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Acorn House is the element of wood; Waterhouse is the element of water; and I'm thinking, well, I'm going to be making five restaurants based on the five Chinese medicine acupuncture specialities.
So what we do is a thing we call "urban acupuncture."
Our team speeds up these kinds of oil savings by what we call "institutional acupuncture."
And I'm proposing urban acupuncture.
I researched alternative medicines, diets, juicing, acupuncture.
Of course, this was a small-scale project, but in terms of awareness-building and in terms of education, it was like an acupuncture trigger point.
So scientists think that they might have been used to mark sites for some kind of therapy, like acupuncture.
But other treatments such as acupuncture and massage, and even just relaxation, clearly have some kind of benefit.
The Science of AcupunctureLike many other traditional Chinese medicines, acupuncture has for many centuries been viewed suspiciously in the West.
Most Chinese doctors and patients have, for example, long regarded acupuncture as an effective treatment for stroke, using it to improve motor, speech, and other functions that have been destroyed.
One survey showed that 66% of Chinese doctors use acupuncture routinely to treat the effects of stroke, with 63% of the doctors surveyed believing it to be effective.
Some 36% of Chinese doctors think the effectiveness of acupuncture remains uncertain, perhaps because the scientific basis for it remains so new.
Almost all trials on acupuncture as a treatment for stroke conducted within China have been positive.
But another recent study done in the UK showed that research conducted in several countries was uniformly favorable to acupuncture as a treatment for the damage caused by stroke.
The Cochrane Collaboration, an international non-profit organization providing healthcare information, conducted a systematic review of the benefits of acupuncture, including 14 trials, of which 10 were conducted in China, involving 1,208 patients.
Acupuncture started within 30 days of stroke onset, with control groups receiving a placebo – sham acupuncture – or no treatment.
Compared to patients who received sham acupuncture or no treatment, far fewer of those who received acupuncture died or became invalid within three months.
After three months or more of treatment, the numbers rose even more significantly in favor of those treated by acupuncture.
Oddly, when comparing acupuncture with sham acupuncture, the statistical difference concerning death or the need for institutional care was small.
Indeed, another analysis, including 14 randomized trials with 1,213 patients six months after a stroke, compared the effects of conventional stroke rehabilitation with and without acupuncture as a supplement.
Acupuncture was found to have no additional effect on motor recovery, but a small positive effect on disability, which may be due to a true placebo effect, or to the varied quality of the trials.
Indeed, the efficacy of acupuncture without stroke rehabilitation remains uncertain, mainly because of the poor quality of such studies—a problem that has affected most of trials undertaken so far.
And only three trials—all conducted in Europe—used sham acupuncture as a control, whereas no acupuncture trials controlled with placebos or sham acupuncture have been reported in China, owing to high cultural barriers.
After all, patients come to hospitals that practice traditional Chinese medicine because they already believe in acupuncture and are likely to be using it to treat another illness.
Getting such patients to accept being put into a control group where no acupuncture is applied is almost impossible.
This difficulty makes random studies of the effects of acupuncture treatment on stroke patients particularly difficult in a traditional Chinese medicine hospital.
More fundamentally, however, Chinese doctors who use traditional medicine argue that outcome measures of acupuncture as a treatment for stroke should be different from conventional measures used in Western trials, because the theory of acupuncture is different.
But no one has yet specified what the appropriate outcome measures for acupuncture should be.
The patients were randomly allocated to an acupuncture group receiving acupuncture treatment plus routine treatment or a control group receiving routine treatment alone.
At present, however, there is insufficient evidence for routine use of acupuncture in stroke.