hand. And when in 1970, he, when they first published about the GI style scalp acupuncture came out, he went and he studi.

And he started using it in his clinic. He said it took him a while to really specialize and get the results he was looking for with the GL style. And then he basically, if we familiar with the G style, you have the motor and the sensory lines of the area of the ELOs area. And when a patient came to this clinic that was suffering actually from a shoulder pain, like a frozen shoulder.

And actually he had his head when he was looking for the points, he had his hand roundabout here on the patient. And this area is very tender for that patient. And when he pressed down on it, sudden the patient felt some release of in his shoulder and there was more mobility in the shoulder with yours.

That’ll become yamamotos, first point he ever discovered. And then Yamamoto is very curious. Very imaginative and always looking for the, because of the influence by this mirror reflection and the microsystems, he started searching for more points on the area of the scalp for treating different areas in different parts of the body.

And he actually started connecting the dots between the Chinese scalp, acupuncture or even D 24, which is a point that affects the mind. Okay, so D 24, we know it affects the mind. And he said, okay, if I have the mind here and the head, then slowly, if I go down, On my hairline, I’m gonna discover more and more points.

And then he goes to the area of the shoulder, which was the area of C, and slowly discovered 5, 7, 8 points. From that, the whole system developed to about today there’s comprises of about 60 points, I think, which is divided into different somatotypes and microsystems in a large microsystem system.

So that’s how we discover. Okay. You might, you mentioned Somato. Is that one of the underlying principles of wine essay or is it possible to generalize? You mentioned Microsystem any my understanding is that they, there’s actually several microsystems in this system there, several Somato Topes.

Can you comment about just introduce the US to sort the jet the broad strokes of the system. So we have, it’s, Yamamoto always mentions that his system is more of a microsystem. Which is divided into little groups of somato tops, which the first group is like the basic points, which is very as you can see, points that affect the body, like the physical structure of how western medicine sees the human body.

The next group is like brain points, so you can affect, the idea is to affect the brain in some. Some manner, but those brain points do not like that. You don’t match the neuroanatomy of the areas of the bone or the anatomy of the brain. Okay? So that’s the second group. And then you have what’s called the ipson points, which is another group of points, which actually is here is the connection to the organs and the channels.

And then you have cranial nerve points, which is actually a mixture of the Ipsy lung points with the brain points from my. All these just little microsystems that developed with the yours that not necessarily, some of them are on the scalp. He has like a microsystem on the, around the Mals area of the foot, but on the cervical of, sorry, on the spinal cord.

He also has a Soto top, the chest area. But the idea is always looking for different areas to affect different parts of the body. And you really see it in his practice that he’s always trying, Be very open minded and if something doesn’t work, he’s always gonna look for something else. And this is why.

Kept on discovering more and more points. . Okay. What type of patient would you say best benefit from Y nsa? First of all, I forgot to mention that Yamamoto style acupuncture is based on palpation based acupuncture. You have also spread out throughout the body diagnostic areas that tell you which group of points, which points to needle and which areas to needle.

Forgot to mention that. But the patients that benefit from Yamamoto scalp acupuncture, also from clinical research at the Doctor Yamamotos done, and also from research that I’ve been doing in my practice. Mainly, first of all, pain patient. It’s very good instrument for managing pain management. So it’s fantastic for that.

And this is what it was developed for. But also I found, and also Dr. Alo for different types of neurological disorders. It could be stroke, Parkinson’s, like I work also in a Parkinson clinic in the rehabilitation center. We found it very useful. It’s a special point for Parkinson. There’s also multiple sclerosis, any orthopedic car accident or nerve damage to the spinal cord.

So it’s very diverse in treating neurological problems and pain. And in rehabilitation, the advantage is that once you needle little scalp, you can do, the patient is mobile to do his activity or his practice. So actually you’re getting like one plus one is worth two, is two and a half, three.

So that’s the advantages of it. So let me just backtrack a little bit. So it seems like one of the things that’s different is that it’s very how patient informed. And and I’m I’m very pleasantly surprised to hear that Dr. Ya Moto has anesthesiology background and has studied gel style of Chinese scale acupuncture.

I have found that in my encounter with western medical practitioners that have interest in a acupuncture, a lot of times they come from I’m more likely to see anesthesiologists and neurologists. Being more open-minded towards acupuncture because they work the nervous system. They understand pain from a neurological perspective.

