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HERBS THAT CLEAR HEAT AND COOL BLOOD Herbs that cool the blood are most commonly used for Hot Blood patterns as a result of febrile conditions entering the blood. Symptoms include rashes, nosebleed, vomiting or spitting up blood, cough up blood and blood presence in the stool or urine. This “reckl...

Marshall, T. C., Lefringhausen, K., & Ferenczi, N. (2015). The Big Five, self-esteem, and narcissism as predictors of the topics people write about in Facebook status updates. Personality and Individual Differences, 85, 35-40. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.04.039. Retreived 6 March 2017 from http://www.sc...

Edema is a common symptom of diseases like congestive heart failure, nephritis, endocrine disease, ascites, trauma or bi syndrome (i.e. arthritis and rheumatism). Edema indicates accumulation of fluid in the body and manifests as swelling of the eyelids, face, limbs, trunk or the entire body. Edema ...

Medical Acupuncture Med Acupunct. 2013 Jun; 25(3): 232–237. doi: 10.1089/acu.2012.0911 PMCID: PMC3689170 Recurrent Pregnancy Loss and Traditional Chinese Medicine Lee Hullender Rubin, DAOM, Dara Cantor, BS, and Benjamin L. Marx, MAcOM Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Thi...

FENG: The Meaning of Wind in Chinese Medicine with special attention to acupoint fengchi (GB-20) by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon A term in the field of traditional Chinese medicine that causes considerable difficulty for modern practition...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5046000/ Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2016; 2016: 7078351. Published online 2016 Sep 25. doi: 10.1155/2016/7078351 PMCID: PMC5046000 Evidence Based Alternative Medicines in Pain Management 2016 Haroon Khan, 1 , * Vincenzo De Feo, 2 Najeeb Ur Rehm...

Lissa, C. J., Hawk, S. T., & Meeus, W. H. (2017). The effects of affective and cognitive empathy on adolescents’ behavior and outcomes in conflicts with mothers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 158(6), 32-45. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2017.01.002. Retreived February 13, 2017, from http://www.scie...

Full Article Axelsson, J., Sundelin, T., Ingre, M., Van Someren, E. J., & Olsson, A.et. al (2010, October 22). Beauty sleep: experimental study on the perceived health and attractiveness of sleep deprived people, 341(14) 1-5. Retrieved February 07, 2017, from http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/341/bmj...

Latin for "set afire," inflammation is healthy when it's a natural response from the immune system to ward off injury and infection. When inflammation becomes chronic as in Rheumatoid Arthritis where there is pain, redness and swelling or in heart disease, Alzheimer's or diabetes, a normal immune sy...

Myth 1: You should drink 8 glasses of water per day. In fact, the Institute of Medicine recommends approximately 125 ounces (15 cups equivalent) for men and 91 ounces (about 11.4 cups) for women. However this can include water from foods and beverages. The average person gets enough hydration unless...

by Peter Gwin STEP INTO A traditional apothecary in China today and you’ll encounter rows of jars and bins filled with a colorful and aromatic array of substances—from common roots, herbs, and flowers such as ginseng, mint, and jasmine to more exotic items, including wasp nests, abalone shells, ear...

-An estimated 36.5 million adults in America alone smoke cigarettes. -Smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans a year. -For every one person who dies from smoking, an estimated 30 people survive with a crippling illness developed from smoking. -Cigarettes and their smoke contain over 4,000 chemical...