The scientific validity of traditional Chinese medicine for pain treatment of pain received scientific support in the May 2010 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS). The study found that acupuncture increased pain thresholds by up to 50 percent.
Americans are now spending more than $17 billion a year on supplements for health and wellness. Strangely enough, the rates of many forms of chronic disease have not changed, while the rates of many others have actually increased. Why is that? Well, of course there are many factors involved, but a major contributing factor is that despite daily vitamin supplementation, most people are still seriously deficient in the critical vitamins and minerals that their bodies require on a daily basis and one thing is fairly clear, their supplements aren’t helping very much.
Coining therapy, also referred to as coin rubbing, coining, or cao gio by Southeast Asians, is a popular form of alternative medicine practiced across the world to relive a variety of illnesses such as muscle aches, muscle pains, nausea, abdominal pain, back pain, coughs, colds, fevers, chills and symptoms related to changes in the weather.