Accupuncture

[yippie]

If you mean Sowal, no, my primary residence is New York. Still I travel an hour to see him because even though he is a regular PCP he "specializes" in what my needs are. I indeed feel fortunate to have him.

However, if you find the right alternative care practitioner, they should be versed in potential interactions with traditional medicines. Further, not all herbal remedies are created equal. It's always best to research the brand. You should always tell your PCP and any other doctors what you are doing.

I found the link I discussed in an earlier post.
Medline/Medscape.com has a drug/herb interaction chart. It's fairly thorough surprisingly.
Just google herb and medicine interaction charts (for some reason the link I tried to post brings you to a register page)
This article describes how it works and clearly states:
Absence of a report in the literature doesn't guarantee that there is no possibility of an herb-drug interaction.

I wish there was someone around here like that. Every day people, including many of my friends, leave the area because of poor health care. It's a shame. Such a beautiful place.

 

[Beach Runner]

My very conservative, Mayo-Clinic-trained physician recommended accupuncture for neck pain that I have due to an injury that is a really long and interesting story that I won't go into now. It has to do with handcuffs.I was skeptical about Oriental medicine and didn't follow his advice.

Now the person who will probably be my future son-in-law and who graduated from Georgia Tech with honors in business management and computer science has started working on a Doctor of Oriental Medicine degree. This is instead of his previous plans to get a masters in accounting.

He was going to a school in Atlanta, but now he says that the best school for that degree is in Gainesville, Florida. He wants to move down there now, but daughter (who is flipping out) wants him to wait until next fall after she finishes Georgia Tech so she can move to Gainesville and start grad school at UF to become a psychotherapist.

Do any of you know about the Doctor of Oriental Medicine degree, the money-making outlook for someone with this degree, and/or the school in Gainesville?

 

[yippie]

My very conservative, Mayo-Clinic-trained physician recommended accupuncture for neck pain that I have due to an injury that is a really long and interesting story that I won't go into now. It has to do with handcuffs.I was skeptical about Oriental medicine and didn't follow his advice.

Now the person who will probably be my future son-in-law and who graduated from Georgia Tech with honors in business management and computer science has started working on a Doctor of Oriental Medicine degree. This is instead of his previous plans to get a masters in accounting.

He was going to a school in Atlanta, but now he says that the best school for that degree is in Gainesville, Florida. He wants to move down there now, but daughter (who is flipping out) wants him to wait until next fall after she finishes Georgia Tech so she can move to Gainesville and start grad school at UF to become a psychotherapist.

Do any of you know about the Doctor of Oriental Medicine degree, the money-making outlook for someone with this degree, and/or the school in Gainesville?

Wonder if this is it:
http://www.dragonrises.edu/faculty.htm

 

[Beach Runner]

Wonder if this is it:
http://www.dragonrises.edu/faculty.htm

Why does the college have such a sketchy name? The faculty does seem to have some good credentials. It bothers me that it's not accredited by a respected accreditation association.

Thanks, yippie, for the info.

 

[makeitagreatday]

Dr. Wu did quite a bit of accupuncture on me last year during my chemo treatments and I attribute a lot of my health maintenance to his work. Initially the accupuncture took away a large amount of my pain prior to treatment and then helped to maintain my blood counts when other people's were way off. At the time, he was at The Tortoise Clinic thus I was also taking in the herbs for the tea. Good luck and hope your pursuit ends well. Make it a Great Day!

 

[John R]

Re: Acupuncture

...it warned that extreme caution needed to be used when undergoing individualized herbal treatment due to the uncertainty of what was actually being ingested. Caveat emptor.

good point. i took them at face value with no problems, other than developing my now very pronounced clubfoot. i don't do any other drugs, so i was not worried about any weird interactions.

ymmv