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Lower Blood Pressure with Celery

Here’s an article with a promising study about lowering blood Pressure with eating Celery. Remember lowering your salt intake (or using none) can help and so can Acupuncture & Stress Reduction. Celery  also has a calming affect and  can help with appetite control  To read more click here

 

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Dang Gui the Woman’s Herb

Dang Gui (Angelica Sinensis) Is an important herb for woman’s health. Chinese Herbs are known & used by flavor & temperature. Dang Gui has a Acrid (Pungent), sweet & slightly bitter flavor. It is warm. It is used to treat diseases of Blood. In formulas it is used to supplement or build Blood (an example would be postpartum blood Continue reading

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Herbal Soup Mix

It’s a cold, wintry day with snow flurries here in Portland, Oregon. It’s great weather for warm soup! Here at East-West Acupuncture we carry a Herbal Soup Mix that’s perfect for these cold days & can build your immune system too. Did I say it adds flavor too? These Chinese Herbs can be cooked in water with chicken, tofu or veggies. Cooking helps activate

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Treatment of Headaches & Migraines with Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine

Here at East-West Acupuncture Clinic, we have successfully treated many sufferers of Headaches and Migraines. Beyond the usual Bio-Medical Reasons, in this modern world we are living in our heads literally. Part of the Acupuncture/Herbal treatment is to bring the patients energy down out of the head and balance the energy of the body. Try focusing your energy on your

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Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pears for Dry Cough

Pears of all kinds – Anjou, Bartlett, Bosc, etc. – ripe, luscious, and abundant in the fall, are one of nature’s versatile healing foods. According to TCM, this fruit has a cool essence, which makes it good for relieving heat in the Lung, or any kind of dry cough, skin problem, or constipation. The Lung itself dislikes the condition of

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Looking Young thru a Healthy Lifestyle

Have you seen Goldie Hawn lately? Well this 67 year old looks half her age! How, she uses the Three Free Therapies every day: Good Diet, Exercise and Meditation

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Summer into Fall Newsletter

In Chinese Medicine Late Summer is an unrecognized “season” approximately the last month of summer. It is the transition period between the expansive growth phases of spring & summer and the inward, cooler fall and winter seasons.In Chinese terms it’s a transition from yang (outward) into yin (inward).

The Earth Element, represented by the spleen-pancreas rules this season; it is generally

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Soy as a Superfood?

There’s a lot of hype around soy these days. We see it everywhere in natural food stores and the media. We’re constantly told

it’s a good source of protein and especially good for women. Unfortunately, this hype ignores the fact that soy has been used

mainly as a feed for livestock for years and that commercial soy is sprayed with

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Oriental Medicine and the Heart

It’s  Fourth of July and it looks like Portland is finally getting some warm summer like weather!! In Oriental Medicine, Summer is the time of

the Fire Element. All the Elements have an Chinese Organ that is associated with it and for the Fire Element it’s the Heart. In the tradition of

Oriental Medicine, the Heart is not only the

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Prunella

Prunella is a sweet, acrid (pungent), slightly bitter herb that is cold in nature. It is known to clear heat in the body & dissipate nodules or lumps. It can also be used for red, swollen eyes or headache or dizziness.
I once used Prunella in a formula for a lump on my own neck. I had

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