Observing. Questioning. Learning.

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Musings

  • What your face reveals:

    The face has been a diagnostic tool in Chinese medicine for thousands of years. What practitioners actually read, the five element color system, and…

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  • Heat as medicine: the clinical logic of moxibustion

    Moxibustion gets far less attention than acupuncture. It deserves more. Here’s the clinical reasoning behind when heat is the medicine, and what current research…

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  • Saam Acupuncture

    Few needles. No protocols. A 17th-century Korean acupuncture tradition that asks the practitioner to look carefully, think clearly, and trust what the body already…

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  • Adjunctive acupuncture and cancer care:

    Adjunctive acupuncture for cancer care, through active treatment and into survivorship. What the research shows about pain, neuropathy, nausea, and fatigue, and what’s now…

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