April 4, 2025 These are challenging times! . . . . Beginning with COVID, then through rapid interest rate hikes, multiple wars, and now, of course, so much more so. Everything seems inside out and upside down. Uncertainties are amplified. And...
Daniel Schulman
Mother’s Day, Relationships and Acupuncture.
It’s Mother’s Day. The style of acupuncture I practice invokes a principle from the Chinese Han Dynasty Canonical Text, the Nan Jing (the Classic of Difficult Issues) . . . in the case of depletion, treat the mother What does this mean? Chinese Medicine is...
Here’s The Thing
I came across a research article recently from China documenting impressive modern biomedical evidence that acupuncture had positive effect on bone density in patients with osteoporosis. You might ask yourself how that could be possible. Aren’t bones hard and solid,...
On Appropriation
Someone recently put the question into the social media sphere, “is it cultural appropriation for non-Chinese to practice Chinese Medicine?” Here’s my response... I recently had a Nigerian woman come to my clinic for Acupuncture treatment. I practice in Eastern...
On Integrating Like Bamboo
Our profession has been striving to emerge within Western society for at least half a century. While national, regional, state and provincial details vary, the profile of Chinese Medicine throughout most of the West is now expanding remarkably. This includes...
Solstice and the Nature of Change
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 Today is the shortest day of the year in earth’s Northern Hemisphere. Tomorrow, the incremental lengthening of daylight in the long slow transition towards summer begins. Superficially, this reality runs counter to our experience. Here in...
Right Relationship to Shorter Days and the Coming Winter
Wednesday, 25 November, 2015 Here in the Northern hemisphere, we are now well into the darkest part of the year, that slow slide towards late December and the shortest span of daylight in the diurnal cycle. For most of us, this means waking, getting up and getting...
The Three Practices of Acupuncture. Technique, Modality, Profession.
Monday, 29 July, 2013 “The mid- level physician believes this knowledge to be something attainable. The lower physician believes this to be something easily acquired. It is the superior physician (alone) that understands the true difficulties of (its study).” ...
Am I Getting Better? Part II. Clinical Example
Monday, 24 September, 2012 This is a followup to the previous blog post, ‘Am I Getting Better?’ A present case from my clinic serves well to highlight many of the finer aspects of determining progress during treatment. A mother recently brought her 9-year old son to...
Am I Getting Better? Part I. Measuring Progress.
Friday, 31 August, 2012 These are critical questions. You should be asking them regularly with the full awareness it takes to arrive at an answer. To be truthful, you should be asking them critically during and after ANY intervention - whether pharmaceutical,...
The Yin and Yang of Borborygmus
June 6, 2012 Almost every time I see a new patient, within minutes of the acupuncture treatment starting, their digestive system starts to rumble. I’ve been observing this reliably for 12 years now. What does this reveal about acupuncture, my typical patient and the...
The Fall Season and the Metal Phase
September 5, 2009 The Fall Season is upon us. Chinese Medicine, through its Taoist roots, has much to say about the movements of the seasons and how, as we stand positioned between Heaven and Earth, they are reflected in us. One legacy of Taoist cosmology is...
The Spring Season and the Wood Phase
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Spring is unfolding. Chinese Medicine, through its Taoist roots, has much to say about the movements of the seasons and how, as we stand positioned between Heaven and Earth, they are reflected in us. One legacy of Taoist cosmology is...
When There is Blue Smoke, is the Tailpipe the Problem?
Monday, June 2, 2008 A Classical Acupuncturist is trained to look at you as a whole person, regardless of what ‘malady’ brings you to the clinic. In the world of Classical Acupuncture, it is rare that even the seemingly simplest musculoskeletal problem is not tied in...