Every August for several years now, my family has engaged in a ritual that we credit for keeping us healthy throughout the cold months. In preparation for the fall and winter months ahead, we prepare a huge batch of Fire Cider – a zesty blend of herbs and spices steeped in vinegar. Fire Cider, as it is popularly known…
Unfortunately for many seasonal allergy sufferers Spring can be both a welcome and a burden. Sneezing, itchy and watery eyes, congestion, runny nose and sinus headaches are what many have to look forward to this time of year. It is important to understand that the symptoms allergy sufferers experience are a sign of a suboptimal functioning of the immune system.…
Circadian Rhythms This Sunday we jump into Daylight Savings Time moving our clocks ahead so that sunrise and sunset will be perceived to occur one hour later. We have engaged in this spring and autumnal ritual of “springing forward” and “falling back” to “standard time” for several decades now. Debates rage as to whether we should be engaging in these rituals. Why? For one, we…
Sign of the times…. We – just as many health practitioners nationwide – have been seeing our share of patients coming in with what can best be described as post-viral syndrome following their encounter with the SARS-COV2 virus. Post-viral syndrome is a constellation of varying symptoms that can happen after a viral infection. During the viral infection, you, of course, feel sick. …
At the start of the pandemic, I wrote about managing emotions at the height of the uncertainty and the communal fear that had rocked us. Now – more than six months later – we have not had a breather and the stirring external stimuli have been relentless. During this time, I’ve also seen more people coming in specifically for anxiety and…
We cannot treat with our needles. We cannot touch with our hands. We cannot speak in person with our patients. And like all of you we are forced to go within to seek the teachings that this moment is here to provide. Emotional Resilience in a Time of Global Upheaval I have heard from some of you since we closed…
Publication in Acupuncture Today of an article I wrote about my participation and impressions of my first humanitarian trip to Haiti with the Global Balance Foundation.
Labor Day marks the end of summer in the US. It also marks for most of us the “resumption of activities” – back to school, back to getting serious at work, a slew of holidays to stress about starting with Halloween followed by Thanksgiving and then straight into the gift-giving frenzy of the December holidays. After all that activity 70%…
If there is one thing I try to consistently impress on my patients as they heal with acupuncture is that the healing is being generated from within. I use the needles to signal the body to self-adjust, to self-correct. There is no masking of the pain or disabling of your body’s healing mechanisms. We are working with (not against) your…
What does a book about sustainable farming practices have to do with taking good care of your body? Last year when I picked up “The One Straw Revolution,” which was written in 1978 by Masanobu Fukouoka, I had no idea how it would apply to good health. Fukuoka, a Japanese farmer and philosopher, introduced ecologically sustainable farming practices which were…
