By Subhuti Dharmananda, PhD, Director of the Institute for Traditional Medicine (ITM), Portland, Oregon The Formula and Its Name Gan lu yin is a prescription in the Song Dynasty compilation Tai Ping Hui Min He Ji Ju Fang, one of the main sources of formulas used in modern practice of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). That …
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By Sarica Cernohous, LAc While speaking at the National Association of Nutrition Professionals’ annual conference recently, between sessions I enjoyed a quick visit with another participant, a nutrition professional born and raised in Taiwan and of Chinese ancestry, who relocated to California a few years ago. I asked her who her nutrition clients had been …
About five years ago, I traveled to Japan to participate in a five-day seminar that was to be given Dr. Toshikatsu Yamamoto, the developer of Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture (YNSA). At the time, I was also training to run a marathon. When training for a marathon, all workouts are important and missing one workout might …
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By Peter Deadman Slow, deep, lower abdominal breathing, a mainstay of Asian internal cultivation practices for millennia, is a powerful tool for healing and transformation. A wide range of emotional and physical problems can be helped by slow breathing and it can be easily taught to patients, both while lying on the couch and as …
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Patients Experiencing Positive Results with Acupuncture for Vision Loss Approximately 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired: 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision. Many of these conditions are considered untreatable by conventional medicine, often leaving patients in a hopeless situation. My interest in treating degenerative eye diseases began when I was …
By Z’ev Rosenberg, LAc This excerpt from Z’ev Rosenberg’s upcoming book, Ripples in the Flow: Nan Jing Pulse Teachings, concerns the diagnostic and clinical strategies unique to the Nan Jing/Classic of Difficult Issues, and explains the concept of the ten variations/十變 shi bian, in the movement of the vessels when feeling different sections of the …
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By Caroline Radice, DACM, LAc As the number of committed practitioners of East Asian herbal medicine has grown, it has become increasingly clear that we, as practitioners, should no longer have our interests and needs subsumed under the larger umbrella of a professional acupuncture association. The time has come for an East Asian herbal medicine-specific professional …
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Of the three years I spent at PCOM, the last was my most memorable, when I spent one day a week volunteering in Mexico with the homeless, the poor, and the dying. Prior to embarking on this journey of discovery, I set objectives for myself: to put myself into challenging situations as a means of …
What is Tourette syndrome? According to the Mayo Clinic, Tourette (too-RET) syndrome is a disorder that involves repetitive movements or unwanted sounds (tics) that can’t be easily controlled. For example, patients might repeatedly blink their eyes, shrug their shoulders, or blurt out unusual sounds or offensive words. In ancient cultures, Tourette syndrome (TS) was thought …
Both a concern and critique of acupuncture frequently espoused by the biomedical community is that “there is no standard of care for acupuncture”. This statement is, at best, disingenuous. Perspectives on Acupuncture Standards from the Biomedical Field FROM THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY Before we get into what determines the standard of care for an acupuncturist, we …
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