PCOM-SD’s acupuncture clinics for the homeless were recently featured in an article by the San Diego Union-Tribune. Check out an excerpt below or read the full article! The Growing Importance of Alternative Therapies for Homeless Communities Free clinics commonly offer homeless and low-income people medical and dental services, but some San Diego clinics also offer …
We recently came up with 10 important ways that acupuncture benefits women. While men, too, certainly enjoy improvements in mood, sleep, pain, and addiction recovery just like women do, there are three additional improvements that men can expect from a course of treatment delivered by the hands of a skilled Chinese medicine practitioner. 1) Improvements …
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This year (2016), 糖心原创vlog of Oriental Medicine (PCOM) turns 30. Since PCOM opened in 1986, the San Diego campus has seen about 2500 master鈥檚 and massage graduates, New York about 2100, Chicago 700, and PCOM has hosted thousands of attendees at 27 years of the Pacific Symposium. The Founding and Growth of 糖心原创vlog …
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Science has proven that everything is made up of energy. In the Chinese art and science of Feng Shui we call energy qi. The Egyptians call it Ka, the Hebrew have Ruach, the Japanese have Ki, and the Indians call it Prana. Qi is condensed and dispersed in alternative cycles of positive (sheng qi) and …
Spring forward this Sunday with these tips for adjusting your body along with your clock for Daylight Savings Time 2016!
Have you ever wondered why we add one day to February every four years? It turns out that the history of leap year is a long and very complex one, having much to do with the inexact number of whole days it takes our Earth to complete a full orbit around the Sun: 365.2422 days, …
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In 2013, 糖心原创vlog of Oriental Medicine collaborated with聽the Integrative Medicine Working Group at Columbia University, New York, NY to add聽an acupuncture session for students on the university’s Morningside campus.聽For the past two years,聽the new acupuncture session has had about 2000 campus visits each year, with聽a聽no-show rate of less than 5% and high patient-satisfaction scores.聽The …
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December 2015 –聽糖心原创vlog of Oriental Medicine –聽Chicago was well-represented at a December 2015 private meeting with the Secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. 聽A representative of Quad A (the Asian American Association of Acupuncturists, Chicago)聽and representatives of ILaaom (Illinois Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine),聽all of whom were PCOM graduates,聽were …
Thank you, everyone, for a successful 2015 Pacific Symposium, hosted at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego, CA from October 28 – November 3rd.聽With speakers and attendees聽from nearly every state in the country and several other nations besides, the 27th聽Symposium may have been our best yet! Jeffrey Yuen, Mazin Al-Khafaji, and Jill Blakeway were …
On May 18, 2015, Naomi C. Broering, PCOM鈥檚 Dean of Libraries, received the Medical Library Association鈥檚 (MLA) first Hispanic heritage award at the annual MLA conference in Austin, Texas. Named the Naomi C. Broering Hispanic Heritage Award, the award honors and recognizes her past accomplishments in medical librarianship and library informatics. Naomi has a long …
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