Chinese Herbs in San Diego
Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac has over 32 years experience treating Internal Diseases from IBS to Menstrual Disorders with Chinese Herbs
What Is Chinese Medicine?
Chinese Medicine is a classical medical system that includes Chinese Herbals, Acupuncture, Moxa, Cupping, Diet Therapies, Tai Qi, and Meditation. Some people refer to it as TCM.
Chinese Medicine is unique. There is a continuous written record, including thousand of case studies, spanning 2200 years.
Is Chinese Medicine Folk Medicine?
Chinese Medicine is not “folk medicine” but was developed by the educated intelligentsia of ancient China. It is an empirical system based on close observation of large numbers of people over a long period of time. It does use the gains of folk medicine.
But the people that invented paper, silk, gunpowder, and the compass, also developed a system of medicine.
Chinese Medicine’s Beginnings
As long ago as the Han dynasty, circa 200 C.E., Chinese medicine had already achieved a high level of sophistication relative to European medicine.
Our earliest texts explain the how to treat infectious, traumatic, and chronic disease with Chinese Herbs and Acupuncture
They also offer advice on diet, prevention, and a healthy lifestyle for mind and body.
Treat the Causes of Diseases as well as their Symptoms
Do you ever feel that your MD just wants to prescribe drugs, and does not have the time, or take the time, to figure out how you got sick in the first place?
Chinese Medicine uses Herbs, Dry Needling, and Acupuncture to treat the causes of your ailment as well as its symptoms.
A PreModern Drug Therapy: Chinese Herbs
Chinese Herbal Medicine is a premodern drug therapy. Actually we use more than just herbs, which is why we also just call it Chinese Medicine. These include minerals and even animal material like fossilized dinosaur bones and dried earthworm!
Chinese Medicine Views Human Beings the Way Gardeners View Plants and the Soil They Grow In
Every human being is a unique terrain with its own particular eco-system. The doctor is a gardener working hand-in-hand with the patient on the soil, using acupuncture and herbs like irrigation and compost, building a plant that is healthy and able to fight disease.
This is the opposite of the Western medical view in which the body is a sum of mechanical parts, to be replaced or treated at the most exact micro level.
To be fair there are definitely times when surgical and drug intervention is necessary. Only why not use it as the last resort?
Chinese Herbal Medicine Is Natural, Safe, Effective, and Free of Side Effects
Unlike Western medicine, Chinese Medical methods can be an antidote to stress. Acupuncture with herbs can have the same beneficial effects as meditation and yoga on the nervous system.
Chinese medicine successfully treats tension headaches, migraines, Women’s Health, respiratory disease, gut-digestive disorders, infectious disease, acne of all types, eczema, and of course acute and chronic pain conditions.
Can I Come in for a Chinese Herbal Diagnosis without getting Acupuncture?
Yes!
Chinese Herbs can be used by themselves, without acupuncture, and often are in China.
There are also many disorders, like IBS, Menstrual Irregularity, PMS, Insomnia, Anxiety, Weak Immune System, that improve more quickly if you combine your Herbs with acupuncture.
People coming in for acute and chronic pain with Dry Needling and Acupuncture can also benefit from an herbal supplement to relax and nourish the tendons and fascia.
Give us a call at 619-296-7591, or text, 858-585-1998 if you have any questions about how long you would need to take Chinese Herbs for your ailment…Thank you!
Chinese Herbal Medicine Articles
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Treatment: Acupuncture, Ayurveda, and Chinese Herbs
What is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)? Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a functional disorder of the Large Intestine (Colon) that can cause cramps, bloating, gas, pain, diarrhea, or constipation. People with IBS-D will have diarrhea on a regular basis with...
Winter Bone Broth
Bone Marrow Soup, Part 2: Winter In cold weather its natural to crave warm food. And the alchemical transformation of solids into liquids, of vegetables and meats or bones into soup, is a way of liberating the essence of these foodstuff into a substance that is much...

Chinese Herbal Chicken Bone Broth for Recovery from Bronchitis
I discovered Chinese Herbal Medicine Chicken Bone Broth for Recovery from Bronchitis in 1991. I was in my second year of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture school, and was also working full time as an apprentice in two very busy San Diego Acupuncture Clinics. At the...

Spring in Chinese Medicine
Movement, Wind, Moisture, Cold Spring is a time of transition and change, when the contractive cold moist Yin energies of Winter gradually give way to the expansive hot Yang energies of Summer. Spring in Chinese Medicine is a process that involves movement and wind,...

