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M & M's TCM Clinic wrote:

 

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> 12 Sep 2000

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> To Whom It May Concern,

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> Firstly, we would like to thank the moderators of this group for making it

> possible to

> communicate with our peers around the world, and hope to see it continue,

> and grow

> over many years to follow. As new members of the group, we have been asked

> to

> provide a short introduction.

>

> We are Mel & Melanie Krueger, OMD, L.Ac., with a Family Practice TCM Clinic

> in

> Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. As TCM Practitioners, we make use of traditional

> AP, Chinese

> Herbal Medicine, Moxibustion, Cupping, and the complete Tui-na system

> including both

> soft & hard tissue manipulation. Our patients range from pre-natal to 115

> years of age

> spanning medical conditions from common cold & flu to HIV/Aids & secondary

> care for

> cancer patients in chemo/radiation therapies, and birthing assistance. In

> addition to

> Chinese Herbal Medicine, Melanie has also been a Western Herbalist for over

> 35 years

> having begun her apprenticeship at the age of 13, and I began the study of

> Shiatsu 30

> years ago.

>

> Although me make considerable use of patent formulations (primarily those

> provided by

> Subhuti Dharmananda’s Institute for Traditional Medicine), we also prescribe

> custom

> prepared formulations. While our TCM training was focused around the use of

> tangs

> (bulk herbal teas), we have found that patient compliance has increased

> considerably

> through the use of ITM’s patent formulations. And, as we all know,

> compliance is vital

> to the patients recovery. If a patient will not drink the tea, you can’t

> make them well. In

> the US, it is very difficult to get the majority of patients to drink

> bitter, or unusual tasting

> teas, but they will take pills or capsules. We have, therefore, resorted to

> making our

> custom formulations into capsules as well, instead of using tangs or

> tinctures.

>

> We have several patents already for herbal Hormone Replacement formulas

> which we

> have developed and have been successfully providing to our patients, and

> hope to see

> them picked up and marketed by an International Herbal Manufacturer during

> the next

> year. While we do agree that it is better to provide a treatment that

> regulates the patients

> own hormone production, we recognize that it is not always possible to do

> so, and in

> those cases the ability to provide Phyto-hormones (both estrogen’s &

> progesterone’s) can

> be the patients only recourse to making use of chemical HRT, with their

> considerably

> higher risk of adverse side-effects.

>

> Beyond our TCM clinical time, we are also artists & musicians, and martial

> artists. I

> have been in the martial arts for almost 40 years with upper blackbelts in

> Ninjutsu, Tae

> Kwon Do, & Go Jyu Ryu. Melanie holds a 3rd degree blackbelt in Ninjutsu.

> We have

> taught Ninjutsu, Tai-Qi, Ba Gua, and 2 styles of Qi Gong. Naturally, with

> such a

> background in the martial arts, one of my primary focuses is in Sports

> Medicine, which

> makes Flagstaff an ideal location due to the number of summer & winter

> sports which we

> enjoy in this area. Additionally, as we are at 7000 ft elevation, the

> opportunity to work

> with high altitude training is significant.

>

> We hope that this will give the board sufficient insight about us, and look

> forward to

> participating in upcoming discussions.

>

> In Health & Budo,

>

> Mel & Melanie Krueger

>

> M & M’s Traditional Chinese Medical Clinic

> 513 N. Beaver St., Ste. #2

> Flagstaff, AZ 86001

> USA

>