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Sick and tired of being Sick and tired?

Mar 19, 2016adminEvents, Fear Love workshop8 extraordinary vessels, 8 spiritual meridians, 8 vessels, ache, aches, acupuncture, anger, chinese medicine, clarity, coach, consciousness, empower, empowered, exhaustion, fatigue, financial insecurity, free, freedom, frustrated, frustration work, future, georgena eggleston, grief, hate my job, heart attack, how did i get here, kerstin mcinnis, kim boldrini-senn, licensed acupuncturist, life coach, liver, love my work, magic 8, meridian, oregon, overwhelm, pain, pains, portland, portland OR, sadness, same as it ever was, spaciousness, spirit, spiritual meridian, stagnant, stagnation, stress, stroke, stuck, success, talking heads, work coach, work killing you, work stress, workshop

Acupuncture for Chronic Pain Research

Jan 30, 2016adminLearn, Research/Articlesacupuncture, chinese medicine, chronic pain

Article: Acupuncture for chronic pain: individual patient data meta-analysis “Patients receiving acupuncture had less pain for back and neck pain, osteoarthritis, and chronic headache respectively. These results were robust to a variety of sensitivity analyses, including those related to publication bias. Acupuncture is effective for the treatment of chronic pain and is therefore a reasonable referral

Pediatric Acupuncture Research

Jan 23, 2016adminLearn, Pediatrics, Research/Articlesacid reflux, acupuncture, anesthesia nausea, asthma, babys, chinese medicine, college health center, dyspepsia, fordham, gastroesophageal reflux, GERD, health clinic, ivy league, nausea, neonates, newborn, newborns, orthopedic, pain, pain clinic, pain relief, pediatric, pediatrics, portland, portland acupuncture, sickle cell anemia, stamford, surgery, wheezing, yale

This month Medical Acupuncture Journal focused the entire journal to pediatric Acupuncture. Here are a few PDF links to the research! Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine for Pediatric Gastroesophageal Reflux and Functional Dyspepsia “reduction of nausea and reported reductions in pain… successfully weaned off proton pump inhibitors. The patients in this cohort tolerated acupuncture very well.” Acupuncture as

Pediatric Tuina and herbs for common conditions

Jan 21, 2016adminLearn, Pediatricsacupuncture, baby, blue poppy, chinese medicine, congee, constipation, cough, diarrhea, fever, gentle warrior, kan herb, massage, pediatric, pediatrics, pink eye, rice, runny nose, teething, tender teeth, tuina

Our baby, Oliver, has just turned 10 months today!! It brings such joy and has breathed a new-found respect for Chinese Medicine and all that it has to offer. Like all parents I want to make sure he is healthy, happy, and safe. He just cut his 3rd tooth and boy, oh boy was it looking rough

Androgenetic Alopecia

Jan 21, 2015adminLearn, Research/Articlesacupuncture, allopathic, alopecia, Androgenetic Alopecia, atheroma, atherosclerosis, bald, balding, baldness, chinese medicine, herbs, portland acupuncture, stress

Androgenetic Alopecia: Exploring causes and psychological effects of pattern-baldness with a Western and Chinese Medicine approach.

Ginger Foot Soak Instruction

Nov 1, 2013adminShopankle, chinese medicine, cold, cough, foot soak, ginger, headache, herbs, home remedy, illness, knee, pain, relief, runny nose, sick, spa, sprain, tennis elbow, turmeric

Ginger foot soak, a simple, great home care remedy for aches, pains, and colds (the kind with runny nose and aches). This lifesaver was taught to us by Dr Lillian Chang LAc, our teacher and founder of WMI. What you need: A pot of boiling water (about 6 quarts) Knife Two handfuls of fresh ginger

I Ching: throwing coins to follow your path

Apr 19, 2013adminLearn, TCM Education11, 51, 6, 7, 8, 9, accomplish, action, book of changes, chinese medicine, clarity, contemplation, dao, dao de jing, daoism, daoist, dui, earth, energy, fire, flow, gen, heaven, hexagram, how, i ching, kan, kun, lake, Lao Tzu, lesson, li, life, meaning life, mountain, obstacles, path, perception, power, psychic, qian, sage, situation, spirit, stress, tao te ching, tcm, thunder, trigram, water, what, where, wind, wu wei, xun, yang, yi jing, yin, zhen

Not quite Hansel and Gretel but almost… The I Ching [Yi (E) Jing] is also known as the Book of Changes. It is likely written in 2000-3000 BC and is one of the bases for Daoism. I find it a wonderful help in guiding me through some of life’s questions. It is meant to assist

Atherosclerosis

Jan 2, 2013adminLearn, Research/Articlesacupuncture, chinese medicine, cholesterol, portland acupuncture, research, stress, sugar, tcm, western medicine

These are some papers I have written during my graduate studies at World Medicine Institute. I am including them for your educational pleasure: Atherosclerosis: The link between sugar, stress, high cholesterol, and the formation of atheromas (plaques). Androgenetic Alopecia: Exploring causes and psychological effects of pattern-baldness with a Western and Chinese Medicine approach.

Four Pillars of Health

Dec 29, 2012adminLearn, TCM Educationacupressure, acupuncture, chinese medicine, ear, eye, gynecology, herbs, immune, menstruation, nose, perception, spirit, tcm, throat

Four pillars of health In Chinese Medicine there are four pillars of health. A good practitioner will start from top and work down, guiding the body to heal itself. Chinese Medicine is all natural, using your body’s immune system to help heal itself. There are no side effects or

The 12 Main Meridians

Dec 29, 2012admin1 CommentLearn, TCM Educationacupressure, acupuncture, bladder, chinese medicine, gallbladder, heart, kidney, large intestine, liver, lung, meridians, pericardium, qi, san jiao, small intestine, spleen, stomach, tcm, triple warmer

Chinese Medicine is based on an intricate system of meridians. These meridians are similar to energy highways or rivers flowing throughout our body. There are 12 main meridians and eight extraordinary/spiritual meridians. The eight extraordinary meridians are spoken about here. The 12 main meridians are: Lung Large Intestine Stomach Spleen Heart Small Intestine