Eagle Herbs

Doctor Al Stone

While the other boys in Omaha, Nebraska were out wrestling in the mud hoping to become the next star quarterback of the Cornhuskers, Al Stone was asking deep questions of his rabbi and anyone else who could come up with answers about life, God, and destiny. Fascinated by philosophy and comparative religion he took the transcendental meditation course in 1973 and began his path of understanding the deeper human experience at the tender age of 15.

His college years included formal education at the University of Kansas studying music therapy. Later, he took his first baby steps into radio at California State University in Long Beach. Finally, Al attended the University of California, Irvine, where Al honed his teaching and leadership skills.

While employed as a radio announcer in Big Bear Lake, California in 1987, Al began to study martial arts and the Buddhist way of life. It was here that Al had his first taste of traditional Chinese medicine in the form of the defensive and therapeutic disciplines of the Shaolin temple.

In 1990, Al began his studies at the Taoist Institute of Los Angeles, a martial arts school in the lineage of Sifu Share Lew of San Diego. One of the requirements for the Kung Fu black belt was a course in Tui Na or Chinese acupressure. While practicing this massage technique, Al discovered that his hands seemed to know what they were doing even though he wasn’t really thinking about it. He discovered that there was traditional Chinese medicine in his hands that far surpassed the understanding in his brain.

That’s when he enrolled in the masters degree program at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine in Santa Monica, California. While still a student, Al created the web site: Acupuncture.com. By the time he graduated in 1997, this site had won numerous international awards and enjoyed millions of visits from computer users all around the world. Al’s websites continue to receive industry notice and traffic from consumers and practitioners alike. Websites directly under Al’s supervision include: PointInjection.com, Gancao.net, and EagleHerbs.com.

Al also babysits a few other sites for his TCM friends, such as DoctorGu.com, ChineseHealingInstitute.com, TCMheals.us, and DonnaDupre.com. Oh, and then there are the non-tcm websites Al set up such as: StevenStumpf.com, TheBestOfWines.com, NikkiKeddie.com, GentleJourney.com, and MastersTrack.com.

Following his graduation and successful passing of the California state acupuncture board examinations Mr. Stone flew off to Kunming, China for a four month internship at the Yunnan Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. Treating patients there, he witnessed the profound effects that acupuncture and Chinese herbal therapies had in painful, gastrointestinal, and stress related disorders.

In 2007, Al Stone became Dr. Stone when he earned his Doctorate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) from Emperor’s College’s Doctoral program.

Al periodically teaches Oriental Diagnosis techniques and herbal medicine at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine. He also worked as a supervisor overseeing student interns in the intern clinic there.

Dr. Stone also provides continuing education courses for physicians, nurses, and acupuncturists. Topics include Dietary Supplement Act, Pulse Diagnosis, East-West Integration (for conventional physicians), and Good Compounding and Dispensing Practices.

PUBLICATIONS

Co-Author of The Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis Study Guide with Qiao Yi. Eastland Press, 2008.. This book has been added to the NCCAOM recommended reading list for Acupuncture, Oriental Medicine, and Chinese Herbology exams that lead to licensure in many states.

Chen Da-can, Xuan, Guo-wei, Stone, Al. (ed.) The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine: Lupus Erythematosus. People’s Medical Publishing House. 2007, Beijing, PRC.

Chen Da-can, Xuan, Guo-wei, Stone, Al. (ed.) The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine: Scleroderma and Dermatomyositis. People’s Medical Publishing House. 2007, Beijing, PRC.

Co-Author of The Traditional Chinese Medicine Formula Study Guide with Qiao Yi. Snow Lotus Press, 2000. As of late September, 2009, this book is being considered for addition to the list of recommended texts for the California Acupuncture Licensing Exam (CALE).

Cover and internal graphics for Jade Remedies: A Chinese Herbal Reference for the West, Vol. 1 Snow Lotus Press, 1996

About “The Eagle”

My main Chinese medicine teacher (since 1994), Tiende Yang, once remarked that my nose was the shape of the eagle’s beak. He said this indicates that someday I will be famous, but not rich. So far, so good. :)

Dr. Tiende Yang with Dr. Al Stone (photo: D. Eisenstark, www.taiqi.com)

Tiende Yang is a special guy who was the youngest full professor at the Beijing University of TCM. He had one of our herb bibles, the Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) fully memorized at the age of 16. He’s the real deal and even represents a familial lineage. His father (Yang, Jia-san) was a driving force in Beijing acupuncture circles. You can find his name on the list of authors of Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion one of the most widely used textbooks on Chinese medicine in the world.

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