Newest Issue of American Acupuncturist

 Newest Issue of American Acupuncturist

In this volume find the first of many DOAM capstone-based papers to be published in our journal. The inaugural article is by Jacob Godwin, a 2014 DAOM graduate of Oregon College of Oriental Medicine.  Dr. Godwin’s article, titled “Toward a Cogent Restatement of Acupuncture Theory: The Need for a Biological Model,” presents a timely--and quite possibly not uncontroversial--review of the bases of the practice of acupuncture itself.  Also beginning with this year’s spring volume 70, the journal is featuring a yearly article by specialists in herbal treatment.  For the first feature in this series, four experts—Michael Barr, Carter Blue, Heiner Freuhauf, and Rebecca Sobin—give us details on the cultivation, preparation, formulas, and the medicinal applications of herbs that have been used for centuries to treat a variety of conditions including low immune function, diabetes, hepatitis, high blood pressure, insomnia, circulatory problems, anxiety, and stress. AA editor in chief, Michael J. Jabbour, has completed part II of his translation of Wen Le Run (Epidemic Warm Disease Discourses).  The translation of this medical treatise, which dates from the Qing Dynasty, completes a difficult, but rewarding scholarly effort to make a very useful text available to Anglophone readers.  In turn, the journal’s associate editor, Susanne Thomas, offers up a thorough-going review of Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind by David J. Linden, author of numerous cross-over books from the realm of neuroscience.  Notably, last winter’s volume 69 sparked some discussion and interesting feedback from our readers, two of whom have weighed in on the roundtable discussion we presented that featured insights and opinions by three MD’s on “Mainstream Medicine and Integrative Patient Care: Who Gets to Choose?”  A third reader weighed in on the value of translating classical medical texts. 

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