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Balance Method Reference Charts
Written by Mark Melchiorre   
Here are charts and illustrations helpful to balance method practitioners. 
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Chronotherapeutics
Written by Mark Melchiorre   
This page contains reference material on chrono-therapeutics or time-based acupuncture.

Updated 2/28/2008 to correct for Leap Year.

Keywords: Chronopuncture, Chrono Acupuncture, Zi Wu Liu Zhu, Ling Gui Ba Fa, and Fei Teng Ba Fa
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Community Based Acupuncture
Written by Lisa Rohleder   
love your microbusiness:
marketing for a community-based acupuncture practice
the working class acupuncture e-book (a little red book in disguise)
by Lisa Rohleder, LAc - Working Class Acupuncture

Most acupuncturists are self-employed, sole proprietors running a microbusiness. Not a small business, a microbusiness. Definitions vary, but usually the legal definition of a small business is one which has under 100 employees. A common definition of a microbusiness is a business with average annual gross receipts of $2,500,000 or less over the past three years. Makes a microbusiness sound pretty good, doesn’t it!

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San Char Points
Written by James H. Maher   

SAN1 CHA1
(
三叉三穴 San Char)

When asked for a contribution to BalanceMethod.org, I really had no idea what to write about. Then, while reading some of the questions and comments on the Balance Method sites, it dawned on me that there is quite a large gap in the understanding of the San1 Cha1 points. Ergo, I decided that a discourse on these points might be just what the doctor ordered!

Compiled, collated, and translated by
James H. Maher, DC, OMD, Dipl. Ac., Dipl. T. Ac.

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The Use of Acupuncture For Smoking Cessation
Written by Ted Zombolas   
An Alternative Method By
Ted Zombolas EMT-a, RRT, CCP, CAc, LAc.
Zombolas Acupuncture
"I have been asked repeatedly to share my protocol for smoking cessation. Although I have given this protocol to many, I have decided to present this paper for all to read and perhaps use in their clinics."
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Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture (WAA) - Book Review
Written by Mark Melchiorre   
In the 1960s Zhang Xinshu began treating difficult, recalcitrant cases with strong electrotherapies. Zhang Xinshu’s clinical search for an effective and relatively pain free treatment applicable to a wide range of conditions evolved into what we know today as WAA. The chapter on the history of WAA is an interesting insight into a clinician’s continuing exploration to better treat one’s patients.
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