Author: Janet Lee
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Essential Oils Blends for Skin Care: Make Your Own!
There’s no shortage of variety in today’s skin care market, with a dizzying array of product lines and specialty ingredients. If you’re looking for a customized blend or want to use specific substances, essential oils offer infinite choices with ingredients ranging from the economical to the luxurious. In general, blends consist of several different…
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Aromatherapy: Clearing the Mind and the Air
If you’re just wading into the ocean of therapeutic essential oils, there’s no more rewarding first step than aromatherapy or using oils for physical and psychological well-being. Aromatherapy offers infinite benefits from making your home inviting to actually improving your health. In many cases, there’s a lot more to aromatherapy than personal preference. In other…
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Your Guide to Essential Oils by Heritage Acupuncture
What’s the most convenient way to have an herbal medicine cabinet in your home? An essential oil collection gives you an infinite number of ways to address physical, emotional and beauty concerns – all while making your home smell amazing. At Heritage Acupuncture, we use essential oils to make our treatment room smell great, to…
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Chinese Herbal Home Remedies
What is Chinese herbalism, you ask? It’s a gentle, safe and effective way to treat not only symptoms but also get to the root cause of many common health disorders. Although Chinese herbs can be semi-precious or exotic, such as sandalwood, freshwater pearl or frankincense, many of these medicinal substances are common household food items…
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Delicious Gluten-Free Naan Recipe
Going gluten-free (GF) has a lot of advantages. Whether you want to lose weight, gain energy or avoid aggravating a food allergy, there’s no denying the profound results of a gluten-free diet. But, in terms of your palette – which doesn’t always make health top priority — there’s always one wheat-based food that lingers in…
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Bringing Chinese Medicine to the Highlands of Nepal
I have recently joined the board of Mindful Medicine Worldwide (MMW), a registered nonprofit that provides affordable Chinese medical treatment in the highlands of Nepal. For many local residents, the MMW clinics are their only available health care option. MMW’s two clinics are staffed by volunteer acupuncturists, who donate their services for a minimum of…
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Moxa: The Acupuncturist’s Power Tool
Have you ever walked past an acupuncturist’s office and detected the scent of incense? Or a burning herb? If you think something’s burning, it is! Herbal applications come in many shapes and sizes in Traditional Chinese Medicine, ranging from topical application to internal teas. Moxibustion , an herbal preparation made from Mugwort is applied either…
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Roll Up A Healthy Flax Wrap
As part of our commitment to your health, the Heritage Acupuncture blog will be featuring healthy recipes. This is designed to give you ideas about eating more veggies, reducing simple carbs and incorporating super foods, antioxidants and therapeutic principals into your diet. Sound complicated? The good news is that healthy cuisine is actually fun, approachable…
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The Homegrown Gourmet: Savory Red Lentil Cakes
Hi Everyone: I am always looking for healthy breakfast options, and this is a great one. Courtesy of the Homegrown Gourmet, this is a light and tasty gluten-free, lentil-based breakfast pancake. Feel free to add more veggies, cilantro or scallions. I hope you enjoy it! The Homegrown Gourmet: Savory Red Lentil Cakes with Coconut Curry…
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Acupuncture relieves fatigue in breast cancer sufferers
Acupuncture relieves fatigue in breast cancer sufferers