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Dr. Aaron Leon Kenin, DACM, Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

Aaron Leon Kenin is a Dr. of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and Licensed Acupuncturist currently practicing in the greater Jerusalem area in Israel.

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27/09/2025

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/acupuncture-eases-chronic-low-back-pain-boosts-physical-2025a1000pwm?ecd=a2a&fbclid=Iwb21leANFLdBjbGNrA0UtzmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeT2vMwSey1d4BZjroC4XBJkLuN7TRkMccJL0dAW4JtVMsceUsNJJU3squ3kw_aem_DdFnDyh6F2Qay9gsmhTt9w

07/01/2025

Cold season is here.

What are some things you can do to avoid getting a cold? Here are 5 basic methods to help you stay healthy. (I'm a practicing Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, and a California Licensed Acupuncturist and Nationally Certified Acupuncturist and Herbalist, but the following recommendations are basic, common sense guidlines, not specific treatment recommendations for specific conditions.)

1. The number one way to stay healthy, in general (including fixing digestive problems, skin problems such as acne and eczema, and joint pain), is to have proper nutrition. While each person's exact perfect diet is individual, some general guidelines that will benefit everyone are: eat only unprocessed, whole foods (if you avoid anything that comes in a bag, can, bottle, box, or any kind of industrial packaging - easier said than done - you're pretty much there); avoid processed foods and any foods with ingredients made or processed in a lab or commercial kitchen, avoid any foods with added sugar or other sweeteners and don't add your own sweetners; eliminate simple carbohydrates (potatoes, pasta, corn, white rice); minimize but don't eliminate high carbohydrate veggies, even good ones, such as root vegetables and tubers (carrots, beets, yams/sweet potatoes); eliminate all dairy; eliminate fruit juices; minimize fresh fruit; avoid all processed grain products (breads, crackers, cold and hot breakfast cereals, rice and corn cakes, popped corn), and minimize unprocessed grains (such as barley grains and wheat berries you might add to a cholent or stew).

2. Get enough sleep, based on natural circadian rhythms. Our bodies were created before artificial light and are most suited to such a world. That means, all year round, going to sleep when it gets dark, and waking when it gets light. A good deal of healing and maintenance happens when we sleep.

3. Practice controlled breathing exercises for at least 10 minutes daily. You could try Wim Hof's method, or find another that suits you.

4. Do some form of exercise, at least a few times a week, that gets your heart beating faster and makes you sweat. This usually means at least 20 minutes at a time. Start or finish with basic stretching: the joints are energetic gateways, and keeping them open keeps energy from getting stuck (stuck energy can manifest as pain, phlegm, swelling and inflammation, skin problems, and more).

5. The above 4 suggestions are simple, but not easy. Very few of us, myself included, can always stick to all of them. The better you follow them, the better your health will be. However, since we can't always manage them, see a qualified acupuncturist/herbalist (or other qualified holistic practitioner if these are not your cup of tea). It's best to get periodic treatments when you're not sick, so that you maintain balance and stay healthy. Treatments while you have a cold can help you lesson symptoms and heal faster.

And here's some basic information from a Western Medicine perspective, about the contagious period for the common cold.

The incubation period for a cold can last for several days. Learn more about the timeline, early symptoms to watch for, and remedies that may help.

24/08/2024

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8991130/

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I’ve became interested in Traditional Chinese Medicine when I was around 10 years old. At that time I started taking kung fu and judo classes at Wu Tao Kuan, a martial arts school in Berkeley. I became good friends with the teacher’s son and close with his entire family. His father, my martial arts teacher and mentor, is Dr. Alex Feng, who is one of the senior practitioners of Chinese Medicine in the Bay Area. Some summers I worked as a helper in Dr. Feng’s clinic and observed treatments. His son and I learned how to do cupping and moxibutstion on each other. When I was 13, Dr. Feng took us with him to Santa Cruz, where he was attending a major conference on Chinese Medicine. We went along to go to the Boardwalk, but he made us attend the opening lecture! That was my first formal introduction to the concepts of yin and yang, the five elements, and the acupuncture meridians. I found it fascinating. Though I went on many other paths of interest and exploration, including living in Spain for three years and Israel for three more, I and never lost interest in either martial arts or Chinese Medicine. I have continued to practice, compete in, and teach judo ever since, and after some years as a Spanish teacher and translator, decided to return to that original interest and studied Traditional Chinese Medicine, both at the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences and Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College. I was licensed by the State of California in 2007 and I’ve been in practice ever since. Because of my love of martial arts and participating in sports (I played rugby for 6 years too), I have developed a focus on orthopedic problems and sports medicine. My training and interest is in Integrative Medicine, which means I practice Traditional Chinese Medicine in a way that integrates with Western Medicine. My approach combines the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine acupuncture meridian points, trigger points, motor points and body work (tui na massage, gua sha and cupping) and physical therapy modalities, all based on the anatomy and physiology of the muscular and nervous systems, For more information, check out my website at leonkenin.com or send me a message!