Trauma resolution has long been a specialty in my acupuncture-healing practice. I’ve worked with many men and women who suffer from the remnants of past emotional, physical and mental traumas. Sometimes the patient recalls the events of the trauma, sometimes they are repressed and unreachable. I...
My friends often laugh at my insistence that “there is an acupuncture point for everything.” At this moment, with all the change and destruction occurring around us, there’s not much to laugh at. Yet, funny enough, there is a point that relates to what has...
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that’s the most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin. Chinese Medicine places strong focus on the theme of change and its effect on the human body and...
Degenerative conditions often seem mysterious and confusing to the Western medical mind. Inflammation is usually seen as the cause of skeletal disc degeneration, neuropathy, muscle atrophy and breakdown of the joints (osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis). Where the inflammation comes from, many doctors cannot confidently say....
Skin conditions like eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis can be very annoying. We can hide conditions occurring inside the body. But the skin puts it all out into the open. The skin is an organ through which we interface with the world. It is our crust. Our...