Recently I was speaking at a health expo about treating athletes with acupuncture and herbology, and the main question I kept getting was “how does it work?” There were many different types of athletes there: tennis players, triathletes, cyclists, basketball players, runners, and more. So I went into a bit more depth about “how it [Continue Reading]
Chinese medicine has a long history of treating children’s issues effectively, inexpensively, and with no side effects to their physiology or their psyches. Children are extremely active, forcefully energetic, and tend to get sick rather quickly and recover quickly! However their immune systems are developing and still somewhat immature, therefore they are vulnerable to the [Continue Reading]
Natural Awakenings Article 9/17/2004
By James Hanlon Acupuncture Physician
How has the hurricane season effected you? How has it effected your loved ones or business? Your home? Are the hurricanes just destructive forces that threaten our shores and lives or do they hold a greater meaning? Indeed, the hurricanes have much energy around them, and they just [Continue Reading]
By James Hanlon AP
What is an adaptogen? It is an herb that facilitates an increase in our ability to repel pathogenic influences, resist disharmony and disease, replenish energy after over-exertion, and stimulate recovery from injury. In the context of Chinese herbal medicine, our immunity is not something that is only generated at the surface, but [Continue Reading]
Natural Awakenings Article 11/11/04
This article intends to explore in the context of Chinese medicine the disharmony called “addiction,” and bring to light the underlying energetic dynamic that is at the root of the condition. This conversation is indeed a much broader conversation, however for our purposes here we will be focusing on yin/yang dynamics and [Continue Reading]
This article is not so much about our children as it is for them, on their behalf. Healing and Medicine touch each one of us throughout our lives in some way, and we are all children at one time or another. I’m hopeful that we all retain the child within, and never forget how to [Continue Reading]