Useful Links

Hi guys,


Below are some links relating to the Integrative Medicine Society and information on alternative medicine.


IMS Facebook Page

Join our IMS facebook group today to get updates on new events and other information relating to the society.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/127773103949804/


What is Traditional Chinese Medicine?

Here is a very useful link about TCM and some different theories and concepts relating to it:

www.tcmworld.org/what_is_tcm/

The Acupuncture workshop run by Professor Man Fong Mei was a great success- thank you to everyone who attended! The AcuMedic centre has a website, it has everything about the clinic and you can also sign up for the newsletters:

www.acumedic.com/about/

What is Ayurveda?

If you would like to find out information about what Ayurveda is, and for some background reading, the link below provides an introduction:

http://www.ayurvedic-medicines.org/

"Ayurveda: An Introduction" talk - Free!

I'm pleased to present the very exciting "Ayurveda: An Introduction" event this Thursday.

Ayurveda is a form of traditional Indian medicine based on diet, massage and exercise. It has a strong emphasis on the use of herbs, food and oils, and bases its treatments on a theory of internal elements. Dr Eduardo Cardona-Sanclemente, who has taught pharmacology at King's and is a leading research scientist and ayurvedic practioner, will be giving us an introduction to the principles and methods of Ayurveda, and its relevance to common diseases in the UK, such as Hypertension, Diabetes and Arthritis.

Refreshments will be available on the night and there will be an informal Q&A afterwards.

What? "Ayurveda: An Introduction" talk by Dr Eduardo Cardona-Sanclemente
When? Thursday 17th November, 5:45pm (5:30 for refreshments)
Where? Percy Roberts Room (bottom floor of Gordon Museum) Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus.

You're welcome and indeed encouraged to come with friends, and it'd be great to see everyone there!

Lots of love from IMS,

Alison Liu
IMS President 2011-2012
ims.kcl@gmail.com
imskcl.blogspot.com
07815762852

Ayurveda Event - Free!

Hi Guys,

Great news!

We have an Ayurveda speaker scheduled to come in next week!
So look out more more details which will be posted / emailed tomorrow. :)

~Alison Liu
IMS President 2011/2012
ims.kcl@gmail.com

Acupuncture Workshops: Sessions 2&3

It was great to see everyone again at the 2nd and 3rd workshop sessions, and I think I can safely say we had a brilliant time trying out Acumedic's electro-acupuncture equipment!

Prof Mei talked us different types of acupuncture and its modern day uses, including:
1) Chemotherapy side effect reduction
2) Pain Relief (eg Chronic Back Pain, as indicated by NICE)
3) Surgical anaesthesia in patients allergic to conventional anaesthetics

He also described possible mechanisms for how acupuncture works:
1) Pain Signal Blocking
2) Neurotransmitter Stimulation
3) Stimulation of Immune system and Auto-repair mechanisms

We got to try out some cutting edge electo-acupuncture pens, slippers and acupressure equipment, and learnt the locations of some useful acupuncture points, including the "Student's point", which is meant to improve concentration and memory - very handy!

The last session covered more on diagnosis and the key parts of a Chinese medicine consultation.

We learnt about tongue and pulse diagnosis, including how to take a pulse and differentiate a 'Floating' pulse from a 'Sunken' one. We also compared our own tongues to a fantastic library of patient tongue images illustrating different syndromes and diseases.

Herbal medicines and the health benefits of tea were discussed, and we discovered the basics of tea drinking and how to work out if a tea is 'White', 'Green', 'Oolong', 'Red', 'Poo'erh' and more.

This year's Acupuncture course has been a real success and I hope everyone has really enjoyed it!
Look out for certificates soon, and for those who missed the course this time, we will be arranging another one after Christmas.

~Alison Liu
IMS President 2011-2012
ims.kcl@gmail.com