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The Pulse, the Electronic Age and Radiation: Early Detection; by Leon Hammer, MD and Ross Rosen, LAc published in The American Acupuncturist, Spring 2009 (Vol. 47)
The Pulse and the Individual; The American Acupuncturist, Spring 2008, Volume 43, Leon Hammer, M.D.
Contemporary Pulse Diagnosis: Introduction to an Evolving Method for Learning an Ancient Art — Part I; American Journal of Acupuncture, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1993, Leon Hammer, M.D.
Chinese Medicine and Disease:
Inflammation in Atherosclerosis; Medical Acupuncture Vol. 15, #2, 2003
Tradition and Revision; Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine; Vol. 3 No. 1, 2002, Leon Hammer, M.D.
The Chinese Medical Model in Thyroid Disease; American Journal of Acupuncture Vol. 10, No. 1, January-March 1982
Diagnosis and Acupuncture Treatment of a Chronic, Recurring Skin Disease and Septicemia Using the Chinese Medical Model; The American Journal of Acupuncture No. 1,Vol. January 1981, Leon Hammer, M.D.
Traumatology:
The Concept of “Blocks”; Structure; The American Acupuncturist, Winter 2006 (Volume 38)., Leon Hammer, M.D.. Used with permission from the American Acupuncturist, www.aaom.org
Trauma and Shock in Chinese Medicine; Traditional Chinese Medicine World, Volume 5, Number 3, 2003, Leon Hammer, M.D.
Trauma and Shock in Chinese Medicine, Part II; TCM World, Winter 2003 (Volume 5 No.4), Leon Hammer, M.D.
Chinese Medicine and Mental health:
Psychotherapy and Growth; Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 10, No. 3, 1974, Leon Hammer, M.D.
Chinese medicine, Concepts:
Chinese Medicine and Biomedicine: Looking at the Patient in Different Ways, TCM World, Spring 2004 (Volume 6 No.1), Leon Hammer, M.D.
Awareness in Chinese Medicine, The American Acupuncturist, Fall 2007, Volume 41, Leon Hammer, M.D.www.aaom.org
Integrated Acupuncture Therapy For Body and Mind; American Journal of Acupuncture, Vol. 8 No. 2, 1980,Leon Hammer, M.D.

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