Traditional Chinese Medicine
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A Healthy Poke: Demystifying the Science Behind Acupuncture
Many of us have started to embrace the use of alternative medicine, but acupuncture, with its qi, yin, and meridians, still raises eyebrows… While many practices in alternative medicine are slowly but surely making their way into the mainstream, acupuncture is one that still produces skeptical eyebrow raises. This phenomenon is partly due to linguistics….
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The memory of our bodies
I was recently reminded while receiving my own self-care of how our bodies are a vessel that holds our life experiences. It is a container for everything, large or small, of memories long forgotten and also memories held in the front of our minds. These memories percolate through our human fabric, into our sinews and…
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9 Things Every Woman Should Know About Menstruation
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the study of gynecology is a vast and detailed discipline help to shed light on the complex factors at play in female body. We pay a great deal of attention to every detail of the menstrual cycle from the age of menarche (1st period), to the length of the cycle,…
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To cleanse or not to cleanse, that is the question…
This autumn, there has been an increasing number of clients who are telling me, “I’m thinking of doing cleanse”… And then, I spend a bit of time talking them out of it. As a Chinese Medicine practitioner, what are my thoughts about it? Fall is rolling in foggy, chilly and damp. You can start to…
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The Yin & Yang of Baby Making
What do yin and yang even mean and what do they have to do with fertility? First, let’s clarify the terms. Yang energy is active and hot. It’s what we use to get things done. We decide what we’re going to do and we do it. Compare this to the act of falling asleep. It…
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Achoo…! When to get poked and when to stay home in bed…
Cold and flu season is upon us and many of us spend the fall-winter-spring season in this revolving door of illness, slow recovery and back into illness, over and over for months. Those with certain work environments (ie. outdoors, small offices, schools, health care) or certain elements at home (ie. kids, pets, mould, dust). Some…
