Health, Science and Technology

By Anna Rezi

Today, medicine has a high ability to fight disease and yet, people are increasingly turning to so-called alternative medicines. Perhaps one of the factors responsible for this fact is the loss of human approach in traditional medicine. The mass of the consultations, the long lines to make an appointment with other specialists, x-rays, analysis, etc., Become a doctor’s visit into an odyssey of paperwork.

In a situation like this is normal to proliferate other ways of understanding healing in the higher priority given humane treatment, listening to the patient, knowing their background and personal factors that may influence their discomfort.

By Alf Morrison

Diabetes is a chronic disease, as is well known, can not be cured, but treated to be endured in a better way. Acupuncture, this range of traditional Chinese medicine, also has answers to this issue.

Following the conventions of TCM, diabetes is closely related to dysfunction of the lung, spleen and kidney. That is why acupuncture in the hands of specialists, who can click on the appropriate fields to treat different problems, could be a valuable aid for the diabetes patient.