By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. This sure is a strange time, folks. For some, the coronavirus is a very real and personal threat, terror, or literal pain. Those who are sick, those who have loved ones…
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Flower Essences for Stressful Times
By Erica Grossman, LMT Essential oils have become a common household item in the last few years, but a gentler, lesser known plant-based product might be a great additional tool to have on hand during…
Fighting Depression with Natural Medicine
By Michael Dell’Orfano, Lic.Ac. This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 4/4/16. The inspiration for this particular blog post is the reality of what I see on a daily…
What is the Shen?
By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 5/3/2014. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and to honor that, this post is about how Traditional Chinese…
Manage your stress with acupuncture
By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. If you have had acupuncture before, you can probably attest to the relaxation response that can be elicited by an acupuncture treatment. But acupuncture does more than make your body feel…
Resolutions or Goals?
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 12/30/16. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. I’m a big fan of goal setting. Anyone who knows me well knows that. I definitely believe in…
Reflections on Meditation
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 9/27/2013. By Karl Bower, Lic.Ac. One might ask how meditation relates to acupuncture, or how it relates to health in general, for that…
Alternate ways of moving stagnant qi
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 12/18/2013. By Karl Bower, Lic.Ac. Much of the time, as a culture, we talk about ‘qi stagnation’ as a dominant paradigm in the…
Top 10 Reasons to Try Craniosacral Therapy
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 09/25/2013. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. CST is a gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and rebalancing a physiological system called the craniosacral system. It…
Xiao Yao San–“Free and Easy Wanderer”
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 06/17/2013. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. Xiao Yao San – or, “Free and Easy Wanderer” is probably the most commonly prescribed Chinese Herbal Remedy…