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Welcome! This blog is intended to help you learn about acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, and how to use it to take care of your own health.
If you have a specific health concern, you can browse through the categories on the right, or use the search function to find relevant articles. These posts include suggestions, such as diet, exercise, herbal teas, and acupressure, that you can use to take care of your own health — as well as information… Continue reading
I have a client who moved here recently from a much warmer climate. About a month ago she came in saying, I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m tired all the time. I’m sleeping 9 or 10 hours a night, and I still don’t want to get out of bed. I don’t feel like doing much during the day. I’m not usually this unmotivated.
I thought for a minute and then realized, oh, she’s never done November in
Years ago, my dentist asked if I grind my teeth. I told her I didn’t think so, and she begged to differ. Whether I was doing it currently or not, she said, at some point I had clenched my jaw enough to wear my teeth down unevenly. I suspect this was during my teenage years (what?? stressed as a teenager? unheard of!), but most of us do this at some point — hold enough tension in our jaws to actually… Continue reading
Pain researcher Lorimer Moseley tells this story: he was hiking in the Australian Outback with friends, and felt something scratch his left ankle. It was painful enough to make him pull his leg away a little bit, but he just kept walking, figuring he’d scraped his ankle on a stick, and forgot about it – until he woke up two days later in the hospital. Doctors told him he’d been bitten by an eastern brown snake, and was lucky… Continue reading
A few years ago, at a wedding, I was served the most delicious lasagne. I love lasagne, and it was a nice change from the usual chicken-breast-and-rice routine that usually comes at these events.
When I mentioned it to the bride, she said “Yeah, lasagne’s my favorite. I almost never have it — I avoid tomato sauce — and I know I’m going to be up all night with heartburn, but I figure it’s worth it.” And then she… Continue reading
The following writeup appeared in Fall 2011 edition of the Voice — the alumni magazine of my alma mater, Carleton College — as part of an article exploring the five senses:
Sometimes, fingertips are more useful medical tools than X-ray or MRI machines.
When Marilyn Yohe ’88 ushers somebody into her treatment room, one of her first tasks is to place three fingers on her patient’s wrist to feel for a pulse. Yohe, a licensed acupuncturist at Cambridge Health… Continue reading
I remember this well: I was in my mid-30′s, nursing a neck injury that ultimately took years to heal. That summer I was staying with friends while I found a new apartment, enjoying their swimming pool, their cooking, and the company of their children. I was having a pretty good week, neck-wise, which was a huge relief — and then their 4-year-old dove across the room into my lap, clocking me squarely in the jaw with the top of his… Continue reading
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