("Chinese Medicine for Insomnia" updated Jan. 5, 2021) It is common knowledge that the immune system works best during sleep. This is the  time when our natural killer cells are generated. Sleep deprivation can lead to an array of serious diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and depression. We study sleep in sleep […]

Menstrual pain (dysmenorrhea) is one of the most common gynecological problems that women face. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory, women who suffer from dysmenorrhea have a blockage in the flow of liver energy. The liver’s function is to maintain a free flow of qi or energy through the body. When this energy is […]

Every animal is afraid of pain and will do anything to avoid it. It’s natural. But this avoidance creates a whole host of problems. For example, anger, if not experienced in a functional way, can create a host of problems in one’s health and relationships. This article will explore how counselling can deal with guilt […]

Increase Your Energy, Vitality, and Productivity by Harnessing Stress Effectively “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain Stress can be debilitating, both physically and mentally. Where anxiety results from […]

With the baby boom generation heading into its late 60s, many people are starting to suffer from stiff and aching joints. Big business certainly knows about us. All you have to do is look at the shelves of a pharmacy to see the myriad pain relief medications available. Why has this happened to us, and […]

If you’ve never had (or even heard of) fibromyalgia, consider yourself very lucky! Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) is a nasty, pernicious disease that predominantly targets women 20 to 50 years old. It causes a lot of suffering and, until recently, was often ignored and misunderstood by mainstream medicine. The problem for anyone suffering from FMS is […]

Irritable bowel is a catch-all name for abdominal pain and bowel problems that do not have another explanation. For the sake of this article, I am going to include diseases that would normally come under the label of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. We don’t use these labels in Chinese […]