Search Acupuncture Today

The weather in Austin was glorious and balmy. What a great time for the Southwest Symposium, which is held every year by the Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin. The people were warm, and it was great to see old friends and make new ones. The lectures were informative and…

SAR Conference and Call for Abstracts. AAAOM Welcomes New Lobbying Team. Samra University Opens Clinic.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened the Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public, Feb. 25-27 in Washington, D.C., in order to advance the science and progress of integrative medicine in the United States. The summit brought together educators, policy-makers and health care providers from multiple sectors…

The leaders of eight national AOM organizations met to discuss topics of interest to the AOM profession. The most significant outcome of the meeting was a commitment by the attending organizations to joint strategic planning later this year. The interest of the participants in joint strategic planning reflects not only…

In what may well be the end to the ongoing saga of California Medicaid coverage for acupuncture, the current fiscal crisis was the deciding factor. As of July 1, optional benefits (which include acupuncture, chiropractic, podiatry, mental health, optometry and dental services) will no longer be covered under Medi-Cal, the…

Wen-Shuo

Ramon G.

Jerusha

Kymberlie S.

Peter

David

Cynthia

Recently, the Air Force Surgeon General Web site and Acupuncture Today, among other newspapers and blogs, had articles about the Department of Defense decision to teach “battlefield acupuncture” to 44 active-duty physicians. The treatment involves minute, gold-alloy needles retained in the ear. These allow the soldier to wear a helmet…

In my last two articles, I briefly explored the ideas of the TCM pathology of blood stasis in light of modern research concerning chronic degenerative joint disease. In this final installment, I will focus on the contributing factor of phlegm in chronic degenerative joint disease, explore the important complication of…

The pursuit of alchemy is one of the more profound legacies of the ancient world, one that encompasses several philosophical traditions spanning some four millennia and three continents. One suggested etymology of the modern English word alchemy is from the Arabic word al-kimia, derived from al-Khem. Contact between China and…

I have written in previous articles about the power of treating holographic micro-systems, such as the ear, hand or facial regions. Each of these contains a map of the rest of the body. There is two-way communication between micro-system points and their corresponding body parts. Stress and dysfunction in the…

We have all the tools to bring health care to a higher level, while making it cost-effective and kinder. Lasers and other energy-based treatments promise to revolutionize the ways we care for one another across many specialties and disciplines, perhaps even taking our practice of acupuncture to new levels.

The energy of springtime and incipient growth were honored in Washington, D.C., in February when the Institute of Medicine (IOM) hosted a Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public. Just as the liver provides direction and organization to the body, this international conference advanced leadership about the…

NCCAOM Welocomes Back Lapsed Diplomates, NYCC School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Gets New Name and OCOM Offers Summer Seminars at Portland Classical Chinese Garden.

Give me a nine-letter word that has vertical symmetry. Not sure what that means? It means that if you wrote the word down and held a mirror above it, you could still read the word upside down. Can you think of one?