by iyashi | Sep 23, 2022 | Child/Kids Health, Chinese Medicine, Cold/Flu/COVID, COVID 5, Eastern Medicine, Family Health, Nutrition
Fall has barely begun but the cold and flu are in full force, and COVID is still going on (though less for right now). I am already seeing increase cases of colds in my office and am helping my patients via herbal telemedicine consults. And this year, we have to...
by iyashi | Jan 15, 2022 | Child/Kids Health, COVID 1, COVID19, Eastern Medicine, Family Health, Leaky Gut
One of the concepts within Chinese Medicine that is just beginning to be understood within the context of Western Medicine is the idea of a Latent Pathogenic Factor (LPF). Just as the name sounds, an LPF is a pathogen (such as a bacteria, virus, fungus, or parasite)...
by iyashi | Nov 10, 2021 | Child/Kids Health, Chinese Medicine, COVID 4, COVID19, Eastern Medicine, Family Health, Vaccines
On October 29th, the FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization for pediatric doses of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID19 vaccine for children 5 to 11 years of age, now adding to the availability of this vaccine for children 12 and older. Some parents and children could not...
by iyashi | Aug 22, 2020 | Child/Kids Health, Cold/Flu/COVID, COVID 6, COVID19, Family Health, Nutrition, Vaccines
It’s been 8 months since SARS-CoV-2 came into this world and there is much news out there about it. Many are accurate, but many are not. The public has a lot of questions about COVID19, the disease that results from an infection of the novel virus, SARS-CoV-2. The...
by iyashi | May 17, 2020 | Child/Kids Health, COVID 3, COVID19, Family Health
We are hearing more about children contracting a more severe inflammatory condition associated with COVID19, called MIS-C (Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children) or Kawasaki-like syndrome, in the news now. (It was formerly known as PIMS, Pediatric Inflammatory...
by iyashi | May 4, 2020 | Child/Kids Health, Chinese Medicine, Cold/Flu/COVID, Eastern Medicine, Family Health, Moms, Nutrition
Recently, I posted about my son on Facebook and how Chinese medicine helped me defeat his stomach bug. One of my Facebook moms suggested that I start an “Ask Dr. Mom” series and write articles about how to treat common childhood conditions using Chinese...
