Aged garlic has been proven to positively affect cardiovascular function – but what about gut health? When we think of gut homeostasis, we immediately think of probiotics. But there are other natural ways to help rebalance the microbiome. Garlic has been a favorite of herbalists throughout the ages, known for supporting health in a myriad…
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Migraine management is one of the hardest medical questions to solve in the modern world. Millions of people suffer from migraines daily – and the standard options remain to take a pain relieving pill and hope for the best, or to lie down in a dark room for a day, wasting opportunities and your time…
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A stressful lifestyle can lead to unwanted side effects such as fatigue in muscles, various body pains, and emotional effects such as anxiety and depression. Luckily, there is a solution that is easy, non-expensive, and universal for all of those symptoms (as well as many more) – massage therapy. First, massage therapy is excellent for…
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Struggling with infertility is something one of every eight couples in the United States copes with on a daily basis. Many people have to turn to methods that can be invasive and even dangerous for a woman, including surgery, fertility drugs, and even in-vitro fertilization or using donor eggs – many fail to realize that…
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Losing weight is based on one overwhelming factor: balance. If one has a hormone imbalance or unmanaged metabolism and digestion, then it is more difficult to lose weight efficiently. Acupuncture helps relieve this imbalance by targeting pressure points on the body that lead directly to the glands that secrete these hormones or by preventing other…
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Cupping is a safe, traditional treatment that helps resolve chronic muscle tightness and pain faster than massage therapy alone. From Olympic athletes to pregnant pop-stars, people are rediscovering the benefits of cupping. Maybe you’ve even seen people at your gym or swimming pool with those tell-tale red circles on their backs and shoulders. It’s becoming more common for people…
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Acupuncture is effective for the alleviation of neck pain due to cervical spondylosis, a disorder caused by intervertebral disc degeneration. Researchers determined that electroacupuncture provides optimal therapeutic results when compared with manual acupuncture. Electroacupuncture produced a 96.67% total effective rate and manual acupuncture produced an 86.7% total effective rate. After completion of all acupuncture treatments,…
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Back pain sufferers who got electroacupuncture had improvements in walking comfortably, standing for longer periods, bending, and kneeling. A double-blinded randomized trial of electroacupuncture found it may result in a modest improvement in daily functioning for those with chronic back pain, though it provided little pain relief. Conducting Research for Back Pain Acupuncture in Bay…
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The Chinese study “helps to move acupuncture from having an unproven status in complementary medicine to an acceptable evidence-based treatment,” said Dr. Heather Angus-Leppan, a neurologist who wrote an editorial that was published with the study in the BMJ on March 25. “We now have good evidence that acupuncture is an effective treatment for episodic migraine,” said…
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Acupuncture has been found effective for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) in a controlled clinical trial conducted at Ziyang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The investigation ranged from January 2018 to September 2019. The researchers determined that electroacupuncture applied along the Shaoyang meridian, complemented with functional training, markedly promotes pain relief as well as…
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