358 History Series: Remember, Acupuncture is Fantastic • Julian Scott
Acupuncture While many are keen on looking to “science up” acupuncture and squeeze it into the thinking and theories of conventional medicine, others are quite content with the weirdness of it. And enjoy playing around in the territory that’s off the radar of Western science. ...
357 Eastern and Western Perspectives on Acupuncture • John Rybak
Acupuncture As anyone who has started an acupuncture practice and tried explaining it to potential patients knows, it’s not easy taking the terminology and thinking of East Asian medicine into English speaking Western culture. The guest of this conversation, John Rybak, has...
356 Considering Yi- Meaning, Significance and Conception • S. Boyanton, L. de Vries, V. Scheid
Acupuncture Brenda Hood often reminds me “Chinese concepts, especially classical Chinese concepts, are big and multidimensional. They are extremely dependent on context and while shades of meaning often cross over, they can be quite different and be more or less encompassing of...
355 The Circuitry of Saam Acupuncture • Joshua Park
Acupuncture Saam acupuncture with its unique channel pairings, perspective on psycho-emotional dynamics, and capacity to interweave the Five Phase with the Six Qi is a powerful tool for understanding the interplay of yin and yang along with body and mind. In this conversation...
354 History Series: In the Footsteps of a Compleat Acupuncturist • Peter Eckman
Acupuncture In the late 60’s and early 70’s of the last century East Asian medicine began to emerge into mainstream culture. The Reston NY Times article is often cited as a catalytic moment that put the idea of Chinese acupuncture into the minds of Americans. But other streams of...
353 Points for Peace • Keren Assouline & Guy Sedan
Acupuncture The Middle East has a long history of war and unrest. Whatever phase of history you’d like to zoom the timeframe, you’ll likely see conflict. In Episode 72 of Everyday Acupuncture Podcast I spoke with an Israeli practitioner on what it is like to live in a place where...
352 Quiet Presence, The Gentle Power of Teishin • Gary Klepper, Thomas Sørensen & Ehrland Truitt
Acupuncture Here’s a question that I find difficult to answer. How does acupuncture work? Beyond the East Asian medicine phrasing that makes zero sense to your average citizen. Just what is going on in the body in response to a sliver thin needle being placed in the flesh? And...
351 The Trouble With Men • Damo Mitchell
Cultivation Women develop through the cycles of seven. Men through the rhythms of eight. Women, more resonate with Blood. Men, with qi. Being human, there is a lot we share in common. Looking at our classic books on medicine, from the point of view of physiology and health, there...
350 Sa Sang, Bazi, and Food as Medicine • Jaguang Sunim
Cultivation East Asian medicine recognizes the central role that food can play in our health and wellbeing. We have various models for understanding the fluctuations and trajectories a human body can travel as we navigate the time we have between Heaven and Earth. In this...
349 History Series, There’s No End to The Study • Stuart Watts
History The 1960’s and 70’s saw an explosion of alternative health and lifestyle practices appear at the edges of culture. It was a time ripe with possibility and fraught with peril, after all there was a war going on. The kind where men were drafted. As with any troubled...
348 The Strange Flows • Daniel Atchison-Nevel
Acupuncture Change happens through time, it unfolds within the rhythmic inhale and exhale, it expresses through lunar and solar cycles, it follows the arc of development, fruition, and decline. There are recognizable pathways and markers that arise within what is mostly a...
347 The First Four Palaces of Alchemy • Leta Herman
Cultivation Alchemy sounds like magic. It sounds like magic because it involves the transmuting of something coarse and without value to something refined and of worth. But really, there is nothing magical about it. It’s the process of finding a corner of the world you want to...
346 Weaving Together East and West • Joseph and Sam Audette
Acupuncture You've probably heard about family lineage types of acupuncture from Asia. Here in the West, acupuncture is still a bit of a newcomer to the medical scene, but it has been around long enough that we are beginning to see second generation practitioners. In this...
345 History Series – Things That Don’t Make Sense Will be Helpful to You Later • Ted Kaptchuk
History It was challenging enough for me in the 1990’s to set myself on the path of learning acupuncture. and by then, we had established schools and clear pathways to licensure and a livelihood. But back in the early days it took a rare kind of individual with a big spirit...
344 Jing, Authenticity and Mushrooms • Mason Taylor
Cultivation Medicinal mushrooms have made their way into the everyday lives of the “old one-hundred names,” us common folk. Formerly rare and precious substances like Ling Zhi and Dong Chong Xia Cao are now cultivated and readily available for people like you and me. Considered...
343 Chinese Medicine Dermatology • Mazin Al-Khafaji
Herbal Medicine Clinical experience and results are paramount in developing skill as a Chinese medicine practitioner. Theory should serve practice, not the other way around. Specializing in certain disease categories like dermatology can accelerate your learning process. In this...
342 Laughter of the Universe, Qi in the Year of Yang Wood Dragon • Gregory Done
Cultivation We are here in the midst of winter cold going into the Spring Festival— the new Chinese Lunar year. It might seem strange to consider Spring as beginning in the deep middle of dark and cold, but all beginnings start in the dark. They begin before they can be seen. ...
341 History Series, A Journey into Health, Wellbeing and Longevity • Peter Deadman
History In the mid 70’s there were four English language books on acupuncture. Which wasn’t much to go on. But for the people that started learning acupuncture in those days. It was enough to get started. Suzuki Roshi is famous for saying “in the beginners mind there are many...