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
Qi, Sweating, and Fear
What Is Qi What the Chinese call Qi , and what Ayurveda calls Prana, is the Vital Life Force that moves things, quite literally, and also that creates growth and decay. Qi and Prana are what moves things quite literally on so many levels. Its only a living body that...
Menopause Natural Treatment: Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine
In Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda Menopause Natural Treatment begins with the premise that menopause, and andropause, like puberty, like the transitions that occurs around ages 2, 5, and 36, are just that, transitions, not diseases. We get symptoms because of the wild...
Popular Heartburn Medicine Increases Risk for Dementia
Proton Pump Inhibitors Linked to Higher Dementia Risk: The Chinese Medicine Alternatives We face a national epidemic of Dementia as baby boomers who have spent years on Heartburn Medication like Prilosec, Protonixx, and Nexium, hit their 60's and 70's, while at the...
Winter and Sleep in Chinese Medicine: Kidney Qi
Winter and Sleep in Chinese Medicine: Kidney Qi Its Winter. Classical Chinese Medicine has this to say about it. "Go to sleep early, but get up LATE, after the sun has risen." Makes total sense because as an animal you don't want to waste your valuable energy...
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...
A Case of Vertigo and Headache treated with Dry Needling and Classical Chinese Acupuncture
Vertigo and Headache Treated with Dry Needling and Classical Chinese Acupuncture Combines the Best of Two worlds. First I use Dry Needling to deactivate the inflammed trigger points that are the immediate cause of the Headache pain. I also stimulate the motor points...
Chinese Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture for Acute Compartment Syndrome
Interesting article today in Scientific American on acute compartment syndrome, a potentially devastating injury that can even lead to amputation of a limb, and that also gives a glimpse into the role of the fascia in organizing the tissues of the body. Releasing the...
The Effect of Hot Weather on Anger
Liver Qi, Pitta Dosha, and The Effect of Hot Weather on Anger and Aggression Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda both describe how hot weather increases anger and aggression in humans. It describes in detail how and why hot weather increases levels of aggression by...
Interstitial Cystitis and Neurogenic Bladder–Treatment with Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs
Interstitial Cystitis and Neurogenic Bladder have a long history of treatment with Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs. Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs are so effective for chronic inflammatory bladder and pelvic floor issues because of the regulating effect acupuncture has...
Diet and Nutrition in TCM Articles
Springtime Tea from Somalia with Cardamom and Mint
Food and drink like language and music spreads between cultures without rules. But within any given tradition, within any given culture, its as if there are unspoken rules that govern change; creativity is allowed, but to a point. In the world of food or music, for...
Goji Berries in Chinese Herbal Medicine
I got to thinking about Goji Berries in Chinese Herbal Medicine recently, when someone wrote in to ask whether Goji berries are best eaten raw or cooked? The following is my response to the following question sent in. Eyton, I received a box of dried fructus lycii,...
Are Goji Berries Best Eaten Raw or Cooked?
The people ask: are Goji berries best eaten raw or cooked? This is my response to the following question sent in. Eyton, I received a box of dried fructus lycii, (goji berries)from a friend and on the back of the box it says ‘this product needs to clean and cook...
Ayurveda and Fruits: Match Food to Your Dosha and the Season
What foods match your dosha? Fruits are naturally sweet sour and refreshing. Some fruits, like apples, also have an astringent or drying property, depending on variety, macs more than fiji, for example. Your mouth feels a bit dry after a bite of apple, or quite dry...
Come in from the Cold Ayurveda Winter Tea
Tonight it was quite cold for San Diego and I walked to my friend's house and then we went out again, so when we came back in I made an Ayurveda winter tea. We put on a small kettle and I placed in the tea pot: Fresh Ginger Slices, 5 Cloves 4 Cassia Twig 1 inch,...
What’s Wrong with Red Bull and other Energy Drinks?
Are Energy Drinks like Red Bull good for you? Informative article today in NY Times today on energy drinks. One of the operative quotes: "...one thing is clear, interviews with researchers and a review of scientific studies show: the energy drink industry is based on...
Grass Fed Milk, Cultured Butter, Butter in Ayurveda
Grass Fed Milk, Cultured Butter, Butter is Better If you eat butter, let it be from cows that exercised in the fresh air and sun and ate grass in summer pastures, not soybeans and grains in barns. I really like the Organic Valley brand Pasture Butter (and also Grass...
Wakame Sea Vegetable with Turnip, Pear, and American Ginseng
Wakame is a delicate, mild tasting, low calorie sea vegetable with a succulent texture. A favorite food in Japanese and Korean cuisine, it is traditionally cooked in miso soup, served on its own as a cold side dish (sunomono), or cooked with foods...
Grass Fed Pastured Dairy Cattle Milk is Healthier and Tastes Better
http://www.organicvalley.coop/about-us/overview/our-history/ Briefly, Organic Valley's Grass Fed Cow's Milk is healthier, containing Omega 3's, is not homogenized, and tastes much better. It smells and tastes what the free range milk in my small village in...
Juiced Watermelon with Lime, Ginger, and Salt
Alternative to Iced Drinks in Hot Weather Protect the Agni/ Yang in Summer: Juiced Watermelon with Lime, Ginger, and Salt The other day was quite hot (for SD!), and I swam at the beach after walking down from the top of Torrey Pines, and got home overheated and...