>Acupuncturists _are_ East-Asian Traditional Healers–I’m not making a
>mutually-exclusive statement here, Robert. Plenty of acupuncturists did three
>years of school and know next to nothing about treating serious disease.

(snip)

>My point? They often DON’T. A large part of my practice is people who have
>gone to acupuncturists religiously for two years for nothing. An example is a
>client in San Francisco who was treated by a Chinese acupuncturist/herbalist
>for two years for chronic colds and malaise. The diagnosis: Heat!

(Tooting your own horn about how you successfully treated patients who
had been unsuccessfully treated by acupuncturists deleted.)

>So don’t take what I say amiss. I know several excellent practitioners. I
>know a lot of poor ones. The TCM schools in California turn out a lot of
>lousy doctors, I’m sorry to say. Part of the reason is a lack of faith in the
>tradition, appreciation for the necessity to study East-Asian history and
>language, and TCM’s overemphasis on the Liver, which I believe follows from a
>failure to note that the U.S. (and the West) is a Wood culture, while China
>(and agrarian cultures) is an Earth culture. Therefore, conditions that would
>be very serious Liver problems in China are run-of-the-mill here. Usually, it
>is the lifestyle that needs addressing, not the Liver.

Well I disagree with this, but I’m not going to argue with you because
you obviously know everything. This must be why you dropped (flunked?) out
of acupuncture school – you knew more than your teachers. Now if only
the administration had recognized that and appointed you professor —
you would be praising acupuncture education in the U.S.
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Robert Greenstein          Executive Director                              
gr…@srilanka.island.com  Donald Duck School of East Asian Traditional Healing