Jade River Acupuncture

06/29/2025

Acupuncture helps uterine adhesions. Some people do better with distal points than local stim. See some possible helpful points. The body can downregulate inflammation.

06/29/2025

02/16/2024

https://seattlecenter.org/skcclinic/
Had a great acupuncturist team today!

12/26/2023

https://www.healthcmi.com/Acupuncture-Continuing-Education-News/2218-acupuncture-covid-19-relief

Acupuncture long COVID relief documented by university researchers.

10/04/2023

Check out what People Magazine writes about Brian Austin Green (Megan Fox's ex) giving up gluten and dairy, realizing the part they played in his stroke or so-called cerebral vascular accident. The article also mentions kinesiology.

Brian Austin Green is reflecting on his health in a new 'S*x, Lies and Spray Tans' podcast interview with Cheryl Burke.

10/23/2022

BREAKTHROUGH (ancient but little-taught) medicine: How you might get your neck to tip your head to the right and left again, within a week. Do this to your comfort level in 5 minutes a day.

American Acupuncture colleges teach guasha in about 30 minutes, but there's a 50 hour course you can take with healthyseminars.com
You can access more than 650 articles online about the efficacy of guasha for pain and almost any chronic disease.

If this was a drug it would be considered a medical breakthrough but it's not a drug. It cannot be patented but is instead a technique that you can teach your family.

When you get the red on the back, that is all you need. Your body creates create its own heme oxidase 1, HO-1, which is an amazing anti-inflammatory, and also nitric-oxide helps with pain including digestive pain.

You can guasha the back for any of these problems. The SCM and scalene muscles can be guasha'd on the side of the neck, just be gentle, avoiding arteries, etc, or pressing too much on anything painful. You can't really go wrong sticking to the back.

No need to overwork it. Just press and pull in one direction, get the (back) pink that's all!

09/18/2022

Received this letter from Jeff in my email inbox this morning. Watching cultures grow in laboratories at Cornell University for four long years provided me with some amazing memories. I love Jeff's analogy enough to share with you all:
"I have the extraordinary honor to host the physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté in Topanga this week to break bread, hike the trails, produce a course and celebrate the launch of his new book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture. I can confidently say that this tome is destined to be one of the most important works of social science in a generation.

In my recent podcast with Gabor, he presents the book’s core premise. I will paraphrase here.

Remember high school biology? Ironically, the memory may be traumatic ;-). Let’s say you put a bacterial cell in a petri dish. The petri dish is full of a jelly-like substance called agar. Now, let’s say you added quality protein, a good carbon and nitrogen source and some micronutrients to the agar. You maintained a warm temperature and slightly acidic pH balance. By creating this supportive environment, you would expect the bacteria to grow and proliferate. Now, imagine that you added a toxin to the agar like bleach, hydrogen peroxide or a radio-active compound. Your expectation would justifiably change. The bacterial cell wall would degrade and the microbe would die.

The scientific term for a biological medium is a “culture.”

Of course, there’s a potent metaphor to be conjured here. Similar to a bacterial cell, if you placed a human individual into a supportive culture, one characterized by love and community, flush with organic food, access to quality health care, housing and education, then your expectation would be that that individual would have a decent chance of growing into a happy, healthy contributing member of society.

However, if that culture was riddled with abuse, neglect, environmental toxins, racism, poison disguised as food and the incessant drone that you are “not enough” then your expectation for this individual would not be as rosy.

The cresting rates of depression, mental illness and addiction are not anomalous to our systems and structures. On the contrary, these epidemics are the normal and expected consequence of a toxic culture. If we want to tackle these issues that cause so much suffering then we need to stop focusing on only treating the symptoms. We need to go upstream and re-engineer our culture!

We are blessed to feature an excerpt from The Myth of Normal in today’s newsletter.

Here at jeffk@onecommune.com and walking the tightrope on IG .

In love, include me, Jeff"

09/12/2022

Happy Autumn everyone! We are in the metal season associated with the lungs.
If the smoke from our forests burning is causing you health concerns, call us!
If you're a smoker and it's time for you to quit, call us!
And if you're a veteran and your lungs have been exposed to "who knows?", we are here for you... call us!

11/26/2021

At home with Joanna Malaczynski-Moore, author of Silent Winter and her dear husband Timothy, settling and making music after giving thanks for friendsgiving dinner. Timothy on guitar, Miranda on violin. Joannamoore.com/silent-winter I highly recommend the book, not only because I am quoted in it.

11/03/2021

More than pain relief!
High point health - Jade River Acupuncture is currently open Monday through Wednesday by appointment. Having success treating people in pain or healing from fatigue, heart and brain symptoms following immune challenges of any sort. Stop worrying, start enjoying your life.