As an Acupuncturist I have the seemingly mystical (even to me) talent of pulse reading. There is just so much to learn and differentiate and notice. Western Medicine finds their marker in the speed of a pulse which puts disease in the below 60 beats per minute (unless you are an athlete) or above 80 …
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I don’t talk a lot about Chinese Herbs in my blog. However in my office herbs, acupuncture and yoga are all equal. They are my three most successful tools. However more often than not people come in for a treatment or consultation and are completely opposed to herbs. This blog post, I hope, will quiet …
We all have our own affinities. When teaching yoga I love to teach about organ systems. There is nothing more exciting than helping someone to release their organ bodies in a yoga pose and see the pose soften and expand. With acupuncture one of my affinities is scar treatments. A scar treatment for those of …
These two questions I get a lot. Patients often report very strange reactions to their first acupuncture treatment or to their first dose of herbs and want to know if acupuncture or herbs is to blame. Should they stop treatment? Did something go terribly wrong? One of the skills of acupuncture is that it moves …