Cure Insomnia Permanently
Cure Insomnia Permanently With Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine Its very possible to cure Insomnia permanently with Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Mindfulness Practice, Body Scanning, and the development of what specialists call Sleep Hygiene or Sleep...
Cold Causes Stagnation Heat Causes Movement
From today's newspaper comes this cool article about a fruitcake that has survived, in nearly edible condition (probably actually edible, as all that is reported is a slightly rancid butter smell), for 100 years at the South Pole in Antarctica. Which brings to mind...
Chinese Medicine on Weight Loss
Weight Loss in Chinese Medicine Chinese Medicine places our diet as a cornerstone, along with good sleep and a positive mental approach to life, as the cornerstones of health. Here is what Chinese medicine has to say about weight loss as we age When I taught nutrition...
Is Daily Sweating Important for Health?
Someone asked me the other day, "Why is daily sweating important for health?" My response was, "Is it?" I don’t think there is any scientific evidence that sweating is especially beneficial for health. I have seen claims made, but I have not seen hard core research....
Chinese Medical History
Chinese Medical History and the Beginnings of Scienctific Thought Chinese Medical History, like the medicines of the ancient Eygptians, Hindus, and Sumerians goes back to at least 1200 BCE when the Chinese were already making Gold Acupuncture needles. Eratosthenes in...
Twelve Ways to Heal Eczema Naturally
Here are twelve ways to heal allergic eczema (atopic dermatitis) naturally that I have developed over the years of specializing in the treatment of skin disorders with Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda. One of my first cases in the clinic as a student at...
Diet and Nutrition in TCM Articles
Peanut Allergy and Infants
I happened upon an article in the Guardian newspaper describing how giving peanut products in small amounts to infants under twelve months who are at risk of developing peanut allergy (those with eczema) may prevent peanut allergy in future.. As someone who...
Ginger In Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine
Ginger Root: Universal Medicine There are no panaceas in medicine, but if there were going to be one, it would have to be the humble Ginger root. Ginger is called "Vishabhesaj" in Ayurveda, Sanskrit for "universal medicine." That is both because of its wide...
Winter Bone Broth, Part 1
Winter Bone Broth--Extract Jing and Replenish What's Been Lost Bone broth, or what we call bone marrow soup in Chinese Medicine is just the rage right now, and for good reason. Extracting the mineral essence of solid things, like bones and root vegetables, into liquid...
Spices in Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine: Protect Your Agni in Summer
Spices in Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine can be used to preserve what Ayurveda calls Agni--the metabolic fire that is what makes us warm blooded and that is associated with health, strength and vitality. Chinese Medicine calls this physiological fire Yang or...
Food Coloring and Hyperactivity
Food Coloring, ADD, and Environmental Toxins in Chinese Medicine As I mentioned in this previous post, Environmental Toxins are considered one of the Miscellaneous Causes of Disease in Chinese Medicine, the other Causes of Disease in Chinese Medicine being...
Nuts as Weight Loss Aid
This news does not surprise me, as in Ayurveda nuts are in the category of Rasayana--foods that promote health and longevity. They benefit the deepest layers of the body, Ojas, commesurate with what Chinese Medicine calls Jing or Essence. As such you will find nuts...
Autumn in Chinese Medicine
Autumn Fall utumn in Chinese Medicine is the time of falling, hence its secondary name. Spring up, Fall down. In fact we even use the word autumn to describe a period in the human life span, the autumnal years, a period of beautiful maturity that...
SIGNS OF EFFECTIVE AND INEFFECTIVE DIGESTION
“Good Digestion, Good Sleep, Good Prognosis.” --Old Chinese Medical Adage: The digestive tract is the inner core of the body. Good digestion is one of the foundations of health. Our body’s very cells are built from the food that we eat and the oxygen that...
Are Your Bladder Infections from Factory Farmed Meat?
Chinese Medicine excels at the treatment of bladder and other Urinary tract infections. I am yet, thank God, to meet a Urinary infection that did not respond to Chinese Herbal Medicine formulas such as Ba Zheng San/Dianthus Formula, or Si Miao Wan/Four Marvels...
Using Spices in Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine to Protect Your Digestive Fire in Summer
In summer we sweat and our yang energy or heat keeps getting dispersed and exhausted. On freezing cold days you feel cold, but on boiling hot days you sweat and become exhausted. In winter in every culture people eat heavy high-calorie foods, but in summer switch to...