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Reflexions on placebo 1

Friday, July 2, 2010 13:32 4 Comments

One of the traumas of acupuncturists today is knowing whether acupuncture, that they practice, is only a placebo or have real value and to what extent is it negative just being a placebo. For some months I have walked around with this issue and would like now to share my doubts with the reader.
I will present [...]

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Cupping: a short history

Saturday, June 5, 2010 21:18 2 Comments

Cupping consists in the use of domes (in the West are very common glass domes) to which the air is removed by suction or combustion, decreasing its internal pressure and creating a vacuum. When you create a partial vacuum within the dome, it is placed in contact with the skin by sucking the tissue with which [...]

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