363 Acupuncture’s Journey to the West • Zoe Coldham
Acupuncture I had the delightful surprise of Zoe Coldham reaching out to me to tell me about the documentary she’d created that goes into the early days of acupuncture finding its way into the mainstream of British culture. As you probably know, Qiological has been doing a...
362 History Series: The Art of Finding What’s Needed • Randall Barolet
History Series The late 60s and early 70s were a time of openness and experimentation. It was the beginning of the civil rights movement, more equality for women, and the recognition that sexuality included more than love between men and women. Cultural norms were questioned and...
361 Evil Bone Water • Mark Brinson
Business & Practice Management It’s fun to solve problems. Especially when you’re not quite sure what to do, so you have to pay attention and learn what’s important. You must develop the capacity to learn from both your failures and success. Mark Brinson wanted a liniment for patients and was not...
360 Battlefield Acupuncture • John Howard
Acupuncture The Chinese are right, the brain is a curious organ. The way the nerves entangle their way into every aspect of our body, and how their gentle electric hum gives us awareness of this container we call ourselves. Pain is how our nervous system lets us know there is a...
359 Wu Yun Liu Qi and The Shape of Reality • Rory Hiltbrand
Alchemy What is our universe made of? How does it work, and more importantly– what are we doing here and how do we make sense of it? Eternal questions, unanswerable, but maybe the questions are not for answering, perhaps they are for focusing attention. In this conversation...
358 History Series: Remember, Acupuncture is Fantastic • Julian Scott
History Series While many are keen on looking to “science up” acupuncture and squeeze it into the thinking and theories of conventional medicine, others are quite content with the weirdness of it. And enjoy playing around in the territory that’s off the radar of Western science. ...
357 Eastern and Western Perspectives on Acupuncture • John Rybak
Business & Practice Management As anyone who has started an acupuncture practice and tried explaining it to potential patients knows, it’s not easy taking the terminology and thinking of East Asian medicine into English speaking Western culture. The guest of this conversation, John Rybak, has...
356 Considering Yi- Meaning, Significance and Conception • S. Boyanton, L. de Vries, V. Scheid
Philosophy Brenda Hood often reminds me “Chinese concepts, especially classical Chinese concepts, are big and multidimensional. They are extremely dependent on context and while shades of meaning often cross over, they can be quite different and be more or less encompassing of...
355 The Circuitry of Saam Acupuncture • Joshua Park
Acupuncture Saam acupuncture with its unique channel pairings, perspective on psycho-emotional dynamics, and capacity to interweave the Five Phase with the Six Qi is a powerful tool for understanding the interplay of yin and yang along with body and mind. In this conversation...
354 History Series: In the Footsteps of a Compleat Acupuncturist • Peter Eckman
History Series In the late 60’s and early 70’s of the last century East Asian medicine began to emerge into mainstream culture. The Reston NY Times article is often cited as a catalytic moment that put the idea of Chinese acupuncture into the minds of Americans. But other streams of...
353 Points for Peace • Keren Assouline & Guy Sedan
Acupuncture The Middle East has a long history of war and unrest. Whatever phase of history you’d like to zoom the timeframe, you’ll likely see conflict. In Episode 72 of Everyday Acupuncture Podcast I spoke with an Israeli practitioner on what it is like to live in a place where...
352 Quiet Presence, The Gentle Power of Teishin • Gary Klepper, Thomas Sørensen & Ehrland Truitt
Default Here’s a question that I find difficult to answer. How does acupuncture work? Beyond the East Asian medicine phrasing that makes zero sense to your average citizen. Just what is going on in the body in response to a sliver thin needle being placed in the flesh? And...
351 The Trouble With Men • Damo Mitchell
Conditions Women develop through the cycles of seven. Men through the rhythms of eight. Women, more resonate with Blood. Men, with qi. Being human, there is a lot we share in common. Looking at our classic books on medicine, from the point of view of physiology and health, there...
350 Sa Sang, Bazi, and Food as Medicine • Jaguang Sunim
Food & Nutrition East Asian medicine recognizes the central role that food can play in our health and wellbeing. We have various models for understanding the fluctuations and trajectories a human body can travel as we navigate the time we have between Heaven and Earth. In this...
349 History Series, There’s No End to The Study • Stuart Watts
History Series The 1960’s and 70’s saw an explosion of alternative health and lifestyle practices appear at the edges of culture. It was a time ripe with possibility and fraught with peril, after all there was a war going on. The kind where men were drafted. As with any troubled...
348 The Strange Flows • Daniel Atchison-Nevel
Acupuncture Change happens through time, it unfolds within the rhythmic inhale and exhale, it expresses through lunar and solar cycles, it follows the arc of development, fruition, and decline. There are recognizable pathways and markers that arise within what is mostly a...
347 The First Four Palaces of Alchemy • Leta Herman
Alchemy Alchemy sounds like magic. It sounds like magic because it involves the transmuting of something coarse and without value to something refined and of worth. But really, there is nothing magical about it. It’s the process of finding a corner of the world you want to...
346 Weaving Together East and West • Joseph and Sam Audette
Acupuncture You've probably heard about family lineage types of acupuncture from Asia. Here in the West, acupuncture is still a bit of a newcomer to the medical scene, but it has been around long enough that we are beginning to see second generation practitioners. In this...