San Diego Acupuncture Blog

We are getting ready to start filming for the Cooking with Chinese Herbs DVD. The recipes are ready and the testing done. Should be fun!

I'll keep you posted!

Unlike a cook book, I'll show you how to make healthy and tasty dishes using Chinese Herbs to boost your vitality.

As a athlete, competeting in triathlons, martial arts and with numerous injuries and dings as a police officer, I know the value and effectiveness of Acupuncture for sports injuries.

I can't tell you sick and tired I am when I hear and read about Acupuncture defined as "complimentary medicine" or "alternative medicine." Acupuncture is a complete medicine. More people are treated each day with Acupuncture throughout the world than with western medicine.

This past winter was cold, even in southern California. Many of my new patients have been experiencing fatigue, memory loss, difficulty in focusing on daily tasks and lack of sexual energy. Unfornunately, most practitioners think of Jing/Essence only in the context of sexuality and fertility. Although this is a central function of Jing, it is its association with the psyche that is extremely important as well.

One of the great tools I like to use with clients is Food Therapy. Dietary changes are often vital in healing. Specific meats and produce act on the body to stimulate health in different ways.

Classical Five-Element Acupuncture leads to Spiritual Emergence, a more expanded way of being that involves enhanced physical, emotional and psychosomatic health, greater freedom of personal choices, and a sense of deeper connection with other people, nature, and the cosmos.