Jun 17, 2013 | Food and Healthy Eating, Selected Topics, TCM Information
Foods have nutritional qualities. The understanding of these food qualities vary in Eastern and Western medicine. One of the recurring themes in this website… and many other Alternative Medicine theories as well is to let food be...
Mar 11, 2013 | Food and Healthy Eating, Menopause
All of a sudden it feels like someone turned up the heat and aimed it right at you. Your skin starts to glisten and glow, your cheeks flush red and you try not to be too obvious taking of extra layers and fanning yourself with the closest piece of paper you could...
Dec 10, 2012 | Dampness, TCM Information
What is dampness? Another one of the different words that Chinese Medicine uses to describe what is happening in the body. It is easier to understand though, if we see how Chinese Medicine uses the environment and nature and ascribes them to movements within the...
Nov 5, 2012 | Pain, Selected Topics, TCM Information
When most people think about acupuncture, the first thing that comes to mind is that acupuncture helps pain. When I’m speaking with new patients and I ask if they have tried acupuncture before and their response is “Yes”, they have usually had acupuncture for some...
Aug 15, 2012 | Menstrual Health and Illnesses, Pre Menstrual Syndrome, Stress
What can we do about Pre- Menopausal Syndroms (PMS) and other disorders caused by “stagnation”? This short blog is an excerpt from the last post about PMS. The PMS post was incredibly detailed and just in case this last part got drowned in words and...
