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
Chinese Herbs for GERD
Chinese Herbs for GERD Chinese herbs for GERD--Gastro Esophogeal Reflux Disease, formerly called chronic heartburn, work better and faster than drugs do. That's because they actually help to change the functioning of the tissues causeing the discomfort, the stomic and...
Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine, sometimes called TCM, or just Chinese Medicine, is a complete medical system that has diagnosed, treated, and prevented illness for over 2300 years. Imagine, for a moment, that the medicine of Hippocrates, the father of western...
Freeze Dried Nettles for Eczema, Allergy, and Asthma
Fresh and Freeze-Dried Nettles When I was a teenager, I was enthralled by the story of Milarepa, "Tibet's Greatest Yogi," who, spent twelve years in the cold high mountains, meditating and living only on soup made from Nettles and herbs. This is one of the most...
Fungi Perfecti–Mycorrhizal Fungi for Health and Wellness
Central to the treatment of Auto-Immune and other difficult to treat diseases in Chinese Medicine is the use of "medicinal mushrooms" such as Reishi (Ling Zhi), Cordyceps, Maitake, etc. These have been used in Chinese Medicine, in all its Asian variants--Japanese,...
Chinese Herbs for Morning Sickness
Chinese Herbs for Morning Sickness Chinese herbs for morning sickness work very well, as do other herbs and diet tricks, that I will explain, below. Morning Sickness refers to Nausea in Pregnancy. It does not have to be in the morning, it can occur any time of...
Eczema and Psoriasis Chinese Medicine Herbal Remedy: Skin Cleanser
Skin Cleanser Herbal Formula for Eczema and Psoriasis One of my favorite Chinese Herbal Formulas for the treatment of Eczema and Psoriasis is made by one of my esteemed herbal teachers, Dr. Huang, M.D. Dr. Huang was a professor of Herbal Medicine and Dermatology...
Healing Eczema with Integrative Natural Medicine
Disease occurs in individual human beings. Your and my unique characteristics of body and mind are the particular terrain from whence our imbalances grow. Disease is always easier to treat if the terrain is healthy, and often impossible to treat successfully if it is...
Keep the Surfer Warm Decoction: Boost Performance, Prevent Colds, Surfer’s Ear, Pain and Stiffness
KEEP THE SURFER WARM DeCOCTION is my own mixture of Chinese Herbs, extracted here in the USA by Kan Herbs Co (see link below to learn more about their process). I have used it over the years with my surfer buddies and patient to improve performance, prevent colds,...
Healing Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative colitis is a form of inflammatory bowel disease that affects the large intestine. It should not be confused with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Ulcerative colitis is characterized by the presence of inflammation and ulceration in the intestinal mucosa. The chief...
Chinese Herbal Medicine for Bladder Infection or Antibiotics?
Chinese Herbal Medicine for Bladder Infection or Antibiotics? Chinese Herbal Medicine for Bladder Infections (a.k.a. Cystitis, Urinary Tract Infection, or UTI,) is very effective. . They infections are fairly easy to treat with conservative measure such as...
Diet and Nutrition in TCM Articles
Mauk Family Farms Organic Raw Wheat-Free Flax Crusts
There are many ways to get healthy Omega 3 fat into your diet. One is fresh wild fishes like salmon, mackeral, and sardines. If you don't like fish, you can take a fish oil supplement in summer and cod liver oil in the winter, just like grandmother used to give....
Heaven Mountain Goji Berry
Goji Berry Super Food Lots of foods are super foods, in terms of anti-oxidant or anti-biotic value, like cabbage, nettles, and onions. One that has received a lot of well deserved hype are "Goji Berries" or Gou Qi Zi in Chinese Medicine and Culture. Gou Qi Zi are...
Statin Drugs: Smoke and Mirrors, or Mirrors and Smoke
The below article written by Dr. Mercola really sums up the problem with the bio-med approach to heart disease and cholesterol. Never mind that besides the issue of cholesterol, Dr. Ornish and the research on both the Okinawan and Mediterranean diets show that a big...
Baked Butternut Squash and Black Bean Stew
Cooking Methods in Chinese Food Medicine: From Warm to Hot to Very Hot One of the aspects of Food Medicine we pay attention to in Chinese Medicine is the cooking method itself. Each method of cooking adds relative values of heat to the dish being prepared. Steaming...
Importance of Diet in Chinese Medicine
Over the millenia Chinese physicians developed a very effective and scientific (empirical) model for assessing health and disease. Practitioners assess a person’s health by feeling the quality of the pulses at each wrist, and by observing the color and form of the...
Freeze Dried Nettles for Eczema, Allergy, and Asthma
Fresh and Freeze-Dried Nettles When I was a teenager, I was enthralled by the story of Milarepa, "Tibet's Greatest Yogi," who, spent twelve years in the cold high mountains, meditating and living only on soup made from Nettles and herbs. This is one of the most...
Top Ten Foods to Lower Cholesterol
In my San Diego acupuncture and Ayurveda practice I see a lot of patients with high cholesterol whose doctors want to or have put them on Statin drugs. Some of them are even on multiple versions.But statin drugs are not without a frightening array of risks-- pain,...
Eden Foods Bisphenol-A (BPH) -free cans
The only brand I know of that has BPH- free cans is Eden, a company that has been operating out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, since the 60's. Still, I always recommend if you use any canned beans, always wash them really well. You don't know what is in the liquid they are...
Korean Summer Rice with Job’s Tears, Shitake, and Hijiki
Rice with Job' Tears in Summer In Korea, Rice with Job's tears "barley" (Coix lacryma-jobi in Latin, YiYiRen in Mandarin Chinese, Hato Mugi in Japanese, Uiin in Korean)-- is cooked in the summer to help relieve the effects of the hot, humid weather. Job's tears...
Green Tea Health Benefits
Green Tea Health Benefits Some info from a workshop a few years ago at Halcyon Tea shop in South Park, San Diego on green tea health benefits from the perspective of modern science. In fact Oolong and Pu-erh tea also have enormous health benefits, and even...