Erin Moran Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

Erin’s Story

"OFTEN PEOPLE RETURN AFTER THEIR FIRST OR SECOND TREATMENT AND SAY, “YES MY TENNIS ELBOW IS MUCH BETTER, BUT WHAT ELSE DID YOU DO TO ME? I FEEL OVERALL MUCH BETTER AND MORE LIKE MYSELF!”

Erin has been practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) since 2001. With an undergraduate degree in biology and one year of dental school under her belt, she brought plenty of skepticism to her training in Chinese medicine. After exhausting her teachers with questions about mechanisms of action and the need for tidy flow charts, she heeded their advice: "wait until you start your clinical training. You will see. It works."

Indeed they were right. Chinese medicine works. In many cases. On a daily basis, Erin was amazed to see that a certain protocol of acupuncture points, based on symptoms and tongue and pulse presentation, dealt with the problem with significantly more success than all of the other modalities a patient had tried. Her skepticism started to turn into intrigue and she felt the need for deeper study.

Through her training, Erin learned that TCM is excellent for treating the here-and-now physical manifestations of an internal imbalance. However, she felt something was missing in that TCM did not address the problems arising from mind and spirit imbalances.

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