Inner Protection & Strength: Acupuncture & Immunity

We are all thinking about protection a lot these days: masks, distancing, testing, avoiding crowds [...]

Fall Foods to Keep You Healthy & Balanced

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), every season is associated with not only an element, an [...]

Living in “The New Normal”: Acupuncture for Stress, Anxiety, & Depression

“The New Normal.” That seems to be everyone’s favorite catchphrase these days. And while it [...]

A Map of the Inside: Tongue Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine

As we discussed in our recent post, “Treating the Whole Body in the Ear,” different [...]

Late Summer & the Earth Element Amidst a Continuing Pandemic

Here we are in late summer, the often overlooked season. In traditional Chinese medicine, there [...]

Treating the Whole Body in the Ears: Auricular Acupuncture & the NADA Protocol

In acupuncture, the different points in which needles are inserted lie along different energy (qi) [...]

Herbs for Stress & Anxiety

With over 9 years as a practicing acupuncturist, I can say that probably 85% of [...]

The How, What & Why of Chinese Herbal Medicine

If you’re reading this post, you probably already have some cursory knowledge of non-Western medicine [...]

Reading the Face: Chinese Facial Diagnosis

Reading faces is a skill that is hardwired into us: from birth, we can distinguish [...]

Chaga: The King of Mushrooms

The concept of using mushrooms as anything other than delicious additions to an omelet, pasta [...]