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  • I have thought quite a bit about what should become of this institute that we call "healthcare". Is it a monumental grand project, one of mankind's greatest achievements, like the pyramids? In countries where modern healthcare is not available, there is much suffering that may have been prevented.
    On the other hand, modern medicine is one of the top causes of death in developed countries, and that doesn't seem to get much better, and it is enormously expensive too, among the biggest items on a nation's budget, increasing very rapidly, again with no end in sight.
    There is no natural limit to what could be spend on healthcare: no matter how much is spend, still people will die, still some people will not receive the help we would want them to get. And sadly, no developed country has yet really succeeded in integrating the best forms of medicine, which I consider acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine to be, into the national healthcare system, even though some tantalising efforts have been made.

    Who decides what should be the scope? What should be included and what not? What can it cost, and who shall pay?

    Is, in the end, the public healthcare system a right, or a privilege?
    Thomas Buckley offers a different paradigm through which to view healthcare: healthcare as an evolutionary advantage. I found his essay very interesting.
    https://brownstone.org/articles/health-care-right-privilege-or-neither/

    Chinese secret writing for women only

    From Igor Simonov:
    Nüshu (女书 nǚshū) is practically the only written language in the world intended for women to communicate exclusively with each other. Presumably, it appeared in the 11th century, but became known to wide circles only at the end of the 20th century. Secret writing texts were also embroidered on clothes and fans. Unfortunately, elderly women often asked that the manuscripts be burned or buried with them, so a huge part of the works has not survived to this day. EKD talks about the language that united the women of a small county and frightened the Japanese invaders.
    The exact origin of writing is still unknown. According to one legend, nüshu was created by concubine Hu Yuxiu (胡玉秀 Hú Yùxiù) in the period 1086-1100 to tell her family about her sufferings and misfortunes. The girl did not enjoy the favor of the Chinese emperor and, with the help of secret messages, asked her parents never to send their daughters to the palace. The official version says that Nyu Shu was created in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, and was mainly used by peasant women who did not speak literacy or traditional Chinese writing. In imperial China, only girls of the upper classes living in large and wealthy areas of the country could learn to read and write. Rural girls had no access to education, and all their education boiled down mainly to the need to be submissive and obedient to their husbands. As Lü Kun (呂坤 Lǚ Kūn), a writer and thinker of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), said, “Today, few teach their daughters to read and write for fear that they may become too ambitious.” Therefore, Nyuishu became the only form of written communication for girls.
    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200930-nshu-chinas-secret-female-only-language

    Acupuncture treatment for Hashimoto's thyroiditis: An exploratory randomized controlled trial
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10899034/
    #acupuncture #hashimoto #thyroiditis #thyroid #tcm

    #acupuncture works for #chemotherapy induced peripheral #neuropathy (#CIPN)

    #acupuncture Tops #sham for Easing #ptsd in Combat #veterans — Large #treatment effect observed for clinical and biological measures of combat-related PTSD

    There was also a significant pretreatment to post-treatment reduction in fear-conditioned extinction, which was assessed by a fear-potentiated startle response -- a sudden blast of air paired with a certain image, such as a blue box -- in the group receiving verum acupuncture versus the sham group, and a significant correlation (r=0.31) between symptom reduction and fear extinction.

    https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/anxietystress/108851
    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2814938

    #Acupuncture is one of the most #Evidencebased therapies known in modern #medicine.
    compiled by John McDonald

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    Read the whole article by Brook Cheng:
    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cortisone-injections-pain-benefits-harms-can-you-dare-brook-cheng-sborc/

    In modern conventional medicine, #cortisone shot (#Corticosteroid #injections) is commonly advocated to be of benefit for #pain despite studies continue to show little efficacy but harms of this intervention.

    In 2022, American medical doctor Ross Hauser summarized the harms from cortisone shots based on the most recent researches:

    Corticosteroid increases #knee #Cartilage destruction.
    Cortisone injections increase the risk of #joint surgery.
    Cortisone injections increase the need for secondary surgery and possibly higher risk for post-surgical infections in the joint.
    Corticosteroids can alter the healing environment of the joint by effecting damage on the native stem cells in cartilage.

    Dr Hauser believes that “there is no doubt that the rise of osteoarthritis, as well as the number of hip and knee replacements, is a direct result of the injection of corticosteroids into these joints” .

    Based on his extensive literature review, Dr Hauser concluded:

    Cortisone has a harmful effect on soft tissue healing by inhibiting blood flow to the injured area, suppressing new blood vessel formation, suppressing the growth of immune cells like leukocytes and macrophages, preventing protein synthesis, fibroblast proliferation, and ultimately collagen formation.
    Cortisone inhibits the release of growth hormone, which further decreases soft tissue and bone repair.
    Cortisone weakens collagen and therefore soft tissue such as ligaments and tendons.

    https://www.caringmedical.com/prolotherapy-news/alternative-cortisone-shots-knee/