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Aaron Leon

Raina

For many of us, our first introduction to email was AOL and the infamous phrase, “You’ve Got Mail” when you logged on to the site. Fast forward a couple decades and the magic of email has been lost on many. Albeit the scams from Nigerian Kings, the mounds and mounds…

Shannon, 41, had been admitted into in-home hospice in July of 2017 after a long battle with endometrial cancer. She fought hard to stay alive, accepting every clinical trial offered to her after several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. She had come to me two years prior for acupuncture to…

If you have ever worked with a patient who has a pain complaint, you know how frustrating defining pain can be. Pain is very subjective, and every patient interprets their pain differently – even worse, pain perception is very easily manipulated by any number of factors including medications, weather changes,…

Essential Hypertension is an endemic affecting over 1 billion people globally of unknown cause and remains a public health challenge. The disease may be used as an early detector of heart attack, stroke and kidney disease. In addition, anti-hypertensive medications have various side effects, non-compliance issues, and safety concerns, such…

Extending the Quantum Field (QF) is the practice of using your own alignment with the universal field of consciousness energy to support or help heal someone else. While this description may sound unfamiliar or “out there” to many readers I believe this is one of the original bases of Chinese…

There is a small body of research that specifically demonstrates the therapeutic viability that acupuncture has to offer in the field of sport and exercise recovery. Research articles such as, “Effects of Acupuncture on Exercise-Induced Muscle Soreness and Serum Creatine Kinase Activity” by researchers, Lin & Yang, and “Effects of…

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) defines irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) as a digestive disorder that affects the large intestine causing symptoms such as abdominal cramping, abdominal bloating, and a change in bowel habits. There are three types of IBS: IBS with constipation, IBS with…

Streptococcus bacteria (strep) will always live in the human body on some level. How it affects your health depends on your immune system. When discussing strep, most people think about strep throat, but various strains can live anywhere in the human body. In the brain, it’s meningitis; in the ear,…

The AMI (Apparatus for Meridian Identification) was used by G. Chavalier and K. Mori to study the meridians entered by free electrons during Earthing (contact of body with the earth either by direct grounding, or by indirect contact using grounding de-vices). They studied the effect on a total of 58…

As we move out of the winter season and into the warmer days of spring it is important to keep in mind how the seasons can affect our physiology. In TCM the springtime is associated with the Liver organ and diet / lifestyle protocols should be geared to improving and…

Prepare yourself for more patients—according to a recent study, the MINDBODY Wellness Index, Americans are curious about acupuncture.

Taking proper and comprehensive SOAP notes is as important a clinical skill as where to place acupuncture pins and what herbs to prescribe. In training as health care professionals, SOAP notes are introduced as an efficient and thorough method to compose a legal document known as a patient chart. Diligence…

In 2016, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) was passed by the U.S. Congress. One of the provisions of this law was to create the “Pain Management, Best Practices Interagency Task Force,” whose mission was to “determine whether gaps in or inconsistencies between best practices for acute and chronic…

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“Qigong and acupuncture will not only make you smarter, but also make you sexier and get better dates” touted the late Dr. Daju Suzanne Friedman to her students, who always laughed at this joke, but also knew there was definitely some merit to it; because after practicing qigong or receiving…