By Amanda Collins Winter Celebrations to you! We are currently in the cold weather, the short days, long nights, with the presence of anticipation of snow or frost. The universe’s energy has shifted. This is the yin time of year–a time for stillness and patience and just being, for remembering that we are human beings, …
By Jill Blakeway, MS, LAc “I have more perimenopausal patients with estrogen dominance than I used to and they worry me. How can Chinese medicine help with that?” This question came from a colleague of mine who is a gynecologist, oncologist and a surgeon. Her focus is preventing and treating cancers of the female reproductive organs …
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December 2015 – Pacific College of Oriental Medicine – Chicago was well-represented at a December 2015 private meeting with the Secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. A representative of Quad A (the Asian American Association of Acupuncturists, Chicago) and representatives of ILaaom (Illinois Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine), all of whom were PCOM graduates, were …
Thank you, everyone, for a successful 2015 Pacific Symposium, hosted at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego, CA from October 28 – November 3rd. With speakers and attendees from nearly every state in the country and several other nations besides, the 27th Symposium may have been our best yet! Jeffrey Yuen, Mazin Al-Khafaji, and Jill Blakeway were …
When allergies strike, they can affect almost every activity you do—from your voice and breathing to headaches and even how you approach your workflow, allergy symptoms can make it difficult to get through the day. One of the most common forms of seasonal allergies is allergic rhinitis, which affects the sinuses. Symptoms include sneezing, congestion, runny nose, …
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Tu Youyou, an 84-year-old Chinese scientist, was recently awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine for her discovery and development of artemisinin, a malaria treatment that has saved millions of lives over the past few decades. Tu’s team of researchers rediscovered the drug, which has been known to Chinese medicine for at least 2000 years, in …
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By Dana Fine, LAc, PCOM-Chicago Alumna So many people are looking for meaning and challenge in their lives. We spend so much time at work; shouldn’t you love what you do? For me, I had to make a change so I could start loving what I do. This article is for those people who ask …
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By Thea Elijah, LAc What is sympathy? I say sympathy is the way of total acceptance and total transformation. Total acceptance is the job of the stomach and total transformation is the job of the spleen. This is the highest skill of the Earth element: total acceptance, total transformation. What most of us work with …
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By Suzanne Robidoux, PhD, CM, DOM, LAc As practitioners, we always want to bring the quickest, most effective treatment at the lowest price possible. In TCM, sexual disorders are mainly due to either liver qi stagnation, liver and kidney depletion, or the kidney and heart not communicating. What can we offer our patients, however, once we …
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By Bob Damone In the early 1980’s, a few years before it ever occurred to me to pursue a career in Chinese herbal medicine, I became interested in “Western” herbal medicine. I read everything I could get my hands on, including “The Way of Herbs” by Michael Tierra. I immediately devoured it, and immersed myself in …