Science Finds New Pain Killers in China’s Traditional Medicine
Chinese Medicine and the Challenge of Pain
Charles Buck
A big concern in medicine today is the problem of pain relief, especially the issues toxicity, addiction and low efficacy. Choices available to patients are limited and the usual mainstays for pain have not stood up well to the scrutiny of evidence-based medicine. We need new tools.
You may be aware of the value of acupuncture for pain control, this has become so well-established now that some hospital Emergency Rooms offer the treatment and the US Army now employs battlefield acupuncturists to treat pain from injuries. …
In the late 1980’s a young mother brought her daughter back to the paediatric dermatology department at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. Dermatologist Dr David Atherton was delighted to see that the little girl’s eczema had improved significantly since their visit a few weeks earlier when he had prescribed steroid creams for the problem. But then the mother said how she was concerned about the long-term downsides of giving potent steroids to small children and had not used them. Instead she had gone medically off-piste and taken her daughter, to Dr Dinghui Liu, a Chinese medicine doctor…
Charlie Buck
Charlie Buck is a practitioner, educator and publisheauthor in the field of acupuntcure and Chinese medicine with almost four decades experience.
