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Using a BBT chart to track fertility

Using a BBT Chart to Understand Fertility

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Modern technology provides incredible tools for helping menstruating individuals understand and track their cycles. Most people have apps on their phones that can help to project dates of optimal fertility by predicting ovulation. These apps are wonderful for so many people, especially for those who have very little experience tracking their cycles and are just learning how to understand how to predict upcoming cycles. However, a major caveat to using apps alone and sole predictors of fertility is that they are determined solely based on averages.

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Acupuncture and IVF support

Acupuncture for IVF: Before, During and After Embryo Transfer

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When you are going through IVF it is not only an emotional roller coaster ride but also can be financially draining. You are looking for everything to help boost your chances of getting pregnant. Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years to treat infertility and now it used as an integrative approach for women undergoing assisted fertility treatments such as IUI and IVF.

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What Does the Tongue Say About Your Health?

What Does the Tongue Say About Your Health?

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In my practice, along with a full interview and medical assessment, tongue diagnosis is one of the main tools I use to understand my patients’ state of health. Most patients are embarrassed to stick out their tongues or they wonder what I am doing staring it. So I am going to educate you on what I look for by observing the tongue and how the tongue is used as a gateway to your health.

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Fertility patterns in Chinese medicine

Fertility Patterns in Chinese Medicine: The 6 Types and How They Are Treated

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When I first began my Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine, I went into the medicine thinking I would treat more pain management but in my clinical studies I found the amazing benefits of Chinese Medicine and women’s health. That is where the passion grew and now, 10.5 years practicing, I still find the amazing effects of acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in helping women get pregnant.

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PCOS in Chinese medicine: acupuncture and herbs

Chinese Medicine for PCOS: TCM Patterns and the Herbs That Help

Chinese Herbal Medicine, Women's Health / By

In my practice, a number of women have come to me for the treatment of PCOS. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is a disorder of the reproductive system where testosterone levels are normally elevated. Signs and symptoms are irregular menstruation, thickened body hair, middle weight gain. An ultrasound can detect a “string of pearls” around the ovaries” where there are cysts that surround the ovary.

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How IBS Is Approached in Chinese Medicine

Chinese Medicine for IBS: How IBS Is Approached in TCM

Digestive Health / By

In IBS, the digestive system is not functioning efficiently and therefore gas, bloating, cramping, constipation, diarrhea or both appear. In Chinese Medicine, there are differences in symptoms that constitute different treatment protocols. Therefore, it is not under the umbrella of one diagnosis. Let’s look at the different diagnosis and treatments in Chinese Medicine for IBS.

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Acupuncture for Plantar Fasciitis Relief for Heel Pain That Won't Go Away

Acupuncture for Plantar Fasciitis: Relief for Heel Pain That Won’t Go Away

Pain Management / By

Recent cases of plantar fasciitis often respond within 4 to 8 acupuncture sessions, chronic cases usually need weekly sessions for six to eight weeks, and many patients notice less morning heel pain within the first two to three visits. If the first steps out of bed are the worst part of your day, you are

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Acupuncture for Migraines A Prevention Protocol Backed by Research

Acupuncture for Migraines: A Prevention Protocol Backed by Research

Pain Management / By

Yes, research supports acupuncture as a preventive migraine treatment: a course of roughly 6 to 16 sessions over six to eight weeks reduces how many attacks you get, and the benefit tends to last for months. If migraines are shaping your calendar, the goal is not only stopping the next attack but having fewer attacks

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How to Choose an Acupuncture Wellness Center in NYC: 7 Things That Actually Matter

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You have already decided you want treatment. The harder question is where, and in a city with this many options the marketing all starts to sound identical: calm photography, the same three promises, the same soft language about balance. None of it tells you whether the care is any good. It helps to know the

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chinese medicine for weight loss

Chinese Medicine for Weight Loss: How TCM Reads Metabolism, Digestion and Hormones

Digestive Health / By

Chinese medicine does not treat weight. It treats the pattern underneath it. That distinction sounds like semantics until you sit through a first appointment and realize the practitioner has asked about your sleep, your afternoon energy, your bowel movements, your stress load, and whether your hands run cold, without once mentioning a number on a

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acupuncture and cupping Acupuncture and Cupping Together

Acupuncture and Cupping Together: Why We Combine Them and What to Expect

Acupuncture / By

Acupuncture and cupping get paired constantly, and almost nobody explains why. The short version: they work in opposite directions. Acupuncture works from the inside out, regulating how your nervous system, circulation, and muscles behave. Cupping works from the surface down, lifting tissue and decompressing what is stuck underneath. Neither one does the other’s job, which

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Chinese Medicine Acupuncture: How a TCM Diagnosis Shapes Every Treatment

Traditional Chinese Medicine / By

Here is the part almost nobody explains about Chinese acupuncture: the needles are the last step, not the first. Two people can walk into the same clinic on the same afternoon with what looks like the same headache, and walk out with two completely different point prescriptions. Nothing went wrong. The diagnosis simply differed, and

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