Dr. Adam Miramon is the president and chief clinical director of Transformational Acupuncture in Washington D.C. They founded, built, and launched Transformational Herbal Pharmacy in March 2023 because of their passion for Chinese herbal medicine. With their vision toward the future, they seek out new and innovative ways to incorporate sustainable practices into their herbal pharmacy, ease long-standing challenges practitioners have experienced when using herbal pharmacies, and promote the prescription and use of practitioner-specific products. Dr. Miramon specializes in reproductive health and has been published in the Journal of the American Society of Acupuncturists. Email: adam@transformationalherbalpharmacy.com.
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.
Research supports the effectiveness of selecting the distal acupuncture points for the treatment of microtrauma and for relieving pain, particularly in cases of chronic shoulder pain. But to make the treatment results long-lasting, clinical experience and research suggest that instead of treating the most painful structure first, we identify the inhibited driver, restore reliable recruitment, confirm it with immediate re-testing, and only then address the painful area as a branch of a deeper pattern.
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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.