As with any profession, the educational requirements have shifted over the years. Today acupuncturists need to not only know East Asian medicine, but a fair amount of Western medicine as well.  In this episode we go into the education required to...

This episode is a short introduction to a new podcast site that I've recently launched that is specifically geared towards the needs and interests of Chinese medicine practitioners. When I first began Everyday Acupuncture Podcast I envisioned this to...

Acupuncture is often used with good effect to treat psycho-emotive issues such as chronic anxiety and depression. And it is also helpful in the treatment of various psycho-emotive challenges that arise when someone is faced with their world being...

You can’t think you way out of thinking. And constant ruminative thought is often at the root of a variety of issues from anxiety and depression, to issues with anger, body image, and the limits we place on ourselves. Our physiology is not...

Our guest when we recorded this show, had just completed a year working in the Wounded Warriors program at Walter Reed hospital.  There she used acupuncture to treat veterans for PTSD, trauma brain injury and other chronic conditions that...

Most men will have some issues with their prostate as they age. And the vast majority of men will die with some form of prostate cancer, but most will not die from it as most prostate cancers are slow. Figuring out which kind a person has and how to...

Acupuncture is a go-to treatment for musculo-skeletal pain and a commonly used modality for treating sports injuries.  NFL stars, Olympic swimmers, basketball players and other top athletes increasingly turn to acupuncture to help with recovery...

Chinese medicine does not just have a 2500 year history of  written and practical application of treating illness and disease. It also has an equally long tradition of cultivating health and well-being.   Here in the West we say "an ounce of...

Sugar addiction is something that usually gets laughed off with a wink and smile. And yet, as Gary Taubes says in his latest book, The Case Against Sugar, if the increasing rates of diabetes were related to a pathogen instead of a lifestyle, we would...

Growing up we used to laugh about great-grandma's can of schmaltz that lived in the corner of the kitchen. It's taken the turn of more than a few decades to recognize the value of her peasant wisdom. And might have something to do with her making it...