295 Covid Lessons Learned • Sally Rappeport
Herbal Medicine Chinese medicine is a rich tapestry of knowledge and techniques, ancient wisdom honed and passed down through the ages. But the ‘superpower’ of our medicine lies in its ability to explore the unknown. To navigate uncertainty and delve into both the unknown depths of...
294 Tempered by Fire, Responding to Covid with Chinese Medicine • Daniel Altschuler
Herbal Medicine Amidst the chaos of contagion and windstorm of viral woes, Chinese medicine offers ancient remedies, and beyond that, perspectives to guide us through the turmoil. While our bodies may be ever-changing, our medicine offers both a rooted stability and capacity to...
293 Facereading as Part of the Clinical Conversation • Juli Kramer
Cultivation Like the patina and wear on something touched often, or the way shoes and fabric carries the memory of the wearer. Our life and spirit shows its presence on our face. To read the face is to delve into the intricacies of the being woven into the lines, curves, and...
292 Rethinking Acupuncture Education • Lisa Rohleder
Acupuncture As the winds of change sweep through the healthcare landscape, the acupuncture profession stands at a crossroads, and as is the nature of a crossroads– there is uncertainty. But as with any crisis, there is both danger and opportunity. It is an opportunity to...
291 Mind, Destiny and Intention • Ann Cecil Sterman
Acupuncture Crafting the meaning in life, choosing our purpose and then having the courage and wherewithal to unfold that is not an easy task. Are we puppets in the hands of fate, or do we have the capacity to influence the rudder and chart our life path? Human beings have long...
290 Intention, Attention, and The Qi of Cultivation • Damo Mitchell
Acupuncture We all know that Chinese medicine is a path of balance. A journey of harmony and restoration. An art that seeks to align the channels and tend to the ebb and flow of Qi. As practitioners we are trying to unravel the knots that bind or drain away imbalances so as to...
289 San Jiao, Xin Bao, Mingmen- The Flow of Fire • Thomas Sorensen
Acupuncture Mingmen (命門) is a lifeblood point in the flow of fire and qi in the body, yet remains shrouded in an enigma. For those who seek to understand their fate, the point—which translates to “Gate of Destiny” or “Gate of Life”—can be perceived as a gateway leading to a realm...
288 Peach Spring Beyond This World, A Glimpse of the Water Rabbit Year • Gregory Done
Cultivation As the earth awakens from its winter slumber, the gentle spring wind brings with it the promise of new beginnings. A new fate, a new story waiting to unfold like a delicate silk scroll, unfurling its beauty and mysteries with the turn of the Zodiac wheel. As cherry...
287 Tradition and Innovation • Mark Petruzzi and Jeffrey Dann
Acupuncture As practitioners of East Asian medicine, we are informed deeply by the ancient medicine, experience and wisdom passed down through generations. The holism woven into the East Asian medicine traditions is especially important in a modern world that often separates the...
286 Qi, Yi and Tensegrity • Stefan Grace
Acupuncture Our language tells the tale of our evolution and the movement of the mind. It captures the experiences, attitudes, and wisdom of our ancestors and allows us to reflect upon our own. As herbalists and acupuncturists, the language of our medicine allows us to explore...
285 The Work and Perspectives of Dr Bear • David Toone
Acupuncture Treating what you see sounds easy. And it is essential if you want to craft a targeted and effective treatment. It’s those well aimed treatments that hit the mark that conflated with magic. But seeing clearly the underlying dynamic that gives rise to the troubles and...
284 Case Studies and Storytelling a Lens into Medicine and Meaning • Sarah Rivkin
Acupuncture So much of our medicine is conveyed in stories—the ones we live, the ones we tell, and the ones we hear. Storytelling is an innate human impulse. It provides context and meaning, allowing us to share complex ideas and navigate our experience. Stories—of both success...
283 The Spiral Process of Learning • Kristen Lambertin
Acupuncture Making the leap from the classroom to the clinic is an opportunity to explore a new world—but without a travel guide in the form of teachers and colleagues to help guide you along the way. You’re tasked with the lifetime opportunity of applying and refining your...
282 Five Gentleman of Flavor, Taste & Nature • L Stiteler, B Bernadsky, S Feeney, F Griffo, A Ellis
Herbal Medicine To use herbs within the scope of traditional Chinese medicine, we must first understand the qualities, temperatures, and tastes that dictate how each herb will function. Flavor, Taste and Nature gives us a snapshot of how an herb travels in the body, how it functions...
281 Fun With Marketing • Michelle Grasek
The practice of practice Practitioners today navigate a dynamic and ever-evolving world of marketing and communications. There are so many ideas about practice building and how to use technology when it comes to attracting the attention of potential patients, and inviting them through our...
280 Navigating the Passage, Healing as Voyage of Exploration • Heather Becker-Brungard
Acupuncture Getting off track is not something uncommon for us. In fact, it’s an everyday part of our human experience. The question is, how do you notice when this happens and then how do you reorient? More importantly, how do you navigate when in unfamiliar territory? And...
279 Not What I Thought, An Investigation of Adverse Reactions • Karina Smith
Acupuncture The principles behind our medicine are relatively simple. The idea is to restore balance to a body that is in disharmony. To detect the patterns and ripples in the system. To facilitate the unimpeded flow of qi as a river does. Yet applying these theories in the...
278 Digging the Earthly Branches • Deborah Woolf
Acupuncture Heaven and Earth, the creative and the created, micro and macrocosm. All ways of saying there is a reality we inhabit, and beyond that a lot of mystery. And mystery is something us humans have, at best, an ambivalent relationship with. We seek to find some sense of...