And so I’m pleasantly, happy to hear Dr. Yamamoto brings the neurological understanding and perhaps that’s why the system works so well for neurological conditions now. Is it possible for us to give you, give us a little bit more understanding as to. The young public acupuncture might is different than gel style or any other form of c acupuncture that that you’ve encountered?

I know there’s not, there’s probably some similarities. Just for the interest of the listeners who may be interested in learning to teach Yamamoto style, maybe they already learned J style and jazz style. Why should I yet learn another? If you can comment on that.

I’m also familiar with the juice style and GI style. I also use it in the hospital. But I found that one of, one of the things that first of all he always mentions that his system is more of a microsystem. And it’s less like based on the he or the anatomy of certain areas of the brain. If you go words like GI style, if you look, if you go deeper research into GI style even you, I think I watched the video of yours pony that you spoke about, let’s say the core line which has with the pre motor area of the brain.

Yeah. So it’s actually based on the neuro anatomy in general. The. J takes it also to the understanding of a Chinese diagnosis, which is important. And Yamato, if you look at the areas of the points there, like not much of the points in the zones match the neuroanatomy of the brain. , or if maybe if we dig research and found more discoveries about the brain, we’ll see that there is some type of batching of that idea.

So that’s the first difference. The second. The second difference is, so also the needle inside is not usually contralateral or lateral. Usually it’s the side that is chosen is according to the diagnostic zones that are, or in the abdomen or in the neck or in the elbow area. That tells you which side, which points need to be needle.

So that’s also a big difference between the Yamamoto and the Chinese scalp acupuncture method. And also the needle in technique is very different if in the scalp acupuncture, you have to have a thread in motion and then you gotta basically manipulate the needles could be dwelling or even pumping.

Yamamotos style is more acupuncture points. So actually you just, you need all the points perpendicular. , it’s not necessary to stimulate the points. And I once asked the Yamamoto, you need to needle the point, the stimulate the points. No, it’s not necessary to manipulate the points. Cause any movement of the mimics is actually moving the fascia below that the needle in that is actually causing the stimulation that you need.

So that’s one of the, another great big difference between it. So you could say, in some cases for us, whoever starts out, it’s more friendly for the patient until you become very specialized with the Chinese. So that’s very useful for us to know. A lot of the scalp acupuncture systems in particular the Chinese ones require you to have your own TCM or Western biomedical diagnosis.

Sounds like Yamamoto style has its own system of diagnosis. And and I actually. To, like hearing that the kneeling does not require a lot of stimulation and a lot of threading because that generally is a bit more uncomfortable. And if you work with children, let’s say if you work with cerebral policy or autistic children you wanna do it fast.

And just, put the needles in so that there’s less fuss and better cooperation with children. So I can see how the YAMA model style might actually be more practical in, in, depending on the type of patient demographic that you’re working with. Would you be able to give us a a clinical story or something that, you was maybe memorable in your experience applying Yamamoto maybe early on when you started doing this for the first time or in your rehabilitative work right now?

Something that like, really even for me, I practice a long time, but I still get like amazed and find acupuncture miraculous every day. Inspires me, please share with us something of that nature with Yama style that you felt you really changed some patients lives. So the story goes back I’ve been practicing acupuncture from 2007, so three years in Yamamoto from 2009.

And when I started out in my early time years of Yaba motto, I was actually called to come to a house, call on a patient who had a stroke. We’d speaking about five years after the stroke, and he had aphasia, motor aphasia. , and he’s around 80 at that time. And actually what they wanted me to try and treat, they heard that scalp acupuncture is very useful for aphasia and if I could come and try and help him.

So I decided I went to help him. Now, one of the things that the patient. He also had some paralysis of his shoulder, of his upper extremity of, I think it was the, if I remember correct, it was the right side. So if he was standing, his hand was like down here. He could’ve moved more than this of his hand.

So I came to I came to do the treatment and I’d done my diagnosis, I needle. Actually three points. One was like what’s correlated with the cerebrum and the cerebellum points according to, because of the diagnosis. And another point the area of actually the cervical spine. Cause you have the diagnosis.

And I think immediately after about the three needles, I said, okay, let’s see if you can speak. A lot of times the speech takes a long time to impair or improve. So I wasn’t basing myself on the speech. Just move your hand a bit. And he took his hand right up to his mouth and he just bursted out crying, right?

