22 June 2026

Writing a few words to get back in blogging shape. There’s been a lot keeping me busy and as soon as I sat down to write, my dog starting puking on the floor. For the last month I’ve been recovering from the acupuncture cure of Alpha Gal and don’t know how long before then I was dealing with the symptoms of meat allergy. For months I was complaining about the quality of ground beef at the grocery store, in reality I was probably having allergic reactions. The first time I got Alpha gal, it hit so hard that my entire life shut down. When it was cured, I acted like it never happened. Mentally I couldn’t acknowledge what happened. At the same time I was struggling with some mystery illnesses for years, now I believe those were allergic reactions from eating meat. Now that the acupuncture is out and I’m feeling better, I don’t plan to eat beef, pork, or lamb ever again with hopes that will give me new life. These are my first days back and I’m making plans for my future. In the Fall, for the first time all kids will be in daycare and I’ll get another part of my life back. My show has been going well and I’m proud of how the interviews came out. My plan is to turn my recording into an AI self that can read my blog writings as a script to create daily videos. One attempt at AI cloning was already made and failed, my thinking was that everything was too complicated, so I’ve been figuring out how to simplify things for take two.

Anxiety affects the nervous system in profound ways. In my latest post, I explain how a structured, holistic approach—specifically acupuncture—can help restore your inner balance.

Check it out: https://orientalmedcare.com/2026/03/26/restoring-the-calm-natural-anxiety-relief-in-the-twin-cities/

#HolisticHealth #MentalHealth #Acupuncture #TwinCities #Edina

The Summer Solstice is almost here! ☀️ I’ve just updated my latest blog post on aligning your health with the peak of Yang energy and the wisdom of the Nei Jing. Learn how to support your heart health and find balance this season: https://orientalmedcare.com/2017/06/20/acupuncture-summer-mpls/

Now booking appointments at my Edina practice.

#Acupuncture #TCM #SummerSolstice #Edina #Wellness

Labor Support

https://video.drcassone.com/w/eQ7KK8MyHMpAU4bSNz6b8z

Deep-tissue acupuncture

https://piefed.social/c/lotrmemes/p/2123158/deep-tissue-acupuncture

A quick #ReIntroduction! 👋 I’m Steven.

By day: Practicing #ChineseMedicine & #Acupuncture for 30+ years in Edina, specializing in the #BalanceMethod & #EmotionalWellness.

By night: Optimizing web architecture with #WordPress & #LocalSEO.

To balance it all out, I play the #Saxophone! 🎷

Always happy to connect with fellow health pros, digital marketers, and musicians.

#Introduction

I know a lot about #chiropractic and think the true believers in that community far outnumber scammers. I know a little about #naturopathy, and given how they often have to source their treatments, I have difficulty imagining how they couldn't be aware of the potential harm they do to their patients. But #acupuncture, I just don‘t know if they mostly know they do nothing of value, or if they’re mostly true believers.

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/retconning-acupuncture/#more-15290

#acupuncture #interstitium

"Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways

Acupuncture is used to treat conditions as varied as chronic pain, migraines, seasonal allergies and nausea caused by chemotherapy, but some of its actions have never been completely explained. The discovery of the interstitium may help us understand in modern biomedical terms how acupuncture works.

The principles of the practice invoke two circulating elements: chi and blood.

Traditional Chinese medicine describes chi as flowing along one of 12 main tracks, called meridians.

Acupuncturists insert small needles into specific points on the body to enhance the flow of chi.

In a 2002 study, Helene Langevin and Jason Yandow mapped the locations of acupuncture points in the arms to the fascia between and around muscles.
These acupuncture points have since been found to lie within the same areas of connective tissue where fluid flows through the interstitium.

A 2019 paper by researchers in China, led by Dr. Hongyi Li, explains how they injected chemical tracers into acupuncture points in the hands and feet of cadavers and used chest compressions to push fluid through the bodies.

Fluorescent photography enabled them to see the tracers traveling toward the heart within interstitial spaces of the arms and legs. Li and colleagues clearly recognized, just as Wells and Theise did, that they had glimpsed evidence of an interstitial circulation system.

If acupuncture points seem to reside within the interstitium, could the meridians run through the interstitium as well?

In 2021, a group of researchers conducted a similar experiment in China on living subjects, injecting dye into acupuncture points in the forearms of 15 volunteers.
In almost all of them, the dye slowly migrated upward along a route corresponding to the pericardium meridian, which passes through the wrist and along the inner arm.

(Pericardium is the same meridian stimulated by anti-nausea wrist acupressure devices popular on cruise ships.)"

https://web.archive.org/web/20260512012750/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/11/magazine/interstitium-anatomy-acupuncture-medicine.html