I used to believe that if I just figured out how to get "enough" new patients that my practice would become full. I would feel successful. And I could tell myself that I had "made it." I wasn't wrong, but my beliefs were wildly
As we improve at Eastern Medicine we come to discover there are different leverage points for helping our patients. One of the highest leverage points has to do with lifestyle. Self care. Yang Sheng. Even with a basic TCM education you are sitting on knowledge that is incredibly valuable, especially
Many patients with dampness wind up in vicious cycles with mixed patterns and conflicting symptoms. For example, a common sign of dampness is "thirst for sips" or "thirst with no desire to drink." WTF is going on here? When a patient has pathological fluids (dampness) in
The knowledge base of Eastern Medicine is incredibly vast. And it's very easy to forget details, and also miss important connections. We've spent years planning and building TCM Weaver so that now practitioners can create visual mindmaps and see more connections between symptoms, patterns, herbs, formulas.