Our Washington DC acupuncture patients are a cerebral bunch. They get pain relief on the acupuncture table, but their minds want more: they want to know how we choose acupuncture points. Not an easy task, but we sum up our methodology for physical pain here. This...
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Nadia was the previous co-owner and operations manager of Transformational Acupuncture.
How acupuncture works for neck pain
For those you suffering from acute or chronic neck pain, you understand why someone coined the expression “a pain in the neck.” Neck pain is also one of the most common areas of physical pain that we treat at our acupuncture clinic in Washington DC. Whether due to bad...
Herbal medicine consults & how herbal medicine has helped me
I've been reaping the benefits of Chinese herbal medicine for two years now, and I get the impression that it's Traditional Chinese Medicine's best-kept secret. Given its effectiveness, lack of side effects, holistic, gentle, no-dependence, root-cause approach, I'm...
You can do better than antihistamines—try shrooming (reishi) for springtime allergies
I spent nearly 15 years as an anti-histamine junkie. I developed severe allergies in the spring of my 17th year, which initially manifested as laryngitis-type symptoms and got progressively worse. My doctor prescribed allergy medication, which worked for a while......
The basics & benefits of mindfulness
Do you like to feel good? Me too. But the vast majority of us are conditioned to extract "feel-goodness" from something out there. We rely on external circumstances and internal thoughts/emotions/sensations to "make us" happy. For those of you interested in...
The bitters truth (for digestive health)
Digestive bitters are typically plant-based tinctures famed for aiding digestion. They are the basis of both cocktails and medicinal concoctions, and many traditional cuisines will have bitters folded into their recipes. What are digestive bitters? Digestive bitters...
Does your sitting sit well with your body?
We do it 8 hours a day, and we're probably not doing it well... I like to think of myself as a sprightly 30-something, but I’m definitely no stranger to back, neck and shoulder pain. I notice it all the more that it comes up all the time at the clinic: an incredible...
Getting things done—an art worth mastering
Here’s another one for the “why-don’t-they-teach-this-in-grade-school” list—rock-solid organizational skills. Life as we now know it has so many of us feeling like we’re jugglers who never learned how to juggle. And while some of us have an innate (or even learned)...
The perfect warm up for Washingtonians
Here we’re using the word “Washingtonian” as a synonym for “insanely busy.” So part of this warm-up’s perfection is that it’s QUICK while still being thorough. Plus, it has a great dramatic name: The ***SPARTAN DYNAMIC WARM-UP***(followed by the DYNAMIC STRETCH, both...