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Circadian Rhythms

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…

The Unique Healing Benefits of Community Acupuncture

Spending time in nature teaches us among other things that we and all things are connected. While elements in a natural setting can exist for a time isolated and on their own, they will not thrive without the balance that connectedness brings. Each element provides necessary support to the other elements and there is a constant give and take –…

Suffer From Seasonal Allergies?

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.…

Long-COVID – How Chinese Medicine Helps

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. …

Emotional Resilience in the Midst of Upheaval

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…

Getting Out of Your Own Way to Heal

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…

Start Your Own ‘One Straw [Health] Revolution’ With Harlem Chi This Year

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…