The Benefit Of Beets
on Apr 11 in Acupuncture, Allergies, Alternative Medicine, Cooking, Specific Health Issues, Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Wellness
Beets. Dr. Jacob Schor just sent out an interesting article about how drinking beet juice may help with senile dementia. Let’s face it, we hear little that really helps with dementia, so this is interesting to me. Beets are a remarkable food. Besides turning urine and stools red , they are high in vitamins and minerals, and can help keep the bowels moving. They are heart friendly, containing components which improve circulation, lower cholesterol, reduce stroke risk and more. Beets are known to counteract certain cancerous mutations. And there is evidence that beet juice cut the times for bicycle racers. Note, avoid beets if you are prone to calcium oxalate kidney stones. If you don’t already have one, it is worth your while to develop a taste for this amazing colorful root. (The greens are also rich in calcium, iron and carotenoids.) If you garden at all, now is the time to put beet seeds in the ground. Beets are easy to grow and are very hardy.
What We Treat [VIDEO]
on Nov 01 in Acupuncture, Affordable Healthcare, Allergies, Alternative Medicine, Pre- and Post-Surgery, Specific Health IssuesLearn more about what we treat at Community Acupuncture Clinic, Boulder, CO by watching this helpful video:
Tips for Treating Yeast Infections
on Aug 29 in Acupuncture, Specific Health Issues, Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle, Uncategorized
Often I get asked in my clinic about diet recommendations for yeast infections.
When we host parasites in our system, they tend to have their own life. They produce waste products, have their specific hungers and food preferences, and feed off our body’s energy reserves. Most often, parasites also have a personality of their own, which shows up, when a person’s energy is weakened and their system is taken over by it.
The cravings of what feeds the parasite, often dominates our food choices more then an appetite for what our own body actually needs.
When I address a much needed diet change, very often there is outrage, overwhelm and “I cannot possibly do that” or “then there is nothing to eat for me” or similar expressions of distress.
The information that yeast infections cannot be healed along with the consumption of sugar and refined carbs, will send us into spasms and we often rather suffer then adjust the diet.
At least at first.
Sugar has become an addiction in the western world. The average American person consumes 140 pounds of sugar per year. Imagine the mountain of sugar in front of you, and that is per day ….., you do the math.
Sugar not only is the most inflammatory food one can ingest it also depletes the body of essential nutrients, like Vitamin B etc…
It contributes to the body’s PH becoming more and more acidic, an ideal breeding ground for infections, virus and cancer. A sugar free diet (including)(excluding) Maple syrup, Agave, Honey etc is essential for the body to move over to a more alkaline PH and for the yeast to have a less ideal breeding ground.
There are wonderful supplements to eliminate it as well, like Oil of Oregano capsules, Tanalbit, Grapefruit Seed Extract and Homeopathic Remedies.
The best thing to do is to drink a glass of warm water in the morning first thing, with some lime or lemon Juice. That will help cleanse the liver. It is important NOT to drink chlorinated tap water, but spring, or good quality filtered water.
The best foods are all organic, protein, veggies, cold pressed olive, or coconut oil, seeds, legumes, in some cases quinoa and millet are ok, seaweed, lemons and for some grapefruit is ok.
Lots of room temperature water and any herbs you can support the system. Nettle tea is great as a cleanse as well as full of minerals and nutrients.
A licensed practitioner can help. Don’t forget your acupuncture… And lots of patience.
Yeast is a sticky thing. Getting it out of the system can go along with grumpy moods and headaches, and it can take a long time.
And know that there is a dying off process where it will fight in you to not go down…”just one pice of cookie….”, “just one spoon of ice cream I have been so good for the whole week”….That is exactly what keeps it going, that one spoon.
Good luck
Allergy season
on Aug 10 in Acupuncture, Allergies, Alternative Medicine, Specific Health Issues, Uncategorized
It is allergy season again.
Lots of pollen in the air. A good time to go to your Acupuncturist, get treatment and herbs and take a look at the diet.
When the body is already overloaded with foods that trigger an allergic reaction, the immune system does not have a lot of energy to deal with outside allergens as well. So we get stuffy noses, itchy eyes and sore throats etc.
This is a good time to eliminate sugar,dairy and wheat from the diet. There are so many yummy foods freshly grown out there in this time of the year that it might be not too hard to do that.
Also it helps the body to drink lots of room temperature water. If there is ice in your drink, or it is from the fridge, the body looses valuable energy to warm itself up again, as we always maintain the same temperature.
In Asia people drink hot fluids when it is hot outside because it opens up the pores, makes one sweat and so cools down the body.
Drinking cold fluids in the long run make us hotter and so then we need the next cold drink…anyway something to play with.
enjoy
Insomnia and Sleep problems
on Aug 05 in Acupuncture, Specific Health Issues, Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle, UncategorizedGood morning again
In Chinese Medicine, we look at the kind of sleeping problems one might have. It is hard to fall asleep or difficult to stay asleep. Is the sleep dream disturbed, or do you wake up early. What time in the night one wakes up, if going back to sleep is difficult, can tell something about organ imbalance. The window between 1am and 3am is often related to Liver issues.
Generally we think about sleep connected to the spirit that lives in the heart. In Chinese Medicine organs have a spirit. The heart spirit s called Shen. If the someone is anemic, the blood is not rich and at night the Shen cannot rest in the heart, but is restless, leading to disturbed sleep. So we treat improving the blood quality and nurturing the affected organ to help with sleep.
In Western Medicine, if someone has an organ transplant, often it is reported that the person picks up trades from the organ donor. In that sense even Western Medicine recognizes the presence of a spirit or personality trade related to organs.
There are several great formula’s of Chinese Herbs to choose from to balance sleep. Kidney, Liver and Heart are most often addressed.
insomnia and sleep problems
on Jul 08 in Acupuncture, Alternative Medicine, Specific Health Issues, Wellness
Good morning again
In Chinese Medicine, we look at the kind of sleeping problems one might have. It is hard to fall asleep or difficult to stay asleep. Is the sleep dream disturbed, or do you wake up early. What time in the night one wakes up, if going back to sleep is difficult, can tell something about organ imbalance. The window between 1am and 3am is often related to Liver issues.
Generally we think about sleep connected to the spirit that lives in the heart. In Chinese Medicine organs have a spirit. The heart spirit s called Shen. If the someone is anemic, the blood is not rich and at night the Shen cannot rest in the heart, but is restless, leading to disturbed sleep. So we treat improving the blood quality and nurturing the affected organ to help with sleep.
In Western Medicine, if someone has an organ transplant, often it is reported that the person picks up trades from the organ donor. In that sense even Western Medicine recognizes the presence of a spirit or personality trade related to organs.
There are several great formula’s of Chinese Herbs to choose from to balance sleep. Kidney, Liver and Heart are most often addressed.
