Mountain Spirit Acupuncture

7-08-10 - Smoking Cessation with Acupuncture

Stop Smoking with Acupuncture Among current U.S. adult smokers, 70% report that they want to quit smoking and millions try to quit every year. If you have attempted to quit smoking, you know how difficult it can be. Nicotine is a powerful... Read More ⇒

5-18-10 - Chilly Wet Water

Drink to Your Health . . . With Water! Mother Nature's Healthy "Cocktail" Some nutritionists insist that 80% of the country is walking around dehydrated. We drink too much coffee, tea, and sodas containing... Read More ⇒

4-14-10 - Moxa 101

Moxibustion Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine technique that involves the burning of mugwort, a small, spongy herb, to facilitate healing. Moxibustion has been used throughout Asia for thousands of years; in fact, the actual Chinese... Read More ⇒

3-29-10 - Cupping 101

Cupping 101: a brief history Sixteen hundred years ago in China a famous herbalist by the name of Ge Hong wrote about a method of treating patients through the application of suction cups or cupping in his book A Handbook of Prescriptions. Later... Read More ⇒

3-09-10 - How to Palpate for a Heart Attack

3-04-10 - Shen: The Intersection of Mind and Body

The Shen, often translated as the spirit or mind, plays a vitally important role in determining out state of health. Ancient Chinese medical texts place great importance on the delicate interaction between the emotions and physiological functions of... Read More ⇒

2-21-10 - Treating the Patient, Not the Disease

The importance of individual characteristics in the disease process has been recognized in China for centuries. Each individual has their own unique constitution, a physique that whether through nature or nurture can become unbalanced and eventually... Read More ⇒

2-14-10 - Year of the Tiger 2010

Happy Chinese New Year! We are finally leaving the slow moving Year of the Ox behind and transitioning into the aggressive and active nature of the Year of the Tiger. The following article contains all you will need to know about the Year of... Read More ⇒

2-01-10 - The Root of Illness

Chinese medicine teaches that all chronic illness represents a decline in the body's vitality, or Zheng Qi. This results in a weakened immune response that is strong enough to challenge the pathogenic qi that has taken up residence within the body,... Read More ⇒

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