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Building new relationships to better serve patients of acupuncture and Oriental medicine in the future was the focus of the annual AAAOM Conference and Expo held May 12-15 in Baltimore, Md. The three-day event entitled ” Whole Medicine: Teaming Up For Our Patients ” brought together more than 200 people…

Contemporary acupuncture is widely taught through the Zang Fu approach. It has proven to be an effective system. However, its roots are considered by many to be a predominantly “herbal” way of thinking.

We are taught how to be great healers and connect with people over and over in school. Once we begin to treat people, a special bond forms and our healing skills are brought to another. Somehow when we go to convey that message to a prospective patient, we get tripped…

A small study released in March found that acupuncture reduces hot flashes and mood swings in postmenopausal women. This confirms what other recent health headlines indicate - acupuncture is clearly a better option than HRT (hormone regulation therapy) for treating menopause symptoms.

For most people, science, economics and spirituality are separate areas of life and knowledge. All three of these vital pursuits, however, have roots in the same universal laws that govern everything in the universe. The main definition of the word universal is “present or occurring everywhere or in all things.”…

Recent healthcare reform often referred to as “Obamacare” or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law one year ago on March, 23 2010. The question today is does it have a future, or is it going to be repealed? What has the Department of Health…

“A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.” - Johann Wolfgang Goethe In a restaurant, we are given a menu and expected to make a choice about what we want to eat. Once we choose the chicken, we are denying the salmon, the beef and the…

Improving access to acupuncture care is a fundamental public health goal. This can be achieved through a variety of mechanisms, including legislative processes that mandate reimbursement by health insurance. While federal efforts, namely the Hinchey Bill, are not currently active, lawmakers in Massachusetts are considering legislation to cover acupuncture reimbursement.…

Curious, I read the Pain ® journal article by Edzard Ernst and colleagues entitled “Acupuncture: Does it alleviate pain and are there serious risks? A review of reviews”. In the piece, it states in many of the acupuncture case reports “causality was uncertain…not least because of a lack of sufficient…

The kidneys are said to be the root of life due to their relationship to prenatal essence and their control of birth, growth, development, reproduction as well as water and fluid metabolism.

Should herbalists be using lab tests? This question should actually be divided into several questions. First, what level of Western medical training is appropriate for the TCM herbalist? Second, if the patient does not come with important lab tests, should we be ordering them? And if so, which ones?

Recently, my 20-year-old niece in Europe was hospitalized following the removal of her wisdom teeth. In the hospital, she was placed in a unit with women who had their jaws rewired after being beaten by their boyfriends and/or husbands. It was a profound life lesson for my niece to see…

In order to be successful you must walk the tight rope of gratitude, humility and pride. As a practitioner, you have already accomplished so much for your patients, your community and your culture. Now it’s time to be real about it. Students can also find much to be proud about…

When you start out in acupuncture, there are many questions to answer about how and where you are going to practice. Will you rent an acupuncture office by yourself or will you share one with other people? Will you rent from someone or to other people? Will you have a…

Psoriasis is a chronic, recurrent, inflammatory skin disease that affects approximately three percent of the population. It is thought to be a genetic disease with immune-mediated skin lesions that (according to western scientific medicine) has no cure. The various types of psoriasis are categorized according to morphology or by location…

Anne C.

This past February, Acupuncturists Without Borders led a group of 11 acupuncturists from around the world to Oaxaca, Mexico on a World Healing Exchange (WHE) trip. For 12 days, the group traveled from the colonial city of Oaxaca to the high, pine-clad mountains of the Sierras to the warm, semi-tropical…