Archives: 2008 May

Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney made Milwaukee, Wisconsin a household name in the hilarious sitcom Laverne and Shirley.  You know it, too, as the place where Old Milwaukee beer and Brewers’ baseball were born.  However, there is traditionally little fun for those in brew city who suffer from chronic pain or other ailments.  Now, even […]

For years in China, medical techniques have evolved from local care givers that until recently the western world knew nothing about.  Teas and other medicinal drinks as well as manipulation of the body using acupuncture were all hiding from most of the west.  The ability of western doctors to heal with surgery and drugs made […]

Those who have decided to try acupuncture as a part of a treatment plan are frequently nervous about their first session. They do not know to expect from this treatment both in how it will feel and what the results will be. Since it is not a standard medical treatment they have very little guidance […]

Traditional Chinese medicine is sometimes abbreviated to TCM or T.C.M. and it is a series of traditional medical and health practices that have been put to use in China and have developed very slowly, over a period of what some say is thousands of years.
Some of the natural medical practices that are a part of […]

Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years to alleviate the symptoms of many conditions and to promote a feeling of good health and well being. Acupuncture works by triggering the release of endorphins and serotonin in the brain and central nervous system. These chemicals, endorphins and serotonin, have a strong effect on a person’s […]

Acupuncture is a treatment that can alleviate the symptoms of many physical and psychological problems, the theory behind acupuncture is that the needles are placed in special points of the body that will stimulate nerves in the body and encourage the body’s natural defenses to heal and repair itself.
It has been reported that acupuncture can […]

Although acupuncture has been used for thousands of years in China, it has taken the Western world much longer to embrace its many benefits to health. In fact acupuncture still remains largely out of the realm of most traditional hospitals and clinics and the secret of how it works is still a mystery to many […]

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is considered to be a form of alternative medicine in the Western world, which means that it is looked at as a viable form of medicine only when more conventional Western methods of treatment fail. However in both Taiwan and the mainland of China, traditional Chinese medicine is an essential and […]

Sticking needles in your body to treat acne?  Isn’t that overkill?
Surprisingly, no.  Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years in China and the East, and one of the benefits is that the skin tends to clear up.  Some with painful cystic acne that can leave scars find long lasting help treating acne with acupuncture.  […]

People often find in alternative medicinal practices a better means to get relief from their troubling ailments because by using the resources given to us by Mother Nature we are able to cure our ills as well as diseases and it does not even require using toxic drugs, which are often accompanied by serious side […]