a new patient of mine's youngest child just started university away from home, and she is feeling some fairly serious sadness about it.  she is also transitioning into her second spring, her periods are coming very irregularly now, her last one was about 7 months ago and it was "very light" in flow.  when i asked her what, exactly, she was feeling sad about, she me

a recent review of medical research done on the effects of a specific chinese medical herb formula, the two immortals decoction, or er xian tang (EXD), concluded that  "the curing effect of EXD with all symptoms relieved was significant as compared with the control groups (p<0.01)."  again, here is an example of modern, scientific researc

to "live in harmony with your environment" is one of the basic tenents of TCM preventative medicine.  for example, using a nightshade to block out the sunlight so that you can sleep is not living in harmony with your environment - this is an example of trying to over-ride your environment.  similarly, using artificial lights once the sun has gone down to exten

most women who come to see me for menopausal symptoms know that a major clinical research study on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in 2002 concluded that the risks of estrogen plus progestin therapy outweighed the benefits, and that there are increased rates of heart attacks, strokes & breast cancer when using HRT (reference:

in chinese medicine theory, menopause is not an "end to reproduction" as much as it is a transition into a new phase of life.  chinese medicine theory holds that the human body mirrors what occurs in nature - just as the birth of spring becomes the lush summer season, which then transitions into the harvest of autumn and the storage of winter, so too must the&