Herb and Needle
Acupuncture and Chinese medicine — ancient art, modern science, real clinical practice.
Herb and Needle is Dr. Michael Keane’s home for acupuncture and Chinese medicine education: free videos and articles for the curious, and real courses for students and practitioners. Over a decade treating patients and teaching graduate students, distilled into content built to make it all make sense.
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New videos covering the science and philosophy behind acupuncture.
Learn
Courses built for practitioners, students, and the acupuncture-curious.
Services
On-site acupuncture for workplaces and teams across Salt Lake City.
Cornerstone Course
De Qi: Obtaining the Qi
Explores De Qi through both the classical acupuncture literature and modern scientific research — how to identify it clinically, and why it matters for acupuncture’s mechanisms of action across the nervous, endocrine, immune, and inflammatory systems.
2.5 CEU Credits · $110 · NCCAOM Approved
Want the content without the certification? The full course is also available free.
Read
Books that go deeper than a blog post ever could.
Essays on Acupuncture
A collection of short, aphoristic reflections on the art and practice of acupuncture.
Covid: A Modern Form of Gu Syndrome
A Chinese herbal medicine theory handbook.
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About Dr. Michael Keane, D.Ac., L.Ac.
A practicing acupuncturist, teacher, author, and painter — over a decade treating patients in Philadelphia and now Salt Lake City, teaching graduate courses at the Won Institute, and writing about classical Chinese medicine. Herb and Needle is where all of his work lives.