by JoAnne Lehrfeld | Dec 21, 2021 | Acupuncture
If you are looking for a preventative traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment to manage common digestive problems, do consider auriculotherapy in your next TCM appointment. Physician Lee Jin Shun (Eu Yan Sang TCM Clinic) contributed this article to The Straits...
by JoAnne Lehrfeld | Jan 3, 2018 | Acupuncture
The power of winter is the power of emphasis: it emphasizes the essence of life. Without the external ornamentation of leaves, flowers, and fruits of the growing season, the plant is just bare essence: a seed, with its potential deep inside, or a tree stripped to its...
by JoAnne Lehrfeld | Nov 22, 2017 | Acupuncture
Acupuncture may sound like an exotic—maybe even improbable—treatment for chronic pain. But this age-old Chinese medical practice has been increasingly accepted in this country as an alternative treatment for low back pain, neck pain, and osteoarthritis, and is now...
by JoAnne Lehrfeld | Oct 13, 2017 | Acupuncture
As someone who’s an acupuncturist, who runs a website about acupuncture and talks to other acupuncturists on a daily basis, it’s easy to become convinced that everyone is an educated acupuncture junkie. But lately, I’ve been reminded that this is not the case. In...