Acupuncture Treatment with Jeffrey Russell–The Sa’am Tradition
Acupuncture treatment is a mainstay of Jeffrey Russell’s practice at Abacus Chinese Medicine. Along with using other East Asian practices, Jeffrey is also a practitioner of the Korean tradition of Sa’am Acupuncture.
Sa’am acupuncture is a technique that comes from the meditations of a Korean Buddhist monk centuries ago. This monk is said to have seen into the deep mysteries of acupuncture. In his tradition, monks traveled to minister to the people they encountered. The life of the traveling monks gave rise to this style of acupuncture becoming known as the Medicine of the Wandering Monks.
In this lineage, traveling monks treat physical ailments, but are regarded chiefly as charged with alleviating the suffering of others they encounter. Addressing physical, mental and emotional distress, Sa’am Acupuncture is an integrative one that merges well into other methods of Asian medicine. It is particularly effective in treating complex illnesses, having a complex diagnostic method that uses a combination of historical methods.
*Manyong Park, Sungchul Kim, “A Modern Clinical Approach of the Traditional Korean Saam Acupuncture”, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol. 2015, Article ID 703439, 8 pages, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/703439