The other day after removing the needles from a patient suffering from low back pain she started sobbing. My first instinct was to be sure that the needles did not aggravate her back. “No, its fine….I just can’t stop crying…..” The experience reminded me to appreciate...
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Pre-Allergy Season
The time to deal with your allergies naturally is now before the season commences. Your body is more easily able to come into balance through natural medicine before it is being stressed by the daily allergen. Read more for natural suggestions:
Buzzy Buddies
As the short month winds down, don’t forget about our buzzy friends. They concentrate all sort of natural products that can support our immune system: propalis, bee pollen, honey, and apis. So next time find your immune dragging think about natural apiary support.
Topicals
The topic at hand is topicals, an underutilized medicinal application. We as a culture suffer from an oral fixation as if the only real form of medicine is swallowed. I suffered from the same biases that is until I worked with a patient who was able to stave off acute...
Salty Thoughts
Fueling your kidney and brain sense organs with the proper salt nutrition is essential. Most processed foods contain only one salt ‘table-salt’, chemically sodium chloride. The issue being that your body depends on hundreds of different salt compounds for proper functioning. – iodine for thyroid function, potassium for heart rhythm, calcium for muscle contraction, etc. Most naturally sourced salts contain necessary micronutrients in proper balance
Vacation cured my Digestion?
Ahhhhhhh, August! Time for vacations, porches, and…….ideal digestion. So many of my patient have remarked that their digestive issues disappear while on vacation. But Why?!?! While we can’t bottle up ‘vacation’ and serve it up 2x / day, this should inspire patients...
Mid-Summer Refreshment
Summer with its long hot days invite us to come out play. Take a vacation! Reconnect with relatives! Lounge in the park reading a novel! With increased exposure to the hot-hot sun, replenishment of nutrients and fluids becomes important, and sometimes water alone is...
Rethinking cholesterol standards
The prescribing of statins for elderly patients with high cholesterol had always caused me some hesitation. Statins block a key enzyme in the synthesis of cholesterol to lower both total cholesterol and ‘the bad guy’ LDL. I knew the dogma that high cholesterol is...
Natural Recovery from Vaccines
What is needed for vaccine recovery are therapies that do not shut down inflammation but help resolve it. Thuja is one such herb that studies have shown to be a potent resolven. Thuja comes from the North American cedar tree. It has a long history of use in traditional medicine as well as in homeopathy as vaccine prophylaxis. Medical studies verifying Thuja’s traditional uses. It is a potent anti-viral for respiratory viruses2, has comparable fever controlling capacities to aspirin3, while still increasing the cell- mediate immune response4. This means that Thuja helps control acute inflammation while boosting immune intelligence and resolution.
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