Use the 5 Element System to Help You Make More Productive Resolutions Confession time: I love New Year's resolutions. I find the process of imagining the coming year and writing lists of things I would like to accomplish very, well, fun. What can I say, finding the...
The theory of Yin and Yang is one of the central philosophies in East Asian medicine, and a guide for diagnosis and treatment in acupuncture, herbal treatment, and Asian styles of massage. It is a way of looking at nature and the human body as pairs of opposite, but...
Throughout the history of medicine, healers have classified qualities of health and disease according to 'elements'. Hippocratic medicine had the '4 humors' of earth, air, fire, and water that corresponded with the 4 seasons and qualities of emotion, colors, and type...
Cancer patients who receive chemotherapy treatment for their condition must withstand numerous side effects of the drugs, which interfere with work, daily and family life, and quality of life. Some side effects, including nausea and vomiting, and chemo-induced...
Recent research shows that health-care workers are more likely to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) than the general public. According to the article published in Health Services Research, three out of four doctors, nurses, healthcare technicians and...
East Asian medicine operates in a very different paradigm from conventional medicine. A Western medical diagnosis is typically a determination of the factor causing the patient’s symptoms, but what an individual patient is experiencing is irrelevant to the diagnosis....