We’re almost at the end of July, but you still have 6 weeks to get in a summer camping trip. Today I will introduce 4 must-have Chinese medicines to keep in your first aid kit. Whether in the great outdoors or at home, these tried-and-true medicines are amazingly effective. 1. For when you ate that […]
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Seasonal Living: 3 Things you Can Do in Summer to Prevent Illness in Winter
One of my favorite aspects of my job is getting to look back to the wisdom of the past that in modern life we may have forgotten. Before we get into specifics of how to treat winter illnesses in summer, let’s review a little Chinese medicine theory to understand why summer is such a great […]
Seasonal Living: 3 Ways to Love your Liver in Spring
Welcome to the first part in a new series of blog posts on Seasonal Living. I’ll be sharing some tips handed down from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), but still applicable today. The Seasonal Mandate of Spring: Birth What the heck is a seasonal mandate? The term in Chinese is shi ling (时令) and it indicates […]
Needles for Low Back Pain?
Just last year, in 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved acupuncture as a covered treatment for low back pain. Although acupuncture has been used in Asia to treat low back pain and countless other conditions for thousands of years, it is still gaining recognition here in the US and other Western […]