And this was, and I was like trying to keep my cool and say, oh, it works. But I was totally amazed. Like I was blown away, said Wow. And and that was a story with this patient that we just con and. Speaking five years after a stroke that he’s never moved, his hand moved more than maybe two, two to three inches.

Right? And now takes it up to his hand so he could even now attach a prop for him to eat now. , he saw as a mace, like that result. Wonderful. I’ve always like to ask them, my guests to share a couple of clinical pearls or techniques. I know it’s a very complex in depth system, but just to get, our viewers interested, inspired to maybe take up proper training in Yama style someday.

Some give us a couple of tricks that we can apply maybe. This AF today or tomorrow so that we can see and appreciate and admire the power of Yamamoto staff acupuncture. Okay, great. I’ll be thrilled to do so what some of the points, if you don’t wanna use diagnosis, you can use very much symptomatically and they amazing points and they have an amazing result.

The first point is actually what’s called the D point. Is located on the interior hairline. Okay. If you can show me the image. Okay. The first image, Alan sorry. One minute. Something’s knocking loud at the door. I wanna stop them a second. Sorry about this. And he’s saying it’s

And ready. Sorry about this. We’re meant to finish. My son’s calling me. So if you can see the D point here in black, it’s on anterior hairline. It’s very, and it’s about a centimeter above the zygomatic bone, okay? And it’s very powerful point for treating lower back pain or any problem of the lower extremities as well.

So it’s a very good and useful point that you can use in your clinic already. So this is how it easy, you can see the bone structure there. If we go to the next image, Allen you can see this is how it is with the ha of the hairline. So you can see it’s right on the hairline, it’s on the interior hairline and about a centimeter above the zygomatic bone.

And what you wanna do here is look for a very sensitive point and then needle that sensitive point. Okay? So that’s how much, how deep insert. Not not more than not more than a soon. So you’re looking between half a soon about insertion. Okay. Okay. But you can even help, you can even palpate it and push pressure on it and ask the patient to move around.

And if it’s better or the back, you just needle that point. It’s another way you can locate it. So that’s first point. And no simulation, just, and do you retain for, is it in and out or do you retain for some time? 30 minutes minimum. Okay. You can leave it fall per longer. The next point is actually what’s the a point, which is right here just on the line of the bladder channel, bladder three around bladder three area.

If you can see the image here in blue. Which on the line of the bladder three area, which is, let’s say the hairline, that’s gonna be the area of cervical. Cervical three. Four. And if you go about one centimeter up, you’re actually going up towards the head. So the superior part is about the head. And as you go down with that line, you’re going down from cervical one down to cervical eight, which is about a centimeter out of the hair.

And also you look for the most sensitive point on that line and you needle it. And if you need a couple of points, you can needle a couple of points, and that’s very useful for any cervical pain. Okay. Do you how they bilaterally? Just see which side is the most tender. Because we are not using the diagnosis here and we basically using it according to the symptoms, so you need a lot on the side that you have symptom.

For example, if it’s on the left side, you’re gonna need all these points on the left or on the right side. The same with the D point. Okay? And so they’re very useful and I hope you have great success for them and found yourself in charge and enchanted by this wonderful method and this wonderful human being.

Yeah, it sounds like it’s very practical and very easy to apply. And then so I’m gonna look forward to to trying out today. Unfortunately that’s all the time we have. Can you tell us some information about where we can find out more information about you? Do you have a website or social media?

So this is my website ww doma ac.com. So you can found a lot of information there. Also on healthy seminars, I have a online course, so you can go there. You can follow me on Facebook, YouTube, just print my name. And if you take my, I have a a Facebook page, which is actually just the pnima-ac ac and that you’ll get to my Facebook page as.

Excellent. Thank you so much for generously sharing your time with us and being so kind with your, sharing your knowledge and and I look forward to studying Yamamoto style with you in the near future. Hope so soon. So an honor to meet you in person pony, online person, . Yeah. Finally, after so many years, I’ve been following.

The the admiration is mutual. Thank you very much. Okay. Enjoy and what connects soon. Yeah. Thank you. Have a good evening.

MENOPAUSE – The Treatment of Hot Flashes in Women

And today I’ll talk on a very unique topic of menopause, on hot flashes, but in a very, I can say, different way, or I would like to highlight different points of how we treat and the potential of treatment of acupuncture.

