Acupuncture Should Be a Leading Therapy for Mental Health
While acupuncture is often seen as a therapy for physical pain, its profound potential in mental health treatment remains largely untapped. This article argues that classical Chinese medicine contains...
31 Heinä 5min
Restoring Jing in Modern Women: Cycle-Based Expression and Treatment (Pt. 1)
Restoring jing, or constitutional essence, in women requires a more nuanced approach than simply tonifying the kidneys throughout the month. This article argues that the common one-size-fits-all strat...
31 Heinä 4min
Why Some Headaches Don’t Improve
While acupuncture is a go-to therapy for headaches, some patients fail to see lasting improvement despite consistent treatment. This article argues that the reason often lies beyond textbook TCM patte...
31 Heinä 4min
The Same Needle in Court: What California and North Carolina Teach Us About Scope
The use of filiform needles, a tool central to acupuncture, has become a fierce battleground, particularly with physical therapists practicing "dry needling." This article examines this scope-of-pract...
31 Heinä 6min
The Debt No One Warned You About
For healthcare practitioners, particularly acupuncturists, the true cost of practice extends far beyond rent and supplies. There's a hidden "practitioner overhead"—an emotional and physiological debt ...
31 Heinä 5min
Emotional Virulence, Pathogenic Speech and Disease Complexes
This article introduces a compelling theoretical framework within Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), suggesting that emotionally charged speech can act as a "pathogenic wind." In TCM, wind is an exte...
31 Heinä 2min
Help Validate Timed Acupressure for Jet Lag
This article issues a call to action for international travelers to participate in a research study aimed at validating chronoacupuncture for treating jet lag. The underlying theory, which has existed...
1 Heinä 3min
Saturn and the Water Element
This article explores the profound synchronicities between the planet Saturn in Western astrology and the Water element in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It argues that these two systems, both derived ...
1 Heinä 3min
