Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth at the 2018 Health and Wellness Fair! It was a fantastic event. We raffled off a complimentary acupuncture treatment and a set of HeadEase rings. We will announce the winner soon! Special thanks to Jenny Yang, Will Neumann and the Oak Park River Forest Chamber of Commerce.

Health and Wellness Fair

If you live in the Chicago area, please stop by the Community Health and Wellness Fair on Sunday, April 29th 11am-3pm and say hello! I will have HeadEase rings available to demo and will happily answer any questions. There are over 70 health and wellness vendors attending, and many giveaways. Hope to see you there!

Harvard Health and Acupuncture

While acupuncturists and their patients have long known that acupuncture works, it has taken time for the medical community and general public to trust in its efficacy. Thanks to an analysis of 23 studies, the jury is no longer out. It has concluded, with certainty,  that acupuncture provides signigicant relief for headaches and other conditions.

ACUPUNCTURE FOR HEADACHE

Save the Bees!

What some people are calling "bee acupuncture," or apitherapy, has been in the news recently after a woman died following an allergic reaction as a result of the procedure. While both modalities are considered alternative therapies and puncture the skin, apitherapy uses honey bees to sting patients, with the hope of reducing pain and inflammation. Please do not confuse acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine with apitherapy. Acupuncturists do not use apitherapy. While acupuncture is very safe and uses sterile stainless steel needles, apitherapy is dangerous to the patient and kills the bee. You can read more about apitherapy and this recent case here.

You've got a cold. Now what?

This is one formula that I have stocked in the medicine cabinet at all times. Chinese medicine views the common cold (and the flu) as a struggle between the body's "defensive qi" and exogenous "pathogenic qi." If your defensive qi (similar to the immune system) is deficient, you are more susceptible to an attack by pathogenic qi. Virugo Max is used to reduce the virility of what acupuncturists call "pathogenic wind-heat." It has been used in Asia for over 30 years, and is distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Dragon Herbs. It works wonders!

Symptoms of wind-heat include fever and chills, with fever predominating, headache, a sore scratchy throat and yellow nasal discharge. Talk to your acupuncturist, or speak with a TCM practitioner at Dragon Herbs, about its proper use. Virugo Max is most effective when taken early after onset, but helps shorten the duration at any point. Ron Teeguarden, of Dragon Herbs, is a renowned herbalist based in Los Angeles and is dedicated to researching and sourcing the very best in Chinese herbs.