The New York Times posted an article today about research done on vitamins, conception and birth weight. This is particularly interesting to me because the findings are not far from what we think in Chinese medicine. In order to have a strong pregnancy and ensure a healthy child is born, both biological parents have to [...]
Check out this great article in the New York Times reviewing research showing a link between the increased use of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, and an increase in asthma rates. The article quotes the its own article in the Science Times: “The asthma epidemic accelerated in the 1980s, some researchers have noted, about [...]
In Asia, acupuncture and herbal medicine are used in children routinely. In fact, in China, Western and Eastern medicines are practiced side by side in hospitals everywhere. A recent article in the American journal Pediatrics, did a meta-analysis of acupuncture studies involving children. The research, according to Reuters, was ”…an analysis of 1,422 kids and teens [...]
In an earlier blog post, I talked about Ritalin and ADD/ADHD from a Chinese medicine and acupuncture perspective. I want to talk some more about ADD/ADHD from this perspective because I continue to be blown away by how Chinese medicine can really understand and interpret all situations through its medical philosophical lens. Growing up as an [...]
New research from China demonstrates scalp acupuncture treatment “has a significantly positive effect on language development in children with autism.” I have seen body acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine to have significant effects in children with autism spectrum disorder. Chinese medicine is unique in that there is no standard treatment. Sure people with the same [...]
We are living in a time when our soil has been depleted of healthy nutrients and saturated with petrochemical fertilizers, weed killers, and GMO crops. We are living in a time like that of Li Dong-yuan, founder of the Spleen-Stomach School of Chinese medicine; time when we are exposed to all sorts of unnatural things [...]
I was a Ritalin® kid. The drug had come onto the market right around the time I was getting to the part of elementary school where I needed to be sitting down instead of running around. I do not recall if the Ritalin® helped me concentrate or not, but I do remember Ritalin® making me [...]
