Use This Kitchen Herb For Cold Prevention You can prevent a cold 85% of the time using this “kitchen herb” of dried orange peels. Here’s how: save the peels from your oranges to make a tea the moment you feel a cold coming on. Toss a handful in water, add a little honey or sugar […]
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Acupuncture For Lower Back Pain
Acupuncture works well for many types of lower back pain – in fact it’s probably 50% of what we treat! We first address which structures in the lower back could be the root cause of your back pain. Anatomy 101: your back is made up of soft tissue (muscles, ligaments, tendons) and bone, blood vessels […]
Stress, Anxiety, and Depression: Definitions
What is Stress? Simply put, stress is abnormal disruption to homeostasis. If you remember back to 9th grade biology, homeostasis is the simultaneous steady and dynamic state of equilibrium that our body processes ceaselessly working to maintain. Stress can be from an external source, like the sustained exposure of loud noise in the urban center. Stress can come from […]
Acupuncture and Stress
Acupuncture and stress has been a rich area of study for researcher Dr. Laden Eshkevari, who is building on past studies showing acupuncture’s effect on the HPA (hypothalamus-pituitary-axis). One of her goals is to specifically show how acupuncture is helpful in treating PTSD and chronic stress. Her study Effects of Acupuncture, RU-486 on the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal […]
Biopuncture for Pain Management
Biopuncture for pain management is a safe, natural alternative to medications. It’s milder but the body accepts it because the substances are plant-based. Over 75 million people suffer from some form of chronic pain in the United States and over 40 million Americans seek help in the form of alternative medicine. Acupuncture, massage therapy, herbal […]