Chinese medicine for trauma, injuries and pain

Chinese medicine for trauma, injuries and pain

  When dealing with trauma or pain, remember– Ice is for dead things! The Chinese martial arts know a lot about trauma medicine. A sinew popping kick to one of the joints, punches that powder capillary beds, or broken and shattered bones from falls or...
Acupuncture for Migraine Headaches

Acupuncture for Migraine Headaches

They come with a flash of light, the sharp crack of an unexpected noise, or the “one more thing” of accumulated stress. Like losing your balance on glassy-slick ice migraine headaches are obtrusive visitors that barge in with changes in the weather, tidal...
Acupuncture and Allergies

Acupuncture and Allergies

The effervescent fuchsia and chartreuse gives the falling spring rain a soft pitter patter hush. So different from the water that falls straight out of a winter sky. Spring. The deep breathing of the year. You can taste it with your skin and it fills all the senses...
Antibiotics are useless against the common cold

Antibiotics are useless against the common cold

  Yet another study confirmed recently that placebos are as effective as antibiotics when it comes to curing sinus infections. In other words—antibiotics are useless when up against the common cold. More than useless actually, when you consider the damage done...
Acupuncture and the Treatment of GERD

Acupuncture and the Treatment of GERD

Lowering acid is the not the solution for heartburn! Excess stomach acid is not the problem. You need your stomach acid. It digests your food, helps you assimilate your nutrition, breaks down the building blocks of life into a form accessible to you. Yes, you need...
How does Chinese medicine work?

How does Chinese medicine work?

I get this question all the time, but I think there is actually another question that is lurking beneath this one– The real question being “is this stuff trustworthy?” Acupuncturists commonly point to 1000’s years of collective clinical...