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Cosmopolitan Cites Pacific’s Dr. Leena Guptha on Essential Oils for Anxiety and Stress

November 23, 2022 Mara Santilli, writing for Cosmopolitan, the best-selling young women’s magazine in the U.S., recently cited Dr. Leena Guptha, ND, DO, Pacific College’s Academic Dean of Online Education at length in a recent article on essential oils for anxiety and stress relief. Essential oils can be helpful for grounding, as scents often function …

Oxygen Cites Kiera Nagle, NY Director of Massage Therapy, on 8 Types of Massage

September 27, 2021 Elizabeth Blasi, writing for Oxygen magazine, talked to Kiera Nagle about the differences between and benefits of the types of massage you’re most likely to find on offer at a typical spa. Kiera Nagle, MA, LMT, CPMT, is the Director of the Asian Holistic Health and Massage Therapy program at our New …

Combining Aromatherapy with Acupuncture: It Makes Science and Scents

Acupuncture and aromatherapy are two individual modalities that have been used for thousands of years to successfully treat a gamut of conditions and diseases. But what happens when they are combined together in one treatment? Is the treatment session more effective? Is there no difference at all? Does it increase patient satisfaction and comfort? I set out to answer these questions in 2011 while obtaining a doctoral degree in acupuncture and Oriental medicine. Here I will share with you what I discovered and suggest that yes, combining aromatherapy with acupuncture can make a treatment more effective.

Incorporating Aromatherapy into Your Practice

by East Lewis Haradin, L.Ac. Like Chinese Medicine, aromatherapy has been around for thousands of years. Ancient cultures from all over the world have used various forms of aromatherapy ranging from the burning of incense to utilizing the extracted oils from various plants, herbs and flowers. These ancestors used aromatherapy because they understood the healing …