Think of your most difficult patient – the one you try to motivate and work so hard with to develop a realistic treatment plan with achievable and measurable goals. Week after week, you see this ...

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 ...

The most common symptom of an overactive bladder is a sudden, uncontrolled need or urge to urinate; followed by the need to urinate excessively throughout the day and night, independent of fluid ...

Emotions act as a warning sign to the practitioner, indicating what organs may be involved in a patient’s pattern of imbalance. One of my main treatment goals when working with these patients is to ...

Traumatic events that generate stressors in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) will eventually become internalized. In Chinese medicine, if the body is not able to come back to homeostasis after a ...

The eight extraordinary meridians, pathways of energy (qi), run deep within our bodies, and supply the 12 regular meridians with qi and blood, supporting our DNA or genetic heritage. They have no ...

Think of your most difficult patient – the one you try to motivate and work so hard with to develop a realistic treatment plan with achievable and measurable goals. Week after week, you see this ...

I recently had a wonderful teaching opportunity with a patient who experienced tremendous results using the patent medicine Gan Mao Ling for an acute cold / flu. I always make sure all my patients ...

In 1951, Dr.Yoshio Nakatani MD, PhD developed a method of examining the meridian system of the body through electronic measurements that altered the way acupuncture would be practiced throughout Japan ...

Isn't it interesting that the number one reason people visit a healthcare provider is because of pain. Chronic pain affects about 100 million American adults—more than the total affected by heart ...

What is the great mystery of the point, yin tang? Why does the area register Heart yang excess exclusively? What are the nine diagnostic colors most likely to be seen on it? And what is the likely ...

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