Journal

Clinical writing on acupuncture, medication safety, and the care of stress and chronic pain.

  1. The Yin Season: Shorter Days, Longer Nights, and How to Live Them

    What Chinese medicine means by the yin half of the year, what shorter days do to sleep, mood, and appetite, and practical ways to rest, eat, and move with the season.

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  2. Rest and Digest: The Nervous System and What Happens During Acupuncture

    How the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the nervous system work, why modern life keeps many of us in the first, and what research suggests acupuncture does to the balance between them.

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  3. The Metal Season: Autumn, the Organ Clock, and What to Eat This Fall

    How Chinese medicine's seasonal model and organ clock map onto fall nutrition, which autumn foods hold up to a Western nutritional reading, and where seasonal eating meets the medications many of us take.

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  4. The Intersection of Psychopharmacology and Acupuncture: A Safer Path to Stress & Pain Relief in Manhattan

    How a Doctor of Pharmacy fits acupuncture alongside established medication regimens for stress, chronic pain, anxiety, and depression, and what the research says about its effects on the nervous system.

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