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Simple Country Acupuncturist - An Alternative to Cynicism - Self-Education
Washington Post - Kids and needles is sometimes a good match: Acupuncture can help with pain.
TCM is a complete system of medicine. Simply put, it treats what ails human beings. From pain of any kind through stomach and intestinal disorders to mental health, cancer, diabetes, and nervous system disorders Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine treats it. Oriental Medicine is surpisingly inexpensive to deliver and requires no special environment. It does very well with many conditions western medicine does not. Integrating it into health care sytems along side of western medicine will READ MORE
This is the Op/Ed or Blog section. Some are responses to interesting questions visitors have sent. Others give my opinion on some aspect of health care. I avoid politics here since this site is intended to improve your health but any part of health care is fair game. There is an archive linked to this page. READ MORE 
Isn't it remarkable how much territory a single four letter word can rule? Chronic pain, acute pain, dull pain, achy pain, sharp pain, throbbing pain, burning pain, pounding pain, pain from trauma - hammer on thumb to pain from severe injury at work or a motor vehicle accident, READ MORE
PTSD is a western medicine condition that afflicts many people who have been through a traumatic experience. The example that comes to mind for most people is the soldier who has memories of war that intrude on his/her daily life. There are a host of other ways it interferes with a READ MORE
Deperession, anxiety and insomnia occur so often and affect so many people that I devoted a section just to them. Most folks who are affected by them are not disabled but can be quite miserable due to any one of them. Chances are we will at some point in our lives experience one or READ MORE 
One of the reasons I call Oriental Medicine a great treasure is it's capacity for lay people to make use of it. Acupuncture of course is reserved for professionals. But acupressure, tuina, cupping, moxa, dietary therapy and the study of Qi all have techniques that can be used safely with a modicum of education and practice. This is comparable to teaching a diabetic patient to inject insulin or teaching a READ MORE 
Physical dependence on a substance is the least problematic part of addiction. The typical person struggling with addiction must confront a number of things that are challenges for many but are major obstacles for a person recovering from addictions. Oriental Medicine is the original holistic medicine; it's models of human function and dysfunction, diagnosis, and treatment methods offer a READ MORE 
Traditional Oriental Medicine conceives of illness so differently from western medicine that the question "How does Oriental Medicine treat this or that illness?" requires a long answer. To create meaningful answers I decided on this format. ----Western medicine definition of a disease
----Signs and symptoms of READ MORE
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