by Simon Yu, MD | Mar 9, 2021 | Acupuncture Meridian Assessment, Case Stories, Lyme, Medical Acupuncture
Recently, I saw a 40-year-old patient from Kentucky with myriad symptoms too long to list, including Lyme, seizures, severe fatigue, neuropathy, migraine headache and chronic pain. She told me that she had been at a major medical institution in the Midwest for a...
by Simon Yu, MD | Sep 22, 2020 | Acupuncture Meridian Assessment, Dental, Professional Training
The Jedi, a fictional class of warrior-monks, captured the imagination of the world through Star Wars movies in the late 1970’s, and became a mythical legend. A Jedi has to sacrifice his emotions so he remains impartial, sacrificing himself and fighting not for glory,...
by Simon Yu, MD | Aug 17, 2020 | Acupuncture Meridian Assessment, Cancer, Case Stories, Medical Acupuncture
Fatigue, the reflection of adrenal and thyroid dysfunction, is one of the common complaints for doctors’ visits, and most blood tests do not reflect their symptoms. Any infections or environmental toxins will eventually stress your endocrine system and it will disturb...
by Simon Yu, MD | Aug 3, 2020 | Acupuncture Meridian Assessment, Cancer, Case Stories, History of Medicine, Medical Acupuncture
Medical dogma held that stress and lifestyle factors were the major causes of peptic ulcer disease. Australian Dr. Barry Marshall and pathologist Robin Warren rebutted this theory through self-experimentation – Marshall drank an H. pylori cocktail to cause the...
by Simon Yu, MD | Jun 15, 2020 | Acupuncture Meridian Assessment, Dental, Professional Training
The Medicine and Dentistry (MAD) professions parallel but rarely interact for their patient care. Many patients suffer, and it is maddening to make sense of non-sense in the medical-dental maladapted disconnection (MD-MD) phenomenon. Sitting in a dental chair is like...
by Simon Yu, MD | Feb 12, 2020 | Acupuncture Meridian Assessment, Case Stories, Medical Acupuncture
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a common medical condition among aging adults. 15% of US adults – 37 million people – are estimated to have CKD, and most do not know they have it. CKD and related problems are exponentially rising. Kidney dialysis centers have been...
