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When learning traditional East Asian medicine, we are taught the four pillars of diagnosis: inspection, auscultation and olfaction, inquiry, and palpation. When it comes to palpation, there is often a quick mention of feeling the acupuncture channels, and then the focus moves on to pulse diagnosis. Little to no time…

Treating the shen-spirit is challenging. It goes beyond the role of “doctor” and begins to enter the realm of “shaman” or “priest”; roles many of us are unprepared to take on. But at some point we may find ourselves ready for pathways to cultivate this aspect of ourselves.

We often put the business plan on the back burner in the category of, Maybe that’s something I should do, but it doesn’t affect my day to day ,so I’ll just wait on that. We think it will take forever, or that we won’t have enough to say. However, there…

A long-term patient recently called me with an interesting question concerning herbal formulas. The patient, a 73-year-old female, asked why a formula that is helping her 35-year-old son does not seem to be helping her. “It’s really helping my son, but does not seem to be helping me. Actually, it…

Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) is a common injury caused by overuse of the tendons and muscles in the elbow as a result of repetitive motion. Despite its name and the fact the term was originally coined in 1873 as “lawn tennis elbow,” the condition has been known to affect far…

Even though they are often called natural, most non-food vitamins are isolated substances, which are crystalline in structure. Vitamins naturally in food are not crystalline and never isolated. Non-food vitamins are isolates, which means that they are individual chemicals lacking useful substances that real foods contain.

If your patients have diabetes, there is a good chance they are also experiencing symptoms of neuropathy. If so, they may want to know what they can do about the “pins and needles” sensations in their feet, legs, and fingers.

So far, I have thought of the meridians as being formed by the difference in charge between the head and spinal cord, and the hands and feet. What if there is something else that enhances this effect and also partly drives the flow?

Lesley

The scientific name for port wine stain birthmark is Nevus flammeus. It is present at birth and appears as a smooth, flat, pink or red patch. With age, it becomes larger, thicker, and turns dark purple with multiple black spots called vascular blebs. In the United States, it is present…

Your mission as a natural healer is to improve the health of every patient – but sometimes, don’t you wish you could build a “better” patient? You know, a patient who understood the value of lifelong health on every level – and thus the value of your lifelong care?

We can liken the po spirit to the Western idea of the soma, our somatic memory, and the way we hold emotions, experience and trauma in our physical bodies. It’s also our animalistic nature, instinct; that biological drive or ticking clock.

Ken

As a practitioner, if you’re wondering why your social media efforts aren’t working the way you had hoped, or if you’re not using social media at all, use this article to get your social media marketing strategies (back) on track.

In part 1 of this article series, I discussed in-vitro fertilization (IVF), why it is so taxing on patients, and presented some research outcomes with adjuvant acupuncture. In this second part, let’s dive into the limitations of the research, how acupuncture we can help patients, as well as where we…

I often write about practitioners reading new allopathic medical research through the “lens of Chinese medicine.” This past week, I was excited to practice this method, exploring a fascinating new study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session together with the World Congress of Cardiology.

Nikola Tesla’s famous statement, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration,” rings true today, more than a century later. Twenty-first century lives still employ millennia-old practices such as qigong, yoga and sound therapy; however, the first two have withstood…

Worldwide, type 2 diabetes (not to be confused with adult-onset type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disorder) is a full-blown epidemic. The number of people with diabetes rose from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. In 2017, the American diabetes maintenance industry earned $237 billion.

Adjournment of the 117th Congress (2021-2022) in December 2022 reset all bills pending congressional action, including H.R. 4803, the Acupuncture for Our Seniors Act. This routine adjournment clears the slate in preparation for the next Congress, which begins early the following January.

Opioids continue to be prescribed, and at unacceptable rates considering the number of clinical guidelines recommending nondrug pain-relief options first and limited use second in most cases. One possible exception: patients experiencing chronic cancer-related pain. For this population, opioids remain a cornerstone management option.