by Dr. Margie Navarro | May 1, 2012 | All Blog Posts, Prevention
Spring is traditionally a time for cleansing and detoxification. Acupuncture and East Asian medicine offer a variety of treatments that can support this process. Systemic detoxification may be indicated when one has: 1) extensively used either medications or...
by Dr. Margie Navarro | Mar 1, 2012 | All Blog Posts, Medical Science, Prevention
An allergy is a hypersensitivity disorder of the immune system. Allergic reactions occur when a person’s immune system reacts to normally harmless substances with inflammation. According to the biomedical hygiene hypothesis, that many immunologists support,...
by Dr. Margie Navarro | Jan 1, 2012 | All Blog Posts, Prevention
This is the time for setting goals and resolutions for The New Year! Many of the top New Years’ Resolutions focus on self-improvement and taking care of oneself. If this is the case for you as well in the new year, acupuncture and traditional East Asian Medicine...
by Dr. Margie Navarro | Nov 1, 2011 | All Blog Posts, Medical Science
Heat within the body encourages circulation, cell nourishment and renewal and healthy metabolic processing. For these reasons, heat therapy has been utilized within traditional East Asian medicine for thousands of years to treat symptoms of: -pain, -feelings of cold,...
by Dr. Margie Navarro | Sep 1, 2011 | All Blog Posts, Depression-Anxiety Spectrum
Depression is rather common and often incurs costly and personally distressing effects. In many cases, Western biomedical treatment methods provide insufficient or transient symptom relief. Acupuncture treatment has yielded positive results in many cases of...
