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August 2007 (Vol. 8, Issue 8)

Billing / Fees / Insurance
FDA Publishes Final Rule on Dietary Supplements
Individual herbalist practitioners are not exempt; however, FDA says it will use discretion when enforcing new rule.
Kathryn Feather

Pain Relief / Prevention
Acupuncture Effective for Hypertension
Significant short-term reductions in BP after six weeks of treatment.
Tina Beychok

General Acupuncture
TCM Gets Another Boost From Oprah Winfrey
Meghan Vivo

General Acupuncture
New Scholarship Fund for AOM Students
Editorial Staff

General Acupuncture
The More You Meet and Greet, the More You Will Get to Treat
Marilyn Allen, Editor at Large

General Acupuncture
Beyond Substance to Process
Steven Alpern, LAc

Billing / Fees / Insurance
An Interesting Ethics Problem
Moving From "Wanting to Be Helpful" to "Aware of Risks"
Laura Christensen, MA, LAc, MAc

General Acupuncture
The World, Alchemy and the Mysterious Feminine
Part One of a Two-Part Interview With Lorie Eve Dechar, MAc
Gregg St. Clair, BA, MSTOM, LAc

Billing / Fees / Insurance
Filling Out the New CMS 1500 Form
Samuel A. Collins

Bodywork
Changing the Face of Aging
Stress and the Adrenals: The Incredible Burden of "Doing" vs. the Lightness of "Being"
Mary Elizabeth Wakefield, LAc, Dipl. Ac., MS, MM; Kiera Lane, NMD, MS Ac., LAc, Dipl Ac.

Herbal Medicine
Herbal Monograph for Xiao Chai Hu Tang, Part Two
Pharmacological Effects
John Chen, PhD, PharmD, OMD, LAc

Herbal Medicine
Reconsidering Food Therapy
Craig Williams, LAc, AHG

Bodywork
The Yin and Yang of Cholesterol Hyperlipidemia
Andy Rosenfarb, LAc, MTOM

Billing / Fees / Insurance
News In Brief
Editorial Staff

General Acupuncture
What the Ancients Have Taught Us
Tymothy Smith

Trending
Your Practice / Business
Use Automated Marketing to Support Healthy Change in Your Patients
Use Automated Marketing to Support Healthy Change in Your Patients

Think of your most difficult patient – the one you try to motivate and work so hard with to develop a realistic treatment plan with achievable and measurable goals. Week after week, you see this patient struggle, sinking deeper into hopelessness as their health and quality of life continue to worsen. What if there was something else you could do that could change their outlook and their life? The solution is as simple as an automated program.

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Antonio Arias
Chinese & Asian Medicine
The Interstitium and the Eight Extraordinary Vessels, as Taught by Wang Ju-Yi
The Interstitium and the Eight Extraordinary Vessels, as Taught by Wang Ju-Yi

To paraphrase the Tao de Jing; a bowl is useful because of the empty space. Recent anatomical research uncovered evidence for previously undescribed large-scale pathways that span organs, blood vessels and other connective tissue. These pathways are defined by what is known as the interstitial space between cells. The newer research provides evidence that these interstitial spaces actually make very large-scale networks between different types of tissue.

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Leo Saraceno, CMT