Health and Wellness: Relief, Rehab, Renew

Qi...What fuel to use: Original Qi or Fu Qi? In TCM, we are taught that we are born with Original Qi. Original Qi might be compared to our original battery which might be our mineral content, or bone quality / structure. Original Qi is acquired from our parents. If parents are healthy and strong, they produce a health, strong baby. They pass on a good battery or bone quality (Original Qi)   Our goal is to keep all our Original Qi for as long as we are able. Qi gives us energy/fuel to think clearly, for our muscles to contract and relax, support hormones, grow, maintain and restore structures / bones/tendons/ligaments, etc.   We expend Qi (energy/minerals) whenever we move, think, repair or process but we want to use a different type of Qi for that. TCM calls it “Fu Qi” (food qi / food energy).   We think of Original Qi (original battery) as our life span. Food is like the alternator in a car…restoring the original battery. FuQi Fuel or Original Batter...

I was eating at a breakfast place today and overheard a guy going on about his upcoming surgery for cancer were they were going to take out his gallbladder and part of his liver. He was so grateful that it was going to be a short month recovery and how good the doctors were. Apparently they had been watching it grow for years and now was the time to take it out. It struck me how the medical profession makes us so grateful to take out parts of our body. They have us believing that surgery is the best scenario. Patients seem to like the idea that everything will be alright after the surgery. How lucky they are to have such wonderful doctors, who will take their body parts, replace them with manmade parts, or not replace them at all, just restrict their diet, since they will not be able to digest once the gallbladder is gone. It got me thinking about airlines and how they make us believe the reward of paying more, is boarding early, and then having to sit and wait inside the stuffy pl...

How does Acupuncture work?  It is not really such a mystery if you use common sense. I will explain it the way I see it, so it is easy for the lay person to comprehend how it works. This is not quoted from a book, it is what I put together for my patients and makes perfect sense. I believe at some point acupuncture will consider my view and eventually prove my explanation ;) Imagine a pool of ocean water (that is rich in mineral nutrients).   If you placed a metal rod at one end of the pool and another metal rod at the other end of the pool. You attached an electrical current to the first rod. You could imagine that the electrical current would travel down the rod, into the water and the mineral rich water would conduct like the electrolyte fluid in your body to reach the other rod (minerals are like magnets with positive and negative charges, and placed next to each other conduct or propel the current by flipping the next mineral over and the next creati...

Acupuncture is insertion of “dry” thin "f iliform" needles into the body at specific and correlating points to move the “Qi, blood and body fluid” creating balance.   Acupuncture “needles” are misunderstood: American’s experience with needles like injection or “wet” hollow needles which cause physical trauma by tearing a hole in the tissue for injecting or drawing a substance is not always pleasant. Similarly sewing needles and pins, though not hollow, are not structured to slip through the skin cells like the ultra-flexible, ultra-thin, hair-like “dry” Filiform needles used by most Acupuncturist.   Most Americans did not grow up experiencing Acupuncture needles, and are uninformed about the great benefits of Acupuncture, so they tend to be anxious or not consider experiencing Acupuncture because of their previous experience with other unrelated needle types that have illicit pain for them. Needling Techniques / Style by training:  TCM (Tradi...