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Treating the 7 Types of Pain
Acupuncture is famous for pain relief. Many health problems respond well to acupuncture and moxibustion, but pain conditions can disappear remarkably fast.
Most of the time.
Sometimes intense gnawing pain will disappear permanently in one treatment. Other times, it might take weeks or months of treatment, slowly chipping away at it.
To make sense of why and how acupuncture treats pain, we have to explore pain itself. But not nerve pathways, pain gate theory, neurotransmitters, or any of that.
This is about the experience of pain.
How to Stay Healthy through the Seasons
Cradled in climate-controlled buildings and cars, it can be easy to forget about weather. Many people feel a big gulf between our day-to-day life and what we call “Nature” or “wilderness”, especially those of us who live in sprawling cities. Humans evolved of millions...
Why I Practice Acupuncture: Henry Claflin
Acupuncture is not a typical career choice. High school seniors don’t usually go to job fairs and hang out at the Chinese medicine table (although I did recently attend a high school job fair and it was amazing). Because acupuncture is still a little out-of-the-ordinary, we are often asked:
“How did you get into acupuncture?”