As many people reading these blog posts are not practitioners of Chinese medicine and aren’t familiar with the concepts thereof, I thought I’d post a series of case studies to […]
Tag: herbs
Dang Gui, Estrogen, Cancer Protection
For years the debate has raged as to whether herbs with estrogenic properties contribute to the formation of cancer and thus should be avoided by those with cancer, those with […]
The will to change
In the previous post I mention how acupuncture and herbs spark the process of change by bringing awareness of the root of one’s struggles. This awareness is a linking of […]
How does one change?
None of us is spared pain in our lives, whether it be the pain of being born, the pain of losing a loved one, the pain that comes from illness, […]
Organ Deprivation
Making assumptions and jumping to conclusions in medicine can be a dangerous thing. Without a proper diagnosis, how can one choose an appropriate treatment? But all too often, medical dogma […]
Chinese Medicine vs. Medical Acupuncture
It is not uncommon for prospective patients to call my office and ask whether or not I am a “medical doctor.” Typically, this question stems from the fact that some […]
Is there more to trauma than one’s memory?
What would you make of a drug that aims to deal with traumas and shocks by reducing or eliminating one’s memory of the traumatic event? Would forgetting the trauma negate […]
Living in Accord with Nature
One of the paramount lessons that Chinese medicine teaches is the importance of living in harmony with the cycles of nature. When one resists our ignores these cycles, imbalance sets […]
Are we as healthy as our grandparents?
It often strikes me in my practice that I (and many others in my profession) are encountering significant illness and weakness in younger and younger people as the years go […]
Paradigm (cont’d)
Back to the idea of what makes a system of medicine effective. Looking at one’s paradigm for perceiving imbalance, does one look to the past, present or future? Blood tests, […]