Articles in the Healthy Development Category
Acupuncture, Chinese medicine, Health and Longevity, Healthy Development »
Traditional Chinese Medicine, also referred to as TCM is what acupuncturists traditionally study. It encompasses dietary recommendations, acupuncture, herbs and other modalities such as cupping, moxibustion, gua sha and some tui na, or body work. We listen to the patient and determine what in our bag of tools might be the most beneficial in helping our patients reach their health care goals.
This is an interesting account from Psychology Today of an MD who returned to his roots to follow Traditional Chinese Medical Practitioners and saw first hand just how Traditional …
Health and Longevity, Healthy Development, Weight Management »
As an ancient Ayurvedic Proverb states , “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.”. While there are a lot of foods that it would be in your best interest to avoid, it’s perhaps more important to focus on foods you should try to incorporate into your diet. Dr. Fuhrman has compiled a simple, straight-forward chart that illustrates which foods are the most dense in powerful nutrients. How many of these can you eat this week? – Mariah Van Horn, …
Diabetes, Healthy Development, Immunity, Inflammation, Menopause »
Rehmannia Six Formula is comprised of three pairs of herbs, each pair incorporating an herb that gently tonifies and an herb that gently drains or disperses (these actions often referred to as “purging”).
Aside from the formula’s balancing of tonification and dispersing actions on the organs, the dispersing herbs are seen as preventing adverse effects of the tonic herbs: alisma and hoelen prevent the greasy quality of rehmannia from causing indigestion; moutan prevents excessive warming of the liver by cornus (2, 14). Further, one can depict a nutritive scheme encompassing these …
Healthy Development, Oral Health »
Previous research has indicated the impact of maternal nutrition during pregnancy on the development of chronic disease in the offspring later on in life…. Furthermore, maternal nutrition may also reduce dental caries, also known as tooth decay or cavities, in the offspring.
Bergel et al. conducted a follow-up study of a 1987 randomized controlled trial, which evaluated the effect of calcium supplementation during pregnancy to reduce hypertensive disorders.
The analysis of the questionnaire revealed that there were no relevant differences in regards to dental care of the children between the placebo group …