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Regular electro-acupuncture may be useful therapy in reducing risk for cardiovascular diseases

September 22, 2015admin Health

The Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapy Acupuncture has been around for almost 3,000 years. Electro-acupuncture is a ‘modern-type’ of acupuncture, which applies low-intensity electrical pulses through needles inserted at specific points on the body. A single-blind trial, recently published in the Journal of Medical Acupuncture demonstrated that patients with hypertension that use electro-acupuncture have […]

Tomatoes can be a trigger for Gout

September 14, 2015admin Health

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) systems like Ayurveda have always advocated avoiding tomatoes, if one suffers from Gout. Many people who suffer from Gout state that Tomato can trigger attacks, but to date this has not been clinically proven. A 2015 complementary medicine research study from the University of Otago in Dunedin surveyed 2051 New […]