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By Lynn Jaffee, L.Ac. My friend, Karla, seems to catch every illness that is going around. She recently had the intestinal flu that her kids caught a few weeks earlier. This was right after she had gotten over a nasty cold. Last week she was laid out with a headache that made it impossible . . . → Read More: Taming Stress With Chinese Medicine by Shelley Conn, L. Ac. It usually begins gradually—until you can no longer ignore the pain. You may feel a sharp jab when you’re shaking hands, playing golf, or on the tennis court. Tennis Elbow can plague all kinds of athletes, not just tennis players. The pain usually begins with a dull ache or . . . → Read More: Acupuncture for Tennis Elbow By Lynn Jaffee, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M. You may be surprised to find that during an acupuncture appointment, your practitioner will ask to look at your tongue. This may seem like an odd request, and is probably the first time a health care provider has asked you to stick our your tongue. However, in . . . → Read More: Understanding Tongue Diagnosis by Lynn Jaffee and Shelley Conn At one time or another 80 percent of Americans will experience some kind of back pain, and chances are that at one time or another, you will be among them. Whether your pain is a nagging ache in your low back or stabbing pain and spasms that make . . . → Read More: Preventing Back Pain by Lynn Jaffee When was the last time you walked into a room and forgot what you went there for? Have you recently been in a conversation with a really good friend and just couldn’t come up with their name? Embarrassing? Yes. Alzheimer’s? Probably not. Memory loss can be the result of . . . → Read More: Seven Steps for Better Memory By: Shelley Conn Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) is a long, difficult name for simply one of the most painful conditions of the face. Also known as “tic douloureax”, Trigeminal Neuralgia is a condition that causes excruciating face pain that can be described as an electric shock or a bolt of lightening that can travel . . . → Read More: Acupuncture for Trigeminal Neuralgia By: Lynn Jaffe My first conscious brush with Stagnant Qi occurred during my first semester in school to study Acupuncture. I was returning back to school for a master’s in Oriental medicine after having been away from the academic world for years (okay, maybe decades). I can remember thinking at the time, “How . . . → Read More: Transformations Require a Smooth Flow of Qi By: Lynn Jaffe I am a runner, and have been for over 25 years. Before I picked up the running habit, I was pretty sedentary, and while I wasn’t exactly a couch spud, regular exercise was not something I ever thought about. However, shortly after I began to run I noticed some changes . . . → Read More: Listen to Your Body’s Wisdom By: Lynn Jaffe In a previous career, I spent my time conducting research on the health of physically active women for the Melpomene Institute in St. Paul. As a runner of a certain age, one research project still sticks in my mind. It focused on the impact of running on women’s experience of . . . → Read More: Increase Your Vitality through Chinese Medicine By: Shelley Conn Yes. In fact, gynecological conditions are some of the most successfully treated problems by acupuncture or Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Premenstrual Syndrome covers a broad spectrum of symptoms before a period. Symptoms may be emotional, such as depression, irritability, sadness, anxiety, or poor concentration. PMS may also involve physical symptoms, such as . . . → Read More: Will Acupuncture Get Rid of My PMS |
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