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Acupuncture Getting The Respect It Deserves

Posted on August 15, 2016 by

Posted in A, Acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine, Blog, Knowledge Base — 3 Comments ↓

Before President Nixon opened up US relations with the People’s Republic of China in 1972, Americans knew virtually nothing about acupuncture. It had been mentioned in an 1892 medical textbook by the renowned physician Sir William Osler as a treatment for sciatica, but back then opium, morphine, cocaine, and pure heroin were all available over-the-counter so doctors didn’t bother to pursue acupuncture. Click here for Read More

Tagged with: acupuncture, alternative medicine, Chinese Medicine, cupping, healthcare industry, healthcare politics, TCM, traditional Chinese medicine, traditional medicine

“I Am So Bloated!”

Posted on November 9, 2015 by

Posted in Blog, Case Studies, Digestion, I, Knowledge Base — 18 Comments ↓

Susan had written “BLOATED!” in the section marked “What’s the main problem?” She told me she’d been suffering for years, her stomach feeling like some gremlin was inflating a balloon every time she ate. When the bloating was especially severe, Susan said she looked like she was in her fifth month of pregnancy. She was even embarrassed to accept dinner invitations. “You can actually see Read More

Tagged with: acupuncture, bloated, bloated feeling, bloating, candida yeast infections, Chinese Medicine, digestion, digestive enzymes, digestive health, elimination diet, FODMAPs, food sensitivity, food sensitivity diet, homeopathy, IBS, irritable bowel, irritable bowel syndrome, nutrition, probiotic, probiotics, SIBO, yeast

Healing Adrenal Fatigue

Posted on October 19, 2015 by

Posted in Blog, Case Studies, H, Knowledge Base, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues — 16 Comments ↓

In last week’s Health Tip I described the exhausted state of Patricia, dragging herself through the day and crashing completely in the afternoon. At first, Patricia was oddly supercharged in the evening, unable to relax or sleep. Later, this energy burst vanished and she simply couldn’t sleep. She was tired all the time. Before her visit with us at WholeHealth Chicago, Patricia had had quite Read More

Tagged with: acupuncture, adrenal, adrenal fatigue, adrenal glands, adrenal hormones, Chinese Medicine, chronic fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, fatigue, glandular therapies, homeopathy, psychologist, stress, stress buffer, supplements

Chinese Medicine Tackles Your Weight Concerns

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

Posted in Acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine, Blog, C, Knowledge Base, Weight Issues — 10 Comments ↓

Despite all the hoopla about the “best” way to determine if we’re overweight–getting on a scale, BMI, waist-to-hip ratio, pants won’t button, body fat percentage–we ultimately rely on our intuition to let us know we feel fat. In other words, if you think you’re overweight or obese you probably are. Two-thirds of Americans are one or the other, split 50/50 between the two, with the Read More

Tagged with: Chinese Medicine, food for healing, qigong, TCM, The Dragon's Way, weight loss, Wu Ming Qigong

How To Get Off Statins

Getting off statins is easy. Stop swallowing the pill. If you’re not in a potentially high-risk group (as described below) and your doc prescribed a statin to get your cholesterol down a bit, you won’t have a heart attack or a stroke that day or week or probably that decade. There’s no “statin withdrawal” and you weren’t born with a statin deficiency. In fact, many Read More

Pushing Your Wellness Exam Into The 21st Century

Patients ask me, “What about those wellness exams my health insurance company says I’m entitled to every year at no cost?” Bad news. Let’s review one of life’s basic rules: you get what you pay for. What you receive during your short wellness visit (what many consider a sacrosanct ritual that boosts longevity) is little more than a quick look at the obvious. Your weight, Read More

Empty Nose Syndrome

Never heard of it? Neither had I. Sounded more like a Sherlock Holmes story than a “condition” somebody could have. But there it was, written by the patient himself in the Reason For Visit section of our intake form. Before he actually walked into the examining room, I made a quick obeisance before my PC, fingers flying across the keys, summoning the all-powerful Wiki gods Read More

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Acupuncture Getting The Respect It Deserves

“I Am So Bloated!”

Healing Adrenal Fatigue

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