By Jill Blakeway, MS, LAc 鈥淚 have more perimenopausal patients with estrogen dominance than I used to and they worry me. How can Chinese medicine help with that?鈥� This question came from a colleague of mine聽who is a gynecologist, oncologist and a surgeon. Her focus is preventing and treating cancers of the female reproductive organs …
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December 2015 –聽海角吃瓜网 of Oriental Medicine –聽Chicago was well-represented at a December 2015 private meeting with the Secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. 聽A representative of Quad A (the Asian American Association of Acupuncturists, Chicago)聽and representatives of ILaaom (Illinois Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine),聽all of whom were PCOM graduates,聽were …
Thank you, everyone, for a successful 2015 Pacific Symposium, hosted at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego, CA from October 28 – November 3rd.聽With speakers and attendees聽from nearly every state in the country and several other nations besides, the 27th聽Symposium may have been our best yet! Jeffrey Yuen, Mazin Al-Khafaji, and Jill Blakeway were …
When allergies strike, they can affect almost every activity you do鈥攆rom your voice and breathing聽to headaches and聽even how you approach your workflow, allergy symptoms can make it difficult to get through the day. One of the most common forms of seasonal allergies is allergic rhinitis, which affects the sinuses. Symptoms include sneezing, congestion, runny nose, …
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Tu Youyou, an 84-year-old Chinese scientist, was recently awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine for her discovery and development of artemisinin, a malaria聽treatment that has saved millions of lives over the past few decades. Tu’s team of researchers rediscovered the drug, which has been known to Chinese medicine for at least 2000 years, in …
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What is sympathy? I say sympathy is the way of total acceptance and total transformation. Total acceptance is the job of the stomach and total transformation is the job of the spleen. This is the highest skill of the Earth element: total acceptance, total transformation. What most of us work with in life is partial …
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By聽Suzanne Robidoux, PhD, CM, DOM, LAc As practitioners, we always want to bring the quickest, most effective treatment at the lowest price possible. In TCM, sexual disorders are mainly due to either liver qi stagnation, liver and kidney depletion, or the kidney and heart not communicating. What can we offer our patients, however, once we …
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The World Health Organization estimates that 15 million individuals suffer from stroke annually worldwide, most of whom live in developed countries, where hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and cardiac diseases are prevalent. Stroke is the third leading cause of fatality and ranks highest as a cause of disability.1 Global Stroke Statistics and Challenges in Treatment Western medicine has …
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By Mazin Al-Khafaji She was the last patient of the day, and although I can always muster an interest in a new case, it had been a grueling day and I was keen to finish and head home. No question about it: it was her eyes that made me wake up and pay attention. I …
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By Lia Andrews, DAOM, LAc 鈥淭he superior physician treats that which is not yet ill. The inferior physician treats that which is already ill.鈥� –Ling Shu Chapter 55 Every practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine is armed with this famed quote in school, yet we quickly finds him or herself out in the real world of …
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