Basics of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Tui Na Massage and Gua Sha: Ancient Practices for Ultimate Wellness
In today's fast-paced world, the wisdom of ancient healing remains captivating for those seeking holistic well-being. Tui Na and Gua Sha, originating from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), offer deep wisdom...
Tui Na Massage and Gua Sha: Ancient Practices for Ultimate Wellness
In today's fast-paced world, the wisdom of ancient healing remains captivating for those seeking holistic well-being. Tui Na and Gua Sha, originating from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), offer deep wisdom...
Needling Harmony: Exploring Acupuncture's Path to Vital Energy & Holistic Wellness
In the intricate tapestry of optimal wellness, various ancient practices, including acupuncture, have withstood the test of time. Rooted in the heart of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and seamlessly merging...
Needling Harmony: Exploring Acupuncture's Path to Vital Energy & Holistic Wellness
In the intricate tapestry of optimal wellness, various ancient practices, including acupuncture, have withstood the test of time. Rooted in the heart of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and seamlessly merging...
The Art of Cupping: Enhancing Qi Flow and Wellness in TCM
Cupping therapy is an ancient healing technique that alleviates various bodily discomforts, addresses ailments, and boosts immune function. By employing the principles of suction and decompression, this art of healing...
The Art of Cupping: Enhancing Qi Flow and Wellness in TCM
Cupping therapy is an ancient healing technique that alleviates various bodily discomforts, addresses ailments, and boosts immune function. By employing the principles of suction and decompression, this art of healing...
Unraveling Fibromyalgia: A Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective
Discover how TCM views fibromyalgia, its underlying causes, and the holistic treatment modalities in TCM theory.
Unraveling Fibromyalgia: A Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective
Discover how TCM views fibromyalgia, its underlying causes, and the holistic treatment modalities in TCM theory.
Estrogen Dominance - Balancing the Scales and Empowering Hormonal Health
Feeling like your hormones are holding you hostage? It’s common to experience mood swings, stubborn body fat, or severe PMS symptoms wreaking havoc on your life.
Estrogen Dominance - Balancing the Scales and Empowering Hormonal Health
Feeling like your hormones are holding you hostage? It’s common to experience mood swings, stubborn body fat, or severe PMS symptoms wreaking havoc on your life.
Chinese Face Mapping: An Ancient Practice for Assessing Health
Chinese Face Mapping is an ancient practice that provides actionable insights about your health. Breakout patterns create an "acne face map" that reflect imbalances in your body. Your face map...
Chinese Face Mapping: An Ancient Practice for Assessing Health
Chinese Face Mapping is an ancient practice that provides actionable insights about your health. Breakout patterns create an "acne face map" that reflect imbalances in your body. Your face map...
The Significance of Righteous Qi: Enhancing Your Body's Vital Energy
Discover the significance of righteous qi in Traditional Chinese Medicine and its role in enhancing your body's vital energy.
The Significance of Righteous Qi: Enhancing Your Body's Vital Energy
Discover the significance of righteous qi in Traditional Chinese Medicine and its role in enhancing your body's vital energy.
Qigong vs Tai Chi; Everything You Need to Know
Qigong and Tai Chi are similar in many aspects. However, there are subtle distinctions between the two practices, often leaving people curious about which form is best suited for them.
Qigong vs Tai Chi; Everything You Need to Know
Qigong and Tai Chi are similar in many aspects. However, there are subtle distinctions between the two practices, often leaving people curious about which form is best suited for them.
Understanding Gu Syndrome: CIRS and Its Impact on Chronic Health Issues
In the realm of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), complexity finds simplicity. While the Western medical model relies on tests and medications to alleviate symptoms, TCM focuses on restoring the body's...
Understanding Gu Syndrome: CIRS and Its Impact on Chronic Health Issues
In the realm of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), complexity finds simplicity. While the Western medical model relies on tests and medications to alleviate symptoms, TCM focuses on restoring the body's...
Commitment is Key: How Chinese Herbal Medicine Works and Why Dosing Matters
Chinese herbal medicines are designed to treat the root of health issues, resulting in long-lasting benefits. This type of medicine requires commitment, patience, and a willingness to follow dosing instructions.
