Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine for Fertility Treatments
Fertility starts with menstruation. When treating women especially for fertility, their menstrual history is the most valuable...
Physical Injury and Chinese Medicine
In the US most people experience acupuncture after an injury. My first acupuncture treatment was indeed after a knee injury due to a...
Covid Babies and Postpartum Depression from Chinese Medicine Perspective
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...
Tongue in Chinese Medicine
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...
Menopause and Peri-Menopause from a Chinese Medicine Prospective
In every woman's life there are many transitions: menarche, pregnancy and menopause being the three most important ones from the Chinese...
Insomnia and the Change of Seasons
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...
Happy Spring
Time to celebrate Spring and all its promises. According to Chinese philosophy and medicine, spring corresponds with the liver organ, the...
Remain Grounded in times of Uncertainty
Remain Grounded in times of Uncertainty When I was a child growing up in Iran we went through nine years of brutal war with Iraq. I...
Chinese Medicine and COVID19
There was so much controversy in the past weeks about the role of China and the spread of Covid-19. Unfortunately we witnessed some...
5 tips to stay out of ER this Summer!
Summer is the season of fire according to the five element theories of Chinese Medicine for obvious reasons. The element of fire sits at...
