Observing. Questioning. Learning.
Musings
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What Chinese medicine knows about ginger — and science is confirming
Fresh ginger and dried ginger aren’t the same medicine. In Chinese medicine they’re treated as two different preparations of one root, chosen for very…
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One herb rarely works alone
A shopping bag of supplements, one for gut health, one for joints, one for sleep, isn’t a whole-person strategy. That’s the opposite of how…
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The letters after my name
L.Ac. MSOM. Dipl. AHM. DACM. It looks like credibility. Mostly, it’s alphabet soup. What the letters after an acupuncturist’s name actually mean, and why…
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What is pain?
We call it a warning system, a malfunction, an enemy to silence. Chinese medicine calls it something else: what happens when flow meets an…
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