Gregory Ross, LAc, began on his Oriental medicine path studying shiatsu. Eventually, this lead to enrollment at the San Francisco College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine where he was instructed by Misha Cohen, Efrem Corngold, Stuart Kutchins, Peter Bing Lee and others.
He acquired NADA certification just before receiving his license and was offered an acupuncture detoxification position at a methadone clinic. Since then, he has worked in community and recovery clinics in Northern California.
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Structured water (H3O2) can be considered a fourth state of water between liquid and solid. It has the hexagonal structure of ice; however, missing a critical bond, it behaves more like a gel than a solid, but retains some of its crystalline structure.
In the past five years of my clinical practice, I have seen an astonishing upsurge in the chronic use of proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) medications for the gastrointestinal issue diagnosed by allopathic medicine as GERD. It is not uncommon to encounter patients taking these prescriptions for five-plus years.
Working with chronically ill patients entails acknowledging the reality that not all patients will survive their diagnosis. Chinese medicine and acupuncture play a crucial role in palliative and end-of-life care, addressing medication and disease side effects, alleviating pain associated with death, reducing anxiety and stress, and helping patients find peace during the dying process.
