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There are some confusing messages in the acupuncture community about how public health is defined. It isn’t only acupuncturists who are confused, however. Even public health officials have had a hard time creating public awareness and a consensus definition. The lack of understanding has been so widespread that the Association…

My experience has shown that the positive and lasting results that patients achieve are often directly proportional to the level of participation throughout their course of treatment. This observation seems more true, the more complex the case. Since many of the patients I see come to Chinese medicine as a…

In this article, I want to discuss urinary tract infections (UTIs). Before jumping to the details, let’s go over a few of the basics. This is a very common complaint among women. Because women’s urinary tracts are shorter than men’s, women tend to get UTIs more often than men do.…

MPG is a very common acronym. The majority of people believe it stands for “miles per gallon.” However, some creative person in the advertising world took those same letters and turned it into a slogan for a group of car dealers in Southern California: My Puente Guys. This new acronym…

There are times when certain acupuncture points are open, and needling them then can have the greatest effect on restoring health. The same is true in the world of politics. There are appropriate and opportune times to get things done. It is indeed indisputable to state and federal legislators from…

In previous articles in this series, I discussed the diagnostic advantages of observing the patient before they are aware of being seen, the arrangement of the treatment room, and the wealth of information that is available from seemingly routine questions. I stressed the point that the verbal answers to these…

No, this isn’t an article on gardening, but it can help you get “greener.” I believe in helping our environment by making all of our lives greener, but this green has to do with the “greenbacks” in your wallet. Conservation is a very hot topic these days, and I am…

Karen and Josh wanted me to help them fix their relationship. According to Josh, she was too domineering, controlling and bossy. Her reply: “Well, I wouldn’t need to be if you would just pull your own weight around the house. You leave everything up to me and then get upset…

As I sit down to write this article, it’s still cold, even though spring may be just around the corner. Every day, I come home to a mailbox full of sales ads. Being a practitioner of “alternative healing,” I often get interesting and unique catalogs in the mail. Some are…

In October 2005, Trudy McAlister received the Patient of the Year Award from the AAOM for her philanthropic work that led to the establishment of the first national scholarship fund for students of acupuncture and Oriental medicine. In May 2007, the Trudy McAlister Fund completed the legal and procedural processes…

Tension headaches, which have been described as a dull pain, almost as if there was a tight band around the head, are one of the most common forms of headaches. Individual studies have shown promising results for the use of acupuncture to treat this type of headache, but a 2001…

This was my personal mission: to find a sense of place for our ancient medicine at a medical conference on the Las Vegas Strip. The conference had an imposing name: The 16th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine and Regenerative Biomedical Technologies. Could there be a place for us to…

Talk about integrated medicine abounds within the acupuncture and Oriental medicine community. We would all like to see Oriental medicine viewed as an equal (if not superior) to Western medicine. It does indeed appear impossible to bring Mohammed to the mountain, to borrow a popular phrase. C. Kwong-Robbins, MSTCM, LAc,…

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