The Tangled Roots of TCM

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Natural Treatment of Menopause Symptoms with Traditional Chinese Medicine

Many women consider the symptoms of menopause to be an unavoidable reality of life. The discomforts associated with menopause are in no way obligatory women’s burdens, they are important signs of imbalances in the body that can be addressed and treated. Traditional Chinese Medicine has been successfully treating the symptoms of menopause, both in management and prevention, for thousands of …

Pressure Points for Labour Demonstration Video

Check out this video we shot showing how to find and use pressure points to both help naturally stimulate contractions (induce labour) and provide pain relief during labour, to be used at or after 40 weeks pregnant. Also included is a massage technique to help relieve pain and pressure during childbirth.   Rebecca Stephens Dr.TCM, R.Ac., B.Sc.  

A Call to the Slight of Slumbered:

“Get enough sleep!” How many times have we heard this phrase in lecture from our health care practitioners, friends and loved ones, or the health expert on our news hour break? We hear it so much, it almost gets tuned out, perhaps falling into the pit of “I’ve heard it before” with all the other healthy living phrases like: “reduce …

LH Ovulation Strips for Tracking Fertility – the What, Why, and How

What are LH Ovulation Strips, and why should I be using them? The LH Ovulation Strip is a fast and easy home-use test to predict when you are having your LH (Luteinizing Hormone) surge. This test is a preferred method of tracking when the most fertile days of your cycle occur, and is one of the most reliable predictors of …

Easy Effective Pressure Points for Stress and Anxiety

I would venture to say that every human being on the planet knows what it is like to feel stressed. For some, it may be a few fleeting moments, triggered only perhaps by extreme circumstances. For the large majority of others, stress can be a lot more than just a passing feeling, and too often its left to get to …

The other side of the ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) equation

As of a 2009 CDC survey, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) births represented 1.4%of total US births, or 60,190 infants. It is now estimated that over 5 million births worldwide have been the result of medical reproductive intervention, a long way to come after the birth of the very first “test tube baby” in 1978. However, these advances have not come …