The word “doula” comes from ancient Greek, meaning “a woman who serves.” A doula today refers to a professional trained to provide emotional, physical and informational support to women throughout their pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum period. End of…
Chinese acupuncture or cosmetic facial rejuvination has been performed since the time of the Sung dynasty (960AD-1279AD). The Empress & Emperor as well as his concubines and those of the royal court would receive facial rejuvination by the Court appointment…
I like this definition I found for stress: your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand, caused by good or bad experiences. When people feel stressed, their bodies react by releasing chemicals into the blood. Your system prompts your…
In Chinese medicine we ascribe herbs to different categories based on taste, temperature, action and channels the herbs enter. Herbs that help to modulate the immune system can be in various categories. There are two main categories of Tonify Qi…
In two weeks I will be teaching a workshop on this subject. In preparation, I would like to share with you a few ideas that I will be talking about. I have posed them in the form of questions: 1)…
Many women believe that a menstrual cycle with cramping, distention and heavy flow is normal. In Chinese medicine these are not normal symptoms and signals a disruption of flow of the qi & blood. The organ related to the free…
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) all maladies are diagnosed according to organ channel patterns. There are many different types of headaches and must be differentiated according to symptoms. When giving a family history, a patient often points to other family…
In TCM the spirit, mind and body cannot be separated. The spirit is called the “Shen” and resides in the Heart. Giovanni Macicocia describes the Shen as “the capacity to extend” outwards, to project outwards, to relate, to communicate with…
Couples with fertility problems are twice as likely to get pregnant using traditional Chinese medicine as western drugs, say researchers. The latest study from researchers at Adelaide University, Australia, reviewed eight clinical trials, 13 other studies and case reports comparing…
A team of Duke Medical Center researchers has found that patients suffering from back pain consume more than $90 billion annually in health-care expenses, with approximately $26 billion of that amount directly attributable to treating back pain.1 There are many…