Making assumptions and jumping to conclusions in medicine can be a dangerous thing. Without a proper diagnosis, how can one choose an appropriate treatment? But all too often, medical dogma […]
Tag: health and healing
Living in Accord with Nature
One of the paramount lessons that Chinese medicine teaches is the importance of living in harmony with the cycles of nature. When one resists our ignores these cycles, imbalance sets […]
Reduce your calories and live longer!
The relationship between calorie restriction and longevity is a sound one. My friend, Dr. Stickley, has posted on this subject. You can access his article here. Also read my comment […]
Splenda far from Splendid
The amount of food products containing Splenda and other sugar substitutes like aspartame and the sugar alcohols is increasing exponentially. Being marketed as a “healthy” alternative to refined sugars is, […]
HPV/Cervical Cancer Vaccine
The issue of vaccines is a heated one, and this blog entry is not meant to be a discussion or analysis of the efficacy or morality of vaccines in general. […]
Are we as healthy as our grandparents?
It often strikes me in my practice that I (and many others in my profession) are encountering significant illness and weakness in younger and younger people as the years go […]
Getting to the Heart of Exercising
Is exercise good for one’s health? Before you answer that question, ask yourself how you define health. Do you really have an understanding of health or do you, like western […]
Paradigm (cont’d)
Back to the idea of what makes a system of medicine effective. Looking at one’s paradigm for perceiving imbalance, does one look to the past, present or future? Blood tests, […]
Paradigm
A medicine cannot be truly effective without a successful paradigm. By that I mean, how can a system of medicine diagnose, treat, and heal an illness that it cannot even […]