The State of Acupuncture Laws in Michigan

As many of you now know, there will be a public hearing in Lansing on Monday about the proposed requirements for registering as an acupuncturist in Michigan. I’ve been encouraging people to send their input. Some folks have wanted more background information, so the following is what I understand to be true (please [...]

Miriam Lee Week at Detroit Community Acupuncture!

Miriam Lee Week
July 20 – 25th
2-for1 treatments
Detroit Community Acupuncture

“[Acupuncture] can be done for fame or for wealth…if the intention is wrong, if you are concentrating on earning money, treating fewer patients and charging higher fees…you may get some results from your treatments or you may not….If you intend to cure, you use
all your might to [...]

Acupuncture is like Noodles #2

The first big question that must be answered before really digging into the theory that forms Acupuncture is like Noodles (AILN’s from now on), is “Why was this book written to begin with?”

If you’ve never been to an acupuncture clinic before (and most of us in the U.S. have not!), this question wouldn’t seem very [...]

An Introduction

Hello Detroit Community Acupuncture patients and readers!

My name is brownfemipower (BFP for short!), and Nora has invited me to write a bit for her blog!

A little about myself: I usually blog at Flip Flopping Joy. I have been blogging all over blog land for about three years now, and spend a lot of my [...]

Community Acupuncture sweeps the nation…

Well, it’s getting there, anyway – this movement is only about three years old, and the number of CA clinics grows every month! Check out this Google map of all of DCA’s brother/sister clinics – there may be one near someone you care about, who could use some affordable acupuncture (and no, I don’t [...]

Media mania!

Welcome to everyone who found out about the clinic through the lovely story in Model D! Many thanks to the article’s author, Ashley Woods, for striking up the initial conversation and gamely submitting to the needles; to Marvin Shaouni, who makes everyone and everything look fabulous; and to Mari, who was the clinic’s first [...]

Health, love, and community

I have a lot of thoughts about the relationships between these three things, but am (blessedly) too busy puncturing today to put them down in any coherent way. In the meantime, here’s an article that echoes some of them, for your reading pleasure.

It’s really written for an audience of acupuncturists, but has some interesting [...]

Machopuncture!

I’m not a huge football fan (not anti, just not that into), but I’m kind of sorry that I missed the Superbowl this year – it sounded like quite a game. I did see a clip of the record-setting 100-yard interception return by the Steelers’ James Harrison, though. And then a fellow acupuncturist [...]