Acupuncture for Insomnia: Why Your Brain Isn’t the Problem (And What’s Really Keeping You Up) You’ve tried the melatonin. You’ve put your phone away an hour before bed, darkened the room, run the white noise machine. Maybe you’ve done a round of sleep medication, or your doctor mentioned Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). Some…
Fluid Circulation and the Gut: The Two Most Important Systems for Health One of my teachers says something that is very obviously true but also quite helpful to think about: “The basic requirement of health is to have highly oxygenated, highly nutritious blood flowing to all of the tissues in the body.” This means you…
Acupuncture for Hormone Balance: Why Your Hormones Are Off — And What Chinese Medicine Does Differently If Your Hormones Feel Like They’re Running the Show, You’re Not Imagining It You know the feeling. The bloating that shows up like clockwork a week before your period. The mood swings that make you feel like a completely…
Why Acupuncture Is Fun & Not So Scary! After living in Portland, Oregon for five years where an acupuncture or naturopathic clinic is practically on every corner, and people seem almost bored if you tell them you’re an acupuncturist (only because they have one already, and 2.5 of their friends are acupuncturists), coming back home…
Acupuncture for Flu (And Colds, Too!) It’s that time of year again in Richmond – the time when everyone around you is dropping like flies with the flu or some such – so it seems like a perfect time to write about what Chinese medicine can offer us in terms of avoiding getting sick. Have…