Protecting Your Lungs from Fire & Smoke

Protecting Your Lungs from Fire & Smoke

UPDATED SINCE ORIGINAL POST TO INCLUDE NEW TIPS FOR THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRES OF 2018. I have been treating multiple cases since last week of people being affected by the bad air quality because of the Southern California fires we’re dealing with, with my...
Saving a Life on an Airplane

Saving a Life on an Airplane

You know how you read on the news every so often of healthcare providers saving lives on airplanes?  I even read about a fellow acupuncturist not too long ago doing this.  Well, guys, I am now part of this select club!   I recently had to travel to Hawaii to take care...

AUSSIE FLU 2017/2018 & CHINESE HERBS

Photo by drbimages/iStock / Getty Images I am sure by now most of you here in the US have been reading, if not hearing on the radio, or even dealt with it like myself!! — the epidemic nature of the flu and other viral respiratory infection season...
Is it a cold or a flu?…or something else?

Is it a cold or a flu?…or something else?

I got sick this winter break, which is very rare for me, but I thought it was just me.  When I started hearing from and reading several of my acupuncturist colleagues’ Facebook postings that they too were sick, I knew this one was not the run of the mill cold...