Author: Neil R. Gumenick
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Acupuncture Points for Challenging Times
Categories: Research & ArticlesIn the midst of the current pandemic, isolation, economic, social, and political turmoil, we are facing unprecedented stress at the levels of the mind and spirit. Stress on these levels invariably take their toll on the physical body as well. I offer the following points as among the most useful I have incorporated in my…
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Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Case Study
Categories: Research & ArticlesThe patient is a 28-year-old female, single, and employed as a wardrobe consultant in the live entertainment industry. In her initial examination, employing the diagnostic criteria of odor, color, sound, and emotion, she emitted a scorched odor, expressed a lack of red color—ashen-gray skin tone lateral to her eyes—a lack of laughter in the sound…
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Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Treatment Strategies
Categories: Research & ArticlesIn prior articles, this author has detailed the importance of diagnosing a patient’s primary elemental imbalance (aka Causative Factor or “CF”) via odor, color, sound, and emotion. Once we have cleared any and all of the energetic blocks to acupuncture treatment strategies efficacy, in this system of medicine, we turn our attention to supporting, balancing,…
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Classical Five-Element Acupuncture: Three Powerful Treatment Strategies
Categories: Research & ArticlesIn prior articles, this author has detailed the importance of diagnosing a patient’s primary elemental imbalance, also called causative factor (CF), via odor, color, sound, and emotion. Once we have cleared any and all of the energetic blocks to treatment efficacy, in this system of medicine, we turn our attention to supporting, balancing, and harmonizing…
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Five Elements, Twelve Officials, and the Causative Factor
Categories: Research & ArticlesBy Neil R. Gumenick The Five Elements For thousands of years, the Chinese observed Nature’s rhythms and cycles through the model of the Five Elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. These elements are in everything, everyone, and observable in any process. In nature, for a plant to grow, there must be a seed capable of…