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Friday, February 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Prof Urges Acupuncture Research
James Hellesheim, professor of education at the University of Kansas, told the Faculty Forum Thursday that the United States should embrace research on acupuncture with gusto rather than continued snubbing of the oriental technique.
"It sets us back scientifically not to study it," he said. "Other countries are far ahead of us."
Hillesheim has been acquainted with the techniques for over 10 years through study and personal treatment. He put together a 30 minute television special on acupuncture
"I'm not completely sure what therapeutic value it has," he said, "but there is enough evidence to show that it causes physiological changes."
Hillesheim said that although there was no conclusive evidence to substantiate the causal effects which acupuncture is alleged to have on certain medical problems, he had seen enough studies with sufficient procedural control to give him a positive
attitude toward some of the therapeutic claims.
HE SAID he would like to see many studies replicated in the United States so that definite conclusions about the effectiveness of acupuncture could be drawn.
According to Hilleheim, there is a minimal amount of research on acupuncture in the United States and several states in China. Together because of humidity toward it.
He said that many other states, including Kansas, had laws that restricted the use of acupuncture to medical doctors. This had virtually eliminated the practice because there were few doctors who knew the technique now he said.
Interest in acupuncture in the United States focuses on its use as "a handmaid for surgery," in the form of anesthesia, according to Hillsheim. The Chinese had been using it in other ways for several thousand years before they discovered that it could be used as such a "handmaid," he said.
One of the most dramatic reasons for the cynicism of American scientists and the American Medical Association is the fact that acupuncture, in its basic form, is based upon an oriental cosmology which is known to Western man, Hillesheim said.
The underlying assumption in acupuncture is that the body and its organs, as well as the nervous system, must balance between two diametrically opposed forces, Hillesheim said. These forces, the Yin and the Yang, are supposedly brought into balance through the acupuncture points.
HILLESHEM SAID these ideas are threatening to the western doctor who has been brought up to look at the universe and man's relationship to it in another way.
"If you buy 'traditional acupuncture calls the whole thing' (Western cosmology)
Along with the balancing principle of the Yin and the Yang, Hilleheim said, an important element in his own work.
are certain channels, or meridians, of energy flow in the body. The placing of needles is by a map that marks off the points where blood where these channels flow, he said.
"It's based on the theory that there are meridians that connect the external parts of the body to the internal organs," Hillsheim said, "As the theory goes, you can influence the function of the internal organs by inserting needles into the skin."
According to Hillsheim, the insertion depth of the thin steel needles, which are seldom sterilized, depends upon the amount of fat at the point of insertion.
He said the needles can be inserted as deeply as two inches or as shallow as a skin prick, and can remain there from a fraction of a second to 30 minutes.
While emphasis in the U.S. is on the anesthetic aspect of acupuncture, Hillshee测, the Chinese use it as a method of pre-surgery pain management, and health and not solely as a cure for problems.
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Park Officials Favor Leniency In Permit Action
State park officials favor modification and enforcement of existing regulations instead of a bill now before the Kansas Senate that would eliminate park visitors' permits that are now required, Iyun Burri Hammond said. "We Park Resources Authority, said recently.
One of the recent innovations in state park law enforcement is a Rangerette program, be said. Rangerettes are girls who check permits at gates of state parks and are hostesses, thus freeing park law officers to participate inandalism and other unlawful activities.
Burris said that the bill before the Senate would open state parks to any moving or parked vehicle, and that a permit would pollener be required.
Burris said there was also a less expensive permit available that allowed a car to drive through state parks as long as the car's occupants did not stop to picnic.
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The existing permit, which costs $5, is a windshield sticker that allows all occupants to drive on the road without having to wear it.
Revenue from sticker sales was approximately $350,000 last year, Burris said. More than 1,400,000 cars toured Kansas and 27,700 cars were turned away.
"We've eliminated vandalism to a degree that provide better law enforcement," Bureau of Justice said.
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The Mt. Onetw Bicycle Club will sponsor the first race in its Intramural Racing Series at 12:48 p.m. Sunday. The race will be held on Saturday, March 6, and consist of racing in four categories: women, intermediate (ages 12-14), novice and advanced. The course will be a six mile circuit with two turns, including a longer course for advanced riders. For further information, call 841-2466.
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The KU Hilbul Club will sponsor a $1 spaghetti dinner at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Jewish Community Center, 9th and Highland St. The dinner is open to the public and is free to members. After the dinner, Students for Israel will show a film.
Application forms for persons seeking positions as SUA officers and board members are available in the SUA office in Cincinnati, OH or in Boston, MA, turned in by p. 5.mon. March 2. Interviews for the positions will take place the first week of March. The executive committee of the Kansas Union Memorial Corporation will interview applicants who are available as the following: president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, Festival of the Arts Director and board members in range of films, fine arts, forums, public recreation, recreation special events and travel.
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