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  • Herbs for Kidney Stones and Gallstones
    January 29, 2019

    Herbs for Kidney Stones and Gallstones

    Stones appear in both the Kidney and Gallbladder as a result of accumulation. In fact, stones can be called accumulations.  Accumulations are a consequence of poor flow and dietary excess.
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  • Herbs for Insomnia and Poor Sleep
    January 28, 2019

    Herbs for Insomnia and Poor Sleep

    The spirit is known as the ‘Shen’. It resides in the Heart.
 When Heat gathers in the chest usually due to stress or failure to ‘let go’, the ‘Shen’ becomes unsettled. We experience this as  restlessness, agitation, or problems sleeping. . . 
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  • Herbs for Injury
    January 28, 2019

    Herbs for Injury

    Three Stages of Injury

    Injuries progress through three stages.  The first is up to two days after the injury.  The second stage lasts a few weeks.  All injuries older than a month are considered 3rd stage injuries

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  • Herbs for Inflammation
    January 28, 2019

    Herbs for Inflammation

    The modern concept of inflammation closely parallels the TCM concept of “heat”. However the concept of heat in TCM is far more developed and better understood than the idea of inflammation is in modern Western thought. . .
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  • Herbs for Immunity
    January 28, 2019

    Herbs for Immunity

     In the West, the idea of an immune system is a recent idea, however in China, doctors were strengthening the defensive energy (wei qi) over a thousand years ago. 
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  • Herbs for High Blood Pressure
    January 28, 2019

    Herbs for High Blood Pressure

    This is actually a family of conditions known as Liver Excess conditions. In increasing order of severity they are: Liver YANG Rising, Liver Heat Rising, Liver Fire Blazing Upward, Interior Liver Wind. . . 
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  • Herbs for Hemorrhoids
    January 27, 2019

    Herbs for Hemorrhoids

    Hemorrhoids are caused by one or more of these factors:  Stagnation and heat in the Large Intestine, or Prolapse of Qi (energy looses its lifting quality)

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