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Seattle Community Acupuncture: Olympic Athletes Get Acupuncture

Acupuncture is great for sports injuries of all kinds, whether you’re someone who works out at a gym or a serious competitor, such as these Olympic greats:

6 Olympians Who Ache For Acupuncture

from The Daily Zeel: Healthy Living via Yahoo Shine

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Seattle Community Acupuncture: Inflammation Reduction with Acupuncture

Acupuncture relieves pain and inflammation in the body. The thermographic image above shows inflammation reduction in the knee as acupuncture relieves knee pain.

Inflammation is the body’s common response to injury, irritants, toxins, allergic substances, and pathogens.  It is present in most medical conditions and is often the cause of pain. Some of the

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Seattle Community Acupuncture: 5 Acupuncture Myths Debunked

 

Here is an informative article from AcuTakeHealth.com. It answers questions a lot of people have about acupuncture.

Have You Heard These Acupuncture Myths?

By Ka Hang Leoungk

As an acupuncturist, I do a lot of myth debunking. It’s understandable. After all, acupuncture speaks an entirely different language from the one through which most Westerners learned to see the world.

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Seattle Community Acupuncture: 8 Things to Remember Before an Acupuncture Appointment

There are a few things you can do to make the most of each acupuncture treatment. Whether you are new to acupuncture or have been getting poked for quite some time, you could benefit from the tips in the article below. Think of it as a pre-acupuncture checklist.

8 Things to Remember Before an Acupuncture Appointment

by Sara Calabro, acupuncturist

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Seattle Community Acupuncture: Where Acupuncture Picks the Brain

 

These brain maps show where different acupuncture points activate the brain.  Pictures and text from New Scientist magazine (www.newscientist.com ) April 11, 2012

Where Acupuncture Picks the Brain

Caroline Morley, online picture researcher

(Images: Huang and colleagues, PLoS)

Originating in ancient China, acupuncture has been used for 2500 years. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that disease is caused by

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Seattle Community Acupuncture: What Do Acupuncturists See On Your Tongue?

The chart above gives a glimpse into Chinese tongue diagnosis. (To enlarge the chart for readability, click on it once, pause, then click on it again.)

My community acupuncture patients sometimes ask me what I see when I look at their tongues. Among the ways acupuncturists can diagnose illness in

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Seattle Community Acupuncture: 100 Ways to Live More Consciously

The following wonderful list can help you live everyday with greater ease and get the most out of your life. By raising your awareness and consciousness, you improve your own life and also enhance the lives of others by adding positive energy to the collective consciousness of the Universe. Each of our patients at Purple Dragon add their own healing

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Community Acupuncture Seattle: Winter is Kidney and Kale Time

We community acupuncture practitioners recommend eating a healthy, nutritious diet of mostly whole foods, and to eat seasonal foods. According to Chinese medicine, seasonal foods are not only foods that flourish and grow during each season but also foods that resonate with the body in each season. Wintertime corresponds to the Chinese Kidney system. In Chinese medicine, the Kidneys are

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Seattle Acupuncture: Occupy Healthcare – Community Acupuncture Helping the 99%

A colleague on the East Coast, Nicole Maniez, wrote this article which well explains how community acupuncture is helping the Occupy movement by offering health care that is affordable and accessible to the 99% – those people who are without insurance or well-paying jobs.

Occupy Healthcare: The Revolution is Here & it’s Called Community Acupuncture

by Nicole Maniez, acupunctuist, herbalist,

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Seattle Community Acupuncture: Gluten-Free Food at Amazon.com

I often come across people, including my friends and my acupuncture patients, who have recently learned they are gluten-intolerant and are struggling with the task of adjusting their shopping and cooking tasks to their new dietary restriction. Here is some information that might make their lives – and yours – a little easier.

Amazon.com may be the answer for people

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