Commitment is Key: How Chinese Herbal Medicine Works and Why Dosing Matters
Chinese herbal medicines are designed to treat the root of health issues, resulting in long-lasting benefits. This type of medicine requires commitment, patience, and a willingness to follow dosing instructions.
TCM Tongue Diagnosis - Understanding Your Health from Your Tongue
The color, texture, and coating of your tongue can reveal valuable insights to your health. Learn more about TCM Tongue Diagnosis in our complete guide.
TCM Tongue Diagnosis - Understanding Your Health from Your Tongue
The color, texture, and coating of your tongue can reveal valuable insights to your health. Learn more about TCM Tongue Diagnosis in our complete guide.
Liver Qi Stagnation - Warning signs & healing herbs
In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the liver is considered the organ that is responsible for the smooth flow of qi (vital energy) throughout the body. When this flow is disrupted,...
Liver Qi Stagnation - Warning signs & healing herbs
In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the liver is considered the organ that is responsible for the smooth flow of qi (vital energy) throughout the body. When this flow is disrupted,...
Understanding Yin Deficiency and its Impact on Your Health
Yin is a concept in TCM that refers to the cool, moist, and nourishing aspects of the body. Yin is responsible for providing the body with the moisture it needs...
Understanding Yin Deficiency and its Impact on Your Health
Yin is a concept in TCM that refers to the cool, moist, and nourishing aspects of the body. Yin is responsible for providing the body with the moisture it needs...
Spleen Qi Deficiency: The Silent Threat to Your Well-being
Taking care of your body's health and wellness is of the utmost importance. One aspect of this is understanding the importance of a healthy spleen.
Spleen Qi Deficiency: The Silent Threat to Your Well-being
Taking care of your body's health and wellness is of the utmost importance. One aspect of this is understanding the importance of a healthy spleen.
The Ultimate Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine - TCM
You must have heard the buzzwords surrounding Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). With a history of 3,000 years, ancient health and wellness herbal solutions have been around for a long time....
The Ultimate Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine - TCM
You must have heard the buzzwords surrounding Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). With a history of 3,000 years, ancient health and wellness herbal solutions have been around for a long time....
Blowing in the Wind
There are several technical terms in Oriental medicine that are famous for being confusing and hard to grasp.
Blowing in the Wind
There are several technical terms in Oriental medicine that are famous for being confusing and hard to grasp.
Unwanted Guest In The House
It can happen to anybody. One of us, Donn, while in the midst of busy acupuncture and herbal practice during the early spring cold and flu season, let the “unwanted...
Unwanted Guest In The House
It can happen to anybody. One of us, Donn, while in the midst of busy acupuncture and herbal practice during the early spring cold and flu season, let the “unwanted...
A Snap for Kids
Here are three ways to remove peanut butter from the roof of your mouth and many creative ways to get Chinese herbs into kids. For powdered herbal concentrates, either loose or...
A Snap for Kids
Here are three ways to remove peanut butter from the roof of your mouth and many creative ways to get Chinese herbs into kids. For powdered herbal concentrates, either loose or...
DSHEA Today. Codex Next?
Herbs and supplements are regulated. That statement may come as a surprise because there has been a very strong political campaign to create just the opposite impression. The Dietary Supplement...
DSHEA Today. Codex Next?
Herbs and supplements are regulated. That statement may come as a surprise because there has been a very strong political campaign to create just the opposite impression. The Dietary Supplement...
Melancholy Spleen
Western medicine sees the spleen as a large lymphatic organ associated with blood formation, blood storage, filtration, iron storage, bilirubin production, and antibody formation. Despite this, Western medicine does not...
Melancholy Spleen
Western medicine sees the spleen as a large lymphatic organ associated with blood formation, blood storage, filtration, iron storage, bilirubin production, and antibody formation. Despite this, Western medicine does not...
Is there any more value in taking the powder (in hot water) vs the capsules?
When we first came out with the formulas they were only available in powder form. Once we introduced capsules, there were those who never looked back at the powder. I...
Is there any more value in taking the powder (in hot water) vs the capsules?
When we first came out with the formulas they were only available in powder form. Once we introduced capsules, there were those who never looked back at the powder. I...