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Hello everybody. I’m Dr. Yair Maimon, and I would like, first of all to thank the American Acupuncture Council for putting up this presentation. And today I’ll talk on a very unique topic on of menopause, on hot flashes, but in a very, I can say, different way, or I would like to highlight different points of how we treat and the potential of treatment of acupuncture.

For menopause and especially for hot blood, hot flashes. So let’s put up the slides first. Menopause. It’s to do with transformation. Al always, it’s a time of changes for women. It’s a transformation. And when we talk in Chinese medicine of transformation, it’s always something to do within any yang.

It’s always rooted in this constant transformation of matter into energy and energy into matter. Or we’ll talk about transformation of. And let’s look a little bit about the uniqueness of the way in Chinese medicine, the uru, the womb is understood. If you look at chapter 47 and chapter 33 the simple questions, you’ll see that the UREs is connected on one side with the bowel Ma, with UREs vessel to the heart, and on the other side with the bowel duress channel to the kidneys.

So immediately the UREs is between two very specific organs, the heart and the kidneys. And as the heart and the kidneys will present the water and. Or again, if we go deeper, we can say Matter and energy. And the UREs is a place of creation and of birth between fire and water, or between earth and heaven.

And fire and heart are connected to the she to the spirit, and the kidneys are connected to the jing and the meaning of these two phenomenas, the meeting of Ian Yang are creating. New life, a new possibility of life. So Duru in this way is perceived in a very deep way of connecting heaven, an earth of connecting the heart and the kidneys, and It’s very much related to the earth in Chinese medicine, but also to this two organs which are heart and kidney.

And it means also when we are utilizing acupuncture points, and especially later when we look at some research on hot flashes. So there’ll be some points related to the heart. Like heart seven, the low point of the heart, peric heart seven. And if you look at the kidneys blood at 23, that tonifies the kidney, Kidney three, which is the again, the source points, the un point of the kidney.

So we see all this un points of the. Perricone heart and kidneys and splint six, which is more related to the earth where all the in channels are crossing, and again, has a very closed link to the lower jaw and to dure. So this actually took this points. It’s very common pins, but they’re also been used in research, which I would like later to present, but.

This is another way to show the logic of Chinese medicine, of connecting the fire and the water, the heart and the kidney, and enhancing the, and reducing also side effects of menopausal changes. So menopause, it’s always this movement of transformation of in and young. And we know the cycling woman of every seven years of the cycle in around 49 is the menopause time.

By the way, the premenopause starts much earlier. So many symptoms can be much earlier than the menopause itself. In this lecture, I’m not going to talk on the, about the natural kind of menopausal symptoms and occurrence of symptoms, but more on menopausal symptoms and especially hot flashes which are occurring due to anti hormonal medicine.

Anti hormonal medicine is given. To women who had cancer, and especially cancer, which is sensitive. There is receptors on the cancer cells themselves, which are sensitive to estrogen. And then the treatment is anti-estrogen treatment, especially in different cancers, either gynecological cancer in very common breast.

So endocrine therapy in western medicine applies this anti hormonal medicine, and because the tumors that are hormone related, the, if there is more presence of hormones in the body, there is more tumor growth. So this is the very common, as a saying, breast cancer and in several gynecological cancer.

There’s two major ways of an of endocrine treatment. One is to block the receptors on the cells themself to estrogen. The other one is to stop the production of estrogen. This is a very common treatments like tamoxifen. If you see on the cells, there’s the receptors for estrogen. And the tamoxifen mimic or has affinity in binds to the surface of the cell and therefore the estrogen cannot bind to it and therefore start the growth of especially mutated cancer cells.

So this is the kind of competition idea. It binds to the receptors in the cells, so the oxen and the other one is aromatase inhibitors. The estrogens in order to become estrogen, they’re going through different pathway of changes. One of them is the aromats and when DITs is inhibit, then there’s no production of estrogen.

There’s different ways to block the production of estrogen. This is the very common one with aromatase inhibitor. The bottom line is very similar, is producing in women who are taking anti hormonal medicine. Many side effects of menopause due to this medicines. There’s many common side effects for women who are receiving endocrine therapy.

