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If you are pregnant, you need to know that acupressure can help make your labor a lot less arduous. This natural therapy can be useful in relieving pain and in the inducement of labor.
Listed below are five questions that pregnant women may have regarding acupressure:
1. Have there been … Continue reading
Nutrition has played a vital role in Chinese medicine for a long time, generating health within people. There are specific foods that help strengthen a certain organ system including the kidney, metal, liver, spleen, and heart systems. Each of these systems has an express role in the functioning of the … Continue reading
One aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine that’s rising in popularity in the US is cupping. You may not have heard of the treatment before but rest assured, it can provide with you tons of benefits – from relieving acute and chronic pain to curing certain respiratory diseases.
What is Cupping … Continue reading
While Chinese medicine is deemed in the West as alternative medicine, it is still used as a primary form of treatment by a lot of people in China, which it has been so for thousands of years. However, more and more people in the West are now turning to this … Continue reading
Practitioners of Oriental medicine do certainly benefit a lot from the regular activity of meditation, Tai Chi, or Chi Kung (Qigong). Any of these practices can beef up and increase the circulation of your life energy (chi) as well as give your body additional defense to ward off disease and … Continue reading
Perhaps the most unorthodox way to cure halitosis (bad breath) is through acupuncture in Cleveland. This is the practice of using very slender needles stuck into the skin in strategic points to hinder certain nerves to alter the flow of Chi. This Chi is thought to be the life … Continue reading
In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), spring is associated with the liver and liver in turn, is associated with menstruation, movement, the ligaments and tendons, muscles, energy, and blood and Qi. The liver is also the most important organ when it comes to the health of the eyes. So, in TCM, … Continue reading
One of the most common forms of anemia is Iron deficiency anemia or IDA, for short. For women who are in menstruation, this is the most common type of anemia they can experience. About half of pregnant women are also reported to be deficient in iron. Without sufficient amounts of … Continue reading
According to traditional Chinese medicine, the meridian systems are the invisible highway networks that deliver chi to every part of the human body. Meridian lines run through the nervous system from the brain to the coccyx, the shoulder, limbs and lower extremities of the body and delivers blood and the … Continue reading
Healthy eating is the most fundamental requirement for one’s overall health. The thing is there is so much confusing information available that choosing the right one can be a bit of a challenge. This article will give you a background of some basic principles of Chinese Nutritional therapy in West … Continue reading