May 26, 2014 | Food and Healthy Eating, TCM Information
Diets for Children A few years ago Yuxiang Wang wrote a book on pediatric type diets, which can be found here. In it she outlines some important points about feeding children. Individualized Diet Putting children on low fat diets to lose weight is...
Feb 10, 2014 | Menstrual Health and Illnesses, TCM Information, Toronto
Menstrual Phases: East and West The key to a woman’s health is their menstrual cycle. Menstrual symptoms such as irregularity, bleeding problems, and PMS signs are largely indicative of specific underlying conditions. Sometimes the mechanism of menstruation can be a...
Feb 3, 2014 | Pregnancy, TCM Information, Toronto
Pregnancy Changes…Are you ready to integrate Eastern and Western Medicine perspectives when treating pregnant women? For those practitioners who have never heard of Debra Betts, her book The Essential Guide to Acupuncture in Pregnancy & Childbirth is an...
Jan 13, 2014 | Diagnosis, Selected Topics, TCM Information
*Note: the diagnosis of ‘crazy’ is excluded in this article for many reasons, mostly because women are beautiful and their intricacies deserve more credit… which is why both Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine have gynecology as a field unto...
Oct 28, 2013 | Acupuncture, Selected Topics, TCM Information
Over the past month or so I’ve met quite a few people who are new to Chinese Medicine (TCM). Their first reaction to my profession has been a slight slinking back in their posture, a wary look in their eyes, and a worried look on their face. Their first...
Jun 24, 2013 | TCM Information
The study of women’s diseases, as in Western Medicine, is a field of study on its own. While the syndrome differentiations and treatment principles often stay in line with Traditional Chinese Medicine differentiations and principles, the diagnosis and sometimes the...
