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This is how a grateful mother understands when a practitioner can make a good diagnosis – as told by Dr. Lucas: For those of you who don’t know, my specialty for more than 20 years has been pulse diagnosis. No matter what the person says on their medical intake form, I see what is happening […]

Our society is obsessed with how we look and we are bombarded with a crazy number of safe, and non-safe, healthy and non-healthy, ways to change how we look in order to achieve the desired result of youthfulness. It’s a modern fixation … the quest to look younger, live longer while feeling full of energy […]

It’s time to warm up for a lot of us who live in what can be colder climates during this season of the year. Today we’re going to talk about the herb cloves. •The main ingredient in cloves is an essential oil, which has antiseptic, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antispasmodic and anesthetic properties. •In traditional Chinese […]

Pregnancy can be a stressful time especially if the couple has had difficulty conceiving and are always on edge. The changes in the body, the planning, the morning sickness … all that can add stress to what can also be a wonderful, feel great time in a woman’s life. It turns out that acupuncture treatments, […]

I should be able to figure this out all by myself. This false belief is based on the old idea that you should be able to pull yourself up by your boot straps and just do it. Or that asking for help is a sign of weakness. But you can’t make all of the decisions in […]

Dr. Lucas would love to have a discussion about treating emotions using Chinese medicine. It’s not a question of being able to do psychoanalysis or talk therapy with a patient because most Chinese medicine (CM) practitioners are not trained in any real capacity to do so. But, an important connection can help us see how […]