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Spring 2012 Newsletter

May 082012

Heavenly Herbs and Acupuncture Newsletter:

Spring: A Time for Cleansing and New Personal Care Products?

This newsletter includes a few book reviews also.

Current Posts

Happy Summer Solstice: June 21, 2018
Sharing pictures from the bounty of last summer!
Spring Lecture: Time to Tame the Liver!©
Spring seems to be my favorite time to talk about Chinese Medicine Food Therapy and how one can tailor their diet to the season for healing. In May 2018, I did a lecture on this topic and am posting my notes and recipes here: Spring: Time to Tame the Liver Summary Table of Spring Foods […]
Acupuncture Used to Treat Burned Bears
Wow! UC Davis School of Veterinary School of Medicine using acupuncture to help burned bears!! (And they were able to be returned back to the wild too!) Pregnant Burned Bear in California Fire Gets Acupuncture and Fish Skin Paws Vets Use Fish Skin and Acupuncture to Treat Burned Bears
Integrated Medicine and Veterans Health
Research into the importance of and benefits from an integrated model of health care has been recognized at the federal level for at least 20 years now with the formation the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). (NCCAM was renamed to National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health […]
Article: New American College of Physicians Guidelines Say Exercise, Yoga, and Acupuncture Beat Medications for Back Pain (2017)
New Guidelines Say Exercise, Yoga, and Acupuncture Beat Medications for Back Pain. Other article links on this blog about acupuncture and back pain.
Research: Smell Test Outperforms Brain Imaging in Predicting Dementia
Smell Test Outperforms Brain Imaging in Predicting Dementia Research showing the link between loss of sense of smell and Alzheimer’s disease dates back as far as 2002, with this small study showing a “classification accuracy of 95%”. Sounds like an easy, low-cost tool that the medical community should routinely use to help patients and their […]
Article: UC Davis Pediatric GI MD Uses Acupuncture on Children for Stomach Pain
UC Davis Pediatric GI MD Uses Acupuncture on Children for Stomach Pain Other article links on this blog about acupuncture and IBS.
Research: Menopausal Symptoms Helped by Acupuncture
Menopausal Symptoms Helped by Acupuncture From the conclusion of this study: “We found that a course of acupuncture treatments was associated with significant reduction in VMS, and several quality-of-life measures, compared with no acupuncture, and that clinical benefit persisted for at least 6 months beyond the end of treatment.” Note: VMS is vasomotor symptoms, or […]
Research: Electroacupuncture Helps Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Electroacupuncture Might Help Ease Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Research: Effectiveness of Cupping Therapy on Chronic Neck and Shoulder Pain
Cupping Therapy is a tool I use almost daily in my office along with acupuncture treatments. I primarily use it on certain types of pain, or for post-stroke syndrome (i.e., paralysis), but it can be used to ‘release the exterior’ (as we say in TCM) for an upper respiratory infection, for COPD (especially phlegm in […]

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