Eating According to Chinese Medicine: A Practical Guide
Chinese dietary therapy is one of the oldest parts of the medicine and the part most mangled in translation. It is not a diet, it does not have…
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Chinese Medicine for Stress, Sleep and Mood: What It Can and Can’t Do
Stress, sleep and mood are the complaints most likely to be told they are “just stress” and sent away. In Chinese medicine they are not a single thing…
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What Acupuncture Actually Treats: A Clinician’s Complete Guide
Ask ten people what acupuncture is for and you will get ten answers, most of them narrower than the reality. Pain is the entry point for the majority…
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Seasonal Health in Chinese Medicine: A Year-Round Guide
Chinese medicine treats the year as a cycle, not a constant. The body that thrives in July is not doing the same work in January, and the classical…
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Cold Laser Therapy (Photobiomodulation): A DAOM’s Honest Read
Quick answer: Cold laser — properly, photobiomodulation (PBM) — uses red and near-infrared light at intensities too low to heat tissue. Light in this range is absorbed by…
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PEMF Therapy: What It Is, What NASA Found, and How I Actually Use It
Quick answer: PEMF (pulsed electromagnetic field therapy) sends a pulsing magnetic field through tissue, which induces tiny electrical currents inside it. It has a strong, FDA-cleared evidence base…
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Microcurrent and Acupuncture: What the Combination Actually Does
Quick answer: Microcurrent delivers current in millionths of an amp — roughly a thousand times weaker than a TENS unit, and below the threshold where you feel anything.…
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Auricular Acupuncture for Alpha-Gal Syndrome: The Evidence
Alpha-gal syndrome is a strange diagnosis to receive. You get bitten by a tick, and some weeks or months later you react to red meat — often hours…
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DAOM vs MD: What a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Actually Does (and Where the Lines Are)
Reviewed by Dr. Brandon Bright, DAOM, LAcDoctor of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine · Functional Medicine University-certified · Tustin, CA · Last reviewed: May 29, 2026 If you’ve landed…
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NLP Therapy for Anxiety, Phobias & Habit Change — DAOM Clinician in Tustin
Neuro-Linguistic Programming comes up a lot in conversations about anxiety, phobias, and habits that will not budge. It also comes wrapped in more marketing than almost any other…
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