It’s great for explaining the phenomena to small children and how everyone and every living thing does it. Must be important if everyone is doing it, right? Right! But just because we all do it, doesn’t mean everyone understands what it is, what is normal or for that matter what our poop is telling us [...]
Tags: constipation, health care
The question is this, what to do when you have an acupuncture appointment? For starters, I’ve lived in San Francisco for ten years and worked here for six. I’ve seen all there is to body hair or lack thereof. But nearly everyday I get an apology from a female patient for having [...]
Tags: dietary advice, health care
Loss of smell can be detrimental to quality of life, especially if you enjoy smelling and tasting you food. I had a patient that had completely lost her sense of smell after a sinus infection. She had been without smell for six months before coming to me for acupuncture and Chinese herbs. She regained over [...]
Tags: Acupuncture, quality of life, Smell
On a trip to Thailand I found the Pericardium 6 point useful. There were six of us loaded-up in the back of a taxi-truck headed across Kho Phangan. The roads were dirt-packed and bumpy, and the woman sitting next to me had turned green. Selfishly I asked if I could help her (visions of vomit [...]
Tags: motion sickness, vomiting
One dark and stormy evening, my roommate and I decided we had had enough studying (Chinese Medicine) and so walked to the local video store for a movie. Upon arrival we learned that free massages were available to customers. I immediately plopped myself down in the massage chair while my roommate perused the videos. At [...]
Tags: hiccups, motion sickness, vomiting
Recently my half-husband flaunted his new haramaki around the house. A haramaki is a Japanese organ warmer. A tube of material, often worn under the wearer’s clothing, that keeps the organs of the belly and the kidneys warm and free of drafts. When I asked Scott if he’d be willing to share one of the [...]
Tags: Add new tag, experiments, female health, menstruation, pain relief, pregnancy
I thought I would quickly blog on the first problem Chinese medicine solved for me and numerous patients of mine. My own bout of TMJ was probably due to a number of factors. I have a history of orthodontics in my early teens which corrected an over-bite and straightened my teeth. This alone is cause [...]
Tags: pain, pain relief, TMJ
Wind Invasion is pretty much what it sounds like. In Chinese Medicine, Wind is a significant cause of disease. Wind-Colds are “caught” not by coughing on each other (that’s flues and epidemic diseases), but by Wind first invading the nape of the neck and then Cold getting into the channels and collaterals of [...]
Tags: Bell's Palsy, headache, health care, Health Products, neck
Five Element Theory tells us that Spring is dominated by the Liver-Wood Element. Spring is green, little sprouts popping up out of the dark ground of Winter—a time of fast growth, high energy, and movement. Our Yang energies are rising and we feel stronger, more invigorated after a quiet, restful Winter, the time when the [...]
Tags: experiments, five elements, health care
Remember those photos of Gwyneth Paltrow that everyone got excited about? Well here’s a little information on cupping for you.
Cupping utilizes a vacuum suction from either glass or plastic cups to move *Qi and Blood. Basically, that means cupping pulls blood into an area that needs circulation, for example an unresolved injury. [...]
Tags: back, coughs, cupping, pain, pain relief, sore muscles
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