204 Chinese Medicine Perspectives on Sleep • Damiana Corca
Acupuncture Slipping into sleep. It’s the simplest thing to do. Or the most difficult. The quietude of sleep is a reflection of the activity in our lives. And if that cycle wobbles with an imbalance, it can be difficult to correct. In this discussion with Damiana Corca we explore...
203 Getting Down to Business • Laura Christensen
The practice of practice Do you know the costs that go into creating the opportunity for a patient to lay on your table? Do you know how much you’re paying yourself? Have you built a profit into your business? We all know that word of mouth is the best form of marketing, but have you...
202 The Art of Negotiation— paradigm shift of interaction in the clinic • Margot Rossi & Nick Pole
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201 fMRI: The Patient-Acupuncturist Relationship • Vitaly Napadow
Cultivation Any seasoned practitioner leans on the patient practitioner relationship. There is something in the interaction that cannot be separated from the response they have to our treatment. In this conversation with Vitaly Napadow we discuss the Art of Medicine and how...
200 Learning From Mentors • Denise Hung
Cultivation Learning medicine requires books, memorization , and knowledge. But knowledge without practice is useless. It is through the clinical encounter with patients that the principals come to life and the medicine goes from theory to living practice. In this 200th episode...199 Mind, Matter, Medicine and Skeptical Inquiry • Ben Hawes
Acupuncture Our job in clinic is to help people both through knowing what treatment to provide and having the ability to discern how to help when the signs are not clear. We constantly dance with both knowing and not-knowing. In this conversation with Ben Hawes we discuss how the...
198 Reflections and Significance of Case Reports • Edward Chiu
Acupuncture The ancient Chinese were not the only people to observe nature and develop medicine in the service of relieving suffering and promoting health. But they were the only culture that wrote it down and managed through the centuries to preserve significant portions of it....
197 Divergent Perspectives on Conversing with the Channels • David Euler
Acupuncture In nature we see that rivers have a flow and shape, but in times of flooding or if there are obstructions they will find other ways to move their water downstream. The divergent channels can be seen as a channel phenomenon that allows the main channels to deal with...
196 Reflections on Yin • Brodie Welch
Cultivation Attending to yin in a world that preferences yang does not come easy, and perhaps only begins to catch our attention once we’ve reached the edge of what activity can sustain. In this conversation with Brodie Welch we look at how sometimes subtracting counterintuitive...
The Herbal Methods of Dr Jiang Tong — Bonus Episode
Herbal Medicine This is a solo show where Michael shares the methods and formulas his teacher in Taiwan, Dr. Jiang Tong, used in the treatment respiratory illness. Here are two articles written by Dr. Jiang that Michael translated for The Lantern, that detail his thinking and...
195 Hands on With Horses •Sam MacLean
Cultivation There are yin and yang ways to be with a horse, or for that matter— with a person as well. That yin aspect might be yielding, but it’s far from weak. And having a broad receptive gaze allows us to see the wholeness beyond the so-called broken parts of those we are...
194 Restoration of the World • John Stan
Acupuncture Our work as practitioners involves restoration. We know that neither we nor our patients are separate from the natural world. Our daily clinic might be focused on the microcosm that is our patient, but we know that their relationships to family, kin and friends are...
193 Physiology, Congruence and Counterflow • Bryan McMahon
Acupuncture There is a saying in Chinese, 以人為本, Understanding a person is basis of knowing how to treat them. Our work requires we both understand our medicine, and understand how it applies to that individual who sits before us in our clinic. In this conversation with Bryan...
192 Having a Home Office • Ji Ling Lin
The practice of practice What is the best business model and size of acupuncture practice? That depends on the practitioner, their values, goals and individual perspective. Just like our medicine, while there are core principles that form a foundation, the methods that arise and the various...
191 Fluid Physiology and Pathology • Steve Clavey
Herbal Medicine We think of the meridians as being a connective network within the body. But it is the fluids that actually permeate all the organs and tissues, and in a sense connect and allow for communication between all aspects of the body. And at the same time provide the medium...
190 The Power and Practice of “No” • Elisa Yip
Acupuncture East Asian medicine practitioners want to be helpful. That is often a large part of what drew us to this work. Sometimes being helpful is not in what we say yes to, but rather that to which we say, no. In this discussion with Elisa Yip we look at how saying no is...
189 Cultivating Confidence • Vanessa Menendez-Covelo
Acupuncture Confidence at the beginning of any endeavor, especially at the beginning of a medical practice, a new business, or new career is not possible. You may have some skills, tools and competence in their use. But confidence, that comes later after you’ve had some skin in...
188 Herbal Medicine for the Aftermath of Covid • Nigel Dawes
Herbal Medicine There is a moment in between sensing and allowing what is felt to enter the world of cognition and concept. It’s a liminal space of being and feeling and if you can linger there for a moment there is information that is beyond the ken of words. In this discussion with...
