Sunday, October 22, 2006

Stem cells can cure urinary leakage

It is always in the interest of patients that all healthcare
practitioners keep abreast of current therapies. An article like this
brings several things to mind. First, the treatment is clearly a
form of natural medicine in that it uses animal products (stem cells
and collagen) rather than synthetic drugs. Chinese Medicine has along
history of using animal products in medicine. It is also
regenerative and curative, rather than palliative or destructive. It
would fit in the realm of supplementing therapy and, of course, most
urinary leakage in middle-aged women is due in part to spleen and
kidney yang xu. Finally, chinese medicine has a long history of using
human tissue containing stem cells (e.g., placenta), adopting
medicines from other systems and cultures (e.g., mo yao and ru
xiang), and embracing the latest in technology when it comes to the
processing and extraction of raw medicinals (e.g., the use of
distilled alcohol, which was invented by the Arabs in the middle
ages, to produce highly effective liniments used as hit medicine).
While much of the American herbal community has been biased towards
the use of low tech methods and largely unprocessed plant materials,
this has never been the case in china.

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