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Allergies and Oriental Medicine

Despite Oriental Medicine’s 5000+ history, there is no established protocol for the treatment of allergies. Actually, there is no term for ‘allergy’ in the Orient, as this illness has only recently become epidemic, spreading across all nations and cultures. While continuing my studies in Korea, I asked one of my teachers to share his thoughts […]

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3 Key Components To Understanding Acupuncture

By Jennifer Dubowsky, LAc Acupuncture is one of the primary, and perhaps best known, treatments used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The practice of acupuncture involves inserting very fine needles into specific acupoints along your body’s meridians in order to balance and assist the free flow of qi. Although that was just one sentence of […]

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