Due to inclement weather caused by Hurricane Wilma, the Florida College of Integrative Medicine (FCIM) has rescheduled its celebration of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Day to Wednesday, November 16. The event will be held on the college's campus in Orlando, and will include free demonstrations, refreshments, and gift certificates for acupuncture treatments.
In addition, the college will hold a series of lectures for the public. Currently scheduled lecture topics include "Introduction to Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine" and "Laughing Qigong for Emotional Health."
Admission to FCIM's AOM Day event is free. For more information, call (407) 888-8689, ext. 15.
Fertility acupuncture sometimes gets presented as a narrow protocol: a handful of reproductive points applied uniformly across patients. What this case reinforced for me: The most powerful work happens when we read the whole picture. The hormone data, the constitutional tendency, the sleep, the digestion, and the menstrual pattern, so we can treat the environment the ovaries live inside.
Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) affects more than 15% of the U.S. population but evades most practitioners’ radar. Just five years ago, it wasn’t even on my radar, despite already having 20 years of experience as a clinician at that time. The more I dug (similar to leaky gut and post-COVID syndrome), the more I found my patients were suffering from this disorder.
The motivation behind our practice of medicine is important, impacting not just our experience but also the experiences of those we treat. It is perhaps for this reason that the aspiration to help not just some, but all beings heal, has historically been an important part of the medical tradition. To explain this, we need to consider how medicine is interwoven with other social domains.