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Acupuncture

Upcoming Portland-area Chinese medicine events of note

4 August 2009 Acupuncture

I’m continuing to be neck deep in business planning. Today we finalized a bunch of copy for our website, came closer to opening a business bank account, got a bunch of things finalized with the lawyer, and had our first “official” meeting as a LLC (hilarious – board meeting with two people at the kitchen [...]

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Listening my way to success in the NCCAOM acupuncture board exam

9 June 2009 Acupuncture

As I said before, I’ve been spending a significant amount of time studying for and taking my NCCAOM board exams. As I said in my last post…
“…I’ve successfully completed the foundations and biomedicine exams already. I found them to be much different from what I was expecting. I know I am not allowed to share [...]

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How am I going to survive the next twelve weeks? A study in the power of Chinese medicine theory

1 April 2009 Acupuncture

Well, it’s finally come to this – the final quarter of my formal institutional training in Classical Chinese Medicine. Wow. I mean, really, wow. There are quite a few of you out there who are in the same boat I am – looking graduation in the face. It’s exciting, yes, but it’s also a little [...]

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Necessity is the mother of learning acupuncture points

31 October 2008 Acupuncture

One of the things I have noticed in my scant 20 or so weeks of hands-on clinical practice is the great difficulty of accurately locating acupuncture points. At times the body seems an intolerably huge landscape – full of unfamiliar landmarks and confounding convolutions. Yes, at other times the complications diminish and it seems as [...]

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Learning acupuncture : Master points of the Extraordinary vessels

2 July 2008 Acupuncture

Early in the life of this blog, I wrote a lot of basic “what is this” posts about Chinese medicine. I did that because I saw that there was a need for basic information, and since I was learning it, it seemed like a natural progression. I realize that there are a lot of [...]

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