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Airborne / droplet precautions are the new standard for any clinic open to the public, at least until a COVID-19 vaccine is available or transmission risks are otherwise mitigated. In fact, these precautions should be taken with anyone you suspect to have a virus of any kind, whether it be…

Lianhuaqingwen, an herbal formula widely available and utilized in China due to its class A status, is effective and safe for resolving symptoms in COVID-19 patients according to a new clinical trial.

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In your practice, you most likely get your share of patients with sprains, strains and abrasions. Finding a good topical cream for relief might seem like a challenge. But the fact is, there’s a surprisingly effective answer – comfrey cream.

If you have federal student loans, then you know - along with 47 million other borrowers holding nearly $1.7 trillion in debt - that they can be one of the most costly, complicated and time-consuming factors affecting your financial well-being. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Let’s explore…

Zoom? That’s only part of a school’s activism during a pandemic when you talk to Mary Faria, PhD, president and CEO of AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin, Texas. As one of the first schools to receive emergency relief funds through the CARES Act, AOMA has offered grants…

One of the most common questions I hear in the clinic is the following: “Is cortisol causing all of my health issues?” I get this question at least once a week, with patients connecting cortisol to everything from weight loss and insomnia, to blood-sugar issues, fatigue and depression, to name…

There is an urgent need for the development of better pain management methods, as 20 percent of American adults have some kind of pain condition and the cost of pain is between $560 billion and $630 billion.

Like any surgery, a cesarean delivery needs help to heal. C-section recovery may vary from other surgeries because a back-surgery patient likely did not exercise the equivalent of marathon running for many, many hours in the lead-up to the surgery, like some woman do in their labor prior to c-section.

Decades of research have looked into the exact mechanisms of how acupuncture effectively reduces chronic pain. Initial animal research discovered the release of endogenous opioids within the central nervous system following electroacupuncture. This release of the body’s own opioids allows for greater activation of the top-down inhibition of pain. Other…

As acupuncturists, our greatest tool in diagnosis is our ability to listen to the messages that the pulses give us about our patient’s health and energetics. I had been taking my mother’s pulses since I started acupuncture school in 2006. I knew them well. We were old friends. They were…

There is no universal insurance rule that mandates a limit for acupuncture. As with any health care intervention for pain management, necessity is determined by efficacy and the ability to reduce pain and increase function. Acupuncture includes a diverse range of philosophies and treatment styles; practitioners may have treatment protocols…

We are aware of the heartbreak, trauma and devastation this pandemic has caused. People continue to get sick, some for months with symptoms ranging from migrating pain to vomiting to exhaustion. Others are dying. Businesses are going under, people have been stranded away from home, recessions are being declared, families…

We are facing our biggest challenge of the century with the current COVID-19 pandemic. As we in the U.S. have been struggling with changes and challenges that have impacted every aspect of life, national health organizations in both China and South Korea have been actively engaged in saving the lives…

Chaos and unity: perhaps the two most appropriate words to describe the past several months. With all this chaos around us, there is perhaps no better time for the acupuncture profession to truly unite and put the message of hope and health out to the world. Choice is a critical…

Acupuncturists are opening their practices again in dramatic numbers following months of stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is encouraging in light of the fact that the profession has been so heavily impacted; particularly because California and New York, the two most populous states in terms of…

Zantac, the brand-name medication widely used for indigestion and heartburn, has been in the news lately, and as we’ve increasingly come to expect with many medications, not for a good reason. Late last year, the Food and Drug Administration found unacceptable levels of a cancer-causing compound, nitrosodimethlyamine in both Zantac…

The National University of Natural Medicine and the Helfgott Research Institute have created the Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Health and Medicine COVID-19 Support Registry to “capture key cases, treatment/supportive care, and outcome variables related to the use of traditional, complementary, and integrative health products and practices, in response to issues…

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