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Acupuncture can be incredibly effective for nausea. I learned just how well it could work several years ago at a family gathering. My nephew, who is a crack golfer and the life of the party, was laid low with an upset stomach. It was late afternoon, and we were making plans for dinner, but my [...]
Whenever I drive outside of the city where I live, I find it interesting to watch the nature of the landscape change. At first the city gives way to more remote neighborhoods and smaller towns. After a while, the landscape becomes large tracts of farmland. In this part of the upper midwest, those farms are [...]
The holiday season has once again come… and gone. And what should “normally” be a joyous and revitalizing time of year is for many people anything but that, with the craziness of Black Friday, endless shopping, strained budgets, events to attend, obligations, and a general feeling of being overwhelmed. The commercialization of the winter holidays [...]
A cough is a cough is a cough… right? Well, not really. Coughs are funny in that they seem to have their own unique personality. You can have a chronic dry cough, a loud hacking cough, or an annoying tickle in your throat. In Chinese medicine, the characteristics and quality of your cough give up [...]
Several years ago, Linda*, a fiftyish woman, came to me for acupuncture because she was stressed out at her job. During her first appointment, it became clear to me that stress at work was just the tip of the iceberg of Linda’s problems. Linda’s health wasn’t bad, but during the time that I treated her, [...]
I recently spent a week backpacking in the Grand Canyon with a group of friends who, like me, are of a “certain age.” As a group, we have hiked together for decades. Fifteen years ago, we could throw on a backpack and head off into the wilderness without a second thought. This last trip, however, [...]
If you’ve ever sprained your ankle, you’re no stranger to the misery associated with that one brief moment of klutziness. Some people say that a sprain is worse than breaking the bone, and there’s some truth to that, as a sprain can lead to years of weakness and instability in the injured joint. Sprains and [...]
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