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Find out more about Michael: Michael Max graduated from the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine in 1998. He has established two practices in Seattle and spent five years in China and Taiwan where he studied with doctors in Beijing hospitals and private clinics of Taipei. In addition to his acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine practice at Yong Kang Clinic, he is translating a book on Chinese herbal medicine that bridges classical study with modern practice. |

1- Acupuncture is not just for treating pain.
2- You don’t have to “believe” in it for it to work.
Heck, the practitioner does not even need to believe in it for it to work.
3- Anxiety or depression are not simply psychological problems.
4- There are no magic cures. But, sometimes it feels that way.
5- Yes, it is common to feel profoundly relaxed after an acupuncture treatment.
6- Yes, those herbs do taste as bad as you have heard they do.
7- You don’t have to be Chinese to practice Chinese medicine.
8- No, you don’t have to know how to read or speak Chinese to practice acupuncture. But, it does help.
9- It is excellent for treating chronic conditions, but also good at preventing them in the first place.
So, get right into your acupuncturist after that car accident!
10- It makes you look ten years younger, raises your IQ, immunizes you against parking tickets, and makes you more attractive to the opposite sex.