Seven Steps to Faster Healing

A twisted knee, a blown out back, or an unexpected illness are all it takes to put your life on hold and abruptly curtail you activities. Whether your recovery takes days, weeks, or even months, there are things that you can do to help or hinder how well or quickly you will heal.

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Improve Your Memory with Chinese Medicine

Do you sometimes walk into a room and forget what you went there for?  Have you ever drawn a blank on a close friend’s name?  Do you routinely forget common words?  If you worry that your memory is going, join the club.  These little episodes are embarrassing and frustrating, but are you on the . . . → Read More: Improve Your Memory with Chinese Medicine

Tips for Healthy Aging

We all want to live a long time, just as long as we can stay relatively healthy.  Unfortunately, more and more often when we get together with friends, talk turns to a recent colonoscopy, cholesterol medications, or acid reflux.  While there are no guaranties, there are some things you can do to stack the . . . → Read More: Tips for Healthy Aging

Twenty Weight Loss Tips You Can Live With

 

Do you have certain articles of clothing in your closet that seem to shrink every winter?  They fit when you wore them the previous summer, but after a long winter, does every pair of shorts you own betray you by not getting past your hips?

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Your Emotions, Digestion, and Acupuncture

Have you ever heard people talk about having butterflies in their stomach, a gut feeling, a nervous stomach, or a visceral reaction? Of course you have. We use these terms because we intuitively know that our emotions are very closely tied to our digestion.

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Help for Hair Loss

There is nothing worse than a shower drain full of hair, especially if it’s yours and it’s falling out fast. Or perhaps you run your fingers through your hair and come up with a handful. Your hairbrush is full and you’re finding stray hairs – lots of them – on your pillowcase. . . . → Read More: Help for Hair Loss

Is Stress Causing Your Weight Gain?

There was an article in my local paper last week about the relationship between stress and weight gain.  The gist of the article was that during the current economic crisis many people who are stressed about their financial situation turn to food as a way to cope.

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What You Should Know About Vitamin D

Vitamin D is getting a lot of press recently as health experts are finding deficiencies in this important vitamin are being linked to a number of health conditions. 

 

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Allergy 911

If you suffer from seasonal allergies, you are no stranger to the wide range of symptoms: red, swollen, itchy eyes, a chronically runny or stuffed up nose, itchy ears, a scratchy throat, or that feeling of your head being full of cotton. You may have symptoms for a few weeks in the . . . → Read More: Allergy 911

Beauty from the Inside Out

Adele first came to our clinic several years ago to be treated for facial pain. Her pain was chronic, and after acupuncture treatments which involved placing small needles in her face, Adele was able to find relief from her pain. Adele continued coming to our clinic almost weekly for months, and even years, as . . . → Read More: Beauty from the Inside Out