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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,…

Have you ever wondered what’s the truth about meat? Is it really as bad as many people think? When I teach critical thinking and how to analyze research, I point out that despite what we think is true, if an exception exists (and I don’t mean an individual, but an…

When Elaine Wolf Komarow, LAc, received her first acupuncture treatment in 1989, she said it changed her life. “I felt more aware, calmer, and happier. I was so fascinated by the changes that I began to learn everything I could about the underlying philosophy of Chinese medicine,” said Komarow.

Cutaneous (skin) aging generally occurs from either intrinsic or extrinsic processes. Intrinsic aging results from natural skin tissue damage and degeneration. In humans, intrinsic aging is primarily characterized by atrophy of the dermis due to loss of collagen, degeneration in the elastic fiber network, and loss of skin integrity. Extrinsic…

Have you tried to get your patients to change their eating habits or their diet and couldn’t get them to succeed? Were they confused and unsure of what the right thing was to eat? You are not alone! Most patients I work with want to eat healthy and make lifestyle…

Although acupuncture is growing in popularity it continues to be underutilized due to misunderstandings about its true potential. Only a fraction of those who could be helped by acupuncture know enough to seek it out. The roots of these misunderstandings run deep and addressing this problem will take a committed,…

In late April 2014, NCCAOM diplomates received an email survey with the subject line: “End discrimination against acupuncturists” polling CAM practitioners for a Request for Information (RFI) from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), released in mid-March.