Michael O. Smith, MD, DAc, founder and chairperson of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) and internationally recognized for developing an acupuncture treatment protocol for chemical dependency, passed away on Dec. 24, 2017. He is survived by his daughters, Joanna Smith and Jessica Hutter.
Dr. Smith was a psychiatrist, acupuncturist, addiction specialist and public health planner who served as associate professor of psychiatry at Cornell Medical School and directed the Lincoln Hospital Recovery Center in The Bronx, N.Y., for more than three decades.
A graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Dr. Smith accomplished a great deal for the acupuncture profession while advancing the treatment of chemical dependency.
Here are a few of his other successes, documented in a self-authored curriculum vitae provided by NADA upon his passing:
"Teaching correction officers to do acupuncture in Dartmoor Prison [England]. Now it is used in over a hundred English prisons."
"Being mentioned in an article on the front page of the Chinese-language daily in Beijing after speaking to a medical school about using acupuncture for AIDS."
"Coordinating the PTSD stress-relief treatment of hundreds of Katrina first responders and then helping to establish funded acupuncture training for dozens of New Orleans' locals."
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While there aren’t any meridians associated with fire that cross the pelvis, that doesn’t mean the lower tan tien is void of fire. Fire has a more ethereal quality to it in relationship to the pelvis and can be connected through discussion of the lower tan tien, the lower san jjao, the ming men, and the bao mai. In this article, we’ll journey through the anatomy of subtle fire in the pelvic bowl and look a bit at how it is kindled, carried and cultivated.
In 1997, the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health convened a multiday conference on acupuncture to evaluate its clinical utilization and mechanisms of action. The resultant document recommended acupuncture for a wide variety of clinical issues; and also recommended acupuncture be taught in medical schools and brought into mainstream medicine.Twenty-eight years later, acupuncture is far from integrated in the way that the document portends.
