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Seattle Community Acupuncture: Where Acupuncture Picks the Brain

By linda | Published April 12, 2012

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?

By linda | Published February 9, 2012

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

By linda | Published January 7, 2012

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

By linda | Published December 13, 2011

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%

By linda | Published November 16, 2011

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

By linda | Published September 16, 2011

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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Acupuncture Helps Seattle Musician Relearn to Play After Stroke

By linda | Published July 30, 2011

Video: Boyd’s Return to the Bandstand After Stroke

Linda’s husband, Dr. Boyd Phelps, DMA, is a professional saxophonist and music educator who lost nearly all knowledge of music — notation, theory, familiar melodies, etc — when he suffered several strokes in the left hemisphere of his brain during the last year (2010-2011) . As a result of the strokes,

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Seattle Community Acupuncture: How Acupuncture Can Help Your Memory

By linda | Published July 21, 2011

Do you notice problems with your short-term or long-term memory? Do you want to prevent memory problems? Acupuncture can enhance your memory and prevent memory loss or poor memory. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM, there are 3 different aspects of our memory and these are controlled by the Spleen, Heart, and Liver in TCM physiology. Acupuncture boosts memory by

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Seattle Community Acupuncture: Musicians – How Many Hours a Day Should You Practice?

By linda | Published May 31, 2011

This post is for musicians. Instrumentalists and also vocalists should read this excellent article about how to practice music for optimum productivity. The key is to practice effectively. Deliberate practicing versus mindless practicing. Also note that focused, goal-based practicing can help prevent injuries that can result from mindless repetitive practicing.

How Many Hours a Day Should You Practice?

by Dr.

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Seattle Community Acupuncture: Community Model Improves Access

By linda | Published May 25, 2011

This is an excellent piece about community acupuncture from Acutakehealth.com. It features an interview with my mentor Lisa Rohleder, co-founder of the community acupuncture movement. A good read if you want to learn more about this style of acupuncture and why it is growing in popularity. – Linda Phelps, LAc/EAMP

Back in 2006, John Weeks, editor of The

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– R.M., Seattle, WA
Linda Phelps, LAc, has helped subside my Achilles tendonitis and Plantar fasciitis with acupuncture treatments. The pain in my heels was completely eliminated for several days after treatment, and inflammation went down as well in my Achilles so by body could heal itself. After a few more treatments I am nearly symptom free. I recommend acupuncture treatment with Linda! She is very knowledgeable, calming and gentle in her work of healing

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