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The title of John Weeks’ feature in his Sept. 4 The Integrator Blog is chilling: “Self-Interested Whims of the Oligarchs: Google and Facebook Kill Access to Alternative and Integrative Medicine.” Here are a few excerpts; a modified version runs with permission in the November AT.

Daily ingestion of ground flaxseed (a heaping tablespoon per day – 25 gm) has shown many impressive health benefits in human clinical trials. Ground flaxseed can help reduce high cholesterol, improve regularity (reversing constipation), reverse fibrocystic breast disease, improve male prostate gland health, and may help prevent hormone-dependent cancers (breast,…

Two major national organizations that support the advancement of the Acupuncture and East-Asian Medicine (Ac/EAM) professions are the National Certification Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, (NCCAOM) and the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health, (ACIH). I had the pleasure of interviewing both Kory Ward-Cook, PhD, CAE (previous CEO of NCCAOM),…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have taken notice of acupuncture’s relevance in pain management. A new proposal will cover acupuncture for Medicare patients with chronic low back pain, who are enrolled participants either in clinical trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), or in CMS-approved…

The CST is an overlooked and rarely discussed TCM subject. The Five-Element sequence discloses information for the diagnosis and prediction of symptom transmission of neck injuries when examined using an anatomical and meridian map of the neck area.

Twelve Balance Method acupuncturists from seven different countries travelled to Haiti in February 2019, forming part of the Global Balance Foundation’s (GBF) second official humanitarian mission trip to this country. The acupuncturists arrived in Port-au-Prince in the midst of significant social and political unrest as many Haitians took to the…

Reductionist methods in the manufacturing and testing of single substance herbal medicines can illustrate chemical pathway clues and mechanisms of action. Practitioners may develop a clinical style of prescribing single herb and supplement therapies based upon this information. Sometimes the single herb/supplement prescription strategy is an “off label” approach when…

In January of 2007, a 51-year old male began to notice the rapid growth of a facial dermatological lesion on the right side of his face. The initial skin lesion was flat in appearance and approximately a needle size in diameter. However, within the span of a month, the lesion…

Can you imagine the suspense of a blindfolded knife thrower throwing knives at a real person? On America’s Got Talent in 2016, a husband and wife did exactly that. The wife stood still while her blindfolded husband threw knife after knife, missing her by only inches. Their act got high…

It is a common compensation tactic when overburdened with life to give in to convenience foods, forgo physical activity, and not get enough rest. With one bad decision leading to another, being depleted and ‘running on fumes’ becomes a default state for many. When patients stray into the weeds of…

Per the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code book, there is no indications for limits to the number of sets or units of acupuncture that may be applied. However, it does make it clear to qualify for each set you must spend 15 minutes face to face with the patient with…

When a patient presents with chronic pain, tiredness, tenderness in the joints, and typically associated depression and loss of sleep, a number of diagnoses come to the mind of the practitioner. First and foremost would be the widely recognized autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and their brethren. Western doctors…

Like many of us I feel concerned and moved by the current state of the world. As an acupuncturist I’ve been asking myself what is the dominant pathological state of our country, our epoch? How are we as individuals impacted mentally and physically? I study Chinese medical history, looking for…

I am sure all those who practice in New York were touched by the recent death of 9/11 first responder, Luis Alvarez of NYPD, so soon after his and Jon Stewart’s impassioned plea to the House Judiciary subcommittee to replenish the 9/11 victim compensation fund. What a wake-up call. One…

Shellie Goldstein has been known for saying, “When you look good, you feel good, and when you feel good, you look good.” As one of the first cosmetic facial acupuncturists in the U.S., for decades she has been striving to help her clients “not only look better, but feel better…

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