Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a key component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body. Acupuncture is a pseudoscience, the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientific knowledge, and it has been characterized as quackery. There is a range of acupuncture variants which originated in different philosophies, and techniques vary depending on the country in which it is performed, but can be divided into two main foundational philosophical applications and approaches, the first being the modern standardized form called eight principal TCM and the second an older …

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CMS: Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals · 23 April 2024 English

(2014) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. [...] The latest online version used as the basis for the …

livestock (Ogada et al. 2012b; herbalism and acupuncture. A mystic healer is a type of traditional healer


WHO: World Health Organization · 5 April 2024 English

Coronavirus disease (‎COVID-19)‎ has affected millions of people across the WHO European Region. While the acute phase of the pandemic has passed, it is estimated that 10–20% of those infected …

providers of alternative medicine, such as acupuncture or natural health centres. Patients who are hospitalized


CMA: Canadian Medical Association · 4 April 2024 English

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.221502 Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy are often considered normal and affect most pregnancies, with 1 meta-analysis finding the Key points average reported rate to be 70%.1 The severe …

Park J, Sohn Y, White AR, et al. The safety of acupuncture during pregnancy: a gravidarum and poor nutritional dietitians in 43. Wu XK, Gao JS, Ma HL, et al. Acupuncture and doxylamine-pyridoxine for nau- the management


World Future Council · 14 March 2024 English

Through close collaboraon with governments in the region and with support from a broad group of stakeholders called the Agroecology Himalaya Task Force, the World Future Council (WFC) and IFOAM …

actors at different levels and focus on policy acupuncture points that are able to support and accelerate


Asylum Seeker Resource Centre · 29 February 2024 English

Acknowledgement of country *Privacy disclaimer The ASRC would like to acknowledge the Throughout this report, some of the names, Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as identities and details of …

centre in Footscray ago. The impacts of COVID saw acupuncture, and nursing. This tiny snapshot of a decline


CSEP: Centre for Social and Economic Progress · 22 February 2024 English

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cooperation…” (Menon, 2016). impressed with the acupuncture demonstrations she had seen. The President noted


APHRC: Africa Population Health Research Center · 19 February 2024 English

The main objectives for the this phase was to test the feasibility of implementing the A LOT-Change model among older adolescents and to establishing the sustainability of the effects of …

jewelry to get a body piercing; • by sharing acupuncture needles; • to a fetus or baby during pregnancy


CSEP: Centre for Social and Economic Progress · 13 February 2024 English

India’s two-way trade and investment volumes with China overwhelm the corresponding numbers with each of its other neighbouring countries to the North and the East, namely Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, and …

cooperation…” (Menon, 2016). impressed with the acupuncture demonstrations she had seen. The President noted


UN: The United Nations · 9 February 2024 Russian

46 p.

психического здоро- вья) World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Societies (Всемирная федерация обществ


UN: The United Nations · 9 February 2024 French

46 p.

Federation for Mental Health World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Societies World Federation of Methodist


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