Alternative Medicine Information

Acupuncture relieves symptoms in women, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a disease difficult to treat hormone that affects one in 10 women of reproductive age.

Women with PCOS have high levels of testosterone and other “male hormones, ovarian cysts, irregular menstruation and fertility problems, with symptoms such as excessive growth of body and facial hair and acne.

Currently, told Reuters Health Dr. Elisabet Stener-Victorin, University of Gothenburg in Sweden, treatments for PCOS are directed to the symptoms and will often include the use of hormones.

The team led by Stener-Victorin conducted the study from the idea that women with PCOS have an overactive sympathetic nervous system, which produces the answer “fight or flight”.

Reducing this hyperactivity, which is associated with heart disease and a condition similar to diabetes found in women with PCOS, alleviate the symptoms. (more…)

We get today in the world of oriental medicine, specifically to mention a classic in our blog, acupuncture, this time-and hand the advice of British Acupuncture Council provides us with an alternative solution to combat diabetes.

As this disease occurs gradually and not abruptly, not always easy to stop in time. Acupuncture offers an ideal non-invasive treatment to prevent serious development of the disease is not yet consolidated, and accompanied by the usual recommendations can be helpful.

These are, keeping a healthy lifestyle, exercising often, conduct healthy eating and also put aside the consumption of snuff. Complementing these guidelines with a good acupuncture treatment can reduce the risk of the disease significantly.

So, if you suspect that your lifestyle has something to do with you own a diabetic and still time, get a checkup and assesses the possibility of starting acupuncture. (more…)