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Stressed?
The world we live in gives us so much stress. The morning traffic is stressful. Once you get to work, the work itself is stressful. Even after work, our minds are usually filled with daily concerns and personal worries that … Continue reading
Yakuzen (Medicinal Dishes) – Part II
Sam Gye Tang (chicken and ginseng soup) Asians have always considered food to be medicine and categorized it according to its properties as they do to medicinal herbs. For example, chickens have a Warm nature and a propensity for Spleen … Continue reading
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Tagged appetite, chicken, digestive, ginseng, herbs, immune system, medicinal dish, sam gye tang, tonic, yakuzen
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Yakuzen (Medicinal Dishes) – Part I
Around this time of the year in Japan, when people are exhausted from the heat and humidity, we traditionally eat roasted eels. It is believed that eels provide vitality that is needed to recover from the heat exhaustion. I am … Continue reading
Winter Defense
Yes, folks, it’s that season again. It happens to be a crisp, sunny day today, but normally winter in Portland is long, dark, and damp. On top of that, maybe you overworked before the holidays, you partied too much during … Continue reading
Numbness and Pain in the Arms and Hands
As I have mentioned in these articles, I often have different patients showing similar symptoms during the same period of time, as if there were symptoms of the month. In this last month, it was pain and numbness of the … Continue reading
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Tagged arms, computer use, hands, nerves, numbness, posture, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
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Does Global Economy Cause Lower Back Pain?
One of the most common conditions I see in my clinic is lower back pain. Whatever the direct cause is, I find that patients recover much faster if I address the underlying conditions as well. The most common underlying condition … Continue reading
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Tagged adrenal, back, chinglish, exhaustion, fight or flight, mankind, pain, stressed
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