Introduction There’s no doubt that conventional cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy (radiation) can be lifesaving....

We all know know how important good sleep is to health and quality of life. Unfortunately, sleep issues are due to a combination of...

Restorative Treatment in Asian Medicine The people who find their way to my office are often those who've suffered at the hands of the...

Alongside continuing to post occasionally here, I'll be writing over at Seeds From the World Tree, a new Substack feed dedicated to...

When it comes to traditional incense materials--the woods and resins people have burnt for millennia in sacred and healing...

For me, “perfume” used to call to mind nasty-smelling stuff worn by people I didn’t understand. Perfume meant headaches; it meant...

‘So how does acupuncture work?' It's a question I hear often enough—sometimes with a “really” in there, as in “how does acupuncture...

[Note: If you prefer to watch a video, most of this article's content is covered in this YouTube video.] Before the pandemic,...

I loved to cook even as a kid, a tendency my mother encouraged with what strikes me now as incredible indulgence. Our “children’s...

The funny part, in retrospect, is how much I resisted. Contemplating the hundreds of vials I would need to obtain for even a basic...

People are often skeptical when told that Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM) can treat Covid-19, and this is understandable: if there...

I recently came across the title phrase in a book on Kampo, the Japanese system of herbal medicine with close ties to classical Chinese...

This 2018 post is from an old, now-defunct site. Ever had a run-in with what dream-worker Robert Moss calls the "library angel?" It's...

This 2018 post was migrated from an old site, Axis Mundi Healing Arts. Americans often associate acupuncture with chronic pain treatment,...

It's as if the tradition itself is doing the instructing