Highlights From The Gluten Summit

Have you been told by your health practitioner that you or your child need to cut gluten out of your diet to address a health concern? Do you want to understand more about why cutting out gluten may help you deal with that health issue? In this post, we answer some common questions that patients ask about gluten sensitivity.

9 Simple Ways To Boost Your Immunity During Flu Season

As these autumn days get shorter and cooler, we start to be inundated with ads and offers for flu shots, reminding us that cold and flu season is quickly approaching. Learn how TCM’s common sense wisdom can help you enjoy the fall and winter and avoid colds and flus!

A Balm for Belly Blues: Maya Abdominal Massage and Gynecological Health

When is the last time you experienced discomfort or dysfunction related to digestion, menstruation, fertility, or injury in the pelvis or lower back? Unfortunately, the answer for many of us is, “Um, yesterday.” We live in a time in which issues with digestive and gynecological function run rampant amongst women of all ages. We also live in a culture in which we are often out of touch, both literally and figuratively, with our bellies. Learn more about Chinese medicine’s take on abdominal health and how Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy can help to address a range of abdominal issues.

How Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine Fit Perfectly Into Your Fertility Puzzle

Chinese medicine is in the news a lot because it has great success in helping women who have been unable to get pregnant. Acupuncture and herbal medicine have been used to help women get pregnant into their 40’s, with or without IVF. Whichever method you are using to try to get pregnant, there are a lot of strengths that acupuncture and herbal medicine bring to the fertility puzzle.

Preparing For Pregnancy: A Few Things To Consider BEFORE You Get Pregnant

When people get pregnant, they often put a lot of time towards preparing a physical space for the baby, but there are a lot of reasons for both women and men to start thinking about their physical health before they even conceive. In this post, we’ll continue our month-long series on fertility with a few things to consider when you start to think about getting pregnant.

6 Ways Acupuncture Can Support Your Pregnancy

We all know that acupuncture can help increase your fertility and chances of getting pregnant (right?), but do you also know that one of the best things you can do for yourself and your baby while you’re pregnant is to get acupuncture? That’s right! Integrating Health kicks off a month-long series on fertility and Chinese medicine with this post about how acupuncture can help ease your way through pregnancy.

Let Acupuncture Help You Quit Smoking

Quitting smoking is easier said than done. When you’re ready to take that leap, acupuncture is there to catch you. Acupuncture and herbal medicine can support you every step of the way.

Open Up and Say Aaahhh… Tongue Diagnosis in TCM

WHY do you want to look at my tongue? What does an ideal tongue look like? What does my tongue show? Find answers to all these questions and more in this post about different tongue presentations we commonly see.

Red Wine, Chocolate, and Coffee: When Is A Good Thing NOT A Good Thing? (Part Two)

Red wine, dark chocolate, and coffee are favorites for many of us, and a number of studies have shown them to have some good effects for your health. Are they always good for you? What does Chinese Medicine say about these three decadences-turned-health foods?

Acupuncture May Help Ease Symptoms Of COPD

Acupuncture has previously been shown to reduce breathlessness in patients with cancer, and now we can add COPD to the list! In a very exciting development in the world of research on acupuncture, a small-but-promising study published last week in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that acupuncture holds benefit for people with Chronic Pulmonary Obstructive Disease.

Chinese Medicine Makes Sense Of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a chronic and debilitating gastrointestinal disorder that fits into the category of ‘functional’ diseases in Western medicine. This basically means that, while there are clear and present symptoms for the patient, Western medicine has not yet figured out the cause of the distress. This kind of disorder (‘functional’, a wide range of symptoms across systems, partly connected to emotions), is exactly the kind of situation where Traditional Chinese Medicine shines forth. Plus, the British Dietetic Association recently published some dietary guidelines for sufferers of IBS.

Supplements: When Is A Good Thing NOT A Good Thing?

Supplements may help some of us in certain situations, but for others, they may have unintended side effects. So, when is a good thing NOT a good thing? If studies have shown that a particular supplement has beneficial properties, how could it hurt? We’ll take a look at four popular supplements that our patients often take and get a better idea of how they should be taken.

Acupuncture In The News

What’s Good For You?? Acupuncture! Seems like acupuncture has been in the news more and more recently. Integrating Health has picked out a few recent highlights to share with you. Whether you’re suffering from seasonal allergies, knee pain, digestive distress, or just plain stress, acupuncture can help!

Change You Can Believe In

If there’s something about change that everyone can believe in, it’s that it WILL happen. Whether it’s in politics or relationships or our health, change is a given. Chinese medicine teaches about the balance of Yin and Yang and this …

The calmest revolution: Making alternative medicine more affordable

Community acupuncture is in the news again, this time from Canada! Reblogged from National Post | News: By Howard Akler