Recently I visited my acupuncturist to get help with some frustrating symptoms I was experiencing. Getting treatment is certainly something I should do more often, but like many of us, my own well-being can be far down a long list of priorities when running a business and having a family. At the end of the treatment, she advised me to have a healthy bite for lunch and then relax for the rest of the day. It was so confronting that it took a minute to process it! I mean, of c

There is a long historical record describing the treatment of fertility with acupuncture and Chinese medicine. It has been written about in Chinese texts for over one thousand years. We now know scientifically that acupuncture and Chinese herbs positively impact assisted reproduction. In a recent review analysing 25 seperate trials, involving 4757 patients undergoing assisted reproduction, pregnancy rates in the groups receiving acupuncture were significantly higher than thos

Classical Chinese medicine texts have some pretty interesting things to say about our emotions in the context of disease and health. Emotions are considered a cause of disease under certain conditions, such as the prolonged experience of one emotion or even the suppression of an emotion/s. The emotions we experience have a correlation within a larger context, including a correspondance to an organ system and an element. Dysfunction in the organ systems can also cause emotion

Chinese medicine emphasizes the importance of a concept called Yang Sheng. It means to nourish, nurture, or preserve life. The purpose of Yang Sheng is to maintain health and achieve longevity on a mind | body | spirit level. The idea is to look at wellness as a lifestyle and live accordingly. Health preservation (rather than dis-ease treatment) is a central tenant of Chinese medicine. Ideally, we are living in a way that prevents illness instead of treating ailments when the