You may have been drinking yucky cough medicines all these years for nothing. In 2010 a study showed that there was no evidence to suggest the effectiveness of over the counter cough medicines and cough suppressants, such as dextromethorphan, or expectorants like guaifenesin... Sometimes your cough medicine isn’t working because it isn’t the right one for the type of cough you have. In Chinese medicine we identify several different types of cough, hot, cold, excess, deficient, wind dry, damp phlegm, etc...
What Your Doctor probably didn’t tell you about Osteoarthritis
Are you a Woman over 30? Tired, Forgetful, Low Sex Drive?
As women head into their middlin’ years we hear a lot about the oh so fun effects of losing estrogen. But what we don’t hear much about is the effect of TOO MUCH estrogen, or what’s called “estrogen dominance.” This is a very common problem, which can be caused by prolonged stress, use of birth control pills...
5 Tips to Make Your Life Better with Chinese Herbal Medicine
Did you know that Chinese herbs can knock out both bacteria AND viruses? That’s something that anti-biotics can’t do. Also, many strains of bacteria are already becoming resistant to the popular anti-biotics available in the United States. We’ve heard time and time again from our patients that our herbs worked for them when anti-biotics didn’t...