Quoting from Mehmet Oz, professor of surgery at Columbia University and a health expert for the “The Oprah Winfrey Show” noted on the February 13, 2007 episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show”,

“The reason I’m so excited and passionate about alternative medicine is [because it is] the globalization of medicine,” Alternative medicines, Dr. Oz noted, deal with the body’s energy, something that traditional Western medicine generally does not recognize. “We’re beginning now to understand things that we know in our hearts are true but we could never measure. As we get better at understanding how little we know about the body, we begin to realize that the next big frontier in medicine is energy medicine. It’s not the mechanistic part of the joints moving. It’s not the chemistry of our body. It’s understanding for the first time how energy influences how we feel”.

Sponsored by the Pine Street Foundation, this transcript gives more important information regarding the link between nutrition and disease.

ABOUT THE CHINA STUDY

The China Study demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Referred to as the “Grand Prix of epidemiology” by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in 65 counties, representing 2,500 counties across rural China and Taiwan. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and obesity, this study calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that enjoy widespread popularity in the West. The impact of the politics of nutrition and the efforts by food industry lobbyists on the creation and dissemination of public information on nutrition is also discussed.

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As previously mentioned, life style choices are a caustive factor in diseases from the Chinese Medicine paradigm. Stress definitely falls under an unhealthy life style choice. This article from the BBC news shows research linking type 2diabetes to stress. With the potential for type 2 diabete to reach epidemic portions, I think this is one area of our life  that we need to continually evaluate. The basic questions become “are you stressed out?” and if so, “what steps are you to taking to remedy it?”. There are always options even when we may feel that there are none. The point GV 20, the highest point on the head, is a reminder of the inherent possibilities of life.

People who suffer from job burn-out may be prone to developing type 2 diabetes, research suggests.

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We live in a world where we as consumers need to be aware of potential toxins in the environment as well as in our lifestyle choices. Both environmental and life style choices are caustive factors in diseases from the Chinese Medicine paradigm. I have heard concerns about the potential of chemicals leaching into the water of plastic bottles. I will let you decide for yourself. In the meantime, I suggest that you drink from plastic bottles only when no other choice is available. The following article from the GreenFeet Newsletter addresses this concern and makes recommendations.

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Meditations and Visualizations are frequently used as MQ prescriptions to help the patient work with their imbalances. The following article from the Pine Street Foundation, Autumn 2006 highlights Martin Rossman experiences and successes with guided imagery.

Interactive Guided Imagery as a Way to Access Patient Strengths During Cancer Treatment

BY MARTIN L ROSSMAN, MD, DIPLAC (NCCAOM)

In cancer care, as in all medical care, there are two complementary goals of treatment. One, the usual medical goal, is to kill cancer cells and tumors, or reduce their numbers and ability to grow, reproduce, and metastasize. The other, perhaps best called the healing goal, is to support the well-being and resistance of the patient. Here I use “resistance” to stand for all the mechanisms, known and unknown, that protect us from the development and dissemination of cancer.

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Qi Therapy as an Intervention to Reduce Chronic Pain and to Enhance Mood in Elderly Subjects: A Pilot Study

American Journal of Chinese Medicine, Spring, 2001 by Myeong Soo Lee, Kyung-Hee Yang, Hwa Jeong Huh, Hyun Wook Ryu Kim, Hoon, Ho-Sub Lee, Hun-Taeg Chung

Abstract: Qi therapy (or external Qi) is an oriental complementary therapy preventing, curing disease and strengthens health and improving the human potentiality through regulation of body. It is increasingly being used to improve the quality of life, but there is little direct evidence of its efficacy. This study assessed the effects of Qi therapy (QT) on reducing pain and enhancing mood states in elderly subjects with chronic pain. We studied 40 elderly participants with chronic pain, who were randomly allocated to receive QT (n=20) or standard care (n=20). The experimental group receives Qi therapy twice a week for 2 weeks (total 4 times), and control group received general care at the same time and the same amount of duration. We measured pain level and Profile of Mood State (POMS) to explore participants’ response to Qi therapy. There was a significant reduction in pain (p [is less than] 0.0001) after QT and an improved positive mood state (p [is less than] 0.0001). These findings suggest that Qi therapy may have a role in helping the elderly to cope with their pain and mood disturbances.

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Seeds Induced to Germinate Rapidly by Mentally Projected `Qi Energy’ Are Apparently Genetically Altered

American Journal of Chinese Medicine, Wntr, 2000 by Feng Bai, Chulin Sun, Zhiyi Liu, Jinchuan Shen, Yinzhu Shen, Rongchao Ge, Caili Bei, Jindong Zhang, Xiaohong Shi, Yicheng Liu, Xuiecheng Liu

Abstract: Mentally controlled qi energy can induce crop seeds to sprout and root for several cm within about 20 min. The RAPD method was used to compare treated groups of wheat and pea seeds and their controls using 11 selected primers. Seven primers amplified polymorphisms in wheat seeds and 5 in pea seeds. It was thought preliminarily that qi energy changed the structure of a germination-correlated gene site speeding up expression and advancing it in time.

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