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Jujube: The Many Benefits Of This Sleep-Promoting, Anxiety-Easing Fruit

Jujube Fruit’s Benefits If jujube fruit ever makes it big and needs marketing… the Beatles’ “I am the Walrus” has to be a contender with its mesmerizing refrain: Goo goo g’joob, goo goo goo g’joob. However, with the growing consumer focus on holistic health and well-being there may be no need of a massive marketing campaign.

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Gua sha therapy may offer some relief in perimenopause | Reuters

Gua Sha May Help Perimenopause Though not widely known in the West, Gua Sha has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for centuries and gua sha may help with perimenopause. As we continue to appreciate the complexities of health and the intricate connections to Lifestyle and other determinants, adding in lower-risk therapies like gua sha

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The health professionals embracing complementary medicine

Health Professionals Embracing Complementary Medicine This article looks at integration of practices like herbs and acupuncture into conventional medical care through the eyes of health professionals embracing complementary medicine. One line in particular, from Niamh Boden, exemplifies the necessary change in healthcare mentality:  “It wasn’t about taking this herb to fix A or this herb

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7 Ways Acupuncture Changes Your Brain, According To Science

Acupuncture Changes Your Brain We often think of human health as disparate organs and other body parts. While Traditional Chinese Medicine does discuss similar items they are not the same. In fact, acupuncture changes your brain in ways that Traditional Chinese Medicine never even tried to express… because it is a system of medicine that

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New Documentary Explores How Acupuncture Helps Cancer Victims

Acupuncture Helps Cancer Victims Though Americans and other Western countries increasingly accept acupuncture, we still only scratch the surface (excuse the pun). A new documentary looks at how acupuncture helps cancer victims, opening new and complementary therapies to those who need all the help possible. “While acupuncture is certainly gaining in popularity, its potential is

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Lifestyle and Complementary Therapies Tackle Health Problems

Lifestyle and Complementary Therapies Tackle Health Problems Super Bowl LII is just a few days away and New England Patriot’s QB will again take snaps at this grand event. Brady, 42, released his TB12 healthy lifestyle book in 2017.  Brady has also taken the spotlight for his high performance lifestyle. However, Brady is not the

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The Science Behind Energy Medicine and Defeating Diseases with Energy

The Science Behind Energy Medicine For so long now, whenever we used the term “energy medicine” there was unapologetic eye rolling. Sometimes the eye rolling was even followed by “you don’t believe that do you?”. It was almost as if people expected a claim that the walls were going to shake and ghostly moans would

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