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The ancient Romans built such an excellent system of highways and bridges throughout their empire that it led to the popular saying, “All roads lead to Rome.” This May, all roads - at least for the acupuncture and Oriental medicine community - will lead to Keystone, Colo., the location of…

Welcome to the first installment of a new column exploring one of the most important issues facing humanity today: the symbiotic relationship of man and the earth. What we want to do in this column is examine how Oriental medicine can be a tool to help assist in healing and…

From the spring of 2002, when he succeeded Stuart Watts as president, until he stepped down at the end of 2005, Col. Jim Coombes helped the Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin reach new levels of excellence. Under his leadership, the school won numerous awards for the quality of its…

By now, most of the acupuncture profession is aware of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Day. Held every October 24 th , AOM Day was established by a group of leading acupuncture and Oriental medicine organizations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Its purpose is to serve as part of a…

In the United States, obesity has been described by some researchers as “a worrisome epidemic.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of people who meet the definition of obesity has more than doubled over the past two decades. At present, approximately 31 percent of the…

Recurrent infections help make acute otitis media (AOM) the number-one reason for visits to a family doctor or pediatrician in this country. 1 The routine treatment for AOM in the United States is oral antibiotics. 2 In some instances, chronic infection is even treated prophylactically with antibiotics. 3 In fact,…

Will a deadly avian flu pandemic spread across the globe, killing hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of people? From reading the newspapers or scanning the Internet, one would certainly think so. At present, avian flu is confined to wild birds, domestic fowl and a few humans who…

Case studies have a long and distinguished history in Chinese medicine. In 90 BCE, the Imperial historian Sima Qian recorded a case that had been transmitted orally for several hundred years. It reported the illness of the crown prince of Guo, and his cure after treatment by Bian Que, who…

To treat this condition, one must understand the dynamics of the swimming movements and the key muscles involved with this particular stroke. First, one needs to focus on scapular stability. There are no other muscles that can really compensate for the serratus anterior, as it fires continuously throughout the stroke.…

Chronic lower back pain is one of the most commonly encountered complaints in a student or professional clinic. The traditions of traditional Chinese medicine and ayurveda offer a diverse array of effective therapies for addressing this painful condition. In this article, I will discuss ways to manage chronic lower back…

While lecturing in Viet Nam last year, I ran into a great story that begs retelling. Walking down a commotion-filled back street of Hanoi with a Malaysian friend, I smelled moxa. On one side of the narrow street, in a store typical of northern Vietnamese standards (five feet wide and…

The effects of cha herbal formulas are well-known and varied. In this three-part article, we will discuss 24 of the most well-known effects of cha herbal formulas including ingredients, dosage, how the formulas should be prepared, and functions.

To answer the question of what reiki is, we first have to begin by looking at what reiki addresses.

The Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture has hired Dr. Amy Kahn to serve as its academic dean and diversity director. The appointment of Dr. Kahn adds a person to the institute’s ranks with a wealth of business experience who also has worked in the field of education for…

The International Acupuncture Brigade (formerly known as The Honduras Healing Recovery Project) has just completed another training project, this time in Chiapas, Mexico, which was seriously affected by Hurricane Stan in 2005. This event received very little publicity, perhaps due to the fact that there is hardly any foreign trade…

The Acupuncture Poll’s question for January/February 2006 was: What is the most important issue facing the acupuncture profession in 2006?

It is with a degree of sadness that I open this month’s column by reporting on the passing of a recent graduate and contributor to Acupuncture Today , Marc O’Regan. Marc was a longtime resident of Santa Barbara, California, where he was a paramedic and physician assistant before attending Santa…

On Dec. 12, 2005, an Orange County Superior Court jury in Santa Ana, Calif. found American Whole Health, a managed care company, liable for damages of $210,000 for unauthorized taking and use of names and addresses of providers from the Web site of MPA Media, the publishers of Acupuncture Today…

In the March issue, Acupuncture Today spoke with Dr. Michael McCoy, the executive director of the National Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance, about changes in the Alliance over the past few years, and the impact of a doctoral program on the acupuncture profession. In the final part of our two-part…

The High Falls Garden Fund has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for a three-year program titled “Botanical Studies for Oriental Medicine.” Building on the foundation of an earlier project, the purpose of the botanical studies program is to provide educational support for students and practitioners…