How to Heal Obesity Using Chinese Herbal Medicine: Principles
Chinese medicine is a highly developed personalized or individualized medicine. Overweight can be caused by a variety of factors. The features of different types of obesity should be differentiated carefully and treatment principles corresponding to these different types should be applied. Different herbs and herbal recipes need to be used to follow these principles to guarantee the optimal weight loss results with the least possible side effects. Scientific studies have demonstrated that some herbs are good for weight loss and the healing of obesity-related diseases. Herbal recipes containing multiple herbs have also been found helpful.
Excerpts from “How to Heal Obesity Using Chinese Herbal Medicine: Principles and Methods for Personalized Weight Loss”:
“In Chinese herbal medicine, the most important thing for a successful treatment is to use the right herbal prescription on the right patient with the right type of disease. The differentiation of various types of syndromes of the same disease is crucial for achieving the best result and avoiding any side effects. This is why Chinese medicine is also a highly developed personalized or individualized medicine…”
“This type is often characterized by overweight, strong appetite, easy to get hungry, rosy cheeks, dry mouth with a bitter taste, thirst and preference for drinking water, aversion to heat,…”
“This type of obesity is usually manifested as overweight, edema, fatigue, lassitude, listlessness, pale complexion and lips, normal or poor appetite,…”
“This type is often manifested as overweight, dark and red face or purplish red face, fullness sensations in the chest, hypochondriac distension or pain, depression,…”
“It has been shown to alleviate obesity- and high glucose-induced beta cell dysfunction in isolated pancreatic islets…”
“They can slow down the intestinal absorption of dietary fat through inhibiting pancreatic lipase activity…”
“It has been demonstrated to have an effective rate of 87.0% in lowering serum cholesterol and 80.8% in lowering triglyceride…”
“It has been shown to induce a reduction of food intake, prolongation of stomach evacuation time, and acceleration of intestinal movement…”
“The recipe can decrease the levels of triglyceride (TG) and total cholesterol (TC)…”
“It has been shown to reduce body weight and insulin resistance in central obese men. It can relieve inflammation and fibrinolysis, and decrease the risk of atherosclerosis…”
How to Heal Obesity Using Chinese Herbal Medicine: Principles and Methods for Personalized Weight Loss (Journal of Chinese Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture)
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Back to Nature with Naked Yoga
August 30, 2010 by AndrewTraub
Filed under Art, Yoga
The practice of yoga is not usually associated with practicing in the all-together but naked yoga is now becoming surprisingly popular. There are regular classes springing up across America although it still seems to be a fairly well-kept secret.
Those who attend are matter of fact about the whole process and essentially naked yoga probably isn’t anything new, many people may have practiced at home without wearing the usual yoga garb, but it’s the concept of a class full of naked people practicing yoga, which seems to be causing a stir.
If the thought of naked yoga is appealing and you are tempted to search for a local class, take a moment first to consider some of the benefits that you might experience:
• Feeling of freedom for those participating
• Feeling of being less inhibited.
• Being more in touch and comfortable with their own bodies
• Connecting on a more intimate level with other students
Classes can be any size and groups are often mixed. Whilst on paper this may seem to have some sexual connotations, this is not the aim of many of those who attend. Naked yoga provides a freedom of movement and increases the ability to be able to focus on the postures and the correct lines without being hampered by restrictive clothes and in addition, it enables the practitioner to be able to view their actual positions in the mirrors and so they can self-correct if the pose is not as it should be. Naked or not, yoga poses are important and it is vital that the postures are accurate.
Teachers also are able to see much more clearly if a final position is not quite right and can help the student to realign their position thus increasing the benefits of the posture.
Whilst initially there may be some embarrassment whilst removing clothes, once the practice sessions start, and the students focus on the task at hand, the embarrassment begins to fade. As yoga is non-competitive, there is little use trying to focus on others, attention is turned inward, students reconnect with their inner feelings and what their bodies are trying to tell them.
Many of those who study naked yoga feel that they are somehow reconnecting with nature, even if much of their practice is done indoors and away from scrutiny.
Practicing yoga outside whilst not wearing any clothes takes the practice a step further, but again practitioners feel that it enhances their individual session allowing them to reconnect with their body in a way that they would not be able to if wearing any sort of clothes.
Of course, naked yoga is not for everyone, and it is unlikely that the craze will see the demise of more traditional yoga groups, providing those who attend benefit and feel relaxed and comfortable in their environment, maybe there is something to be said for the back to nature theme.
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Music Therapy Assessment and Treatment
August 27, 2010 by AndrewTraub
Filed under Music
Like all types of therapies, music therapy cannot begin until the patient has been assessed by the therapist. Music therapy assessment is similar in theory to the assessment done by any other medical practitioner: the therapist evaluates the patient, determines the patient’s needs, addresses the patient’s concerns about the therapy process, and then creates a therapy program tailored to that specific patient.
But music therapy assessment differs from medical assessment in many ways as well. Whereas a medical doctor asks about the patient’s symptoms, decides on the cause and suggests a cure or treatment, the music therapist cannot quickly determine the needs of the patient based on a simple conversation. Many music therapists need more than just a few minutes with a patient; they require extended exposure to the patient in the form of conversation, observation and sometimes even analysis of the patient’s environment before they can accurately determine what type of treatment would work well for the specific individual.
Once the music therapist has determined the needs of the patient, they still have to create a treatment plan. Music therapy assessment plays into this step as the therapist uses what he or she observes and learns from the patient to adjust the treatment plan accordingly. Music therapists often create completely unique treatment plans for each patient because each patient has specific, distinctive traits, symptoms, and needs that are different from those of any other patient. Rarely will a music therapy assessment lead a music therapist to exactly the same treatment plan that he or she has used before.
This is not to say, however, that a music therapy assessment and treatment plan will not lead the therapist to specific treatment tools. In fact, there are methods of treatment in music therapy – as there are in psychiatric therapy or any other therapy – that are used to treat certain illnesses. For example, an Autistic patient can expect his therapist to use treatment methods that have been found to be successful in Autism patients. However, there are many different methods for each illness and the combinations of these treatment methods will differ with each patient.
The multitude of treatment methods for each illness and ailment is wonderful because it allows the music therapist to choose from a wide range of possibilities to treat each individual. However, the sheer number of potential treatments makes it even more important that the music therapy assessment is performed by a qualified music therapist who has extensive experience with the patient’s type of illness. The more experience a music therapist has with Autism, for example, the better he or she can treat the many different types of Autism that affect the population.