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Karen and Josh said they wanted me to help them fix their marriage. That is why they were sitting on the couch in front of me, complaining about each other. She was too domineering, he said, overly controlling and bossy. “Well, I wouldn’t need to be if you would just…

The time has come to seriously look at the state of this profession and its influence in the U.S. Where are we? What has happened? Where do we go from here?

You have just completed your last session for the day, checked your voice mail and emailed a new patient about their appointment, but something it gnawing at you, something you just can’t quite put your finger it on. As the last patient is leaving the office, she turns back and…

Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine recently celebrated 25 years of teaching excellence and serving its community by awarding actor Pierce Brosnan the Robert Graham Visionary Award and raising money for its popular community clinic.

It was fun. Growing up in New York’s Chinatown was like living in a Chinese village that had been transplanted to a five square block area in southern Manhattan. The thing I liked most about the city, and still do, is it’s rich cultural diversity. The neighborhood was a culinary…

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Chronic heightened emotional states create a perfect breeding ground for illness. Through my practice I noted the increasingly obvious relationship between one’s mental focus on negative thinking, emotions, resistance to experiencing feelings and disease.

Recently micro-needle dermal rollers have been getting a lot of media attention. As a practitioner who specializes in acupuncture facial rejuvenation, I know that skin needling with a dermal roller (also known as collagen induction therapy), promotes the natural reproduction of collagen and elastin, making the skin feel smoother and…

In Traditional Chinese Medicine there already exists a comprehensive theory linking the body and mind. Aspects of the mind and the emotions are related to all the organs: the Spleen is linked to worry and anxiety, the Liver is linked to anger, the Heart to joy, the Kidneys to fear…

Over the last 12 years, I have been working on one of the few documentaries about Tai Chi. It’s called The Professor: Tai Chi’s Journey West and it’s about Cheng Man-Ching who moved to New York in the 1960s.

I love what I do for a living. It’s a great way to trade health for bread. And no topic of health, with the right bedside manner, is taboo. In fact, as I’m sure it’s happened to you, patients are more than happy to openly discuss all of their health…

If there is an inner foodie in you, just waiting to burst out—this article is for you! Do you want to know how I know? I’m that girl. My middle name might as well be “Foodie.” I love food! And if my patients are any indication, many of them do…

In the U.S., more than 2,000 alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs have added ear acupuncture to their practice. The development of the protocol was determined by Lincoln Hospital as it delivered 100 acupuncture treatments daily. Lincoln Hospital got their experience from Miami Drug Court, which is nationally recognized. Acupuncture offers…

I have heard about the “best time of day” to carry out certain examinations or therapies. For example, I remember making a note years ago that early morning is the best time to take someone’s pulses. Naturally, I take pulses all day not only in the morning so I decided…

Bloating and gas pain is something that everyone has had to deal with at one point or another; however, that’s usually reserved for holiday dinners and other large gatherings. Too much turkey dinner on Thanksgiving can leave the most robust stomach and individual incapacitated on the floor for a good…

For eight years I have been teaching and supervising TCM students at an acupuncture college in Colorado, in Five Element acupuncture. It has been my experience that my students have been very capable of integrating Five Element and TCM acupuncture in treating their patients. To the surprise of my students,…

As a child, I did not like going to the doctor. For the most part, when I had to go I wasn’t feeling good to begin with, and I was heading into a sterile environment to be awkwardly probed by a man in a white coat for a very short,…