| Herbal Medicine | Your Practice | Patient Care | Research & Evidence | Techniques & Tools | ||
| JAN | Personalizing Herbal Care | Setting Up Your Year | Stress, Mood & Resilience | Mind-Body Connections | Improving Clinical Results | |
| FEB | Herbs for Healthy Aging | Growing Your Patient Base | Heart & Metabolic Health | Whole-Person Outcomes | Tools for Better Care | |
| MAR | Quality, Safety & Sourcing | Building Referral Networks | Digestive & Gut Health | Pain & Function | Expanding Your Clinical Toolkit | |
| APR | Herbs in Modern Practice | Improving Your Practice Flow | Headache & Neurologic Care | Brain Health & Neurology | Technology in the Treatment Room | |
| MAY | Women's Health & Herbs | Strengthening Patient Trust | Women's Health Across Life | Hormones, Fertility & Health | Treatment Strategies That Work | |
| JUN | Herbs for Stress & Sleep | Integrating Your Practice | Sleep, Energy & Recovery | Sleep & Circadian Health | Assessment & Clinical Decisions | |
| JUL | Herbs for Active Patients | Expanding Your Services | Sports, Mobility & Recovery | Movement & Performance | Innovations in Patient Care | |
| AUG | Formulas for Healthy Aging | Strengthening Your Practice | Longevity & Prevention | Healthy Aging & Longevity | Modernizing Your Treatment Room | |
| SEP | Immune & Respiratory Support | Working With Other Providers | Immune & Respiratory Health | Immunity & Inflammation | Supporting Better Outcomes | |
| OCT | Herbal Pain Strategies | Insurance & Reimbursement | Chronic & Complex Pain | Pain Science & Resilience | Techniques for Complex Cases | |
| NOV | Integrating Herbal Care | Planning Your Next Move | Whole-Person & Integrative Care | Acupuncture in Healthcare | Clinical Tools & Technology | |
| DEC | The Future of Herbal Medicine | Looking Ahead to 2028 | The Patient of Tomorrow | What's Next in Evidence | What's Next in Treatment | |
NOTE: This calendar highlights planned editorial topics and opportunities for 2027. Topics are subject to change based on breaking news, emerging trends and the evolving needs of acupuncture and herbal medicine practitioners.
Fertility acupuncture sometimes gets presented as a narrow protocol: a handful of reproductive points applied uniformly across patients. What this case reinforced for me: The most powerful work happens when we read the whole picture. The hormone data, the constitutional tendency, the sleep, the digestion, and the menstrual pattern, so we can treat the environment the ovaries live inside.
For those of you unfamiliar with alpha-gal syndrome, it’s been in the news recently for causing Americans to be allergic to meat. It is an acquired allergy to galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, or alpha-gal, a carbohydrate found in mammalian meat and many mammal-derived products. A new case series on auricular acupuncture is so intriguing points toward a viable treatment strategy rather than lifelong dietary restriction alone.
The motivation behind our practice of medicine is important, impacting not just our experience but also the experiences of those we treat. It is perhaps for this reason that the aspiration to help not just some, but all beings heal, has historically been an important part of the medical tradition. To explain this, we need to consider how medicine is interwoven with other social domains.