Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
After completing my BA, I looked at MS programs in Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Oriental Medicine all over the country. I was young, without ties to a community, and was open to moving anywhere. I chose to attend Five Branches University because out of all of my prospective schools, that one was strongest in [...]
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
The following is a particularly eloquent email one of my patients sent me before she made her first appointment. Like many women with PCOS, hers was a trying path to pregnancy. However, with the right combination of Chinese and Western medicine, she was able to conceive and have a healthy pregnancy. To the left is [...]
Monday, September 27th, 2010
Nothing makes me happier than following up with a patient who became pregnant under my care. For example, yesterday Isaw a patient who I haven’t seen since her first trimester. Now she is in her 36th week. She wrote of her experience during her first trimester: I am research scientist, and I have always been a little [...]
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
I have just returned from the Reproductive Medical Center and Fertility Center (RMFC) in Colorado Springs where I completed a preceptorship and co-authored a research study on acupuncture and IVF. I feel so fortunate to be the only acupuncturist from the Santa Cruz area who has done a preceptorship at RMFC, the fertility clinic with [...]
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Having just returned from the International Women’s Health Seminar in Costa Rica, I feel compelled to share my experience with you. We discussed the heart of Oriental and Integrative Medicine–addressing the individual patient’s constitution in conjunction with treating disease manifestations and symptoms. For me, this seminar was very inspiring as it married several key concepts [...]
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
I am so excited to be attending the seminar, ”Gynecology, Fertility and Promoting an Easy Labor” in Costa Rica. It will be taught by one of my esteemed Japanese Acupuncture teachers, David Euler. Topics will include: Menopause Support Infertility Causes and Solutions Endometriosis, Ovarian Cysts Irregular Cycles, PMS Healthy Pregnancy and Delivery The timing couldn’t be better, [...]
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
and no, its not just because you think it will… The following is an abstract from a very interesting study conducted in Germany. It has been well established that acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicinals can dramatically improve semen parameters. But why? Is it the “placebo effect”? Not according to this groundbreaking research, the Correlation of [...]
I just got back from teaching Chinese Medicine and IVF–East-West Synergy in Yo San University’s Doctoral of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) program. The class focused on helping women (and men) have a successful IVF cycle with Chinese medicine. It also included a synopsis of current research, some of which is so powerful I feel [...]
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Since the publication of the first research trials demonstrating dramatically higher pregnancy rates when acupuncture is combined with in-vitro fertilization almost a decade ago, the demand for highly trained Chinese medicine practitioners in the field of reproductive medicine has drastically escalated. Unfortunately, the demand for fertility specialists has outpaced the training….until now. A new era [...]
Saturday, January 16th, 2010
Millions of couples in the United States struggle with infertility. In 2/3 of couples the “problem” does not clearly lie with the female or the male; both partners have some degree of subfertility. For example, she may have irregular cycles and he may have a boarder line low sperm count. In this common scenario, the optimum chances [...]
