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Practitioners often ask advice on analyzing graphs. My graph-analyzation skills have developed over time. As a new AcuGraph user, I questioned the graph. Then, I began trying to decipher the graph based on TCM patterns. Once I began teaching the Seminar Series, I really began to understand how the AcuGraph... Read more
Hello Friends, I just received the following from Dr. Jeff Snodgrass: Just wanted to drop a note. I just treated a man who suffered a severe cerebral stroke in December. He has had double vision and dizziness and paralysis of the right side of his body. His right eye turned... Read more
Last week, I sent almost all of my patients home with the SAME herbal prescription. Not from my pharmacy but from the grocery store. Not a “special” grocery store, but a regular ole’ Idaho grocery store… It was 95 degrees in Boise over the weekend and the whole town came... Read more
It’s time to confess… I can’t believe that it took me so long to figure this out. Actually, I’m rather embarrassed to admit that I didn’t understand the value of the “By Element” chart. I’ve been explaining the AcuGraph features to practitioners for years. When I sit down with a... Read more
How long does it take to stop a panic attack? I had occasion to find out when my wife awakened me a few nights ago in a full-blown panic attack. Her heart was pounding and rapid, her breath was short, and she was experiencing large muscle twitches all over her... Read more
Do you treat kids in your office? If you don’t, you really should. A week or so ago, I had an 8-year-old child come into my clinic for constipation. The mother informed me that he is afraid of needles and wanted to know if I could still treat him. Luckily,... Read more
This last week I have been working on a REALLY BIG project. It’s a secret, but I’ll give you a couple of hints... #1: I’ve been editing hours and hours of video. #2: I’ve been creating test questions for the NCCAOM, California and Florida boards. I’ll tell you what I’ve been... Read more
Last week I received a phone call from a frantic wife, asking if I could help her husband with acupuncture. She claimed that he was experiencing labor pains! Okay, so he wasn’t REALLY having a baby, but he WAS passing a kidney stone. From his description, the kidney stone was... Read more
Have you ever tried something and failed? Do you keep trying? What would you do if you had tried something 10 times and failed each time? I don’t know about you, but I would make sure that, when I tried again, I did things differently. I’m about to show you... Read more
I pride myself in not giving a “Band-Aid” treatment to my patients. Band-Aids, in the form of pharmaceutical drugs, are often used as a cover up in the Western medical arena for an underlying health problem. As acupuncturists, we are taught to search out which imbalances are causing symptomatology to... Read more
Do you have patients who come in for regular acupuncture tune-ups? With patients who come in regularly, you get to know their graphs pretty well. I can usually look at the graph and know if they had been partying over the weekend, if they have had a cold, or if... Read more
Dr. Chris Teo just sent me another case study from his work with cancer patients. In this case, his herbal therapy and e-therapy treatments produced a very noticeable improvement in the patient’s symptoms. Interestingly, the patient’s graphs got better as well, confirming that the treatments were positively affecting the meridian... Read more
According to traditional acupuncture theory, breast health is most affected by the channels that run directly through the breast–Stomach, Liver, Kidney, Lung, Pericardium and Spleen channels. To test this theory, Dr.Chris Teo recently wrote another research article entitled, Meridian Disharmonies in Women with Malignant Breast Lumps, analyzing patients with malignant... Read more
A little while back, I shared a story about a patient with pancreatic cancer. It has now been almost a year since she was diagnosed, and she made the decision to treat with conventional medicine in the form of chemotherapy. She also decided to supplement her treatments with acupuncture and... Read more
You may recall that Kimberly wrote last month about graphs that are predominately green even though the patient is in very poor health. (See When “All Green” isn’t “All Good.”). In that article, she gave a case study and taught that very low graphs may show many normal meridians simply... Read more