General-Acupuncture

Last weekend, my husband got a cold. He is liable to catch colds twice a year, often in the beginning of spring and winter. In the last few weeks, he has been overtimes at his day job and also his mom’s store. He worked 14 hours a day without rest.

Due to his tightly schedules, he could not get good sleep. I noticed that he was exhausted already but he could not rest during the day. I prayed he would not catch a cold but finally he did.

Our private doctor is my dad, so I called him and told him, “My husband had a cold again.”

This is a question I, as well as most acupuncturists, get asked frequently. Along with another very popular and related question, "Does Acupuncture Work?,” our days and conversations are filled with educating others about our medicine. To be an acupuncturist, you have to be an educator, this is a given. The problem with these questions, however, is that precise answers are not available. Certainly within itself Chinese Medicine has strong sets of theories which guide diagnosis and point selection, but to understand and explain this in exact Western terms is difficult at best.

There is an important bill in the US House of Representatives which would include acupuncture within the medicare program.  The passing of this bill would free the way for acupuncture coverage by other insurers to enable greater access to acupuncture across the US.  

The following research discusses the path and integration of acupuncture into mainstream healthcare in Australia.  As Australia is similar in many ways to other developed countries, the article provides a clear path of development for those who are seeking to obtain similar changes in their respective countries.  Two items standout in relation to other countries with similar licensing structures and patient rates.

Since man and woman first walked on the earth, the existence of human beings has been dependent upon our ability to reproduce. This is, of course, true for all animals. Yet today, more and more people are surprised to find that reproducing is not as simple or straightforward as it may seem. Instead, for many couples, the happiness and excitement of planning a family has been replaced with the stress, anxiety, and frustration of infertility.