Newest Release:
A New Book From OHO Publishing | May 23 2026
The Missing Half of Your Blood Test
By Dr. Kamal Polite DCEM, DOM, AP, CHE
For patients who have been told their blood tests are “within range,” yet continue to experience unexplained symptoms that do not correspond with the interpretation of current Western medical standards.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A blood test is not a portrait of your health. It is a photograph taken at a specific moment, under specific conditions, by a camera pointed in one direction."
— CHAPTER 1 · HOW BLOOD TESTS ARE TRADITIONALLY READ
By Dr. Kamal Polite DCEM, DOM, AP, CHE
This book does not contend with current Western medical standards. On the contrary, it respects them. Western laboratory science is precise, indispensable, and lifesaving. What it often lacks is context — particularly temporal context. That missing context is the framework at the heart of this book: 子午流注 (Zǐ Wǔ Liú Zhù, "Midnight-Noon Ebb-Flow"), the classical Chinese Medicine reading of the body's 24-hour rhythm of organ activity. It describes when each major organ system is most physiologically active, and how that activity shapes what shows up in your blood — and what doesn't.
“Everything you learned in medical training is exactly correct, it’s just not always useful.”
Across every major panel — the CBC, the metabolic panel, lipids, inflammatory markers, hormones — Dr. Polite shows how each one reads differently when timing, context, and pattern become part of the interpretation. It is not a critique of how blood tests work. It is a way of reading them with the precision they deserve.
If this book helps you ask better questions, feel more confident in medical conversations, or better understand your own physiology, then it has fulfilled its purpose.
About the author
Dr. Kamal Polite
DCEM, DOM, AP, CHE
A physician and educator with over thirty years of experience in Chinese Medicine and integrative clinical practice. His work focuses on laboratory interpretation, physiological timing, and the clinical application of ancient medical frameworks within modern healthcare settings.
Dr. Polite is a Board Certified Acupuncture Physician and Doctor of Chinese Energetic Medicine, as well as the President of OHO Seminars and the founder of Si Jin Bao, an herbaceutical company he started in 2006. Across his career he has cared for more than 40,000 patients — and through his teaching and community work, he has dedicated himself to helping individuals, families, and entire communities understand prevention as the foundation of lasting health.
His relationship with classical Chinese Medicine did not begin in a library. It began on a hospital ward in Yantai in 1996, watching it being used on actual patients by physicians who had never stopped using it.
The Missing Half of Your Blood Test is the culmination of conversations Dr. Polite has had with patients across thirty years — finally written down. He continues to see patients through his private practice at Affordable Asian Medicine.
