Acupuncture only minimally effective for pain.

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Here we go again:

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PainManagement/PainManagement/12674

" In treating pain, acupuncture has only a small analgesic effect that

may not be clinically relevant, according to a meta-analysis of 13 studies. "

 

Again, given the huge disparity between very common clinical results and

what the research seems to be reducing, acupuncture research needs to be

completely rethought. This kind of stuff is absurd. Why not do outcome

studies first to establish effectiveness vis a vis common therapies, and

THEN try to narrow down the mechanism, best techniques, etc. This

current tack seems to be backwards.

 

Benjamin Hawes, L.Ac.

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Benjamin and all:

 

Here we go again is exactly right.

This current tack of backwardness goes back a long ways...back in the early

20th century when western and chinese medicine were duking it out in the new

china, the whole thing revolved around a very few points, one of which was

chinese medicine's UNETHICAL use of herbs on human beings, which was framed as

" 54321 " .

 

The tao teh ching has a chapter on this problem:

 

There will come a time when the

crooked looks straight

and the straight looks crooked

 

something something something

 

(Ramiro version 2008)

 

So what happened was that western-trained researchers said that research was

supposed to be " 12345 " :

1.Chemical analysis

2.Animal Experiment

3.Clinical Application

4.Artificial Synthesis

5.Structural Modification

 

The above was called the " Received Programme " (received from on high, surely).

 

So the criticism was that chinese medicine did it backwards (the unwashed

barbarians) and tested on humans first (the unwashed heartless unethical

barbarians). In fact, the chinese method was labelled " Reverse-Ordered

Programme " (the backwards superstitious ignoramus barbarians).

 

But, I think the backwards is forwards, and the front is in the rear...it's

confusing anyway.

 

Oh yeah, and for those people who downloaded my article on this topic (I know

EXACTLY how many downloads!), feel free to comment, either here or in private

mail.

 

Hugo

 

 

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Hugo Ramiro

http://middlemedicine.wordpress.com

http://www.chinesemedicaltherapies.org

 

 

 

 

 

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" Benjamin Hawes, L.Ac. " <bhawes

Chinese Medicine

Monday, 2 February, 2009 14:38:15

" Acupuncture only minimally effective for pain. "

 

 

Here we go again:

http://www.medpaget oday.com/ PainManagement/ PainManagement/ 12674

" In treating pain, acupuncture has only a small analgesic effect that

may not be clinically relevant, according to a meta-analysis of 13 studies. "

 

Again, given the huge disparity between very common clinical results and

what the research seems to be reducing, acupuncture research needs to be

completely rethought. This kind of stuff is absurd. Why not do outcome

studies first to establish effectiveness vis a vis common therapies, and

THEN try to narrow down the mechanism, best techniques, etc. This

current tack seems to be backwards.

 

Benjamin Hawes, L.Ac.

 

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