The Liver, Gallbladder, Spleen, Stomach, and Kidney Meridians all influence the chest and breast area, and these organs can ...

The most common obstacle to restoring natural balance with regard to the patient’s chief complaint is often the pace of their ...

The 2024 NCCAOM Job Analysis is a crucial initiative that will shape the future of the acupuncture and herbal medicine ...

According to Master Matsumoto, another way to regulate the gut-lung axis in the post-viral state using extraordinary vessel ...

To paraphrase the Tao de Jing; a bowl is useful because of the empty space. Recent anatomical research uncovered evidence for previously undescribed large-scale pathways that span organs, blood ...

Chronic GERD has now become the most common digestive complaint I see in my clinic. Chronic digestive issues such as GERD are always a nuanced mix of excess and deficiency, and such a nuanced ...

Dr. John Rybak is the medical director and acupuncturist at The WellBridge Clinic in Portland, Ore. (www.wellbridgeclinic.com). He spent seven years working on health care policy and advocating for ...

Medication remains a mainstay treatment option, making nondrug alternatives critical to safer practices. New research suggests auricular acupuncture may be one such alternative; specifically needling ...

Dr. Joseph Audette is chief of pain management at Atrius Health in Boston and the current president of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture (AAMA). He is a graduate of and assistant professor ...

One of the questions I always ask new patients is, “Have you ever had acupuncture before?“ On many occasions, the response can be smug: “Yeah, I tried acupuncture ... once. It didn’t work.” As ...

Could the yang ming circuit of the Chinese clock hold the keys to modern understanding of the importance of the gut-lung axis for post-viral conditions? Over the past several years, in the aftermath ...

As we move into the Year of the Snake, let’s embrace the snake’s deep-thinking nature and ask ourselves four important questions, all of which relate to a single journey: advocating for our medicine ...