I, I s. Put here the most common one, like fatigue, hot flashes is a big one. Mood swing, insomnia, sometimes even disturbance in concentration and depression. And there is a whole list of symptoms of menopausal symptoms, which are reduced by the endocrine therapy. This medicines are taken for long time, five years, sometimes for 10.

And many women stop almost 30% are stopping. Sometimes the treatment, even though it can be very useful for them because of the side effects, but acupuncture, Has been shown and there is evidence that it’s extremely effective treatment to reduce side effects, especially hot flashes and joint pain.

In this presentation, I want to talk a little bit about the evidence that we have for acupuncture, reducing the hot flashes, but also enhancing general better wellbeing in this woman. One of the early studies, but still I think one of the very Inspiring studies was head to head study. Women breast cancer women are taking anti hormonal medicine.

Were divided into group two groups. One was receiving acupuncture and the other one was receiving venlafaxine, which is like s nri. It’s really, it’s a light antidepressant drug, but it has also the it reduces also hot flashes, so it’s commonly used also for hot flash. And they measured the outcome.

They gave a certain 12 weeks of treatment. Then the treatment stops both the. Hormonal. They, I had avela vaccine, so both the medicine and the acupuncture was stopped after 12 weeks. After three months, the women didn’t receive any other treatment, and then they looked at the outcome even one year later.

And the acupuncture group did extremely well and the. Obviously you’ll see the Venlo vaccine. As you stop the, as the women stop the medicine the effect was quite immediately reduced and hot flashes were back. You’re welcome to read the full study. I’m just giving some highlights.

So as the results, you can see that both group exhibits significant decrease in hot flashes, depressive symptoms, and other quality of life symptoms. But in the acupuncture group it was the same for the acupuncture in the Vela vaccine. But by two weeks after stopping the treatments, the Vela vaccine group had significant increase in hot flashes where the hot flashes in the acupuncture group remained very low.

So this is very important because we are showing the effect of acupuncture. As a, something that enhances the ability of the body to, to bring itself back to balance. So we are really talking about the quality of the healing qualities of acupuncture which is lacking when you treat sometimes symptomatically, like in this.

And also in the Vela vaccine, it’s also very commonly known as Vix had many adverse effects. There was those in dry mouse dizziness and anxiety with acupuncture group. The opposite. There was no negative effect, but actually there was some additional benefit, even increasing sex drive in some women. And most of them reported improvement in their energy, clarity of thoughts and sense of wellbeing.

So the acupuncture group, No side effects is opposite. Had other benefits comparing to the group that took the vela vaccine? So in conclusion to this research, the acupuncture appears to be equivalent drug to therapy in this patients. But it is safe, effective, it’s a durable for vaso matter.

Vasomotor is this hotline, flashes and secondary for long term is also. Long term use of estrogen and anti hermon estrogen use. The points that they used in this research were quite interesting. So the main points you can see, and I mentioned them before, was bladder 23, kidney three in spleen six. So strengthening the kidney and in enhanced also the all the in channels and the spleen.

And this is the point that. All of the practitioner news, and then there were secondary points that can be a according to TM diagnosis. So the practitioners had some kind of freedom to choose which points are the most beneficial for the patient so they could do a diagnosis, Chinese medicine diagnosis and be more.

Exact on what’s going on with the patient. So if it was more heat and young, they couldn’t do 14 or do 20 with The 14 especially can reduce a lot of heat and especially if the heat goes up to the upper parts of the body. If those cheat deficiency like fatigue, stomach 36, ran six, lung nine, and if there was more disturbances at night Dreams, sleep disturbances goldbar 20 and leave it.

Or more agitation. By the way, many menopausal symptoms are to do with more blood stagnation agitation and if it was more to address the she than per card seven and heart seven. And this is the points we discussed before, and it was for 12 weeks. So four weeks, it was twice a week, and then another eight weeks, once a week treatment.

So the total treatment was for 16 weeks. And I would like to present another research, a larger research with 190 women and they received 10 acupuncture treatment session. And again, both of this research was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. It’s a very reputable journal. So it’s in science, it’s not just what you publish, but where you publish it.

So publishing in such a journal has a lot of or additional weight to it. And especially if if you want to present a acupuncture evidence to oncologists or to the medical team, it’s good to quote high reputable journals such as the Journal of Clinical. So this also had a 10 acupuncture session.

