This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 03/12/2012. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. Did you know that March is Endometriosis Awareness month? Do you even know what Endometriosis is? And if…
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Balance Your Emotions the Natural Way
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 04/18/2012. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. More than 1 in 10 Americans take antidepressant medications, a 400% growth over the past 20 years. (http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/health/story/2011-10-19/CDC-Antidepressant-use-skyrocketed-in-past-20-years/50826442/1)…
Why I Stopped Eating Sugar
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 03/22/2012. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. I stopped eating sugar last April. I read Gary Taubes’ article “Is Sugar Toxic?” (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?pagewanted=all) in the New…
Menopause
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 04/04/2012. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. A lot of women come in for acupuncture and herbal medicine treatment to seek relief for symptoms of…
Beat the Heat
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 07/18/2012. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. If you have gone outside at all today, you know that it is HOT. It seems most of…
Eight Reasons Kids Should Get Acupuncture
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 06/18/2012. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. Acupuncture can be a wonderful therapy for kids. Many people often ask what the youngest age is that…
Springtime Behaviors
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 03/14/2012. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. Spring has…at least for the time being…sprung. And while springtime brings warmer weather, more sunshine, and a chance…
What Chinese Herbal Medicine Theory Teaches Us about Everyday Life
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 07/09/2012. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. When I was a student in acupuncture school, I remember one of my teachers telling me that “you…
Chinese Herbal Medicine for Pain
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 03/19/2012. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. Many of our patients come to us for some sort of pain-related problems – back pain (http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/167/17/1892), neck…
What is Dampness
This post is copied from our older, original blog. Original post date 05/17/2012. By Marcie Bower, Lic.Ac. I’ve been talking a lot to patients this week about dampness. Seasonal allergies are in full swing here…