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Natural Strategies to Reduce Autoimmune Flares
If you're wanting to reduce an autoimmune flare, there are natural approaches you can take to help prevent flare-ups and manage your symptoms. While autoimmune disease flares may not have a complete cure, you can make changes to your diet and lifestyle that may lead...
Should You Use Ice to Heal Injuries?
How cold affects our circulation Hey there, curious readers! Last time, we talked about how cold weather affects our bodies by contracting circulation. This time, let's dive into a cool topic: using ice to manage pain and heal injuries. Imagine your body as a land of...
Acupuncture for Bell’s Palsy
Acupuncture for Bell's PalsyThe current gold standard of treatment for Bell’s Palsy is corticosteroids - a strong anti-inflammatory medication. This is the pharmacological treatment that has the most data demonstrating benefit. Commonly, antiviral medications can be...
Acupuncture For Cancer Pain
What does pain from cancer feel like?Cancer treatment (surgery and radiation) can cause pain but cancer itself can also cause pain. When cancer compresses the spinal cord or if cancer spreads to the bones both of these situations can cause pain. A growing tumor on the...
Acupuncture For Pain After Surgery
Can acupuncture reduce pain after surgery or nausea?In short, yes. Acupuncture can help to reduce post surgical pain and nausea. The Acupuncture Evidence Project lists both post surgery pain and post surgery nausea as two conditions with clear and positive benefits...
Acupuncture for Chronic Illness
Chronic illness is on the rise in America. According to the National Health Council, about 133 million people have a chronic health condition lasting longer than 3 months. That is 133 million Americans that miss out on fun, family, and life because of their chronic...
Low Back Pain
Does acupuncture for low back pain work?I’ve got good news for you. Yes, acupuncture has been shown to reduce low back pain. In a study of 18,000 patients, acupuncture successfully treated patients in four pain categories. The study participants had either shoulder,...
COVID-19 and Chinese Herbal Medicine
From the COVID-19 outbreak there have been many unique behavioral responses. We have seen a rush to buy toilet paper, artificially empty grocery stores, and social distancing. While some of these responses have left long lines in the grocery, which was seemingly the...
Acupuncture For Infertility
Why Consider Acupuncture for Infertility? Acupuncture treatment can help both with couples struggling with infertility and patients going through a fertility program like IVF. There is a current rise in societal infertility, which correlates to an overall rise in...
Acupuncture For Neck Pain
What is Chronic Neck Pain? Dealing with a pain in the neck? It is one of the most common complaints. Sleeping wrong or sitting in front of a computer for long periods of time strains your neck. Acute neck pain usually resolves on its own and lasts less than a week....