So this group was doing as you will see, the choice of diagnosis and points was a bit more diverse than the first research. And this. Quite a few research on that topic I’m just presenting to, and they also followed up for three months and six months post-treatment visits. In both cases, we see its, and this uniqueness that it’s not just the treatment itself, but also when the treatment stops, we can still.

Even half a year and a year later, the effects of treatment. Cause many patients usually ask me, how long, do I need to come for acupuncture? Is it like a life thing? So I say, no. If you’ll come for a series of treatments, then the benefit. Should last long to me actually for many years. Because if the acupuncture was accurate in the diagnosis was good, it has an effect, which is a long term effect.

So again, here, the conclusion that acupuncture is effective integrity intervention which the quality of life and hot flashes for these women they use the much more elaborated. And actually, that’s what I love about this research. A real TCM diagnosis and Chinese medicine is a medicine we don’t just use points per condition, but we are trying to do a deeper diagnosis, understand better.

And different women will have hot flashes depending also on their The condition they came with. So if they came with more in deficiency, there’ll be more the hot flashes on and the quality of life impairment, your de deficiency. So there was a set of points, and here they actually looked at the percentage of the diagnosis.

16% of the women was diagnosed with kidney deficiency. I just highlighted the kidney points like 6, 3, 7, and 10 that they could choose. But obviously also you see here heart six, which is very good for heart and kidney in deficiency if it’s kidney in and young deficiency. Or kidney, liver in deficiency with some young rising then again will be different points.

So there’ll be still the kidney six, Percu seven as a kind. Major points to balance the kidney and percu of fire and water. But we’ll see here additional points like liver three and gold bladder 20 and maybe combination of liver three and large intestine four will to move the stagnation and enhance better levy and liver.

Two to reduce heat from the liver. So you see the point combination here is a different, Oh, sorry. Has a different dynamic including lung seven and kidney six, which is the opening the remi, the channel in front of the body, which is responsible for all the in. And then if it’s kidney and heart disharmony particularly, then you will see this group of points.

There’ll be more kidney points from kidney six to kidney two. Kidney two is one of the interesting points that can take back the heat into the kidneys and enhance the kidneys. So it’s not just reduces heat, but also enhances the kidney young. And additional point we’ll see per card six, hard six, the hard six that we discuss for the in of the heart.

And Percu six with each additional ability also to be the main point of the, in way my balancing all the in. In the body and enhancing the heart womb kind of balance. So also hormonally there will be much more enhancement in, in, in using this points. And additionally in this group, many other points that are to do with enhancing kidney and also relaxing points like on the du mind, CV 15, because the heart is so much involved.

And as you can see, there’s 10% in. Of patients in this group were 36%. So you see most of the patients were of kidney and liver in deficiency, so they were more coming from this group from Flame Studies, Flame of Chita. There were still, it’s very different diagnosis. You’ll see that we’ll have some other points like Stomach 40, splint 10.

So more looking at this dynamic of a phlegm and cheese stagnation additionally to kidney and hard points. And blood stuff is, interestingly enough, there was none in this group, but still in clinic in the when we look at the symptoms, sometimes the symptom. Is also very common and seen commonly.

When we I would like to say that one of my passions is to teach the treatments of cancer patients and especially to treat oncology, acupuncture. And we do a very extensive course at the TCM Academy, and the idea is to teach and give. Tools, but also the skills and the competencies to treat cancer patients and especially cancer patients who are having side effects.

And we combine the three pillars of Western medicine, Chinese medicine, and research and evidence base. Cause when we combine this three pillars, I think then there is a. Clearer understanding both of the sys, the symptom, the ability to communicate with the patients, and the also the medical team that is working with the patients.

And in cancer, it is extremely effective. Extremely effective, but extremely important to understand both the Western medicine and the Chinese medicine differentiation, which. Very relevant to cancer patients. So if you want to know more, you can check up at the TCM Academy website. And this is this extensive oncology acupuncture program which covers, There’s also in the website Ava free stuff, but covers also other ideas like pain, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and other components which are has so much.

To treat cancer patient and to treat the side effects. So I hope you learned something about the treatment of hot flashes, evidence based behind it. And with this slide I want to wish you all the best of health and from Chantel. She thank you very much for listening and being with us, and again, I would like to thank the American Acupuncture Council for putting this up.

So all the best and thank you so much.