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It is my experience that more and more practitioners of Oriental Medicine have left pulse diagnosis behind as a method of diagnosis. The reason I hear over and over is this: “honestly, I don’t know how to do it; there wasn’t a pulse course at my school and I just didn’t really learn how to […]

The flow of Qi is one of the basic constituents of the human body and its functions; our body’s ability to make good quality Qi is essential to good health. We know that Qi is the product of the activities of and communication between the Zang and Fu organs and therefore it makes sense that […]

I wonder if bombarding women over thirty two years old with regimens, dietary restrictions, and “advice” improves their chance of conceiving and experiencing a healthy live birth of a child. Or does all of the regimenting, calculating, and diligence increase their Liver Qi Stagnation and emotional angst? In my fertility practice I hear quite a […]

We know that Cosmetic Acupuncture works but what then? Education is a key part to the practice of Chinese medicine and when you practice cosmetic acupuncture, facial rejuvenation, etc. it’s time talk about skin with your patients. We often talk or hear about building the skin up, making it thicker. But we are also told […]

In my practice there seem to be more and more people who are suffering from what might be called ambiguous digestive issues. They will ponder whether they are gluten intolerant or suffer from some other food allergy. Some suggest that they may have a parasite. But all, in my diagnostic opinion, have ongoing emotional states […]

by Martha Lucas, Ph.D., L.Ac., Chair Research Committee Human beings want to know why or how things work.  We crave explanations.  Very often explanations hinge on what are we willing to accept as evidence that something happened.  You might think that the scientific method would offer a solution to this dilemma but it does not.  […]