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Numerous organizations have risen to the challenge of providing care to medically-underserved populations and here we feature one such group. Integrative Medicine for the Underserved (IM4US) is an organization without walls that has members throughout the U.S. IM4US began in 2009 as an interest group at the Society of Teachers…

In most of the human lives I know about, there are stretches of time which feel stagnant, or worse. We can feel adrift, or wounded and sidelined, and these times don’t seem to carry much usefulness while they are unfolding. These same passages through difficult days often wind up being…

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is widespread across America today. Not only do many of our honored men and women in uniform bring it home with them from the war zones they have been active in, but it often follows any life-threatening event people go through when their lives have been…

The Da Cheng includes symptoms for the source-luo points that indicate when to use them for treatment. Yang defines the method as the guest-host (it is one of a variety of acupuncture point combinations called guest-host). The list of conditions this point combination can treat ranges beyond the conditions listed…

This Official, belonging to the element Fire, is responsible for maintaining and regulating the heating system of the body, mind, and spirit. It is named for its function. The trunk is divided into three “burning spaces” or “jiaos.” The upper burning space, palpated in the chest region above the level…

We all take risks when we choose this profession. For some, it is not knowing if you can make a living practicing TCM. For others, it is parental or cultural disapproval. Maybe the cost of schooling, the challenge of being self-employed, or the isolation of living in a small town…

The month of May brought many interesting activities. As I have said in many previous columns this year, this profession is moving in a very exciting direction. Make sure you are getting involved. If you’re not, you just might get left behind.

When given an option, it stands to reason that people prefer to do business with those they know, like, and trust. However in today’s world – where your patients can exhaustively research their condition, diagnosis, treatment options, and treatment providers – they may have formed their opinion of you before…

Acupuncture Today recently interviewed Jennifer Brett, ND, L.Ac. regarding the updates to the CNT manaul.

A recent Australian clinical trial, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ) in 2014 by Rana Hinman, et el., evaluating the effectiveness of both needle and laser acupuncture for chronic knee pain, caught the attention of Dr.‘s Hongjian He, AP, MD, PhD; Lixing Lao, PhD,…

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Publishing their results in the journal Nutrients , in May 2014, researchers showed that drinking the equivalent of 2 to 4 cups of brewed green tea (or bottled tea) daily improved cognitive function or reduced the progression of cognitive dysfunction in elderly subjects. To my knowledge, this is the first…

From the smartphone in your pocket to your microwave oven, advancements in technology have made almost every aspect of our lives easier. Your work life is no exception, as there has been significant growth in technology that affects the day-to-day life of an acupuncturist.

You studied ancient Chinese medicine, but I’ll bet you don’t practice it! Contrary to popular belief, our medicine has evolved A LOT over the years. Let’s take a brief walk through history and discover the differences between ancient and modern acupuncturists. Then we’ll take a look at what type of…

In 1991, I attended a martial arts workshop hosted coincidentally by Sung Baek, a martial artist and the head of his lineage as a Korean trained acupuncturist. I was enamored by the details Sung could attain from the pulse, as told to me by some of his apprentices. He is…