Immortal Medicine

05/20/2026

04/24/2026

Some testimonials from students who attended the 2025 Acu Abroad in Japan with Katai Sensei. ✨

Click the link in bio to register or DM for more information on the itinerary. ✨

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04/23/2026

Balance your body and leave with a sound mind.

04/07/2026

POV: an acupuncturist is reading your tongue.

03/31/2026

“Orthostatic dysregulation (OD) is an autonomic nervous system disorder that commonly occurs in childhood and adolescence. It presents with symptoms such as lightheadedness upon standing, fatigue, and difficulty waking in the morning, and it is frequently associated with school refusal. In recent years, changes in living environments and psychological stress during the COVID-19 pandemic have drawn attention to the emergence and prolonged course of OD symptoms.

TST (Takahiro-style teishin therapy) is an acupuncture approach that employs non-insertive, surface-level contact stimulation to regulate the body holistically via the sensory input system. Because the intensity of stimulation can be finely controlled and is less likely to provoke defense reflexes or fear responses, it is particularly applicable to pediatric patients and highly sensitive, nervous individuals.

In this case, head-focused treatment using a TST teishin was administered to a fourth-grade elementary school student who had stopped attending school due to OD. Long-term improvement in school attendance and overall physical condition was observed, hence the impetus to present this case study.”

This is a short excerpt from my latest translation of Funamizu Takahiro’s “Head-Centered TST Teishin Treatment for Orthostatic Dysregulation: A Case Report,” as featured in the March 2026 issue of NAJOM, Volume 32, Number 96.

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Teishin is an excellent non-insertive method to treat children and highly-sensitive, needle-averse individuals. Please inquire within / DM me for more information on how this could be helpful for you or your child.

03/12/2026

What do students say about their experience studying acupuncture abroad in Tsukuba with Katai Sensei?

Here are a couple testimonials from two students who attended the 2025 Acu Abroad in Tsukuba, Japan.

02/23/2026

Do you feel like yourself when you’re giving a treatment, or do you feel like an actor, playing the role of an acupuncturist of antiquity?

At what point do you make it your own?

New *free* post available for all practitioners to read on BuyMeACoffee:

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11/28/2025

Do you have visions, flashes of insight or gut hits about unspoken dynamics in your case studies?

Do you think of this as intuition or fantasy? Clinically relevant or just an amuse tête for your clinical rapport?

How do you know when you’re locking in to useful intuitive information or getting spun out by mental musings and flights of fancy?

I’ll give you one strategy for discerning intuition from magical invention: 🌟 🌟 🌟

Read the full article at:

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11/21/2025

“Anxiety exerts its influence over every aspect of day-to-day living and is often accompanied by diverse physical symptoms. Patients will frequently feel like something is wrong with their body and, despite seeking medical opinions and making hospital visits, physical pathologies are rarely
identified. Once cleared, the standard of care in modern medicine is to make a referral to a therapist or psychiatrist who recommends counseling.

Patients with anxiety disorders are essentially ‘analog beings’ whose realities cannot be neatly captured within simplistic differentiations. For instance, even if 100 patients are diagnosed with ‘heart-kidney yang deficiency,’ their symptom profiles will differ 100 ways — no two are alike.”

This is a small excerpt from my latest translation, “Clinical Management of Anxiety Disorders,” by Ikai Yoshio, as featured in the November 2025 issue of NAJOM, Vol 32, Number 95.

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11/14/2025

New post now available for all members of the AcuMoxa Mentorship: ✨

https://buymeacoffee.com/immortalmedicine/navigating-labyrinth-maze-diagnosis

how do you know when you’re contemplating the labyrinth or bumbling bewildered in the maze of your patient’s diagnosis?

The mentorship circle is now officially open, so please write in with your own questions which I will respond to regularly with audio streams.

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11/11/2025

✨ AcuMoxa Mentorship ✨

A gathering place for students and practitioners of East Asian traditional medicine — a space to ask, reflect, and grow together.

Each month, I share several audio responses to your practice questions, case studies, and explorations of theory and technique.

One-on-one mentorship is also available. 🌟

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