The Concise History of Acupuncture Chinese Medicine is comprised of numerous healing modalities. The nutritional sciences of herbal medicine and dietetics utilize ingested and topical medicaments. The bodywork arts of cupping, tui na, and gua sha work exteriorly to treat patterns of disharmony (i.e. disease). Still, the most popular and well-known aspect of Traditional Chinese…
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Adrenal Fatigue and the Acupuncture Fix Adrenal Fatigue, Burnout, or Hypoadrenia are used interchangeably to describe a similar phenomenon. That is, the deleterious effects of distress. In academia and clinical practice, the powers that be do not recognize adrenal fatigue, or its other names, as a clinical diagnosis. Adrenal fatigue was initially termed by James…
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5 Myths Surrounding Neck Pain Neck pain affects up to 50% of the world’s population, according to research completed by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). The IASP study also found that chronic neck pain, lasting over 3 months, will afflict 15% of the population at any given time. The truth is,…
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Stone Medicine Treatment Humans have always been surrounded by stones. Arguably, one of the first tools ever was a rock used for smashing open otherwise hard-to-get food items. Imagine Grok seeing a nut, stomach growling, looking at the ground at opened shells from birds and other animals. Next to the tree is a rock, and…
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This Ain’t Your Granny’s Sauna (or is it?) From the Russian banya, to Tribal sweat lodges, to Estonian smoke saunas, there is an ancient tradition of therapeutic sweating for health and wellness across the world. Now modern technology has stepped in and upgraded the rustic feel of saunas to futuristic portals you can install in…
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Inflammation. This word buzzes around wellness and health circles in all corners of the globe. It has been discussed ad nauseam and vast amounts of research have been devoted to cracking the code of the mechanisms and prevention of this phenomena. Let’s get this point made right away, Inflammation alone is NOT a bad thing!…
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5 Summer Detox Tips from a 5,000+ Year Tradition If you wish to radiate this summer, keep reading for some pro tips on how Chinese Medicine will get you prepared. The sun is shining. The air is warm. Beach season is here. Oh yeah, its summertime! Are you ready? Lets get you primed with a…
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Get high with THC. Get heathy with CBD. “I never inhaled.” Stated by Former President Bill Clinton when asked if he ever smoked marijuana in his youth. Laughable nowadays, right? Yeah, you’re also right, … laughable then too! Let’s be real here, the politics of marijuana and hemp go back over a century in our…
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