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Hello everyone, my name is Billy Shonez Singh and I am a licensed acupuncturist and board certified herbalist. I am presenting to you what is acupuncture, what its used for and how a needle is inserted into the body. If you want more information just go to my website at Zehohs Acupuncture in Commack, NY. Take care and we'll see each other next time.


About Billy Singh, L. Ac. & Zenohs Acupuncture in Commack, NY

Zenohs Acupuncture's lead Practitioner and founder of the Center is Billy "Shonez" Singh. From a young age, Billy had always revered ancient Chinese wisdom. He began firstly practicing martial arts. Years later, Billy's interest in Acupuncture and ancient Chinese healing grew organically from there. Billy received training from the New York College of Health Professions in Syosset, New York, where he was a student in the Massage Therapy program.

Moving forward from this knowledge base, Billy obtained his Masters Degree in Acupuncture, and is board certified as "Diplomate of Acupuncture" and "Diplomate of Chinese herbology by the NCCAOM (National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine). Billy has also been fortunate enough to train under noted acupuncturist and author, Virginia Doran, LMT, M.Ac., L.Ac., from whom he obtained certification in Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture.

Billy Singh attended the New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine for his certification in Chinese herbology and trained with highly esteemed herbologists, Dr. Libang Zhang and Dr. Yongshun Bei.

Billy is an active member of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce and the Long Island Association.

Interesting discussion on Ling Shu's famous quote in Richard Goodman's Blog.

"While working on selecting texts for Volume Two of Classical Chinese Medical Texts, I found some interesting information on what constitutes a superior physician. There is also some information on what constitutes an inferior physician. I have picked three texts to look at. These three texts do not necessarily represent all that has been written on the subject, but as they are three of the older texts in Chinese medicine, namely the Ling Shu, the Nan Jing, and the Jin Gui Yao Lue, I consider them great models for one who strives toward becoming a superior physician.

Ling Shu Chapter 55

The superior physician treats that which is not yet ill. The inferior physician treats that which is already ill.

This is a fairly famous statement, which is often interpreted to be a call to preventative medicine. Modern physicians often complain that patients come in with specific complaints and it is impossible to treat what is not yet ill. I find this stance strange, as if we are to believe if someone has a disease which has already become manifest, the practitioner is prevented from treating what is not yet ill.

At any rate, the following quote from Nanjing has a completely different interpretation of the above passage:

Treating what is not yet ill means that when one sees illness in the liver (for example), this (can be) transmitted to the spleen. First fill (shi2) the spleen qi so that there is no way for it to accept the liver's evil qi. This is what is called treating what is not yet ill.

As you can read, the writer of the Nan Jing felt that the meaning of treating what was not yet ill did not mean some psychic rendering of signs and symptoms, but a way of treating a person who comes with a specific complaint. One might go so far as to suggest that when the superior physician sees that one zang-organ has been afflicted by evil qi, the zang-organ in the control/destruction (ke) cycle of the five phases needs to be supported."

read the complete article  "Superior & Inferior Physicians" on Richard Goodman's blog

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Send letters to your senators and representative using AAAOMs fast and easy letter-writing tool at http://www.aaaomonline.org/hr646

The AAAOM is issuing a call to action letter writing campaign in support of HR 646. We are at the forefront of a momentous change in U.S. healthcare, and acupuncture and Oriental medicine is an important part of this crucial transition. In supporting and passing HR646, we are creating a firm foundation for our profession to propel from alternative medicine to mainstream, and we need everyone's voice to make it happen!

WHAT IS HR 646 AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

This is a decisive moment for acupuncture and Oriental medicine. HR 646, also known as "The Federal Acupuncture Coverage Act of 2009," amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of qualified acupuncturist services under part B of the Medicare Program, and to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for coverage of such services under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. The passing of this bill will open acupuncture and Oriental medicine (AOM) to many more patients who could benefit from its effectiveness. For practitioners and students, it will open the doors to new patients to serve. It will provide us all with more affordable healthcare choices and create a firm foundation for further integration into U.S. healthcare.

WHAT CAN I DO?

Write a letter to your Member of Congress. If you are a patient, practitioner, student or professional partner in the integrative health fields: Write a letter in support of HR 646! Ask each family member, friend, classmate, colleague, and, most important, each patient to write a letter to their Members of Congress.

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To have your letter hand-delivered by AAAOM's lobbyist in Washington, D.C., go to http://www.aaaomonline.org/hr646

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H.R. 646 would amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of qualified acupuncturist services under part B of the Medicare Program, and to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for coverage of such services under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.

"I volunteered for 3 weeks at Namo Buddha monastery in January of 2008 about 2 hours from Kathmandu. I collected donations to fund the supplies and donations to make a new hospital there. I raised over $2000 for supplies and money towards their new and much larger clinic. Last year it was a one room clinic that often served over 100 patients/day."

Gillian Marsollier M.TCM, R.Ac, C.I. Program Director - Acupuncture CompuCollege Acupuncture Program, Halifax, Canada

Pillars of Health, a multi-disciplinary integrative wellness clinic located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

On March 8, 2009, five NYCTCM alumni are elected as Board Members of the United Alliance of New York State Licensed Acupuncturists. From the left to right: Jun Li, Mei Li, Lily Ni, Jan Yi Yan, Ting Yu Feng.

Dr Stefano Marcelli, MD, Acupuncturist, Mesotherapist and Clinical Psychologist in Italy, wrote to NYCTCM about her project to show the path of the female Kidney Acupuncture Channel in the foot and ankle should not be shaped like a coil, but rather like an open bend or a gulf, because the ovum path has exactly this shape and is totally internal.

"In my opinion, the path of the Kidney Acupuncture Channel in the foot as it is described in Traditional Chinese Medicine classics is wrongly considered identical both in males and females. Basing my statement on anatomical correlations, which I presume nobody has found before now, the Kidney Acupuncture Channel path in the foot (and ankle) should have the shape of a coil only in males."

"Despite my western medical knowledge, since my first studies of TCM I have strongly felt that Acupuncture Channels must be real and not abstract entities. For many years I have supposed that the ancient doctors and also the common people, not only in old China but everywhere, could see the acupuncture channels. They perceived the Qi, the times and the shapes of its distribution and organization in all natural kingdoms. I mean that they actually saw the internal organs and the internal paths of the channels.

If not, could they have described how the Governor Vessel Dumai penetrated the heart, and the Kidney Channel terminated at the root of the tongue? We know these are only two among many possible examples. I cannot date the time when ancient humans saw these things, which today are invisible, maybe it was in the time that some religions call "Eden", "Heaven" or "Paradise", when people could see the causes (among them the Qi) together with the effects (among them the bodies).

At a certain point, when our more distant ancestors could see the pericardium and its connected finger, the liver and its connected toe, the yin-yang and the five elements in animals, herbs and metals, something happened: something which made everyone blind enough not to see the causes, but still able to see matter as an effect of the Qi.

My project's aim is to succeed in seeing again the acupuncture channels in a scientific, technological and repeatable way.

If anyone finds this idea interesting and wants to give his/her opinion, he/she is invited to contact me."

Dr. Stefano Marcelli's website with anatomical diagrams and contact information.

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