Yin Yang Podcast - Acupuncture, TCM, and Chinese Medicine

Parasites and humans have developed a unique cat and mouse relationship. One of our human immune systems detecting the parasite and the parasite evading our immune system. Lee Likins, PhD, a professor of parasitology at University of Missouri Kansas City, joins the show today to gleam some insight on these zombie driving, antigen cloaking, brain hiding, worm wiggling, suicide inspiring, host sucking, creatures! And some TCM on how to treat them.

Tara Akuna LAc, founder of Edible Nourishment, joins the show today from Vancouver, British Columbia. Her idea and business, meal plans based off of Chinese medical diagnosis. Menopause weighing you down? Eat a yin deficiency/hormone nourishing cookie !!!

A woman walking down a runway wearing a dress that has all the meridians and acupuncture points on it... Now that's FASHION !!! Holly Renee, creator and master mind of Shenova Fashion, joins the show today to talk about how she combined science and Chinese medicine into her signature fashion line.

Dr. Daneila Lewgoy joins the show from Porto Alegre, Brazil. Her clients are not of the human type. Rather being a veterinarian who specializes in acupuncture and herbs she sees more of the exotic animals. How do you find UB-23 on a python? Or does Yin Tang work on a howler monkey? To her though, it’s normal, she just goes to work everyday!

Ladan Eshkevari, PhD, joins the show to review the research she is doing at Georgetown University on the treatment of Chronic Stress and Pain Management with acupuncture. Her findings… Just get acupuncture !

Ken Rosen LAc., cancer survivor, bee venom therapist, and international health expert, joins the show. How does one hold a bee? When do you use bee venom therapy compared to acupuncture? Do you use the same points? Hear those answers along with great stories and Ken's take on the importance of diet and nutrition in health care.

Things you didn't learn in acupuncture school about breast cancer and how to treat it. Chris Powell, one of the voices behind Yin Yang Podcast, goes over minute details of the pulse (Empty and Muffled) in relation to cancer that he learned from Shen and Hammer. From there he expounds upon how to formulated herbal prescriptions with modifications from his 20 plus years of experience.

The use of Yin Care is without a doubt effective as a topical for damp heat conditions. In this episode, Daniel Hudson LAc, describes how a chance trip to China in 1999 led to him to bring a 150 million bottles sold a year company to America. He also goes over the medical research backing the product for skin, gynecology, oral, and burn conditions.

Travis Spire-Sweet, LAc., first received acupuncture at the age of 13 for chronic kidney disease and made it another 17 years before he needed a transplant. Thanks in large part to acupuncture and Chinese herbs. Travis eventually received a kidney transplant in February of 2013 from his fiancé. Today he shares what he has found Chinese medicine can do for people with kidney disease by combining classical theory and current western research.

Special guest Dr. Helene Langevin joins the show today. She is Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard and a neuroendocrinologist at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Her area of focus is analyzing and viewing what occurs to the connective tissue when an acupuncture needle is inserted and stimulated.

1971 provided the year acupuncture gained a foundation in the American medical system. Cardiologist, Dr. E. Grey Dimond, carried this message despite formidable obstacles. We are honored to present his story today.

Albert Stern, a licensed acupuncturist in Denver, Colorado, visits the show today. He describes the downfalls in current point location textbooks and how he is increasing the students chance for success with acupuncture medical illustrations, TCM Picture Book!

Noah Goldstein (Acupuncturist in Boulder, Co) visits the show today to share the story behind his innovative clinic: The Acupuncture Bus.

Chris Powell, specializing in cancer for the past 20 years, simplifies how to analyze any breast cancer patient. Starting with an understanding of where breast cancer shows up, types of tissues effected, staging, and western treatment therapies (lumpectomy, mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation). This understanding leads to an in-depth view of how to differentiate and diagnosis breast cancer in Chinese medicine.

Stephen Bonzak, LAc, a professor at PCOM, gives us his no holds barred take on patent herbs, the misleadings of TCM, and the importance of the classics!