This latest research study that I just posted on the effective treatment of atopic dermatitis with a traditional Korean herbal formula is very interesting.

Over the past year two studies were released in the British Journal of Dermatology showing Chinese herbal medicine to be very effective in the treatment of eczema.

Sometimes it seems that the simpliest and common things are the best for us. Tumeric (Curcumin Longae) the common kitchen spice and Chinese herbal remedy (Jiang Huang), was shown to be very effective at reducing the thick plaques of psoriasis. In fact the researchers who did the study found that Tumeric was twice as effective as the western drug calcipotriol, also known as Dovonex.

I recently found several research studies posted on the PubMed research data base that make direct parallels to Accutane use and ulcerative colitis.

This morning when I came into the clinic, my colleague Dr. Lorne Brown (founder of Acubalance wellness centre) and I got into a conversation regarding some of the differences and similarities between western alliopathic medicine and Chinese medicine. Lorne had just returned from the Pacific coast reproductive societies annual conference in Palm Springs, where he had spoken on the topic of the integration of western and Eastern medicines. Lorne mentioned that "a big difference between the two medicines is that the body map of Chinese medicine is already complete, whereas the western map is still being discovered". I explained that I love it when the western map catches up to the eastern map and the two maps point to the same place. I guess this is how building blocks are formed, allowing for the integration of the two medicines.