We recently came up with 10 important ways that acupuncture benefits women. While men, too, certainly enjoy improvements in mood, sleep, pain, and addiction recovery just like women do, there are three additional improvements that men can expect from a course of treatment delivered by the hands of a skilled Chinese medicine practitioner. 1) Improvements …
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A specific form of high blood pressure that impacts the lungs, pulmonary hypertension is a chronic ailment that can have a devastating impact on the sufferer’s way of life. If untreated, the condition can lead to heart failure. During Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness month, the public is alerted to this common condition, which frequently goes undiagnosed. …
Two of PCOM’s faculty (Mitchell Harris and Stephen Bonzak) and one of our alumni (Barbara Ferrero) were featured in the Spring 2016 issue of Meridians: The Journal of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Mitchell Harris, dual chair of clinical procedure and faculty governance at PCOM-Chicago, is also Meridians JAOM’s new Clinical Pearls editor. The topic discussed in …
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By Suzanne Robidoux, PhD, CM, DOM, LAc As practitioners, we always want to bring the quickest, most effective treatment at the lowest price possible. In TCM, sexual disorders are mainly due to either liver qi stagnation, liver and kidney depletion, or the kidney and heart not communicating. What can we offer our patients, however, once we …
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Sexual health is a topic we often find difficult to define and master. Many obstacles – physical, psychological and emotional – can become barriers to fulfilling and health-enhancing sex lives. Chinese medicine, with its focus on whole body wellness, supports sexual vitality in an active, complete way. In the age of quick-fix healthcare, it is …