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...
The first thing that comes to most people’s minds when they hear ‘hormone balance’ is reproductive health. While it is true that acupuncture and East Asian medicine is very helpful in a wide range of gynecological complaints or infertility as well as sexual...
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,...