I notice that COLD SNAP does not contain Echinacea, Zinc, Vitamin C, Elderberry or other ingredie...
I notice that COLD SNAP does not contain Echinacea, Zinc, Vitamin C, Elderberry or other ingredients I usually think of for immune stimulation. Why not?
I notice that COLD SNAP does not contain Echinacea, Zinc, Vitamin C, Elderberry or other ingredie...
I notice that COLD SNAP does not contain Echinacea, Zinc, Vitamin C, Elderberry or other ingredients I usually think of for immune stimulation. Why not?
Throw Out The Notion That Your Pet Can’t Run Through The Ragweed With You
COLD SNAP Throw Out The Notion That Your Pet Can’t Run Through The Ragweed With You. Protect your pet from invasions and cast out the “unwanted guest.” Cold Snap is...
Throw Out The Notion That Your Pet Can’t Run Through The Ragweed With You
COLD SNAP Throw Out The Notion That Your Pet Can’t Run Through The Ragweed With You. Protect your pet from invasions and cast out the “unwanted guest.” Cold Snap is...
Shaking the Tree
Overcoming fear in our lives may not be so much about confronting it in a forceful way. Strong Root will allow us to participate with the inevitable changes that are...
Shaking the Tree
Overcoming fear in our lives may not be so much about confronting it in a forceful way. Strong Root will allow us to participate with the inevitable changes that are...
How To Sneeze In The 21st Century
Chinese herbal remedies do not try to fight a given virus or condition. They do not try to combat congestion, body aches, or upper respiratory distress directly. Instead, they act...
How To Sneeze In The 21st Century
Chinese herbal remedies do not try to fight a given virus or condition. They do not try to combat congestion, body aches, or upper respiratory distress directly. Instead, they act...
Looking for Synchronicity
The I Ching opens thought processes and stimulates actions that might not have previously been considered. Perhaps it would be similar to a long trek up the mountain to meet...
Looking for Synchronicity
The I Ching opens thought processes and stimulates actions that might not have previously been considered. Perhaps it would be similar to a long trek up the mountain to meet...
Shifting Gears with Cold Snap
A cold virus is able to do its damage and thrives because of its ability to change. While the body is busily trying to figure out how to fight the...
Shifting Gears with Cold Snap
A cold virus is able to do its damage and thrives because of its ability to change. While the body is busily trying to figure out how to fight the...
The Ears Have It
Ear acupuncture offers another way to benefit from the principles of Chinese medicine because it addresses specific organs, structures, and functions. Ear points are often add-on points to make treatment...
The Ears Have It
Ear acupuncture offers another way to benefit from the principles of Chinese medicine because it addresses specific organs, structures, and functions. Ear points are often add-on points to make treatment...
Eye Ching
Terminology can be challenging to the layperson when pursuing an understanding of Oriental medicine. When your practitioner starts talking about “disturbances in the shen that are clouding the orifices” or “jing vacuity,”...
Eye Ching
Terminology can be challenging to the layperson when pursuing an understanding of Oriental medicine. When your practitioner starts talking about “disturbances in the shen that are clouding the orifices” or “jing vacuity,”...
Function Follows Form
The Skeptics Dictionary discredits acupuncture and Oriental medicine altogether. Even the National Institutes of Health has apparently stopped trying to do that! NIH is largely supportive of acupuncture in its...
Function Follows Form
The Skeptics Dictionary discredits acupuncture and Oriental medicine altogether. Even the National Institutes of Health has apparently stopped trying to do that! NIH is largely supportive of acupuncture in its...
Sleeping Soundly
It’s hard to know what came first, the stress or the inability to handle it. When your sleep is affected, stress becomes insidious and self-perpetuating. There appears to be too...
Sleeping Soundly
It’s hard to know what came first, the stress or the inability to handle it. When your sleep is affected, stress becomes insidious and self-perpetuating. There appears to be too...
Fear of Drying
The human animal is significantly a water being. The heart muscle, for example, is 80 percent water. Overall water composition varies with age, sex, and fat (lean tissue has more...
Fear of Drying
The human animal is significantly a water being. The heart muscle, for example, is 80 percent water. Overall water composition varies with age, sex, and fat (lean tissue has more...
