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Javea, Alicante, Spain
I graduated from Acupuncture Colleges Sydney in 1982 and have been in private practice since.I have also been a lecturer at said college and internationally for a number of years as well as a board member of the Australian Acupuncture and Chinese medicine Association (AACMA)including 2 terms as national president. Moved to Spain in 2001 and set up practice in Javea and Moraira (Alicante) Modalities: Acupuncture, Chinese herbs, manipulative therapy and veterinary Acupuncture. Fellow AACMA. Honorary member Acupuncture Ethics and Standards Organization. Active member World Federation of Acupuncture Societies.

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Crohn's disease

In a study published in the journal, Digestion, acupuncture was found effective for treating Crohn's disease.
Crohn's disease is an autoimmune disease which involves chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. The main symptoms of Crohn's disease are abdominal pain, fever, fatigue and persistent, watery diarrhea. Symptoms range from mild to severe, and can come and go with periods of flare-ups.

In this German study, 51 patients with mild to moderately active Crohn's disease had a decrease in disease activity after receiving 10 sessions of acupuncture. Study members also showed an improvement in general well-being and reported an improvement in quality of life.
Originally posted by Diane Joswick (Acufinder)

2 comments:

sonny said...

blah blah
good you changed your settings on the "leave a comment "

:-)

A.M.van de Rijt said...

hallo Robert, ik wilde je niet bellen maar ben toch heel benieuwd wat je voor nieuws hebt gehad. Ik ken je emailadres niet dus doe ik het maar op deze manier. Als je het op kan brengen schrijf dan een regeltje op rijt_an@hotmail.com en anders zie ik je dinsdag op het spreekuur. groeten Annemarie.