“Where did this chest pain come from?…. I was so happy. I made my decision and felt at peace with it. Then suddenly woke up with this pain in my chest, out of left field.”

I have always been fascinated with blind spots. Maybe it’s my scorpio nature that wants to dig in and shed light on the darkest corners we hide even from ourselves….

For those of us who work in healthcare, or are care givers at home, the feeling of burn out is familiar. If we are lucky it only lasts in waves…

Mugwort, Artemesia, is the only herb we burn in Acupuncture treatments to bring in warmth and "yang" energy into the meridians and organs. The dry herb…

I lost my father to a traumatic event two months ago. I feel the wave of grief, coming and going. Some days more intense, some days...

I invite you to sit down and take a look around you. Let's take an inventory of our life. Look at the room where you are sitting...

I grew up in Iran in a culture where traditional food and healing systems are still quite dominant in everyday life. My mother, a firm...

Fertility starts with menstruation. When treating women especially for fertility, their menstrual history is the most valuable...

In the US most people experience acupuncture after an injury. My first acupuncture treatment was indeed after a knee injury due to a...

I can hardly believe it’s been two years already since we were having a normal family Christmas dinner. I look back at the pictures of...

Every morning when I wake up, before I eat or brush my teeth, I look at my tongue in the mirror. I suggest that you include this ritual...

In every woman's life there are many transitions: menarche, pregnancy and menopause being the three most important ones from the Chinese...

Is everyone else wondering what happened to the summer? Here on the east coast it feels like it rained for the whole month of July and...

Time to celebrate Spring and all its promises. According to Chinese philosophy and medicine, spring corresponds with the liver organ, the...

When I was a child growing up in Iran we went through nine years of brutal war with Iraq. I...

There was so much controversy in the past weeks about the role of China and the spread of Covid-19. Unfortunately we witnessed some...

Summer is the season of fire according to the five element theories of Chinese Medicine for obvious reasons. The element of fire sits at...