Are pain, stiffness and soreness preventing you from achieving your fitness goals?
Add OHCO-MOTION to your daily routine and get back it! "OHCO MOTION has made a noticeable improvement in my sciatica, way more than anything else I have tried, including the...
Are pain, stiffness and soreness preventing you from achieving your fitness goals?
Add OHCO-MOTION to your daily routine and get back it! "OHCO MOTION has made a noticeable improvement in my sciatica, way more than anything else I have tried, including the...
Already dreading the onset of allergy season?
Instead of masking symptoms, nourish the system to address seasonal suffering at its root. Meet ALLERSNAP. Commit to 2 capsules, 3 times per day. As your body responds and shifts...
Already dreading the onset of allergy season?
Instead of masking symptoms, nourish the system to address seasonal suffering at its root. Meet ALLERSNAP. Commit to 2 capsules, 3 times per day. As your body responds and shifts...
Self-Empowerment
Taking responsibility for your own health care with Chinese herbal self-help tools involves making a huge leap.
Self-Empowerment
Taking responsibility for your own health care with Chinese herbal self-help tools involves making a huge leap.
Fire in the Chimney
The Oriental doctor sees all of these as various branches on a tree that result from a single root.
Fire in the Chimney
The Oriental doctor sees all of these as various branches on a tree that result from a single root.
You Can’t Avoid the Rain
The first half of this year has brought some much-needed precipitation. The added moisture is also bringing more growth and more pollen. People are experiencing heightened allergy symptoms. It’s a...
You Can’t Avoid the Rain
The first half of this year has brought some much-needed precipitation. The added moisture is also bringing more growth and more pollen. People are experiencing heightened allergy symptoms. It’s a...
WINTER IS HERE
WINTER IS HERE The season of Winter belongs to the cardinal direction of the North. Wintertime has traditionally been associated with hibernation and restoration. Imagine a nice cozy...
WINTER IS HERE
WINTER IS HERE The season of Winter belongs to the cardinal direction of the North. Wintertime has traditionally been associated with hibernation and restoration. Imagine a nice cozy...
Concentrated Powders
This post is an attempt to answer the question more clearly to those of you who have wondered what our concentrated powders, aka ‘dried decoctions’ are about, as well as the process it...
Concentrated Powders
This post is an attempt to answer the question more clearly to those of you who have wondered what our concentrated powders, aka ‘dried decoctions’ are about, as well as the process it...
The OHCO System
Our current 7 formulas are designed to function as a complete apothecary starting from the surface of the body to the core.
The OHCO System
Our current 7 formulas are designed to function as a complete apothecary starting from the surface of the body to the core.
Learn Why A Spoonful of Sugar is not Good Medicine
A spoonful of sugar does not help the medicine; it has demolished our ability to tolerate natural flavors. One of the most common complaints we hear in regards to our...
Learn Why A Spoonful of Sugar is not Good Medicine
A spoonful of sugar does not help the medicine; it has demolished our ability to tolerate natural flavors. One of the most common complaints we hear in regards to our...
To Microdose or What to Microdose, That is the Question!
Micro-dosing for Macro-benefit with non-psychoactive Plant Spirits One of the most interesting concepts in supplementation to date, is the growing trend of micro-dosing on psychedelic substances in response to...
To Microdose or What to Microdose, That is the Question!
Micro-dosing for Macro-benefit with non-psychoactive Plant Spirits One of the most interesting concepts in supplementation to date, is the growing trend of micro-dosing on psychedelic substances in response to...
Cold Snap Challenge and Back to School Stress
It's that time again; Back to School Season and along with it, that dreaded virus/bacteria-petri-dish aka 'the classroom'.
Cold Snap Challenge and Back to School Stress
It's that time again; Back to School Season and along with it, that dreaded virus/bacteria-petri-dish aka 'the classroom'.
Cold Snap is Not Only For Cold & Flu Season!
Protecting the lungs now is one of the most important things we can do to make sure they are strong when the viruses and bacteria rage during the winter months....
Cold Snap is Not Only For Cold & Flu Season!
Protecting the lungs now is one of the most important things we can do to make sure they are strong when the viruses and bacteria rage during the winter months....