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If you want to practice Eastern medicine, you must be a qualified Western medical practitioner, according to Russian authorities.

Acupuncture is taken twice as seriously there, because students wanting to become acupuncture physicians typically have to have some sort of related degree, such as a neuro-pathology degree.

Russian medics in both disciplines acknowledge that with acupuncture there are no negative effects, and also that it is a proven fact that acupuncture treatment releases endorphins, which are the body’s natural painkillers. (Acupuncture is still used in China in some areas as a general anaesthetic).

And the popularity of the use of acupuncture also seems to be growing according to Moscow news reports, which state there is an acupuncture physician in almost every medical clinic, with a more holistic approach.

In fact in some severe cases, Russians send patients to China for proper acupuncture treatment, as in the case of the Russia’s Beslan hostage crisis.

The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan Massacre) began when armed Muslim terrorists took more than 1200 school children and adults hostage in September 2004, in Beslan in North Ossetia.

Children who survived said that in addition to witnessing children being shot in the back and/or otherwise brutally murdered, they were denied food and water and had to take off their clothes because of the heat, said CNN.

Ten Russian children who suffered psychological trauma Beslan school hostage crisis got a month’s acupuncture treatment at the Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in in Sanya, China’s southernmost city in Hainan Province. The recuperative treatment involved traditional Chinese therapies such as martial arts, qigong, massage therapy and acupuncture.

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A group of German scientists launched a study of 76 Chinese medicinal plants believed to be effective anti-cancer agents, said Chinese Medicine News.

The plants, they think, are useful in breaking up the growth of malignant tumours.

Among the many herbs and plants tested were yew trees, periwinkle plant and rangoon creeper, also known as the Chinese honeysuckle. Extracts from 18 of the plants under were found to substantially suppress the growth of cancer cells.

The German scientists began concentrating on Chinese herbal remedies from traditional Chinese medicine after reports they were alleviating symptoms other, less dangerous diseases. Now the scientists are combining natural substance research with advanced analytical and molecular-biological methods.

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