Seasonal Affective Disorder
As fall turns into winter, many people are prone to a mild form of depression that seems to lift in the warmer months of...
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Acupuncture in Palliative Care
Management of Cancer Symptoms and Treatment Related Side Effects There is now mounting evidence that acupuncture is a safe and effective treatment that may...
Treating the Heart and the Mind with Acupuncure and Herbs
I am neither a cardiologist nor a shrink by training, but I have been minding everybody else’s business by treating heart and mood problems...
The Power of Shen Mai San, a Chinese Herbal Formula
Nancy is an elegant 48 year old who lives one hour away from Cincinnati, Ohio. She first came for supportive and palliative care after...
Menosal Symptoms – Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Therapy
Within the past 2 months, I saw three women for relief of menopausal symptoms. Two had a history of breast cancer and the third...
Heat vs Cold in Traditional Chinese Medicine
As scientifically well-developed and advanced as contemporary western medicine is, the concept of “heat vs cold” is absent. We, the doctors, care if you...
Respiratory Tract Infections (RTI’S)
In Jan. 2016, an article appeared in the Journal of Annals of Internal Medicine. The CDC and ACP (American College of Physicians) issued a...
Pruritus, Skin Itching, Urticaria, Hives, Psoriasis
Acupuncture For Pruritus (Skin Itching), Urticaria (Hives), Psoriasis During the last several years, I have successfully treated a number of patients with skin itching,...
Foot and Ankle Pain Treatment with Acupuncture
Use of opioids (morphine, oxycodone and the like) for the management of chronic pain is not necessarily the best approach for many patients. Some...
Fibromyalgia – Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs
Many have written about fibromyalgia. What I would like to do is to provide a very different perspective based on traditional Chinese medicine’s (TCM)...