007 Craft of Acupuncture • Damo Mitchell
Acupuncture In today’s Shop Talk Damo Mitchell explores the Craft of Acupuncture and our relationship with the primary tool of our trade— the needle. Along with a practical understanding of Butcher Ding and the critical importance of knowing how to slide through the sinew...
297 Covid Long Haul, Threat or Opportunity • Nigel Dawes L.Ac
Herbal Medicine In a world where change is the only constant, East Asian medicine offers a way to track change even in the midst of change. Our medicine has a way of adjusting to changing times and has the capacity to bring the essence of ideas and perspectives from the past into the...
006 The Power of Understanding Your Target Market • Michelle Grasek
Marketing and Business In today's Shop Talk segment, Michelle Grasek, acupuncturist and marketing strategist, walks you through how target market and copywriting intersect to create great marketing. Target market often gets a bad reputation for being a theoretical exercise without practical...
296 Considering Long Covid, Research and Practice • Beau Anderson
Acupuncture The principles of Chinese medicine, with its focus on balance and harmony, have long offered effective treatment methods for respiratory disorders, by both fighting pathogenic influence and by allowing the essence of health to flow freely. Our treatment modalities are...
005 Recognizing the Gui Zhi Constitution • Michael Max
Constitution When I was living and studying medicine in Beijing in 2003, Craig Mitchell shared with me a book he found on herbal medicine. Back at that time I was working on my Chinese and it was not very good, but reading interesting books on medicine was a way I encouraged...
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...
004 Wound Healing Using Saam Acupuncture • Kristin Wisgirda
Acupuncture In less than 2 days, a single acupuncture treatment heals a wound that 2 months of conventional treatments couldn’t help. This case exemplifies the power of Saam, a Korean tradition of acupuncture. I hope this case will inspire more acupuncturists to study Saam and be...
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...
003 Exertion and Pulse Quality • Ross Rosen
Pulse The importance of assessing Rate on Exertion with Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis: Pulse diagnosis can be scary for lots of practitioners; not everyone has been fortunate enough to spend years deep diving into the intricacies and subtleties, and often practitioners don't...
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...
002 Mastering Effective Email Marketing • Michelle Grasek
Marketing and Business In today's Shop Talk segment, Michelle Grasek, acupuncturist and marketing strategist, shares actionable tips to help you get better results from your email marketing. She also addresses frequently asked questions that she often gets from marketing students 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...
001 Treating BPH with Chinese Medicine • Lisa Lapwing
Acupuncture In today’s Shop Talk, Lisa presents basic Biomedical and TCM information about BPH (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia), a condition that every Acupuncturist will most likely see in their clinic at some point in their career unless you don’t treat older gentlemen. She...
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...