Your lungs is one of the most important life-sustaining organs you have.  You can still live if your heart stops beating for a minute or two.  And you can live without food for a few days.  However, you will die the moment your breathing stops.
Keep your lungs healthy.
It is one of the most delicate organs [...]

Are you experiencing headaches, dizziness, light headedness, blurry vision, or anything up in the head region?
But if you do…. most likely it means you’ve got too much (imbalanced) Qi rising up to your head region and causing you discomfort in one way or the other.  By the way, this can happen with too much [...]

People experience symptoms or health issues all the time. How do you know if it’s something that you should pay attention to? Know yourself.
You have to know your baseline. Everyone’s baseline is different. You’ve got to become aware of your own baseline.
When you know your baseline, you can better distinguish when [...]

A drug’s side effects are actually “the effect” of the medicine. For example, Aricept, a drug that treats arthritis can have side effects of stomach bleeding. This means that stomach bleeding is part of the effect of this arthritis medication.  An effect is an effect without separating it into a positive effect or negative effect. [...]

It is now common knowledge that pharmaceutical companies routinely shower physicians with extravagant gifts, expensive lunches (hundreds of dollars), and vacations as a way to encourage them to promote their drugs.
However, it is now apparent that some high level, prominent physicians have been paid high sums of money (thousands) to endorse and sign off on [...]

Diagnoses Are Powerful.

A medical diagnosis, like asthma, has a whole set of symptomology, expectations, medical implications, prognoses, fears, and limitations attached to it.
But perhaps you can refer to “asthma” as “shortness of breath”.
Your experience as “shortness of breath” is more descriptive in nature and has less of a “charge” to it than an official diagnosis.
I [...]

People often fragment their bodies, minds, and spirits.  They don’t see them as one unifying system.
In Chinese Medicine and all holistic medicines, all three are intimately connected.  Acupuncture and  herbs treat the mind by treating the body, and vice versa.   All three operate as one.
Here are 3 simple concepts to show you how to unify [...]

The concept of balance is a key principle in Chinese Medicine. But unfortunately, I have bad news for you.  Finding balance is an ongoing process.
You will never “finally” arrive at balance and stay there.  It is a constant fluctuating dynamic, which requires you to constantly find your center.
Nature is inherently balanced. That is [...]

I once had an acupuncturist tell me that it’s harder to regain your health once you’ve let it slip.  She said it’s important to watch and preserve your health.
She gave the analogy of skiing.
When you ski downhill, it’s SO easy and fun.  It almost takes no effort to ski down hill.  It’s fast & quick!
However, [...]

One of the treatment strategies in Chinese Medicine is to remove the excess patterns in the body.  In doing so, the body naturally returns to health and the symptoms naturally fall away.
People often ask me what they can eat or add to their life in order to be healthier.  My response is often unexpected because [...]