The Great British Med Off In today’s post I will try and embark on the very complicated task of comparing Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Having qualified and practised in both disciplines I think I am in a good position to do so. The subject is vast, it’s multifaceted with different layers to it. It [...]
About Chinese Medicine Part 2: So how does it all work? Today I will set about the complicated task of trying to explain the logic behind Chinese Medicine, or How It All Works. I use the word complicated, not because the logic itself is complicated, in fact it is all based on very simple and [...]
About Chinese Medicine. Part I. “So, what is it that you do?” I have often been asked this question, as one does, on social occasions and so on. To be honest these moments are one of the very rare occasions when I wish I was still working as a Western Doctor. It would be so [...]
How much does Medical Science actually know? I was presented with this question by my Brother-in-law during a wedding meal. Danny is a deep thinker and his mind is preoccupied with these sorts of interesting questions, although his timing can sometimes be awkward. Working hard for many years in the financial sector probably created the [...]
Treating Arthritis Pain with Acupuncture “Popular painkillers useless for backache” declares a headline in the Daily Mail. The Science Correspondent explains that Australian researchers found the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) for back pain (like Ibuprofen and Nurofen) is not effective and is dangerous due to side effects. The research was a review study, [...]
Is Complementary Medicine suitable for children? I recently came across a headline in the paper which shouted “Children should never take complementary medicine”. I noticed that the story made it to other newspapers and to the evening news. The story was of a child who had been prescribed a mix of vitamins and [...]
The Miracle of Fertility and the Mystery of Infertility Part 3: Recurrent Miscarriage and IVF. Today I am going to discuss both recurrent miscarriage and IVF and how Chinese medicine can help. The two are not necessarily related and the reason they are both discussed in the same post is that they are probably too [...]
Hormone Replacement Therapy – The consequences and the alternatives. Hi everyone. The recent study that found an almost threefold rise in breast cancer in women who use HRT is the reason for the break in my fertility-related posts. I just had to write something about it. It demonstrates so much of the wrongs of [...]
The Miracle of Fertility and the Mystery of Infertility – Part 2: Unexplained Infertility In my last post I discussed the cases of infertility where there is a medical explanation for the condition. Today I am going to concentrate on the surprisingly common situation where a woman can’t conceive despite all medical tests being normal, [...]
The wonder of fertility and the mystery of infertility. PART 1 The mechanism of human fertility is a wonder. It is very different to most other systems in our body, in the way our systems function and do what they are supposed to do, in an efficient manner, most of the time unless we are ill. [...]
