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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Chinese Herbs Help Combat Stress
Chinese herbs help combat stress. Chinese herbs are a natural way to strengthen the internal organs, calm the nervous system, relax the muscles and free the mind to be more productive. Chinese herbs provide an extra boost from adaptogens. Adaptogens are natural substances that assist the body’s ability to handle stress without any adverse affects, and adaptogenic herbs […]
Acupuncture is More Than Needles
Acupuncture is more than needles. The name “acupuncture” is an umbrella term that collectively describes the therapeutic methods used in the ancient practice of eastern medicine. These services include needling at acupuncture points, acupressure, cupping, Chinese herbs, moxibustion, external applications, gua sha, tui na, biopuncture, and electroacupuncture, the Biomat, qigong, and auricular seeds. So you see, acupuncture is more than needles! Additionally, intrinsic […]
Research Shows Exercise Prevents Alzheimer’s Disease
New research shows that exercise has been shown to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Many people have been touched by Alzheimer’s through family or friends and will do what it takes to prevent onset in themselves. Here’s a great article from the New York Times reviewing a Cleveland Clinic research study on exercise, Alzheimer-risk patients, and the e4 gene. People who carry […]
Women’s Health and Acupuncture
Women’s health issues respond well to acupuncture treatment because acupuncture has a nuanced yet profound effect on the HPA specifically and the nervous system overall. Menstrual Irregularities from Western/Eastern Perspectives From a western point of view, menstrual irregularities originate as functional disturbances of the hypothalamus-pituitary axis (HPA) or the ovaries, tubes, uterus, or cervix. Eastern medicine (acupuncture […]