The more recent studies involving Chinese medicine treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) showed consistent positive results. These studies validated the effectiveness of Chinese medicine in treating IBS in a drug-free and safe way.
What is IBS?
Also known as mucus colitis or spastic colon, IBS is considered a syndrome because it consists of a collection of symptoms that differs for each affected person. This condition causes an abnormal movement of the large and small … Continue reading
People who have suffered from gastritis know that it is a very painful and debilitating disorder. The pain is felt in the upper stomach and eating makes the pain much worse. Gastritis is caused by acid regurgitation and its other symptoms besides the pain include very dark stool, loss of appetite, vomiting and nausea.
When gastritis occurs, your stomach lining becomes inflamed. The inflammation causes an immune reaction in the body since the body identifies … Continue reading
Diabetes is a growing epidemic in the United States with many as 26 million adults and children (8.3% of the population, based on the statistics provided by the American Diabetes Association) suffering from it. It is a degenerative and chronic disease that unfailingly increases each year among children and adults in the United States. In just a single year (2012), about 1.3 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes.
Diabetes has two types: diabetes mellitus … Continue reading
Nutrition and Supplementation
Your body is unique and so your nutritional requirements can differ from others and also can be based on certain factors. In this regard, you need to talk to a health care provider who is trained in the holistic healing arts to determine what you need. He/she can do a thorough nutritional evaluation of you including an extensive digestive stool examination.
Natural and wholesome foods are the most ideal foods for every … Continue reading
Acupuncture along with Chinese herbal medicine is a great way for treating cervical dysplasia. They can even provide much better results when integrated with western medicine. Although they are two different and distinct systems, Eastern and Western medicine often are combined to provide impressive clinical results. A couple of examples of this are the use of acupuncture to postoperative areas to protect those sites from invasive infections and the other is the application of herbal … Continue reading
As with all human health conditions, Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) views high blood pressure quite entirely different from that of western medicine. In order to have a healthy body and mind, TCM believes that the body needs to be in balance. In essence the natural state of our body is a healthy body and any health issue or illness is due to some aspect in our body being in an imbalanced state. Thus it is … Continue reading
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease (CD) are two forms of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). These two conditions inflame the digestive tract lining of a person and cause serious episodes of stomach pain and/or diarrhea. CD usually affects a specific part of your digestive system, the small intestine; colitis, on the other hand, typically only inflames your colon which is the inner lining of your large intestine and rectum. Another difference between colitis and Crohn’s disease … Continue reading
When a woman shows easy irritability or anger, the old cliché “she must be in her period” is facetiously mentioned as a reason for her moodiness; however, this may be actually a fact for a lot of women. A lot of doctors state that the most commonly reported emotional problem among women is irritability. This emotion often occurs 5 to 7 days before actual menstrual bleeding starts.
For a lot of women, they feeling of … Continue reading
A lot of patients coming in for acupuncture treatment ask if acupuncture is any good for resolving blood conditions such as anemia. They are often pleasantly surprised to hear that Chinese herbal therapy and acupuncture have actually been used for dozens of centuries to treat anemia symptoms such as pale complexion, weakness and tiredness. The truth is, anemia is the most common condition of the blood seen by western trained physicians and when it is … Continue reading
There are about 20 million US citizens who suffer from asthma every year. Conventional treatment choices for asthma are limited to bronchodilators and steroid inhalers. These drugs are useful in treating the symptoms of asthma; however, they have side effects when used in the long-term and those side effects can be extreme. Natural treatments for asthma abound especially for chronic asthma that can provide effective remedy without the side effects that asthma drugs give.
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