Jan 27
When a computer engineer became an acupuncturist, a brand new world opened up to her that she never realized.
When Adrienne Goodman got her master’s degree as a Chinese medicine practitioner, she says, it changed her life — and she has since worked to improve the livelihoods of her patients at Victor Acupuncture. Previously a computer engineer, Goodman says she just didn’t feel good about what she was doing and felt she could better serve as an acupuncturist, opening her business in 2011.
“I have always loved holistic health,” she says. “Even when I was an engineer, I learned about natural ways to help people. Acupuncture is different. I love Chinese medicine because it is much more about treating the individual person and the root of the problem.”
Jan 26
Acupuncture can be used for face lift, thus eliminates the need for cosmetic surgery.
For centuries acupuncture has been used to treat illness and promote health and wellbeing. Now cosmetic acupuncture is treating the signs of an aging face. Can we say goodbye to Botox injections and plastic surgery?
Agnes Amerine is 55 plus but she doesn’t feel like it. And she wants to look as young as she feels.
Read more: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/health/30263588/detail.html#ixzz1kBd8f4ps
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Jan 25
You can achieve work/life balance through the practice of tai chi.
The need for patience is not something we commonly talk about at work. But if we’re seeking work-life balance, we certainly need to be patient with ourselves, seeing balance over a longer period of time than just today or this week. If you decided at the turn of the year to change some behaviours to improve work-life balance, and it’s not going as successfully as you had hoped, you must, like my tai chi students, be patient. And in a work world where the motivating maxim seems to be faster-faster-faster, it helps to cultivate patience.
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Jan 24
This article provides a good overview of what acupuncture is and what it can do for you!
Who would have thought tiny hair-fine needles could help to heal the body? As far back as 5,000 years ago, China records detail the use of acupuncture to cure wounded soldiers and manage pain.
Forms of acupuncture have also been found in many other cultures and civilizations prior to the use by the Chinese. South African tribesman were found to scratch parts of their body to help cure disease and Egyptian hieroglyphics have recorded similar findings to meridians used in Chinese medicine, known as energy pathways through the body.
So why has something that has been used for so long and lasted through time not become mainstream in North America?
Jan 23
Traditional Chinese Medicine, combined with Western Medicine can boost one’s chance for fertility.
Out of women who received the combined therapy, over 65 percent were able to conceive, compared to just 39 percent of patients who only underwent the Western-style intrauterine insemination infertility treatment.
Traditional Chinese medicine included weekly sessions of acupuncture and a regime of powdered or raw Chinese herbs such like PeoniaAlbae and Chuanxiong.
Lead researcher Dr. Shahar Lev-Ari of TAU’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine followed the progress of 29 women who received the combined therapy, and 94 women who underwent IUI treatment alone.
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Jan 22
Tai Chi can help you achieve balance that you need that can improve your body and mind.
On a warm and sunny morning so bright the world seemed filtered through clear glass, 84-year-old Mike Stanton filed onto a bus bound for the beach at Wiggins Pass.
Along with about a dozen other residents of Bentley Village — who simultaneously defied their chronology with baseball caps and embraced it with wraparound, post-cataract sunglasses — Stanton was headed to bend and stretch in a tai chi class conducted on sand.
He wondered whether it was wise. His total hip replacement was only six weeks ago.
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Jan 21
Here are some Traditional Chinese Medicine’s winter health tips.
Happy New Year! The holiday excitement is over and now we can move into the stillness of the winter season. It’s a perfect time to become more introspective, set new goals, and nourish your entire being according to the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). TCM is rooted in the philosophy that people should live in harmony with their environment – so during winter, this means slowing down in the colder months, deeply nourishing yourself, and keeping warm and well rested in order to plant the seeds for renewed vitality in the new year. As nature slows down and hibernates during the winter, the process of new growth and regeneration for the spring has already begun internally.
Jan 20
There are four kinds of herbal tea that can cure headache, you may want to give it a try.
Herbal teas are not only refreshing but also is healthy for the body. It is beneficial in several ways such as it cures headache, improves digestion, flushes out toxins, enhances complexion and reduces hair fall. Take a look at the types of herbal teas to cure headache.
4 types of herbal tea to cure headache:
Green tea: This herbal tea has been used since ages as a medicine to cure several health problems. The tea contains antioxidants which provides you relief from headache. Green tea is also useful to aid weight loss, improve digestion, prevent from cancer and other diseases etc. Have this type of herbal tea to cure headache.
Jan 19
To enhance your health, you can take a preventive approach by using the various methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Whether it’s applying deep Chinese massage to an aching back, advising her clients to get more sleep or to adjust the temperature of their drinking water, Janice Ye treats every one to her many years of experience.
“Chinese medicine looks at the whole body and we look at preventing illness in the first place, whereas western medicine will treat the symptoms after you get sick,” said Ye, a mother of two who has been in Vernon since 2002. “But it’s important to note that the two cultures can complement each other.”
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Jan 18
Green tea has a lot of health benefits so if you are not drinking it now, you should consider making it a part of your life!
What is it about a cup of hot tea that is so…soothing? I happen to think it’s the warmth that emanates from pretty tea cups. But scientists credit a host of naturally-occurring compounds in tea with beneficial health effects.
All tea comes from the same plant: Camellia sinensis. And over the centuries as this plant grew in the sun, says the USDA Agricultural Research Service, it formed chemicals called “polyphenols” to protect it from the elements. Polyphenols are family to “flavonoids” — health-promoting antioxidant substances found in many fruits and vegetables.
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