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Acupuncture Congress 2018
Herbal Medicine: Open Access
ISSN: 2472-0151
Page 68
August 20-21, 2018
Dublin, Ireland
9
th
International Conference on
Acupuncture &
Chinese Medicine
P
ediatriccarehashadalonghistoryinChinesemedicineandhas
been practiced since the Song dynasty (960 – 1279). Chinese
doctors understood the differences between treating adults
and children, realizing that children are in many ways different
in physiology to adults and so require a different approach.
Change can be rapid with the progression of illness but also
with recovery and it is here that a natural approach to treatment
is more beneficial than intervention. Our children live in a world
of rapid change; fast paced technology; environmental toxicity
and pollution; processed and denatured foods; sugar; fluoridated
water; unnecessary antibiotic use and vaccinations and the list is
endless. Children are constantly bombarded with these attacks
on their fragile and growing bodies. To offset this, Chinese and
by extent Naturopathic medicine is a potent treatment modality
to support and enhance the natural internal environment within
the body to repel the onslaught from the external environment.
We want a quick fix for everything in our western society and this
is reflected in our approach to health care. The problem remains;
that in most cases it has taken time for a disease to present and
so it must take some time to correct the imbalance from the roots
up. There is somuch we can learn fromChinese and Naturopathic
medicine that can change the way we look at healthcare and how
it might affect our choices going forward.
dublininfo@naturopathy.ieThe treatment of children in Chinese medicine promoting a habit of
prevention rather than intervention inmodern health care
Michael Lawlor
College of Naturopathic Medicine, Ireland
Herb Med. 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-0151-C1-003