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Open House
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The new Summer 2006 Trimester starts April 24, 2006.
Next Open House: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Sunday, July 19, 2006 ......
Doctor Program
The mission of the doctoral program in acupuncture and Oriental
medicine at AAAOM is to train qualified practitioners in an
integrated approach: bringing together traditional Chinese medicine
and modern western medicine and combining classical understanding
and contemporary techniques......
AAAOM Faculty
Faculty members at AAAOM include highly skilled doctors of Oriental
medicine
from China, and doctors of biomedicine who have received training in
both Western and
Oriental medicine. The Academy’s faculty members, with their strong
theoretical
background, clinical experience, and technical skills, constitute a
very diversified body of
knowledge and expertise......
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About Oriental Medicine |
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Herbal medicine is the
main modality or treatment method within Traditional Chinese
Medicine or TCM. TCM is the world’s oldest, continually practiced,
professional medicine. Its written history stretches back not less
than 2,500 years and its practice is undoubtedly much older than
that. Although acupuncture was the first Chinese modality to gain
wide acceptance in the West, Chinese herbal medicine is quickly
establishing itself as one of the most popular and effective
alternative therapies in the West......
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What is Acupucture? |
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Acupuncture is one of
the modaliti s of Oriental medicine. Although what is called
acupuncture in the Westcoplprises several different therapies (such
as moxibustion and cupping),
mostly it consists of the insertion of fine needles into the body at
specific points shown to be effective in the treatment of specific
health problems. These points have been mapped by the Chinese over a
per,iod of two thousand years, and there are more than a thousand
known acupoints. In the past three decades, electromagnetic research
has confirmed the existence and location of these points......
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Clinic System |
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This clinic is created to serve the special needs of practitioners
who are
confronted with complicated and difficult health conditions. Guest
doctors in a variety of
specialties are invited from China on a regular basis. The most
advanced skills and the
most recent developments in acupuncture and other areas of
traditional Chinese
medicine are brought into the United States through this clinic......
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AAAOM Library |
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The
AAAOM library has a comprehensive collection of books and
periodicals
on
acupuncture and Oriental medicine. We collect every book on
acupuncture and
Chinese herbal medicine published in English. We keep all the
leading journals on
traditional Chinese medicine from around the world. Our goal is to
have the most
complete TCM library outside of East Asia......
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