Acupuncture Portland, OR Blog

December 28, 2016

Portland Acupuncture for stress is very effective and empowering to our patients.  Anyone that has come out of a treatment with that “acupuncture haze,” as we sometimes call it, knows what I’m talking about.  However,  when you don’t have, or make, the time to get a treatment, I want to offer you some other helpful tips for both the Holiday Season and as we head into a new […]

December 1, 2016

 Looking for easy cold and flu remedies? Acupuncture in Portland and the Flu Season.  It sounds like a kids story doesn’t it.  Well, the story is that Flu season is definitely here. Everywhere I go I hear people coughing and hacking.  I have seen and treated many patients that are fighting it, and have had several last minute cancellations, due to […]

October 28, 2016

What is the problem with sugar? And why does it have such a bad rap. Added sugar is the single worst ingredient in the modern diet. From a Chinese Medicine perspective, the spleen is affected by any food that is sweet, cold, raw, or fat. Sugar is one of the biggest influence on creating symptoms in the spleen, i.e. the gut.   […]

September 27, 2016

Acupuncture for a Cold?  Yes! It’s started already.  Our patients are coming in because they feel like a cold is coming on, or they already have symptoms and are miserable.  And yes, of course, we use acupuncture for a cold.  Last month I posted the weird picture of Bev with dots stuck to her face, illustrating the points to press or rub […]

September 1, 2016

Can acupuncture help with transitions? As we head into fall, I did say that didn’t I? We start to go through many transitions. First there is the seasonal transition of summer to fall. Kids go back to school. Teachers go back to school. Kids go off to college. Parents become empty nesters. Mom’s wonder what to do now that their […]