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  • Community Acupuncture and Healing Qigong December 2025 collaborations

    If you follow PCAC’s Instagram you know that on the first Wednesdays of the month at Movement Collective,  participants have had the chance to experience Qigong healing as part of their visit. This month we’ve decided to have two such dates, December 3rd and 31st! Also next month, we’ll be collaborating on the first Wednesday…

  • August 2025 scheduling

    During the month of August, community acupuncture will be one day weekly, on Sunday afternoons, at Movement Collective (3921 St Claude Ave). Taylor Hurley LAc of Cinnamon Twig Acupuncture and PCAC, will be holding sessions every Sunday afternoon from August 3rd-August 31st. First appointment will be at 1:00 pm. Last appointment at 3:40. Scheduling is…

  • Online scheduling back online . . . and other scheduling news

    Our online scheduling is back up! However, as of October 30th 2024, we are implementing a change in schedule times. In order to keep the transition smooth our Youcanbookme.com schedule is blocked after October 12th. To schedule dates after October 12th while our Youcanbookme.com account is offline, please email pcac.nola@gmail.com or call or text 504-223-3507.…

  • Wind-Cold in the Deep South?!? The how and why of catching a chill in the long summer

    By Emily Cronin and Thomas McCarty Chinese medicine theory uses terms from the greater world of Nature to describe the mechanisms of disease. “Wind-Cold” is a frequently used term which you may have heard your acupuncturist talk about before. In this article we will discuss Wind-Cold, how it applies specifically to our notoriously warm climate,…

  • Living in harmony with the seasons: Summer

    by Thomas McCarty and Emily Cronin Chinese medicine emphasizes the importance of keeping good health by cultivating harmony between ourselves and the environment. The seasons are explained according to the Five Elements. The Springtime we have just left behind is of the Wood element, which gives way to Fire, corresponding to Summer.  With the first…

  • New Orleans acupuncturist brings community acupuncture to Kyiv

    June 7th, 2023 by Thomas McCarty and Emily Cronin When her native country was invaded on the other side of the globe, one New Orleanian turned her outrage and worry into a project which has become a lasting positive resource in a besieged land. Katya Chizayeva, Ukrainian by birth and resident of New Orleans for…

  • Introducing Yin & Yang in traditional Chinese medicine

    For modern Western medicine, the science it’s founded on is developed exclusively from rigorously evidence-based facts. Objectivity is a discipline of this system, and unproven theories carry no weight. Surmises, analogies, speculation and comparisons between unconnected phenomena, are all invalid in the modern Western medical approach. But look at all the different medical systems that…

  • Living in harmony with the seasons: Spring

    by Emily Cronin, LAc and Thomas McCarty, LAc   The aim of Traditional Chinese Medical (TCM) theory is to understand our bodies and biology, our spirit, really the totality of our experience as human beings, as a microcosm of the universe. From observing and understanding how the world works, we turn that understanding towards ourselves. In…

  • Clinical study of the efficacy of treating migraines with acupuncture

    Zhao et al. 2017https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28241154/ The Zhao et al. trial conducted an random control trial (RCT) comparing verum (hereafter designated “true”, or traditional Chinese medicine/TCM) acupuncture, sham acupuncture, and a waiting-list control group. The study recruited 249 patients who experience migraines without auras. Participants were randomly assigned to receive only true acupuncture, or sham acupuncture, or…

  • PCAC celebrates one year at Bastion!

    This October PCAC celebrates one year of volunteering at Bastion Community of Resilience. Bastion is an intentional community of US military veterans, most still working through the various legacies of their service, as well as associated family and community. PCAC volunteers once a month to provide Bastion’s residents community acupuncture at no cost.  Bastion is…