I’m a big fan of tai chi and yoga; they are a wonderful exercise for young and old — especially tai chi for the elderly. They also provide terrific and sustaining lifestyle changes to deal with stress. The Mayo Clinic website just published a nice series of articles about tai chi and yoga that can help beginners. Their yoga article has a nice review of its benefits as well as the philosophy behind it. No one should be intimidated by yoga’s Eastern philosophy, as yoga can simply be seen as a stress-relieving activity that keeps you in shape as well. Here’s their review of yoga: …Continue reading: Stressed? Try Tai Chi & Yoga…
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(This is part 3 of new contributor Dr Alan Mease‘s series on Integrative Holistic Medicine. Part 1 and part 2 are here) …Continue reading: Why Do We Need Integrative Holistic Medicine?…
Those of you with high cholesterol will be happy to learn that there are some legitimate options to your statin pills. Many people cannot tolerate the extremely popular statin pills, especially from side effects of muscle aches. But there’s now some very strong evidence that herbal medicines, including red yeast rice, can be at least as effective as a statin, and without the side effects. Too good to be true? Maybe not… …Continue reading: Red Yeast Rice Can Lower Cholesterol… (This is part 2 of new contributor Dr Alan Mease‘s 5-part series on Integrative Holistic Medicine. Part 1 is here.)
(This is the first of hopefully many pieces by our new contributor, Dr Alan Mease, chief of pediatrics at Beijing’s United Family Hospital). Here is part 2, part 3
…Continue reading: Chinese Medicine and the Flu: I Say Tomato, You Say 西红柿…
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It’s always hard to find good research on herbs and vitamin supplements; one website I recommend is the Mayo Clinic (
Everyone knows that there is very little that Western medicine can offer for the common cold and flu. And every Chinese person is similarly convinced that famous Chinese medicines like ban lan gan ke li, yin qiao jie du pian, or gan mao qing re ke li work really well for similar symptoms. As a doctor struggling to offer patients flu symptom relief, I would love to strongly endorse Chinese medicines for this, but it is a huge struggle to find good evidence as to what works. Why is that?
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