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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

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...

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Spring in Chinese Medicine

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,...

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Cure Insomnia Permanently

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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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