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    Acupuncture, Anti-Aging and Alternative Medicine

    Posted By on Aug 14, 2009

    By Sydney Walker, L.Ac. 707-217-5777 Sonoma County Acupuncture Acupuncture in Santa Rosa Acupuncture in Sebastopol Anti-aging medicine and nutrition is big business these days, as most baby boomers are trying anything and everything to look and feel younger. In my acupuncture practice, many of my patients have asked me if I do cosmetic acupuncture or if I know much about using food and herbs to take a few years off their appearance....

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    Acupuncture and Insomnia

    Posted By on Aug 14, 2009

    By Sydney Walker, L.Ac., Sonoma County Acupuncture, Acupuncture in Santa Rosa, CA, Acupuncture in Sebastopol, CA, Acupuncture in Cotati and Rohnert Park, CA Acupuncture and Alternative Treatment Options for Insomnia By Sydney Walker, L.Ac. 707-544-8802 Sonoma County Acupuncture Acupuncture in Santa Rosa Acupuncture in Sebastopol Better sleep is a natural outcome of acupuncture treatments. People are often surprised when coming in for...

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    Acupuncture and Alternative Medicine

    Posted By on Aug 13, 2009

    By Sydney Walker, L.Ac., Sonoma County Acupuncture, Acupuncture in Santa Rosa, CA, Acupuncture in Sebastopol, CA, Acupuncture in Cotati and Rohnert Park, CA Since 1989, I have treated over a hundred patients in my acupuncture practice in Santa Rosa, California. Out of all the patients I have treated, I would say that about 50% of them (at least) are struggling with a pattern called adrenal exhaustion. This basically means that they...

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    National Health Care and Acupuncture

    Posted By on Jun 2, 2009

    If you would like to see acupuncture and other forms of comprehensive, complimentary approaches covered by Medicare and in any National Health Care plan, there are several ways you can help. Please Support HR 646, The Federal Acupuncture Coverage Act Give health consumers choice by including acupuncture as a covered benefit under Medicare part B. http://www.rallycongress.com/aaaom/ And to have a strong public option in the new...

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    Five Element Acupuncture

    Posted By on May 14, 2009

    By Sydney Walker, L.AC. Sonoma County Acupuncture Acupuncture in Santa Rosa, CA Acupuncture in Sebastopol, Ca According to the Five Element model, every one of us is predominantly affected by one of these elements and their associations. We all are a unique mixture of all five influences, but there is one that predominates. Using the wise guidance of this model, we can see how there are precise psychological dynamics at work that...

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    Health Care Reform

    Posted By on May 14, 2009

    If you like, you can give your opinion to Barak Obama and his administration at this web address: http://transparency.cit.nih.gov/healthreform/ideas.cfm You can also call Congress at 202-224-3121 Here’s my offering: I believe we as a country need to provide medical care for people, not insurance coverage for them. There is no reason to keep “for-profit” insurance industry in the mix. People in this industry could be...

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    Levels of Treatment: Bill and Blanche

    Posted By on Apr 27, 2009

    Professor Worsley taught us that there are three levels of treatment- physical, mental, and spiritual. Treatments won’t be effective unless we treat with the intention of reaching the correct level. One day he told us that in his experience most Americans from the generation of the baby boomers onward needed treatment at the level of the spirit. This is not true of people everywhere, or of people born earlier. My mother Blanche, born...

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