Stress and High Blood Pressure: Seven Ways to Keep it Down
Stress and High Blood Pressure: Seven Ways to Keep it Down, adapted from the Harvard Medical School Health Beat Newsletter: When it comes to preventing and treating high blood pressure, one strategy that M.D.s often overlook is managing stress. If you often...Scientific American on How Meditation Benefits the Brain.
Great video on the Scientific American page to learn how meditation benefits the brain. Meditation is under the category of Mental Culture in Buddhist tradition; things we do to cultivate our mental abilities about ability to be good human beings. Click Here how...Autumn in the Nei Jing Su Wen Chinese Medical Classic
Autumn in the Nei Jing Su Wen Chinese Medical Classic The essence of Chinese Medical Philosophy, which underpins the practice of Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, is the need to live in harmony with nature, what the classics call “heaven and earth.” Heaven, because the...Your Ayurvedic Dosha and Mindfulness Meditation
Great article in the New York Times called The Morality of Meditation about recent science research into the practice of Mindfulness Meditation. Research done by neuroscientists and psychologists into the effects of Mindfulness meditation show “mounting...Trigger Point Pain, Acupuncture, Mindfulness, and the Anti-inflammatory Diet
A patient came in recently for acupuncture with terrible upper and mid back trigger point pain that began one day recently after taking a nap. In fact, he had woken from this nap with such bad chest and back pain that he rushed to the ER, fearful of a heart attack....