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Metabolism and Energy in Chinese Medicine
Why some people run warm and steady while others crash after lunch: the Western picture of blood sugar, sleep and stress, and the classical picture of the Spleen, dampness and Kidney yang.
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Metabolism and Energy in Chinese Medicine
Why some people run warm and steady while others crash after lunch: the Western picture of blood sugar, sleep and stress, and the classical picture of the Spleen, dampness and Kidney yang.
Tinnitus in Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine sorts tinnitus into two broad groups. In excess patterns, heat or phlegm rises to the ears, and the sound tends to be loud and sudden.
What Pneumonia Looks Like in Chinese Medicine
How classical Chinese medicine stages pneumonia, from exterior cold to interior heat and lingering phlegm, and where that thinking sits beside antibiotics and urgent medical care.
Chronic Recurrent UTI in Chinese Medicine
Why recurrent UTI keeps returning in Chinese medicine terms: damp-heat in the Bladder sitting on cold, depleted Spleen and Kidney yang, and how care works alongside medical treatment.
Heavy Menstrual Bleeding in Chinese Medicine
Why the blood isn't staying where it belongs: how Chinese medicine reads heavy periods through Spleen Qi, Blood Heat and Blood Stasis, and how acupuncture and herbs follow the cycle.
Painful Periods and Chinese Medicine
Stabbing pain with clots, cramping that eases with a heating pad, or tension before flow: Chinese medicine reads each kind of period pain as a different pattern with a different plan.
PMS and PMDD in Chinese Medicine
Irritability, breast tenderness, poor sleep, then relief once bleeding starts: how Chinese medicine reads PMS and PMDD through Liver, Blood, Kidney and Heart patterns.
IVF Support: Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs
Why IVF support starts three months early, how Chinese medicine reads each phase of the cycle, and when herbs stop while acupuncture continues alongside your reproductive endocrinologist.
Why you keep waking at 3 a.m.
Waking at the same hour every night is one of the oldest clues in Chinese medicine. The organ clock has a lot to say about the hours between 1 and 5.
Autumn, dryness and the Lung
Autumn belongs to Metal and the Lung. Here in San Diego County that means Santa Ana dryness, and the classics had good advice for it.
Irregular cycles, anovulation and amenorrhea
How Chinese medicine and acupuncture address irregular periods, anovulation, and amenorrhea through pattern-based diagnosis in San Diego.
Recurrent Pregnancy Loss in Chinese Medicine
How Chinese medicine reads recurrent pregnancy loss through Kidney, Qi and Blood, and Blood Heat patterns, and why the three months before trying again matter most.
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