Acupuncture & Alternative Medicine
Acupuncture & Alternative Medicine can help prevent or reverse chronic disease—just like the Functional Medicine approach. Find out more about these approaches to healing in the articles below.
Chinese Medicine Demystified (Part VI): 5 Ways Acupuncture Can Help You Where Drugs and Surgery Can’t
Five reasons acupuncture beats western medicine as a primary healthcare modality.
Chinese Medicine Demystified (Part V): A Closer Look at How Acupuncture Relieves Pain
Research continues to shed light on how acupuncture relieves chronic pain and inflammation without significant side effects or risks.
Chinese Medicine Demystified (Part IV): How Acupuncture Works
Modern research demonstrates that acupuncture can relieve pain, reduce inflammation and restore homeostasis. In this article I'll explain how it works.
Chinese Medicine Demystified (Part III): The “Energy Meridian” Model Debunked
Historical evidence and modern research indicate that the Chinese medicine has nothing to do with magic energy flowing through invisible meridians.
Chinese Medicine Demystified (Part II): Origins of the “Energy Meridian” Myth
The idea that Chinese medicine is a psychic, metaphysical medicine is based on gross mistranslations of classical Chinese medical texts.
Chinese Medicine Demystified (Part I): A Case of Mistaken Identity
Most of what we've been told in the west about how Chinese medicine works isn't accurate.
