Have your muscles ever tightened into ropey fibers and formed sensitive bumps or knots? The medical term for those pesky knots is trigger points, and they are so common that studies estimate they are a primary cause in 75–95% of pain cases. In addition to causing...
This time of year there is a buzz around the city about the common cold-- who is coughing, who is trying to boost their immune system to ward it off, who is just recovering, etc. I’ve had several people come for treatment this season complaining of cough, congestion,...
The tuberculosis plague represents a global blind spot towards one particular human right – the universal right to decent health care. I’m happy to be supporting the Moxafrica, a campaign to research and implement sustainable use of moxa to address the huge...
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,...
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,...